10.04. A new unit responsible for advising on the preparation of contracts and the vetting of claims from contractors was set up during the year and an examination, in conjunction with consulting engineers, of the safety of all impounding and service reservoirs with capacities of more than ten million gallons was initiated.
10.05. The office is represented on various committees including:
Committee Representative(s) Water Resources Development Committee Director of Water Supplies and a Government Water Engineer Plover Cove Progress Committee Director of Water Supplies and a Government Water Engineer Building Contractors' Association/P.W.D. Joint Meeting Director of Water Supplies Resettlement Programme Committee Chief Engineer (Distribution) A Senior Engineer Castle Peak and Sha Tin New Town Works Committee A Senior Engineer Castle Peak and Sha Tin New Town Management Committee10.06. Details of rainfall, storage, consumption and other general statistics are given in Appendix CC.
General
DISTRIBUTION DIVISION
Chief Engineer:
J. S. DON, B.Sc. (Hons.), C.Eng., M.I.C.E.
J. C. PAYNE, B.Sc. (Eng.), C.Eng., M.I.C.E., A.M.I.W.E. (Acting)
10.07. The Division maintains and operates the various installations connected with the day-to-day supply of water.
Supply Section
10.08. At the end of the year 30,012 million gallons of water was held in storage including 23,879 million gallons in the Plover Cove Reservoir. Storage at the same time last year was 33,016 million gallons of which 25,393 million gallons was stored at Plover Cove. Yields from catchment areas were only 80% of last year's yield due to low rainfall in the last seven months of the year. Under the Agreement with the People's Council of Kwantung Province, 15,016 million gallons of water was received from China during the year. Heavy rainfall in July and
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