164. Typhoon and rainstorm damage necessitated the stabilizing of 40 feet high cuttings on the Lam Tsun Valley Road, this being done by facing with 3″ of lime cement concrete.
WATERWORKS OFFICE
Water Works Engineer,
Leonard Jackson, B.Eng., A.M.I.C.E., M.I.W.E. (Acting).
General
165. The demand for water continued to maintain its upward trend and this aspect governed the operation of the Waterworks during the whole of the year.
166. The heavy restrictions in the hours of supply brought further difficulties due to the whole day's supply having to be drawn off in a few hours. All too often this resulted in the upper floors of tenement buildings being unable to get any water so long as the taps were open on the lower floors.
167. In last year's report reference was made to the difficulty of supplying over 30 million gallons in only 10 hours daily, yet during part of this year the figures were 28 million gallons in 5 hours.
168. Considerable progress was made in the programme of improvements to the distribution system, although a great deal has yet to be done. Not only has new building work proceeded steadily with consequent calls for new mains, but the overcrowding in many of the older districts has so increased the demand in these areas that the mains supplying them have been completely overloaded.
164. Typhoon and rainstorm damage necessitated the stabilizing of 40 feet high cuttings on the Lam Tsun Valley Road, this being done by facing with 3′′ of lime cement concrete.
WATERWORKS OFFICE
Water Works Engineer,
Leonard Jackson, B.Eng., A.M.I.C.E., M.I.W.E. (Acting).
General
165. The demand for water continued to maintain its upward trend and this aspect governed the operation of the Waterworks during the whole of the year.
166. The heavy restrictions in the hours of supply brought further difficulties due to the whole day's supply having to be drawn off in a few hours. All too often this resulted in the upper floors of tenement buildings being unable to get any water so long as the taps were open on the lower floors.
167. In last year's report reference was made to the difficulty of supplying over 30 million gallons in only 10 hours daily, yet during part of this year the figures were 28 million gallons in 5 hours.
168. Considerable progress was made in the programme of improvements to the distribution system, although a great deal has yet to be done. Not only has new building work proceeded steadily with consequent calls for new mains, but the overcrowd- ing in many of the older districts has so increased the demand in these areas that the mains supplying them have been com- pletely overloaded.
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