P.W.R. Hong Kong.
Q 38
The rainfall in March was over 7 inches but the wet season did not set in until the beginning of June. The first heavy rain fell on the 6th June when the reservoirs commenced to rise.
Only light rains fell between the end of July and the middle of September when the storage had dropped to below 1900 million gallons.
A total of 27 inches of rain however, fell between 15th and 30th September with the result that all reservoirs were overflowing on 1st October.
The maximum quantity of water impounded in all reservoirs during the year amounted to 2118.41 million gallons on eight days between 17th September and 1st October.
The total quantity of water remaining at the end of the year was 1495.28 million gallons.
The total quantity of water pumped from Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir during the year amounted to 1282.22 million gallons of which 1239.97 million gallons were pumped by the Simpson Engines and 42.25 million gallons by the Tangye Engines. This total is less than that of last year by 23.79 million gallons.
No. 1 Engine (Tangye) ran 33 days.
No. 2 " 7
No. 3 (Simpson) " 19
No. 4 " 21
No. 5 " 171
> 148
" 108
The following is a statement of the cost of pumping during 1929 and 1930:-
TAI TAM PUMPING STATION.
1929 1930 Coal $60,097.10 $48,753.96* Wages, 16,501.56 16,361.28 Miscellaneous, including repairs and stores other than coal, 9,764.23 6,185.23 Total $86,362.89 $71,300.47*This is the value of coal consumed during the year.
Coal to the value of $17,269.50 was carried forward from 1929 to 1930, and coal to the value of $17,799.54 was carried forward from 1930 to 1931. The price of coal was $13.67 per ton during the whole year in 1930.