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Appendices to Thirty -fourth Annual Report 



Payments amounting to £1900 have been made to the Trustees by 

 way of grant and loan from the Development Fund. 



Portknockie Harbour. 



This scheme is to provide wintering accommodation for steam drifters 

 within the existing harbour. A difference of opinion has arisen as to the 

 best way in which this object may be attained, and the matter is at 

 present under consideration. 



Findoclity Harbour. 



The scheme for the enlargement of the harbour basin has been deferred 

 until after the war. 



Buckie Harbour. 



This large Improvement Scheme still continues to make steady progress 

 towards completion, but it surfers meantime for lack of funds. 



The original scheme of extension, under the Provisional Order of 1910, 

 has been in progress for about 5 years, and the subsequent scheme of 

 extension under the Provisional Order of 1912, to provide wintering accom- 

 modation for herring drifters, was commenced in 1912. These schemes 

 are now practically merged in one, which is to provide, when completed, 

 three new harbour basins in addition to the two basins of the existing 

 harbour, an extension of the concrete breakwater covering the entrance 

 to the harbour, and a long sea wall or breakwater of concrete in blocks 

 enclosing the new basins. The depth of water in two of the new basins 

 is to be 11 feet at low water of ordinary spring tides, while in the third, 

 which is the wintering basin proper, the depth is to be 6 feet at low 

 water. The inner basin of the existing harbour is also to be deepened 

 to 11 feet at low water, and the quay walls underpinned with concrete 

 to suit the increased depth. The excavation from the four basins, which 

 is chiefly composed of rotten rock, is deposited on the foreshore of the 

 bay to the west of the harbour to form additional ground for fish curing 

 purposes. It is to be protected from the destructive action of the sea 

 by a sloping face of large concrete blocks. There are other features 

 included in the scheme, such as deepening the approach to the harbour, 

 the provision of a boat slipway for the repair of drifters, groyne work, 

 alterations in quays, the diversion of streams and sewers, wharflng at the 

 entrance, and the repair and underpinning of existing and new work. 



The entrance breakwater has been extended, the new sea wall or 

 breakwater is almost completed, the existing inner basin and the new 

 one adjacent to it have been excavated and are practically completed, and 

 the excavation of the new basin eastward of these is well advanced, 

 while the underpinning of the walls and the concrete facing of the rock 

 where surmounted by concrete walls is making good progress. A large 

 area of the foreshore at the west bay has been reclaimed by the rock 

 excavation deposited there. The defective work in the breakwaters 

 which was mentioned in a previous report is being rectified under close 

 supervision. 



During several severe storms which occurred, the sea broke over the 

 breakwaters and flooded the works, caused considerable delay in the 

 work of construction, and damaged the contractor's plant. The rock 

 embankment was also damaged to a material extent, as none of the 

 protective work is as yet carried out, and a large amount of the rock 

 debris has been swept by the waves into the bay. 



