CO129-518-8 Colonial Development Fund- requests and recommendations for monetary assistance for various projects 30-8-1929 - 28-2-1930 — Page 39

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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 reservior 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

This

year 150 feet of the North Tunnel were straightened

and 3,200 feet of 24" steel main were laid.

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 reservior with a capacity of 14 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

(2) Estimated Total Cost.

(a) Aberdeen Scheme

Developments of Scheme $2,177,000 Resumption and

Salvage

525,000

$2,702,000

(b)