WATERWORKS OFFICE
Director of Water Supplies:
E. P. WILMOT-MORGAN, O.B.E., B.Sc., C.Eng., F.I.C.E., M.I.W.E., J.P.
Government Water Engineer:
A. S. ROBERTSON, B.Sc., (Hons), C.Eng., M.I.C.E., A.M.I.Struct.E., A.M.I.W.E.
W. T. KNIGHT, C.Eng., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mun.E., M.Inst.Q. (Acting)
J. M. PETTIGREW, C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E. (Acting)
Assistant Government Water Engineers:
W. T. KNIGHT, C.Eng., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mun.E., M.Inst.Q.
J. M. PETTIGREW, C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E.
W. D. A. TUCKER, M.A. (Eng.), C.Eng., M.I.C.E. (Acting)
T. H. TOMLINSON, B.Sc., C.Eng., M.I.C.E. (Acting)
GENERAL
8.01. To ensure that a continuous 24-hour water supply to the Colony could be maintained, it was necessary to extract the saline water (over 1,500 parts per million) remaining in Plover Cove at the end of the dry season and refill with fresh water from all possible sources. This task was accomplished during the year to the extent that over 28 thousand million gallons of water of a salinity of less than 500 p.p.m. was stored in Plover Cove by the time the dry season started.
8.02. During the year forward planning proceeded to the stage where the consultants' reports on raising the Plover Cove dams and increasing the capacities of the Sha Tin treatment works and pumping station as well as Tai Po Tau pumping station were accepted for implementation and their report on the feasibility of building a large new reservoir with associated catchment facilities in the Sai Kung peninsula was being studied.
8.03. In the New Territories, a new treatment plant at Tai Po Tau to serve the Tai Po and Sheung Shui areas was commissioned, and a new main was laid to provide a fully treated supply to Sha Tin from the Sha Tin Treatment Works and to connect the Chinese University. A scheme was approved for extending the distribution system to provide fresh water supplies in many New Territories villages and, in addition, work commenced on doubling the capacity of the treatment plant at Yuen Long and on the construction of a treatment plant to serve Castle Peak. An extension of the urban distribution system from Kwun Tong to bring a fully treated supply to Sai Kung was started.
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