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Monday, March 5, 1973

TWELVE PLAYGROUNDS ABOVE SERVICE RESERVOIRS

Two More Under Construction

Most people may not have noticed, but many of Hong Kong's recreational

areas and playgrounds are built on top of service reservoirs in the urban

districts,

More and more service reservoirs have been built in recent years to

cope with the high rate of water consumption.

The scarcity of land and the rapid growth of the population' have,

for long, given rise to the problem of finding sufficient and suitable sites

for recreational areas.

And the service reservoirs have solved, at least in part, this

particular problem.

There are, at present, 12 service reservoir playgrounds on both sides

of the harbour three on the Island and nine in Kowloon

30 acres of land.

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occupying well over

In addition, two such playgrounds in the Lok Fu area of Kowloon and

in Kennedy Town on the Island are now under construction.

These two, each of about two acres in size, will be open to the public

in two months' time.

Another playground in the Yau Tong area has also been proposed.

Of the 12 existing playgrounds, the one in Shau Kei Wan was completed

only recently. Although an official opening ceremony will be held in the near

future, it has already been opened to the public.

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