mechanical and electrical plant for another three installations together with electrical plant for a fourth. Preliminary design work necessary for the ordering of plant was carried out in respect of several projects at the planning stage.
In connexion with the cross harbour main—Hung Hom to North Point—which forms part of the Plover Cove Scheme, orders for the control and metering equipment have also been placed.
Mechanical Section
7.42. Pumping from the wells which were sunk during the Water Emergency in 1963 at Muk Wu was resumed in the latter part of the year. It has been possible to extract in the order of 1.2 million gallons daily from the wells.
7.43. The bulk of the permanent plant for Muk Wu Pumping Station arrived during the year. Surge protection equipment for the mains connecting Muk Wu Pumping Station with the Indus River flood pumping station was ordered.
7.44. Owing to the reclamation of Kowloon Bay, from which salt water was pumped by the Kai Tak Salt Water Pumping Station to reservoirs at Lo Fu Ngam and Wong Tai Sin, all of the pumping plant at Kai Tak was removed and reinstalled together with an additional pumpset at a temporary site at To Kwa Wan, southwest of the runway. A total of six pumpsets are now operating at To Kwa Wan.
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7.45. As a result of the implementation of the policy to provide separate meters for all new domestic flats and Resettlement blocks, 33,000 1" domestic water meters were purchased during the year. In preparation for the increased volume of work on the maintenance of water meters, a training workshop for female meter repairers was set up on the site of the old Jordan Valley Salt Water Pumping Station which had become inoperative as a result of reclamation two years ago. Five living quarters were converted into the training workshop and extensive alterations were carried out to provide facilities for the trainees. Work also commenced on the conversion of the pumping station building itself into a meter repair shop.
Electrical Section
7.46. Routine electrical maintenance activities continued at an increased level as a result of accepting responsibilities for new works
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