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Shek-lai-p valley, built to receive raw water
In the following
delivered through these tunnels.
year 150 feet of the North Tunnel wer straightened
This
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 reservoir with a capacity of 1 million
gallons was completed in 1925. Immediately below
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the reception reservoir in the lower Shek-lai-pi
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".
stimated to cost, $361, 602
Affandice's and Vil 65 1930 €22
In order that the water from the Sheng-mun
scheme may be available on Hong Kong Island, further
still
works must be completed, including a pipe-line
A
across the harbour described in the Memorandum
circulated with C.D.A.C. 31.
(2)
Estimated Total Cost.
(a)
Aberdeen Scheme
Developments of Scheme Resumption and
Salvage
$2,177,000
525,000
$2,702,000
(b)
Sheng-mun Scheme
$4,158,509.40
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