852
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There still continues to be a steady increase in the consumption both of the High Level and of the Hill District (vide Appendices Fand G) and it will be neces- sary to lay down extra pumping plant in order to provide for future requirements.
The Bowen Road Motor House was completed and the new motor brought into requisition in November, when its services proved to be of great assistance in connection with the intermittent system of supply to the Hill District.
The Barker Road and Magazine Gap divisions can now be disconnected from the rest of the Hill District, and supplied through the iron tanks Nos. 1 and 5 by the new motor.
The whole of the motors and the steam pumping engine at Bonham Road were maintained in a good state of repair during the year.
The number of meters in use in the City at the end of the year was 402, and in the Hill District 145.
The quantity of water supplied by meter was :--
Filtered-Trade,....
Domestic (City),
Do. (Hill District),
Unfiltered,
Total,
Gallons. 108,437,000
65,429,000
14,698,000
9,772,000
198,336,000
During the year new services were constructed or old ones altered and im- proved in 896 instances and in addition 495 services were inspected and connected to the mains. The services of 1,832 houses were inspected, 1,495 of which were found to be in order, whilst 337 were defective. All defects were made good.
36. Maintenance of Waterworks, Kogloon. The total consumption for the year amounts to 138,539,000 gallons or an average consumption of 379,550 per day which, with an estimated population of 50,350, gives 7.54 gallons per head per day for all purposes. Details are given in Appendix H.
It was found necessary to have recourse to the intermittent system of supply from the 1st to 9th April.
Allusion is made under Public Works Extraordinary to certain alterations and re-arrangements which were made in order to take the fullest advantage pos- sible of the supply obtainable from the Cheong Sha Wan Intakes. These improve- ments were fully completed in the beginning of December and were of the greatest value during the severe drought experienced in the latter part of the year and subsequently. Kowloon however suffered in common with Hongkong, though it was found possible to maintain a fair supply up to the close of the year.
Both sets of pumping engines underwent thorough repairs at the hands of the Dock Co.
During the year, 62 private services were constructed or repaired. The number of meters in use at the close of the year was 144.
37. Maintendure of Waterworks, Aberdeen and Shauliwan.—The water supply at both these places was maintained in a generally satisfactory manner, the total consumption amounting to 4,212,000 and 7,878,000 gallons respectively. Details are given in Appendices J and K. Aberdeen has the advantage of deriving a supply from the Paper Mills Reservoir, whilst Shaukiwan is dependent upon the delivery of the streams, there being no storage reservoir.