CO129-518-8 Colonial Development Fund- requests and recommendations for monetary assistance for various projects 30-8-1929 - 28-2-1930 — Page 30

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The

for the Company's rights, lands and buildings: cost is $525,000 to be paid up early in 1930. An additional reservoir, to contain 175 million gallons and to cost $900,000, is being constructed, together with ancillary works, estimated to cost $1,277,000,

(including catchwaters, mains, filters, an access

road, and a pumping station).

(b) The Sheng-mun Valley scheme will provide

supplies from the main) and, partly to meet the needs

of the greatly increased population of Kowlook and partly also to supplement the inadequate resources of

the Island.

The full scheme consists of the complete development of the Sheng-mun Valley from Lead Mine Pass to the sea and the Southern and Eastern slopes of Taimoshan, a mountain 3,130 feet in height. At present, however, only a section of this scheme has been taken in hand and the references to the scheme in the present memorandum refer only to this first section. The following description is taken from a recent speech

delivered by the Governor:-

This is part of the Second Section.

"An access road 16 feet in width and 1.92

miles in length from Ts 'un-wan to Pineapple Pass was completed in 1925. In the same year were also completed the intake dam across the Sheng-mun River above Pineapple Pass, the temporary conduit 6,000 feet in length from this intake to the point where the dam in the Sheng-mun Gorge will be built, the

North conduit 2,900 feet in length from this point to the opening of the North Tunnel, and the South conduit 2,000 feet in length between the North and South Tunnel s. In 1926 the North Tunnel 2,160

feet

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