2:2
Zoculis im
CONCLUSION AS
TO AVAILABLE SUPPLY.
The annual supply will therefore be:-
sores 1,946 millions 679.05 Add as before intercepted stream millions Total annual supply ww millions 1,321.44 170.00 millions 1,491.44or at the rate of 4.09 million gallons a day as again 3.20 as estimated by Mr Cooper.
The storage according to my computation won't
be 4.00 x 200 = 800.00 millions.
Mr Cooper proposes to provide
millions Taitum old reservoir 390 Taitam, addition by raising the overflow Reservoirs within Taitan area 20 NO. 1 70 NO. 2 40 CATCH-WATER CHANNELS. No. 3 20 78 91 709 I.A. Fokefooium new Fokefoolum old, increased to Total proposed storage 299*#
+ 9} I have endeavoured to estimate the probi ply which may be nounted upon, as the result of posed works, by an independent process of reason using the data afforded by the report before me estimated the possible supply, somewhat nigher than Mr Cooper has done. I have also made estimate of the st ora ge -oa pacity, triat may be
than he has done, Nothing but actual exp tending over a period of 20 years or more, to whigh of these estimates is nearest to
The project is so arranged, that it may
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progressively.
Modifications in details or in the order of exeqution may be made, from time to time, as experience may direct. Even if it were possible to estimate the absolute supply, whion a given area of gathering-ground gould afford, the result would be of little value, for it is impossible to estimate the population, or demand for
20 years hange. Suffice it therefore to say that.
water,
in my opinion, the execution of the works projected by Mr Cooper, in the order which he proposes, will afford the means of averting & repetition of the water-famines which have ogourred, and will enable the supply to keep pane with the demand. Provided always that waste and abuse is kept within reasonable bounds by proper supervision
If it be not, then neither these of the distribution. works nor any others that own be reasonably projected,
of Hong Kong, will suffice. within the limited area
(10) One of the reasons why my estimate of the available supply exoeeds that of Mr Cooper, is that
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I have assumed that the available rainfall from gather- ing-grounds collected by outon-water channels, is the same as that of areas the flow from which runs naturally to the reservoirs. To carry off the great floods which sometimes occur, channels of impracticable size would be required. The whole of the reasoning is however based on the data obtained, during exceptionally dry seasons, during which exceptional floods are not to be expented. I venture to believe that, if the channels were made sufficiently large, to carry off" of rain on the gathering-ground which they intercept, they would in exoeptionally dry seasons, nonvey practically the whole
I would however gall atten-
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2:2
Zoculis im
CONCLUSION AS
TO AVAILABLE SUPPLY.
The annual supply will therefore be:-
sores
1,946
I
millions
679.05
Add as before intercepted stream
Total annual supply
ww
millions
1,321.44
170.00
1,491,44
or at the rate of 4.09 million gallons a day as again 3.20 as estimated by Mr Cooper.
The storage according to my computation wont
be 4.00 x 200 = R00.00 millions.
Mr Cooper proposes to provide
millions
Taitum old reservoir
390
Taitam, addation by raising the overflow
Reservoirs within Taitan area
20
NO. 1
70
NO. 2
40
CATCH-WATER CHANNELS.
No. 3
20
78
91
709
I.A.
Fokefooium new
Fokefoolum old, increased to
Total proposed storage
299*
#
+ 9} I have endeavoured to estimate the probi ply which may be nounted upon, as the result of posed works, by an independent process of reasor using the data afforded by the report before me estimated the possible supply, somewhat nighe
than Mr Cooper has done. I have also made
estimate of the st ora ge -oa pacity, triat may
than he has done, Nothing but actual exp tending over a period of 20 years or more, to whigh of these estimates is nearest to
The project is so arranged, that it may
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progressively.
Modifications in details or in the order
of exeqution may be made, from time to time, as experience may direct. Even if it were possible to estimate the absolute supply, whion a given area of gathering-ground gould afford, the result would be of little value, for it is impossible to estimate the population, or demand for
20 years hange. Suffice it therefore to say that.
water,
in my opinion, the execution of the works projected by Mr Cooper, in the order which he proposes, will afford the means of averting & repetition of the water-famines which have ogourred, and will enable the supply to keep pane with the demand. Provided always that waste and abuse is kept within reasonable bounds by proper supervision
If it be not, then neither these of the distribution. works nor any others that own be reasonably projected,
of Hong Kong, will suffice. within the limited area
(10) One of the reasons why my estimate of the available supply exoeeds that of Mr Cooper, is that
519
I have assumed that the available rainfall from gather- ing-grounds collected by outon-water channels, is the same as that of areas the flow from which runs naturally to the reservoirs. To carry off the great floods which sometimes occur, channels of impracticable size would be required. The whole of the reasoning is however based on the data obtained, during exceptionally dry seasons, during which exceptional floods are not to be expented. I venture to believe that, if the channels were made sufficiently large, to carry off" of rain on the gathering-ground which they intercept, they would in exoeptionally dry seasons, nonvey practically the whole
I would however gall atten- of the available rainfall.
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