CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873 — Page 52

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

A similar Rainfall

as before of

of

19 wiches available, would give a quantly of 287,000,000 Gallons for Storage .

This Steam has the largest gathering ground of any in the Island, and the site

I propose larger impounding eurface - then can be found elsewhere as this Valley rises less at

abruptly

as that for the Reservoir has a

than

any

other.

"There is one other great advantage to a Reservoir at this place, which is that aw creellent Bife wash Chaund can be cutout of the rock at the castern end of the Einbaukiment where a small stream runs

up to and is cut off from the Reservoirs by a narrow.

ridge of bill...

A rainfall of 29 inches

Again-

a

available - or of 87 wiches actual

667

the above Gathering

acres

area

of

would give the whole of

the quantity required of £150, 000,000

Gallous and a

new Reservoir.

here, as now proposed,

having

a

depth of water

22.

{

50

50 feet in the deepest part uned mesound 10,000,000 Getons

AUDRE

thony

are actually wanted _ at the rate of 20 Guttons per head per diem . __

It wie thus be seen that Eylam is the only soured from which we can procure the exhu supply by gruerty alone - the outlet from it is at the sound height as that at Bok foolum _ The cutlet pomf Aberdeen would be lower by 200 ft and the prea of the objecthering ground less by 100) acres. The only draw buck to the Explam: scheme is that it is some what further envey them either Aberdeen or Pokfoolum - yet after all the distince is a mere nothing of wes compare it with the supply to Glasgow from Loch Katrine, or to Bombay from Uchur - With the sold exception of the distance from S plam being greaker than from Abudun there is no question whahver of comparison between the livo schemes - the forener being.

the former being mi aldr

makrial points preferable to the latterl

I have now strewn whence the

additional), supply can be obtened and I.

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