KOWLOON'S NEW CLERGYMAN,
The Rev. G. E. Arrowsmith, the new assistant clergyman of St. Andrew's Church. Kowloon.
OUR WATER SUPPLY.
of the pipe line would be two and one-third miles.
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There are possible sites also for a reservoir ia the valley above [Continued Teen Page 17
Gin Drinkets' Bay, if leund The main conduit conveging necessary. and. should the site the water from these six reser- prove favourable.
storage voirs will start from No. 2, Dam of between 2,000 and 3,000 gallons should be and will run as an open conduit million, for 2,800 feet at an approximate possible. The water from such height of 430 feet above sea-level, a reservoir would be pump- It will be constructed along the ed to the conduit above and western side of the Shing Mun between the tunnels.
There is a girl's name which Vallay. The water will then The building of the access road enter a tunnel, 40 feet in length, entails making a road 16 feet may be rear backward the same as forward. Add another letter which will pierce Smuggler's wide from the Castle Peak Road to the beginning of the name, and Ridge and emerge in the valley to Pineapple Pass, and then down the same letter to the end of the Above Gin Drinkers Bay dis- the Shing Mun Valley to join up name, and you will have another charging into an open conduit," with the Taipo Read above Sha-girl's name which may also be 2,000 feet in length. Piercing tb, with a branch running nearly read backward and forward. Golden Hill te another from Pineapple Pass to No. 1 What are the names? tannel. 4,350 feet in length, and Dam. Such a road would be six
·Yesterday's answer
discharging into an ppen conduit. In the lower Shek Lái-pui Valley will be the site of the Elter beds and service reservoir. In the
miles in length. At the moment, however, only the first two miles are being con-trusted.
THE FIRST WORKS. main valley above the open The carring out of the scheme conduit, and between the two will be undertaken in sections and tunnels, will he constructed a the first section, involving the small reservoir capable of dis- construction of the small intake charging into either of the exisy dam on the Shing Mun river, the ing Kowloon reservoirs or the making of conduits, and tunnels Shing Mun conluit. As the and the lying of pipes, etc. will water from the Shing Mun valley produce nearly three million gal- will be of a high standard of lunsa da The second section, initial parity it i- probable that involving the
pressure filters will by install Nos.
1. IA. :
ronstruction of 2A and
A
B
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Seves was changed for 1:2 wasi changed for 9. In the outer triangle, corresponding changes were made-19 for 1; 9 for $1. Now the alleys A-B. B-C, A-C. in the inner triangle each adds up
od in place of the all reservoirs and the ying of a The drawing -how the com- to 29; in the outer triangle, each
slow sand filter, thereby effecting second trunk main to Kowloon.pleted triangles economy in building an fooperate would produce seven million ing expenses. From the Fiter Hallens For day. The whole Eeds, the water will be conveyed scheme, apart from the doubtful to Hongkong, as outlined above, portion in Gin Drinkers' Bay, is but it remains to be added that stimated to produce 17 million when this new supply is made callons per day, but should the
available considerable alteration Gin Drinker Bay portion be later carried out the total new
will probably be required in the
distribution scheme of the city, a yield would be approximately 22 matter which is new engaging million gallons per day. the consideration of the water
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Custs of
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THE PUMPING SYSTEM to give any reasonable idea of the The forening, cutlines, briefly, cost of this scheme. The oxist- the gravitation portion of the ing water supplies of the scheme which will give an aver. Ung have cost, approximately. age supply of approimately 11 $1,008,000 per million gallons million gallons per day through day available. and, seeing! out the dries!
period, that When this rate of con-umption is labour have advanced reached, the puriping section the existing works were under- of the scherne-the low-lying taken, it is reasonable to assume reservoirs will require to be put that the cost of the new work in hand. These comprise:
would not be less. Should Hong- Dam No. This dam, 250 feet kong need the full 17,000,000 extre
gallons a day that the scheme: above sea-level, will have a length
provide lapart from of 502 feet, a depth of 100 feet and would a capacity of 400 million gallons. the doubtful Gin Drinkers' Bay It will be served by a catchment portion). It would cost at least area of 502 acres and will take 35 817,000,000. That is only a rough but beyond that it is inches of effective rainfall to all guide, it, but, if found necessary. this impossible to go at present.
A
catchment area can be nearly WORK DONE TO DATE. doubled by means of a small Although the scheme is still catchwater. The dam will be largely in the embryo stage, a situated in the Shing Mun Valley great deal of survey work has on the Shatin side of Smuggler's been completed and not only have the sites of several of the various Ridge, and below Dam No. 2.
Dam No. 6-This will be situat reservoirs been surveyed but the ed on the upstream side of Tai lines of the conduits, tunnels, Wai village and will be 100 feet etc.. have been mapped out. above sea-level. It will be the start has been made on the con- biggest reservoir in the whole. struction of the access road and scheme,
borings and prickings have been Its length being
taken in the barbour. The scheme 1,740 feet. its depth B5 feet and its capacity, 1,700 is the biggest of its kind ever un- million gallons (larger than dertaken in Hongkong and, when Tylan Tuk The direct catch completed, should solve the pro- ment area available is 1,203 blem of the Colony's water supply
for very many years to come. acres, but by catchwaters
&
further 816 acres can be added, making 2,019 acres in all. It will
IT PAYS take appoximately 37 effective to take care of one's appearance Inches of rainfall to fill the reser and health. Pinkettes help you voir but overflow from the gravi- 10 do both by ensuring tation réservoirs will, of course, be daily regularity, by keeping Intercepted by Dams No, 5 and 6. the liver active, the skin
The pumping station for these clear, the eyes bright, and by two dams will be situated below banishing sick headaches, coated No. 6 Dam and pumping mains tongue, ill-smelling breath. Your will run along the south side of chemist sells Pinkettes, or 60 the Valley to the guage basin at cents the vial, post free from Dr. the mouth of the tunnel, first Williams' Medicine Co., 60 Kiang- mentioned above, The distance se Road, Shanghai.
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