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5. It is possible that at some future time feasible schemes may be prepared for flushing the sewers with salt water pumped up from the sea into tanks placed in suitable positions. At present the water supply from Tai Po Foutum is intended for domestic purposes only and the water is not allowed to be used in factories or works of any description.
6. The existing Water Works will remain intact, the proposed Reservoir being an addition only to the works hitherto constructed, and without which they cannot be said to have been completed.
7. The small Reservoir at Tai Po Foutum now in use contains only sufficient to supply the City for a day and a half although for five months in the year from 1 November to 1 April no rain can be depended upon.
8. A full description of the proposed works will be found in the accompanying report; it is unnecessary for me therefore to go further into details.
9. The particulars of the proposed works are forwarded now, with a view to their being submitted by the Crown Agents to Mr. Rawlinson or some eminent Engineer to give their professional opinion as to their practicability and offer suggestions as to the best means of carrying them out.
10. Your Lordship perceives that a certain amount of risk is attached to the construction of a Reservoir of the magnitude proposed, and