CO129-518-8 Colonial Development Fund- requests and recommendations for monetary assistance for various projects 30-8-1929 - 28-2-1930 — Page 31

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feet in length through Smugglers Ridge and the South Tunnel 4,689 feet in length through Golden Hill were

completed, and so also was the reservoir with a

capacity of 33 million gallons in the lower Shek-

lai-pui valley, built to receive raw water delivered

through these tunnels. In the following year 150

feet of the North Tunnel were straightened and 3,200

feet of 24" steel main were laid. This trunk main

will bring the Sheng-mun water to Kowloon Point and

will have a total length of 24,030 feet with a feed

to the Kowloon distribution system at Pipers Hill,

where a covered reinforced concrete service reservoir

with a capacity of là million gallons was completed

in 1925. Immediately below the reception reservoir

in the lower Shek-lai-pui valley is the site of a rapid gravity filtration plant to deal ultimately with 20 million gallons a day. The first section of

this plant capable of filtering five million gallons

a day has already been completed and is now in operation.

Adjoining these filters, there is under construction a

covered reinforced concrete service reservoir with a

capacity of eleven million gallons".

In order that the water from the Sheng-mun

scheme may be available on Hong Kong Island, further works estimated at cost $361,602 must still be

completed, including a pipe-line across the harbour described in the Memorandum circulated with C.D.A.C.31

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Estimated Total Cost.

(a) Aberdeen Scheme

Developments of Scheme Resumption and

Salvage

$2,177,000

525.000 $2,702,000

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