the Peoples Council of Kwangtung, as well as the River Indus flood pumping to be integrated with the Plover Cove Scheme. The River Indus pumping installation and fabridam, though seriously impeded due to typhoon flooding during the summer months, was 50% completed. The electrically motivated pumping installation will consist of 3 units designed to pump at a maximum rate of 30 million gallons per day to the Tai Lam Chung Head and 10 units to deliver water at a maximum rate of 200 million gallons per day to the Plover Cove Scheme. Of these, the three Tai Lam Chung units and two of the Plover Cove units were operating at the Muk Wu installation and are therefore in the Colony whilst a further two Plover Cove units have been received.
East River—Sham Chun Water Supply
7.89. It is best to describe this in the context of the River Indus flood pumping scheme for much of the work precipitated by the latter is of no value during the dry winter months when no flood water is available. The water carrying capacity of this work is thus available to deliver the increased supplies attendant on the March 1965 Agreement with the Peoples Council of Kwangtung. The additional work involved the duplication of the 10,215 ft. of 48" dia. pipeline from the border to the River Indus and this was duly completed. In addition the Muk Wu pumping station capacity was to be increased from 30 million gallons per day necessitated by the 1960 Agreement with China, to 63 million gallons per day effective capacity by the installation of four units for which orders were placed.
7.90. Delivery of the Sham Chun water at a rate of 63 million gallons per day under the 1965 Agreement was effected on a temporary basis by the three units installed in 1960, supplemented by two 20 million gallons per day units delivered under the Indus River pumping equipment contract. All this equipment is to be transferred and installed on a permanent basis at the River Indus.
North Western Water Supply Scheme
7.91. A report has been received from Messrs. Binnie & Partners, the Government appointed consulting engineers, and is being studied. The proposals cover the recovery of the flood flow from the north western part of the Colony and particularly that from the low lying areas around Yuen Long, before it flows into the sea. This flow might be pumped during the wet season to existing and proposed reservoirs for storage, treatment and supply.
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