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Castle Peak and Yuen Long Supply

328. The filtered water supply to the Castle Peak area was further extended and a new pump installed to enable the Tai Lam Chung filters to cope with the additional demands.

329. Completion of the Lam Tei Pumping Station resulted in im- provement to the supply to Yuen Long.

Waterworks Staff Quarters

330. New quarters were provided in conjunction with the construc- tion of pumping stations at North Point, Jordan Valley and Kwun Tong. The receipt of excessively high tenders made it necessary to postpone the provision of new quarters at the Elliot Pumping Station.

Fluoridation

331. Fluoridation equipment with automatic feed control was in- stalled and put into service at thirteen separate filtration installations.

Tai Lam Chung Scheme

NEW CONSTRUCTION

332. In addition to the completion of the southern group of catch- waters, construction of the sections comprising the northern group generally made good progress, although hampered by heavy rains.

Connecting Pipeline-Jubilee Reservoir to Tsuen Wan Filters

333. Completion of a 30" pipeline from Jubilee Reservoir to the Tsuen Wan filters permitted the use of 903 million gallons of Jubilee Reservoir water, which would have otherwise overflowed to waste.

Salt Water Flushing Schemes

334. (1) Cheung Sha Wan

This scheme included the construction of two service reservoirs, one of which (at Piper's Hill), with a capacity of 2 million gallons, was completed, while that at Tai Wo Ping, with a capacity of 3 million gallons, made rather slower progress due to excessive rock excavation.

(2) Wong Tai Sin and Lo Fu Ngam

Although the service reservoirs, with a total capacity of 7 million gallons, and pump house could have been put into use, the installation of the permanent pumps was delayed by diversion of staff to the in- stallation of the more important Muk Wu and River Indus pumping equipment.

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