Refer to File No: 122-7-193
DEFENCE CONSTRUCTION (1951) LIMITED
CANADA
56 Lyon Street,
Ottawa 4, Ont
May 14, 1963
Deputy Minister
Department of National Defence,
OTTAWA, Ont.
Attention: Mr WR Alexander
Dear Sir:
Re: Gap Filler Radar Stations, Lakehead Area
You previously asked if we would forward our estimated costs to move the materials from the various Lakehead sites to Atikokan.
Here is our Area Engineer's estimate to move the materials to Atikokan:
(This estimate does not include moving of bridge timbers, various materials for foundations stored at the top of the hill and some culverts as they are in locations not accessible to standard vehicular traffic. In our opinion, moving these materials by tracked vehicles would be very difficult and its cost would be prohibitive.)
(Some of these materials are very bulky and heavy. for example, 2,000 gal tanks, steel plates for 50,000 gal tanks and structural steel beams. Therefore, I feel that moving these materials to Atikokan would not be the best solution, in particular as there is no suitable place in the Atikokan site to store them properly.
Yours very truly
DEFENCE CONSTRUCTION (1951) LIMITED
TA Kelly for WR Cooke, P Eng,
RCAF Projects Engineer.