Monday, March 5, 1973
TWELVE PLAYGROUNDS ABOVE SERVICE RESERVOIRS
Two More Under Construction
Most people may not have noticed, but many of Hong Kong's recreational
areas and playgrounds are built on top of service reservoirs in the urban
districts,
More and more service reservoirs have been built in recent years to
cope with the high rate of water consumption.
The scarcity of land and the rapid growth of the population' have,
for long, given rise to the problem of finding sufficient and suitable sites
for recreational areas.
And the service reservoirs have solved, at least in part, this
particular problem.
There are, at present, 12 service reservoir playgrounds on both sides
of the harbour three on the Island and nine in Kowloon
30 acres of land.
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occupying well over
In addition, two such playgrounds in the Lok Fu area of Kowloon and
in Kennedy Town on the Island are now under construction.
These two, each of about two acres in size, will be open to the public
in two months' time.
Another playground in the Yau Tong area has also been proposed.
Of the 12 existing playgrounds, the one in Shau Kei Wan was completed
only recently. Although an official opening ceremony will be held in the near
future, it has already been opened to the public.
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