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The Governor's Comprehensive Review
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FUTURE PLANS OUTLINED
and the pipe-line across the bed of Hong Kong harbour. Of the pipe- Hoc on the mainland 20,280, feet have already been completed, leay! ing 3,300 feet to be laid at Sham. shui-po and 450 feet across the railway terminus. Eventually there will also be 3,000 feet on Hong! Kong island; but it is not proposed to undertake this section of the land pipe-line until late in next year. Instead a temporary connet-
The following is a continuation of H.E. the Governor's (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) review of the Government's water supply tion with the city mains near ¡Statue Pier will be made in the policy both with regard to the Island and Mainland develop first instance, in order to expedite the delivery of water from the mainland to the island. The draw-
out, Such being the present position as to be built as temporary erections ings and details of the harbour regards water storage and water on both sides of the permanent pipe-line have been worked distribution, it has been brought dam under construction and the submitted to the Consulting En- home to us very clearly during the expense of the scheme would be out gineers and approved by them. The last twelve months that our storage of proportion to the supply gained, pipes, which are 12" diameter steel | is inadequate and that in time of the more so as all the water from mains, are due for delivery in the drought our system of conserving such a reservoir would have to be, Colony at the end of this month, water is clumsy and ineficient. For pumped to a height of nearly 400 and meanwhile dredging operations we have found the rider-main sys-feet, in order to pass through the long the line across the bed of the harbour have been commenced. tems to be sadly lacking in flexibility. Tytam Tunnel. An additional re- We new hope that Sheng-mur If our rider-mains are in use, then servoir might be built directly be water may be brought to Hong low the existing Pok-fu-lam reser- the city supply from the trunk- mains cannot be cut off for periods 78 million gallons; but its construc- to be capable of delivering
voir. It would have a capacity of Kong early in next year by means of this pipe-line, which is estimat- of less than twelve hours, because tion would necessitate the resump-million gallons. A day across the any less period results in the upper tien of the Hong Kong Dairy Farm floors of tenement houses, getting no and is for this reaser, undesirable. harbour. water at all. There are six rider Another natural site for a reservoir
Here, however, it is necessary to
ments of the island is ten million
main districts and, in order that the is the basin on the south side of/sound a note of eqution. The exist- pressure may sufice to give top the island containing the village ofing water works on the island with a total storage of 2,118,414,000 gal floors a supply, the water must be Little Hong Kong and bounded on lons and a total catchment area turned on to cach district in rota the north by Benneta Hill and of 3,278 acres are calculated to tion. Thus a twelve hours' supply Mount Cameron and on the south have a capacity of 7.25 million gal in the trunk mains will only give by Brick Hill. Two dams would
lons a day; but a modes: estimate each rider-main district a two hours' here be necessary, one Acroga supply; and even a two hours' sup- Stanton Creek near Aberdeen and of the full water supply require- ply often fails to convey water to the other at the brickworks gallons a day. Thus the estimated upper floors in tenement houses, close to Deep Water Bay supply falls short of the estimated
reservoir would have J owing to the draw-off by inhabitants This
requirements by 2.75 million gal on lower floors. Consequently, as a capacity of 2,500 million gallons a day. At first sight it might, method of economising water, the lons; but its catchment would be therefore, seem that an additional rider-mains cause the maximum of small for its size, although the delivery of more than three million inconvenience with a minimum of overflows from the Aberdeen and gallons a day through the harbour result. Supply from the trunk Wong-nai-ch'ung reservoirs could mains under a system of universal be diverted into it. All water from pipe-lire would suffice for our pre- sent needs. But two considerations meterage would be far more satis it would have to be pumped; and, combine to make the outlook legs. factory, as
it should enable the in view of the great length of the favourable. In the first place, Old Water Authority to reduce the dams, the considerable resumptions Kowloon ard period of supply to six hours or less necessary and the heavy contingent growing at an abnormal rate. Now, works, the reservoir would be cost- without thereby inflicting dispro-ty. Moreover, in the public interest including that part of the Sheng mun scheme already completed, the it is not advisable to submerge this existing waterworks on the main- valuable area of flat land, the last and such area remaining in. Hong Kong 501,750,000 gallons and a
have & total storage of total island. Finally it would be possible catchment area of 4,270 acres.
