CO129-511-20 Hong Kong Water supply- report by Committee for Imperial Defence 28-10-1928 - 28-10-1928 — Page 17

Governor's statement 17.8.28.

Full plans have been prepared, and the output is estimated at 2.12 million gallons per day.

The Aberdeen Scheme would exhaust all possibilities

of finding further water on the Island, and, as the population of Hong Kong Island seems likely to remain stationary, this scheme if carried out might almost solve

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the problem for the Island itself, as the supply would then be 7.25 plus 2.12 million gallons per day 9.37 m.g.p.d. for a population of 875,000 nearly 11 gallons per head per

diem.

(b) Shing Mun Valley Scheme.

This is a scheme to

0.A.G's telegram 10.8.28.

0.A.G's telegram 1.8.28.

obtain water on the mainland in the leased territory to increase the deficient water supply of the latter and also to increase the Hong Kong Island supply by means of pipes across the harbour. The first section of the scheme is in hand, but the work on the pipe line from Kowloon and on the reservoir in Hong Kong Island is in abeyance.

The first section of this scheme was to have been completed in 1931. A considerable sum has already been spont and it would cost 960,000 dollars to finish the scheme and bring the water across the harbour. The production would amount to 2.5 million gallons per day, but the amount available for Hong Kong in 1929 would be only 82 million gallons.

The second section of the Shing Mun Valley Scheme would cost 4,750,000 dollars, but full details do not appear to have yet been worked out, and this section of the scheme has not yet been approved. It would, however, be necessary before long to proceed with this section of the scheme, both to obtain full value from the harbour pipes, if these are constructed, and to ensure an adequate water supply for Kowloon after 1932.

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