Kalistani Major History

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Construction underway at Bozo River Facility
Channel deepened and widened to accommodate even largest naval ships
Eveari, Ananto District
April 30, 4411


The main channel in the tidal estuary of the Bozo River is dredged

Construction of the new Bozo River naval facility is moving swimmingly along.  Naval engineers associated with the Kalistani National Ship Yard at Kaliburg have overseen a channel widening and deepening project of the tidal Estuary of the Bozo River.  This week, engineers announced that they had deepened the river channel from 39 feet to 50 feet, and have stabilized the shoreline with hundreds of tons of boulders and debris.  Additionally, they have deepened the port itself to a distance of 75 feet to shore to a depth of 60 feet.  Because of this, ships will be able to dock off shore and use shuttles to get into land as the Jetty is built, and smaller supply ships will be able to easily enter the Bozo River estuary to deliver supplies at the building site, rather than having to load them onto trucks and transport them over swamp and plain to bring them in from north or south.  This will dramatically speed up building of the infrastructure of the future base. 

In this remote corner of the Republic, where nearly nobody lives or even visits, life for the workers who began on the earliest phases of this project last month has been difficult.  As the channel project was beginning, workers were building a temporary town about 20 miles down the shore from the River.  The town, lovingly referred to as "Bozoville" by its inhabitants is still a conglomeration of GP tents, container apartments, and field canteens that serve the needs and wants of the laborers .  Creature comforts are few and far between in Bozoville, so ODEN maintains a presence in the town, as well as a number of professional women and men who have moved to the camp to keep the workers occupied during their off time.  Laborers freely mix with NSPers, though the skilled labor does much more difficult work than the conscripts, who often either fill the need for unskilled labor, or work with Naval planners in design and engineering of the various facilities on the base.


Bozoville, a temporary labor town just outside the limits of the gates of the future Bozo River Naval facility

As the Dredging continued, a temporary bridge over the Bozo River, the first such bridge ever erected was completed early this month.  Now, workers can freely travel back and forth to the far bank.  Construction of the base Mainside has begun as the first offices and barracks have been framed and roof gables are being lifted into place.  Once the first barracks are completed and the base is electrified, permanent wokers will move to the base, and a second contingent of workers will move into Bozoville who will be responsible to build infrastructure and a permanent defense road to Eveari while base construction is under way.

This major construction is expected to take two years before even Kalistani militia can take up a post here, but the goal of completing the jetty and the harbor, with at least one docking facility, is set for the end of the year.