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This is part of the Second Section.
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to cost $1,277,000,
works including catchwaters, mains, filters, an
access road, and a pumping station.
(b) The Sheng-mun Valley scheme will provide farther supplies, from the mainland, partly to meet
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the needs of the greatly increased population of Kowloon and partly also to supplement the inadequate resourcs of the Island.
The full scheme consists of the complete development of the Shfng-mun Valley from Lead Mine
Pass to the sea and the Southern and Eastern slopes
of Taimoshan, a mountain 3,130 feet in height. At
present, however, only a section of this scheme has
been taken in hand and the references to the scheme
in the present memorandum refer only to this first
section. The following description is taken from a
recent speech delivered by the Governor:
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"An access road 16 feet in width and 1.92
miles in length from is'n-wan to Fineapple Pass
was completed in 1925. In the same year were also completed the intake dam across the Sheng-mun River above Fineapple Pass, the temporary conduit 6,000 feet in length from this intake to the pointwhere the dam in the Sheng-mun Gorge will be built, the North conduit 2,900 feet in length from this point
to the opening of the North Tunnel, and the South Conduit 2,000 feet in length between the North and
South Tunnels. In 1926 the North Tunnel 2,160 feet in length through Smugglers Ridge and the South Tunnel 4,689 feet in length through Golden Hill
were completed, and so also was the reservior with
a capacity of 33 million gallons in the lower
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