Tuesday, January 23, 1973
EXTENSTON WORK AT 1-LOVER COVE NEARING COMPLETION
Dans Being Raised To Increase Capacity
Ninety per cent of the current extension work at the Plover
Cove Reservoir to boost its storage capacity by some 13,500 million
gallons has now been completed.
The whole project, costing more than $32 million, is
expected to be completed in April as the construction work has
progressed according to schedule.
And what remains to be done after that is to wait for the
rainy season to come.
The extension work was started in June 1970, and it was
planned to take advantage of the summer rains this year.
With the completion of this project, Hong Kong's total
water storage capacity will be increased from 54,000 million gallons
to 67,500 million gallons.
This, together with the High Island Water Scheme which will
have a storage capacity of 60,000 million gallons when completed, and
the Castle Peak desalination plant, which should be able to produce
40 million gallons of fresh water per day by 1976, represent three positive
steps taken by the Government to meet Hong Kong's increasing demand for
fresh water in the seventies.
The Plover Cove extension work involves the raising of the
main and two subsidiary dans by 12 feet, the construction of a small
saddle dam at the Tai lei Tuk peninsula, and the installation of 64
concrete syphons on the existing spillway.
/Commenting