SURVEYOR GENERAL'S
of Victoria, Hong Kong, with estimate of the expense for extending and completing the water service for providing the city with water.
$ 35,322.01
Victoria, 27th July, 1863.
REPORT AND ESTIMATE
Supplementary
No. of 1863.
Hong Kong, 15th April 1863.
I have the honour to Report on the Water Works as follows:
The Reservoir, Watchman's House and Stop-cock Vault, at Pokfulam are complete. The extra works performed at this station are principally accounted for by the fact that the waste weir of the dam as originally constructed was too small to carry the waste water in cases of very heavy rains, and it was therefore deemed necessary to lay the whole surface of the top of the dam with granite, and to build on top of that high skirting walls to allow the waste to pass off freely without the probability of doing any damage in future.
The Tank above Bonham Road may be said to be complete with the exception of asphalting the bottom, the fixing of ventilators and sink stones in the crowns of the covering arches, and the fitting of doors and windows to the small houses in front.
The Tank above Taipingshan is also completed with a capacity of 850,000 Gallons, with the exception of cementing and asphalting the bottom, the fixing of ventilators and sink stones in the crowns of the covering arches, and the fitting of doors and windows to the top lock House and Workshops in front.
The extra works on the site of the upper Tank were unavoidable, as the site originally proposed was not suitable, and it was found necessary to build a considerable quantity of extra retaining and other walls.
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