P.W.E. Hongkong.
Q 78
120. Miscellaneous Water Works.-The following is a statement of the works undertaken under this heading :
(i.) Fire Hydrants, Kennedy Road,............................ $374.42
(ii.) Recorder, Gauge Basin, Albany Filter Beds, (not quite completed),............................................... 9.40
(iii.) Recorder, Gauge Basin, Taitam, (not quite completed),....................................................... 1,058.06
(iv.) Sluice Board House, Taitam, (not quite completed),....................................................... 1,892.23
(v.) Taitam Tuk Dam,
(vi.) Connection between washout and pumping main, 832.04
(vii.) Alterations to old Filter Beds, West Point,...... 2,624.16
(viii.) General,....................................................... 83.25
Less sundry credits,........................ $6,873.56 255.25
$6,618.31
Item (i.) Some progress was made with this work, but, as certain diversions of the road were still in progress, it was not possible to complete it.
Item (ii.) This is a small outstanding balance on the work which was described in last year's Report (p. 68).
Item (iii.) The second recorder recovered from Taitam Tuk, owing to its being rendered useless by the construction of the Taitam Tuk Reservoir, has been utilized to register the water flowing over the gauge at the entrance to the Taitam Tunnel. It was brought into operation on the 15th December. It will furnish a continuous record of the water flowing over the Taitam Tunnel gauge, will reveal any irregularity in the flow from the Taitam Tuk pumping engines and will be useful as a check on the recorder recently provided at the Albany Filter Beds and for other purposes.
Item (iv.) Some old buildings at Taitam, formerly used as store-houses and quarters, which had fallen into a very dilapidated state, were demolished and, as there was no proper shelter for the overflow boards of the Taitam, Byewash, Intermediate and Wong-neichong Reservoirs, the materials were utilized, as far as possible, in constructing such a shelter. The building is of brickwork in lime and cement mortar with a reinforced concrete roof and windows of cast iron, the door being the only part which is of wood. Racks of L-iron, with rollers to carry the boards, are provided.
Item (v.) It was considered expedient, in view of the low state of the reservoirs in the early part of the year, to put in a connection from one of the washout pipes of the Taitam Tuk Reservoir to the pumping mains so as to enable water below the level of the lowest draw-off to be pumped. The additional quantity rendered available by means of this connection amounts to 38 million gallons.
P.W.E. Hongkong.
Q 78
120. Miscellaneous Water Works.-The following is a state- ment of the works undertaken under this heading :
(1.) Fire Hydrants, Kennedy Road,...
:-
(ii.) Recorder, Gauge Basin, Albany Filter Beds, (iii) Recorder, Gauge Basin, Taitam, (not quite com-
$374.42
9.40
pleted),
1,058.06
(iv.) Sluice Board House, Taitam, (not quite com-
pleted),
1,892.23
Taitam Tuk Dam,
(v.) Connection between washout and pumping rain,
832.04
(vi.) Alterations to old Filter Beds, West Point,...... 2,624.16 (vii.) General,
Less sundry credits,........................
83.25
$6,873.56 255.25
$6,618.31
Item (i.) Some progress was made with this work, but, as certain diversions of the road were still in progress, it was not possible to complete it.
Item (i.) This is a small outstanding balance on the work which was described in last year's Report (p. 68).
Item (iii.) The second recorder recovered from Taitam Tuk, owing to its being rendered useless by the construction of the Taitam Tuk Reservoir, has been utilized to register the water flowing over the gauge at the entrance to the Taitam Tunnel. It was brought into operation on the 15th December. It will furnish a continuous record of the water flowing over the Taitam Tunnel gauge, will reveal any irregularity in the flow from the Taitam Tuk pumping engines and will be useful as a check on the recorder recently provided at the Albany Filter Beds and for other purposes.
Item (iv.) Some old buildings at Taitam, formerly used as store-houses and quarters, which had fallen into a very dilapidated state, were demolished and, as there was no proper shelter for the overflow boards of the Taitam, Byewash, Intermediate and Wong- neichong Reservoirs, the materials were utilized, as far as possible, in constructing such a shelter. The building is of brickwork in lime and cement mortar with a reinforced concrete roof and win- dows of cast iron, the door being the only part which is of wood. Racks of L-iron, with rollers to carry the boards, are provided.
Item (v.) It was considered expedient, in view of the low state of the reservoirs in the early part of the year, to put in a connection from one of the washout pipes of the Taitam Tuk Reservoir to the pumping mains so as to enable water below the level of the lowest draw-off to be pumped. The additional quantity rendered available by means of this connection amounts to 38 million gallons.
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