build more
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portionate hardship on anyone. This year even the rider-mains had to be closed down and the city was obliged to rely for several months on street fountains supplied from the reser to build two additional reservoirs Their estimated capacity is five voirs and on specially constructed with an aggregate capacity of 114 million gallons a day, while a tanks filled with water transported million gallons in the Taikoo catch modest, estimate of the full water! from the mainland in lighters and ment on the slopes of Mount suppir requirements of Old and commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State- other craft. It is manifest, there Butler. But the water rights in fore, that our first step should be to this locality are held by Messrs. New Kowloon is 4.18 million gal-ooms and Saloon. The 8. "Tai Biag" is fitted with Wireless
These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wachow (via Samshui, Shishing, reservoira; but unfor- Butterfield and Swire, whose exist-ons a day. There is, therefore, at REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA ULS.A. VARYING tunately the configuration of Hong ing reservoirs Government would present only a surplus of 820,000 Kong is such that storage pos- have to acquire as a preliminary to gallons a day available on the main- sibilities on the island
are very further development; and, even ip land; and in a few years' time, to be obtained on board.
the population on the northern limited. There is, however, one resumption were effected, it seems shores of the harbour continues to additional storage scheme, of which likely the most of the water pro- increase, this surplus will have Council has approved, and curable would be reeded for the vanished. Then again there is a which is now being carried out, Taikos Sugar Refinery and Dock second consideration. The utmost, yard and that comparatively little which the harbour pipe-line now namely that at Aberdeen.
could be made available for public about to be constructed can deliver, Aberdeen Scheme
The examination of these six in 3 million gallons a day. But The Aberdeen scheme
was a schemes has, therefore, led my bitter experience this year has proved by resolution of this Council Government to conclude that all six shown us that in time of drought on May 2 last. It provides for the should be postponed until the only one million gallons a day flow resumption by Government of the scheme for providing Hong Kong down the conduit from Sheng-mun existing storage reservoir with a island with water from the main-valley; and in time of drought it capacity of 92 million gallons con-land has been put to the test. is, therefore, unlikely that much structed by the Tai Shing Paper
Sheng-mun Scheme
water from Sheng-mun could be Manufacturing Company in the Construction work upon this made available on Hong Kong Aberdeen valley. This resumption scheme, known as the Shengmunis and, unless
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Kowloon Bye-Wash
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(Continued on Page 12.) works, including catchwaters, South Conduit 2,000 feet in mains, filters, an access road and length between the North and la pumping station, are estimated to South Tunnels. In 1926 the North cost $1,277,000. The whole of this Tunnel 2160 feet in length though scheme will be financed by loan. Smugglers Ridge and the South It will much facilitate the supply Tunnel 4,689 feet in length through of water to the western end of Vic Golden Hill were completed, and so toria City, where improved distri also was the reservoir with a capa-
Tel. Central No. 292 and 8897. (Private exchange to all departments.)bution is most needed, for water city of 38 million gallons in the
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Six New Sites
from the Aberdeen valley will be lower Shek-al-pui valley, built toj piped to the Elliot filter-beds, which receive raw water delivered: are to be augmented by rapid through these tunnels. In the fol- gravity filtration plant. At pre-lowing year 150 feet of the North sent, when Pok-fu-lam reservoir is Tunnel were straightened and 3,200 depleted, it is often difficult to feet of 24" steel main were laid maintain an adequate supply to This trunk main will bring the the Elliot filter-beds from the Sheng-man water to Kowloon Point Bowen Road Conduit.
and will have a total length of |24,030 feet with a feed to the Kow- An exhaustive examination of loon distribution system at Pipers Hong Kong island with a view to Hill; where a covered reinforced discovering yet more sites for concrete service reservoir with a storage reservoirs has shown that capacity of 1% million gallons was six such sites exist. But to each of completed in 1925 Immediately them there are serious objections. below the reception reservoir in the Three more storage reservoirs lower Shek-las-pui valley is the site might be built in the Tytam valley of a rapid gravity filtration plant two at a height of 750 feet above to deal ultimately with 20 million sea-level and one actually within gallons a day. The fret, section of the flow of the sea in Tytam bar. this plant, capable of filtering five bour. The two former would have million gallons a day has already capacities of 70 million and 40 been completed and is now in million gallons but they would be operation, Adjoining these filters, inside the existing catchment ares there is under construction a cover of the original Tytam reservoir. ed reinforced concrete service ro They would, therefore, impound no servoir with a capacity of eleven new supplies of water and in time million gallons. The expenditure of drought the water stored in them incurred on the development of this would merely diminish the storage Sheng-mun scheme up to the 30th in Tytam reservoir. The reservoir June last was $2,326,490, the whole site within the flow of the sea of which has been charged to th would have a capacity of 700 mil Colony's lean account, lion gallons, but, when investigat The Pipe Line
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