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Annexe 4.
Mr. HENDERSON.
Will you please supply for the information of the Water Carriage Extension Com- mittee an estimate of the cost of pumping and distributing salt water in area No. 4 as extended at the last Meeting of the Committee making the same assumptions as were made in preparing your previous reports.
4th May, 1921.
Annexe 4:
T. L. PERKINS, Director of Public Works
Hon. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS,
Estimate of Cost of Installing a Salt Water Supply System for Water Closet and flushing purposes for that portion of the Kowloon Peninsula lying:-
(a.) South of Gascoigne and Jordan Roads.
(b.) North of Gascoigne and Jordan Roads as far as the Old Kowloon Boundary and between Coronation Road and the Kowloon-Canton Railway and including Ho Mun Tin.
The water to be taken to the nearest point on the Public Road or Path from whence House Holders must make their own connections.
The following assumptions are taken :--
3 Water Closets to each house.
60 gallons per house per day.
60 gallons per house per day has been taken in this case as against 10 gallons per house per day in the case of the Peak and Middle levels, as in my opinion the houses in Kowloon have a greater number of persons occupying them than in the other two Districts mentioned.
There are over 600 separate houses some of which are divided up into four flats, and two hotels with a third large hotel projected. I have therefore taken 1,800 as the number of flats or houses.
Water required 1,800 × 60
=
...
Water required by Private Companies, Military, Clubs,
etc..
say
say
108,000 gallons.
26,000
"
134,000 140,000
- ,
A very large proportion of the area included in this estimate is not now built upon though eminently suited for European houses, so I think that to allow for leakage in system and future expansion the above figure of 140,000 gallons should be double.
The scheme should therefore be capable of dealing with 280,000 gallons per day.
Service Reservoir at King's Park.
Intake at Chatham or Jordan Roads.