HONG KONG WATERWORKS TABLE No. 5
FILTRATION PLANTS
Location
Aberdeen Pokfulam Elliot
Name
Supplying
No. beds
Type of bed
Total Area Maximum Capa- Sq. Yds. city in M.G D.
Aberdeen & Applichau Pokfulam
4
Slow Sand
1008
0.4
4
do.
1020
0.4
West end City, by gravity
6
do.
3956
1.5
17
& Peak by pumping
8
Rapid Gravity
256
4.0
West Point
HONG
University Area
5
Slow Sand
1990
.8
Albany
Lower Mid-levels
8
do.
4944
2.0
KONG
Bowen Road Eastern
Kennedy Road-East
6
Rapid Gravity
192
3.0
Low levels-East
& pumped to high levels.
11
Slow San
6338
2.5
Wong Nei Chong
(Proposed) - Shouson Hill
do,
533'
0.2
Chai Wan
Shau Ki Wan
2
do.
432
0.2
Tytam Tuk
Stanley
3
Pressure
18
0.3
KOW.
Kowloon
Kowloon Peninsula
10
Slow Sand
8000
3.2
LOON
Shek Lai Pui
Kowloon & Hong Kong
32
Rapid Gravity
1195
20.0
Total Theoretical Filtration Capacity
Note:
Allowing for slow sand beds out of action for cleaning-say--
Net Filtration Capacity
With the new R.G. Filters at Eastern to be completed in 1949, extra capacity
Maximum Capacity end 1949
-Max. Peak load demand 1948 40.5 M.G.D.
= 4.0 M.G.D.
41.0 M.G.D.
38.5 M.G.D. 1.5 M.G.D.
· 37.0 M.G.D.
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