CO129-598-2 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 24-6-1948 - 3-3-1949 — Page 57

HONG KONG WATERWORKS TABLE No. 5

FILTRATION PLANTS

Location

Aberdeen Pokfulam Elliot

Name

Supplying

No. beds

Type of bed

Total Area Maximum Capa- Sq. Yds. city in M.G D.

Aberdeen & Applichau Pokfulam

4

Slow Sand

1008

0.4

4

do.

1020

0.4

West end City, by gravity

6

do.

3956

1.5

17

& Peak by pumping

8

Rapid Gravity

256

4.0

West Point

HONG

University Area

5

Slow Sand

1990

.8

Albany

Lower Mid-levels

8

do.

4944

2.0

KONG

Bowen Road Eastern

Kennedy Road-East

6

Rapid Gravity

192

3.0

Low levels-East

& pumped to high levels.

11

Slow San

6338

2.5

Wong Nei Chong

(Proposed) - Shouson Hill

do,

533'

0.2

Chai Wan

Shau Ki Wan

2

do.

432

0.2

Tytam Tuk

Stanley

3

Pressure

18

0.3

KOW.

Kowloon

Kowloon Peninsula

10

Slow Sand

8000

3.2

LOON

Shek Lai Pui

Kowloon & Hong Kong

32

Rapid Gravity

1195

20.0

Total Theoretical Filtration Capacity

Note:

Allowing for slow sand beds out of action for cleaning-say--

Net Filtration Capacity

With the new R.G. Filters at Eastern to be completed in 1949, extra capacity

Maximum Capacity end 1949

-Max. Peak load demand 1948 40.5 M.G.D.

= 4.0 M.G.D.

41.0 M.G.D.

38.5 M.G.D. 1.5 M.G.D.

· 37.0 M.G.D.

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