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'File 13/1 Silting of Dubai Creek' [8r] (15/50)
The record is made up of 1 file (23 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1939-7 Jun 1941. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The adverse effects set up by this baiik are to ay
mind the main cause of the present "oroublesc
The upper creek itself is relatively straight and
would be likely to be stable if extraneous deleterious
effects were eliminated.
The newly built stone jetty has caused silting on
the sand bank above and below it as would be expected.
I did not at first realise that this Jetty is not the
one shewn on the 1937 survey, and extends further into the
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creek.
The causeway out as far as the low water line fulfils
a good purpose in creverting dead water above and below which
cJ" deposits its si .Lt on these areas which were above low water
level and therefore useless.
The extension of the Jetty out into the creek has
caused this bank to extend out into the creek and has
decreased the width of landing area, a tendency which must
be dealt with.
A proportion of this silt seem to have come from the
center of the creek which gave deeper souSnings in many pietct
places than shewn in the 1937 survey.
On the opposite side it seemed as though there were
changes due to secondary effects either of the swirls set
up in the inlet channel or the Jetty, but it was very
difficult to Judge on the ground. The changes on this bank
are not likely to be serious and if the air photograph
confirms that they are developing preventive measures can
be undertaken.
-he Sharjah creek is interesting by comparison as it
has a very similar outline to Dubai, and has developed the \
same tendency to silt on the northwest side, which having
continued unchecked, has now rendered the creek practically
useless.
Preventive recommendations
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(a) The influence of the Hattai Bank must be corrected and
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The correspondence in the file is related to the silting up of a creek at Dubai, which is of potential concern for flying boats following the Arab coast route, if they want to stop at Dubai. The file contains an assessment of the creek, made in 1941, by a chartered civil engineer named Bernard Whitteron, assessing the creek and proposing options for dredging and preventing future build-up of silt. The report also contains a hand drawn map of the creek, indicating the creek's deep water channel, unusual shallows, and other features including the Gray MacKenzie office buildings, jetty, and tower (folios 6-11).
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- 1 file (23 folios)
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The contents of the file have been arranged in approximate chronological order, running from the earliest items at the front of the file to the latest at the end.
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Foliation: The main foliation system starts on the front cover and runs to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There is a second foliation system which uses uncircled numbers in the top-right corner of each folio, and runs from the first item in the file to folio 23.
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- IOR/R/15/2/506
- Title
- 'File 13/1 Silting of Dubai Creek'
- Pages
- 6r:11v
- Author
- Whitteron, Bernard
- Copyright
- ©Bernard Whitteron
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