XN000022-1973-01-23 — Page 2

Tuesday, January 23, 1973

EXTENSTON WORK AT 1-LOVER COVE NEARING COMPLETION

Dans Being Raised To Increase Capacity

Ninety per cent of the current extension work at the Plover

Cove Reservoir to boost its storage capacity by some 13,500 million

gallons has now been completed.

The whole project, costing more than $32 million, is

expected to be completed in April as the construction work has

progressed according to schedule.

And what remains to be done after that is to wait for the

rainy season to come.

The extension work was started in June 1970, and it was

planned to take advantage of the summer rains this year.

With the completion of this project, Hong Kong's total

water storage capacity will be increased from 54,000 million gallons

to 67,500 million gallons.

This, together with the High Island Water Scheme which will

have a storage capacity of 60,000 million gallons when completed, and

the Castle Peak desalination plant, which should be able to produce

40 million gallons of fresh water per day by 1976, represent three positive

steps taken by the Government to meet Hong Kong's increasing demand for

fresh water in the seventies.

The Plover Cove extension work involves the raising of the

main and two subsidiary dans by 12 feet, the construction of a small

saddle dam at the Tai lei Tuk peninsula, and the installation of 64

concrete syphons on the existing spillway.

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