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XCR (84) 21 Copy No
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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance
(Chapter 124)
RESUMPTION OF LAND FOR
HKC040/21
RECEIVED IN HEUMIN
JAN 1984
DESK DECITA
STAGE II
FUTURE INCREASE OF WATER SUPPLY FROM CHINA
REMAINING WORKS, TAI PO TAU TO NGAU TAM MEI AQUEDUCT,
TAI PO, NEW TERRITORIES
Introduction
seek Members'
Tai Po, in Tai
New from Tai Po Tau
The purpose of this memorandum is to advice the proposed resumption of
on
of land Territories for the construction of an aqueduct to Ngau Tam Mei.
Background
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To maintain the continuity of water supply to areas situated in the north-western part of the New Territories during the months of March and April each year when water
each supply from China will not be available, the Director of Water Supplies proposes to reinforce the water supply available from Tai Lam Chung Reservoir by way of an aqueduct to transfer water to these areas from the Plover Cove Reservoir in Tai Po via the Water Pumping Station at Tai Po Tau and the water supply system at Ngau Tam Mei,
Yuen Long. The aqueduct, about seven kilometres in its
its total length, will be in the form of a two-metre diameter wide underground pipeline for its initial one kilometre section between Tai Po Tau and Lam Tsuen, and a two-and-a-half-metre diameter wide tunnel for the
the remaining section from Lam Tsuen to the water supply system at Ngau Tam Mei, Yuen Long. Construction of this aqueduct forms the remaining part of the Future Increase of Water Supply from China Stage II project which is in Category 'A' of the Public Works Programme under item No. WS 50. Resumption of private land is now necessary to enable engineering works to begin in April 1984. The project will take 30 months to complete.
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