Mr Williams also financed the new quay at Velator, which opened around 1870.[5] The quay was sufficient for ships of up to 130 tons, and continued to be used for unloading gravel until the 1960s.[6] At the same time as the opening of the quay, repairs were required to some of the embankments on the new cut, which were subsiding as a result of the material on which they were constructed.