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5. This Overflow Channel has a width at the invert of 10 feet and a minimum height of 6 feet. Its side walls are of granite rubble backed with lime concrete and the invert is unlined except where the rock surface was found to be soft.
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The 12 inch draw-off pipe from the Valve Tower discharges into the channel and subsequently into the Kowloon Reservoir. A silt pool with a 2 foot rectangular gauge has been constructed below the path leading to the Smuggler's Pass.
1925 Estimates, $120,000.00 Total Estimates, ...$260,000.00
Expenditure to 31.12.25, 1925 Expenditure, $87,727.66 $239,456.65
224. Shing Mun Valley Scheme.-This was referred to in paragraph 213 of last year's Report.
(a.) Resumptions.--Particulars of lots resumed in the Northern District of the New Territories will be found in the Land Officer's Report for 1925.
(b.) Access Road, Tsün Wan to Pineapple Pass.-This work was referred to in paragraph 205 (f) of last year's Report. From the commencement of both Contracts in July, 1923, progress has been very poor, but by the end of the year both sections were almost completed.
Altogether 56,000 c. yds. of soft material and 6,440 c. yds. of rock have been excavated.
The first section has a uniform grade of 1 in 16 for practically its entire length, while the steepest grade on the second section is 1 in 17 approaching Pineapple Pass. A reinforced concrete beam and slab bridge with a span of 20 feet crosses the stream below Wa Li Hop Village. The road has a minimum width of 16 feet and terminates within a few yards of Pineapple Pass at an elevation of 565 A.O.D.
1925 Estimates, 1925 Sup. Vote, $30,000.00 Total Estimates, ...$110,000.00 $25,000.00
1925 Expenditure, $44,145.46 $55,000.00
Expenditure to 31.12.25, $98,004.06
(c.) Temporary Intake and Conduit.—A Contract for $64,101.50 was let in February to Mr. Ng Wah who made excellent progress with the work, and by the end of the year has almost completed it.