Works carried out and chargeable to Loan Funds.
118
At the end of the year the dam had risen to the level of 300 O.D. or approximately 65 feet above the original stream bed and 50 feet below overflow level. The excavations to foundations have been considerably in excess of those anticipated from examination of the original surface and trial trenches.
A total quantity of 16,800 cube yards of concrete was poured during the year excluding the concrete in facing blocks.
Expenditure for 1930 Expenditure up to 31.12.30
$269,911.73 $300,740.82
Hong Kong Gardens Service Reservoir (Not included in Estimates). This work was referred to in paragraph 283(g) of last year's Report.
No provision was made in the 1930 Estimates for this work, and no construction work was done.
Preliminary designs for this work however have been prepared.
Expenditure for 1930 Expenditure up to 31.12.30
Nil $211.50
249. 2nd Section-Filtration Plant.-An indent was prepared and forwarded to the Crown Agents, but instructions were received from the Secretary of State that this indent would be held over pending the report of the Consulting Engineers on the 2nd Section of the Shing Mun Valley Scheme.
Expenditure up to 31.12.30
Nil
250. Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme.
Expenditure for 1930 Expenditure up to 31.12.30
$707,617.73 $778,806.05
Item No. 1. Preliminary and Survey Work-General expenditure includes field allowances, Survey staff wages, Office furniture, Survey and drawing instruments.
Item No. 2. Upper Dam.-(This work was referred to in paragraph 286 of last year's Report).
Good rock foundation was exposed and ready for concrete by the beginning of May. Owing to a soft rock seam in the stream-bed, excavation was taken down to the level of 233.00 O.D. i.e., 20 feet below the anticipated level. Concreting was commenced late in May and carried on, with various stoppages through floods and labour troubles, until the end of the year, 3,500 yards being poured,
Works carried out and charge- able to Loan Funds.
118
at the end of the year the dam had risen to the level of 300 O.D. or approximately 65 feet above the original stream bed and 50 feet below overflow level. The excavations to foundations have been considerably in excess of those anticipated from examination of the original surface and trial trenches.
A total quantity of 16,800 cube yards of concrete was poured during the year excluding the concrete in facing blocks.
Expenditure for 1980
Expenditure up to 31.12.30
$269,911.73 $300,740.82
Hong Kong Gardens Service Reservoir (Not included in Estimates). This work was referred to in paragraph 283 (g) of last year's Report.
No provision was made in the 1930 Estimates for this work, and no construction work was done.
Preliminary designs for this work however have been prepared.
Expenditure for 1930
Expenditure up to 31.12.30
Nil
$ 211.50
249. 2nd Section-Filtration Plant.-An indent was pre- pared and forwarded to the Crown Agents, but instructions were received from the Secretary of State that this indent would be held over pending the report of the Consulting Engineers on the 2nd Section of the Shing Mun Valley Scheme. ·
Expenditure up to 31.12.30
250. Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme.
Nil
Expenditure for 1930
Expenditure up to 31.12.30
$707,617.73
$778,806.05
Item No. 1. Preliminary and Survey Work-General ex- penditure includes field allowances, Survey staff wages, Office furniture. Survey and drawing instruments.
Item No. 2. Upper Dam.-(This work was referred to in paragraph 286 of last year's Report).
Good rock foundation was exposed and ready for concrete by the beginning of May. Owing to a soft rock seam in the stream-bed, excavation was taken down to the level of 233.00 O.D. i.e. 20 feet below the anticipated level. Concreting was commenced late in
in May and carried on, with various stoppages through floods and labour troubles, until the end of the year, 3,500 yards being poured,
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