The Qinhuai River Waterway Regulation Project Passes Completion Inspection

The works and the date of acceptance

According to a notice from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transport, on 29 December 2020 the Honglan lock works and six bridge works, including Maojiacun Bridge, on the Qinhuai River (Shijiu Lake in Lishui–Pengfu in Jiangning) waterway regulation project passed completion inspection.

According to a notice of the Nanjing Municipal Transport Bureau of December 2023, on 28 and 29 December 2023 the provincial Department of Transport held the completion inspection and acceptance of the project in Lishui District, and those present agreed unanimously that it passed; the same notice records that the project began in April 2017, passed completion inspection in December 2021 and was formally opened to navigation in June 2022. The two notices differ in the date and the scope of that completion inspection: the one is the acceptance, at the end of 2020, of an earlier tranche — the Honglan lock and six bridges; the other is the acceptance of the project as a whole at the end of 2021. The two are set side by side, with no choice made between them.

The extent of the contract section and the works

"Shijiu Lake in Lishui–Pengfu in Jiangning" is the name of the contract section and follows the wording of the notice. According to the notice of the Nanjing Municipal Transport Bureau, the project begins at the mouth where the Tianshengqiao River in Lishui enters Shijiu Lake and ends at Pengfu Village in Jiangning, the part in Lishui being the Honglan lock and the bridges along the line; the waterway is regulated to class IV standard over 21.074 kilometres, with one new lock, the Honglan lock, fifteen bridges rebuilt or newly built, and one anchorage and one waterside service area. According to the notice of the provincial Department of Transport, the estimated investment for this earlier section was about 3.098 billion yuan.

Uncertainties

The trunk waterway network is described in two ways: the provincial notice of 2021 has "two north–south and four east–west lines", the municipal notice of 2023 "two north–south and five east–west lines"; both are repeated here without choosing between them. Further, the position, dimensions and capacity of the Honglan lock, and the names of the fifteen bridges rebuilt or newly built (the notices name only Maojiacun Bridge), are not given by the available sources and remain to be supplied.