CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7] — Page 533

Pokfulam water collected in the

manner we now recommend to be

adopted in the case

supply recommending

of the Faitam

we do not feel justified in

the heavy expenditure involved in the application of - chemical, treatment for the further clarification of these waters.

12.

A plan prepared by

the Director of Public Works is attached

shewing how the foregoing.

mendation

viz..

recou

that a clear water

channel be constructed for intercepting the head waters of the Faitan Valley

conveying them direct to the Basin without passing

and

Gauge

the reservoir.

This

Cata

into

best be accomplished.

project consists of about 1400 linical yards of open channel cut in the hill side contouring the Valley at a level of about 512 feet above Ordnance datum. The portion of

+

this

this channel.

532

1170

lineal yards in

length above the overflow will probably not require any masonry

Euring

the ste

of concrete

slight leakage that

may. recur will not be sufficient to - warrant the additional expenditure

that would be incurred

this portion of

ed by making

the channel water-tight.

such water as escapes naturally

its

way

-

into the reservoir

finding will not reduce the quantity of water available for the supply of the City.

13.

It is however different.

with that hortion below the overflow

and concrete as

1 any

which is proposed to be constructed of masonry leakage from

part of the channel

this

will flow down the

valley

and be

lost.

144.

The portion dower the

steep slope immediately above the

gauge