CO129-598-2 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 24-6-1948 - 3-3-1949 — Page 55

HONG KONG WATERWORKS TABLE No. 6

SERVICE RESERVOIRS

Area

Name

Notes

Capacity in M.G.

Height Above Principal Datum in ft.

Hong Kong Western

Elliot West Point

5.317

286.00

30 ft. deep, leaking-to be re-

constructed

0.851

460.00

750 ft.

Central

Albany

Leaking. No division wall. New reservoir being built before

old one can be repaired. Open, settlement, to be recon-

0.388

750.00

structed & roofed

5.187

382.15

Gardens

Settlement at N.W. corner;

corner cut off 1947.

4.6173

240.25

Peak Road

Reinforced Concrete Contilever

walls-1938

0.600

750.00

Bowen Road Two tanks, upper one convert-

353.00

ed filter bed. To be recon-

1.120

283.00

structed.

650 ft.

0.395

650.00

Eastern

Eastern

4.906

304.00

North Point Balance Tank

1.145

240.00

Chai Wan

0.350

222.50

Eastern Mid-levels

Middle Gap Jardines

0.217

778.00

Look-Out

Tai Hang

0.200

778.00

Partly break-pressure tank.

0.045

533.00

1

Rural

Repulse Bay

Two tanks

0.061

489.00

West Bay

0.011

439.00

Shouson Hill

Temporary steel tank 32,000

galls. in addition

0.047

409.50

Aberdeen

0.350

272.20

Applichau

0.163

210.00

Pokfulam

0.272

710.75

Queen Mary

Supplied from Pokfulam or

750 ft.

0.102

675.00

Stanley

Mound

New S.R. to be built with

0.202

268.00

Stanley

new R.G. filters at Red Hill

0.082

238.00

Prison

Peak

Peak

0.395

1751.88

Mt. Gough

0.211

1518.25

VVanchai

Gap

0.036

917.50

Mt. Cameron

0.100

1323.50

Kowloon

Shek Lai Pui

11.410

443.00

Pipers Hill

Leakage repaired in 1947

1,508

274.50

Yaumati

Hill

Leakage at one corner caused

major wash-out during oc-

cupation. Repaired 1945/6.

5.433

215.00

Hung Hom

0.093

160.50

Kowloon Tsai Flat slab roof

6.351

300.00

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