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the High Levels of the City. The new pump-plungers will be 9′′ in diameter and will be double-acting. The motor will derive its power from the service reservoir in connection with the old Filter Beds, adjoining Victoria Battery, and will exhaust into the new service reservoir now under construction. When installed, it will to some extent supersede the steam engine so far as pumping to the High Levels of the City is concerned. By the end of the year, the patterns and castings were well in hand and special tools, etc., were prepared at the Government Workshop where all the machine-work in connection with the construction of the motor will be undertaken prior to its installation in its new position above Pokfulam Road.
1916 Estimates, ... $10,000.00 | Total Estimates, ... $10,000.00
Expenditure to
1916 Expenditure, 1,345.66 31/12/16,
1,345.66
115. Miscellaneous Water Works.-The following is a statement
of the works undertaken under this heading:-
(1.) Fire Hydrants, Kennedy Road, $8.19 (iii) (ii) Recorder, Gauge Basin, Albany Filter Beds, service and fountain to L.L.'s 420-422, 462.64 55.98 (iv.) General, (v.) Laying 4" main and fountains in Smithfield, 212.44 (vi.) Temporary catchwaters at Tytam Tuk-not 97.97 proceeded with, 441.70 1916 Estimates, $6,000.00 1916 Expenditure, 1,278.92Item (i). Owing to delay in the carrying out of the realignment of Kennedy Road, begun in 1913, (vide item (v) in Report for 1913), only a small portion of this work could be executed.
Item (ii). Owing to the construction of the new Low Level Reservoir at Tytam Tuk, the two recorders, which were fixed in 1906, to register the yield of the catchment area, became useless. One has therefore been adapted for use at Albany Filter Beds, where it has been fixed to register the quantity of water passing over the main gauge. It is useful as a check on the out-put of the filter beds.
Item (iii). A new fountain was found necessary and was accordingly fixed.
Item (iv). This calls for no comment.
Item (v). Two large blocks of houses having been erected in Smithfield, an extension of the water mains became necessary in order to provide them with a supply of water.
Item (vi). This expenditure was incurred in connection with certain emergency works undertaken at Tytam Tuk in September, 1915, on account of the threatened drought but rendered unnecessary by the rainfall of October. A reference to the matter will be found in paragraph 170 of last year's Report.
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the High Levels of the City. The new pump-plungers will be 9′′ in diameter and will be double-acting. The motor will derive its power from the service reservoir in connection with the old Filter Beds, adjoining Victoria Battery, and will exhaust into the new service reservoir now under construction. When installed, it will to some extent supersede the steam engine so far as pumping to the High Levels of the City is concerned. By the end of the year, the patterns and castings were well in hand and special tools, etc., were prepared at the Government Workshop where all the machine-work in connection with the construction of the motor will be undertaken prior to its installation in its new position above Pokfulam Road.
1916 Estimates, .... $10,000.00 | Total Estimates, ... $10,000.00
Expenditure to
1916 Expenditure,. 1,345.66 31/12/16,
1,345,66
115. Miscellaneous Water Works.-The following is a statement
of the works undertaken under this heading:-
(1.) Fire Hydrants, Kenuedy Road,
$
8.19
(iii)
(ii) Recorder, Gauge Basin, Albany Filter Beds,
service and fountain to L.L.'s 420-422,.
462.64
55.98
(iv.) General,
(v.) Laying 4" main and fountains in Smithfield, (vi.) Temporary catchwaters at Tytam Tuk-not
212.44
97.97
441.70
proceeded with,
1916 Estimates,
1916 Expenditure,.
$6,000.00 1,278.92
Item (i). Owing to delay in the carrying out of the realignment of Kennedy Road, begun in 1913, (vide item (v) in Report for 1913), only a small portion of this work could be executed.
Item (ii). Owing to the construction of the new Low Level Reservoir at Tytam Tuk, the two recorders, which were fixed in 1906, to register the yield of the catchment area, became useless. One has therefore been adapted for use at Albany Filter Beds, where it has been fixed to register the quantity of water passing over the main gauge. It is useful as a check on the out-put of the filter beds.
Item (iii). A new fountain was found necessary and was accordingly fixed.
Item (iv). This calls for no comment.
Item (v). Two large blocks of houses having been erected in Smithfield, an extension of the water mains became necessary in order to provide them with a supply of water.
Item (vi). This expenditure was incurred in connection with certain emergency works undertaken at Tytam Tuk in September, 1915, on account of the threatened drought but rendered unnecessary by the rainfall of October. A reference to the matter will be found in paragraph 170 of last year's Report.
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