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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
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23 August 1967
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Attention Glover. Water.
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Water is pouring into the multimillion dollar Plover Cove Reservoir at rate of one thousand two hundred cubic feet per second and may be contributing to Colony's water supplies earlier than expected a Government spokesman said yesterday.
Rains from two recent tropical storms Iris and Kate are feeding six hundred million gallons of fresh water a day into reservoir through main tunnel from Taipi Tau intake.
At 9 a.m. yesterday, Tuesday, volume of stored water at Plover Cove was over eight thousand million gallons which represents a quarter of reservoirs maximum capacity and half of total now in storage in rest of Colony's reservoirs.
Just as reassuring as this recent rapid increase in storage is the rate at which the salinity levels are dropping. Salinity, when first fresh water was admitted to drained seabed, stood at thirty-thousand parts of salt to a million parts of water.
It has now dropped to two thousand parts per million which is getting close to proportions at which it would become, once mixed with supplies from other sources, acceptable for consumption.
Sir D. Trench
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1.0. H.K. & W.I.D."C"
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J.I.P.G.D.
J.I.R.D.
Overseas Labour Adviser
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