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238. General. With the completion of Items Q and R, the whole of the first section of the above scheme has now been carried out, the only modifications to the works proposed in Mr. Henderson's Report dated 8.4.24 (Sessional Paper No. 4, 1929) being an increase in the size of the Shek Li Pui Service Reservoir, alterations to the line of the pipe to the Gardens Reservoir and to the level of the latter, and the addition of the Byewash Reservoir. Construction commenced in 1923 and was completed in 1933. The original estimated cost of this section, which did not include the cost of the Byewash Reservoir and administration charges, was $3,500,000. Administration costs have only been charged during the past two years.
Cost of First Section, Shing Mun Valley Scheme.
a. Preliminary Works... 11,216.34 b. Reception Reservoir 164,273.88 c. Access Road 122,345.79 d. Resumptions 428,850.08 e. Filtering Plant and erection.. 206,390.27 f. Pipe Line (Kowloon).. 465,704.53 g. Piper's Hill Service Reservoir.......... 136,699.97 h. Temporary Intake and Conduit 73,269.63 i. North Conduit... 72,028.07 j. Harbour Pipe Line... 229,972.29 k. Tunnels and South Conduit. 1,073,644.13 l. Miscellaneous 1,492.62 m. Shek Li Pui Service Reservoir 300,449.31 n. Hong Kong Gardens Service Reservoir. 240,303.75 o. Pipe Line (Hong Kong)....... 22,489.57 p. Byewash Reservoir..... 518,623.89 4,067,754.12 Administration 69,011.47 $4,136,765.59SHING MUN VALLEY SCHEME 2ND SECTION.
239. Preliminary Works.-A preliminary investigation and estimate for the proposed second Cross Harbour Pipe was the only work undertaken under this head during the year.
1933 Expenditure.. $76.39
Expenditure to 31st Dec., 1933...... $36,718.84