River Indus Flood Pumping Scheme
7.42. The greater part of this $25 million project has been completed although progress on civil works was somewhat behind schedule. The scheme involves construction of a pumping station with an installed capacity of 230 million gallons which will extract the flood flow from a basin behind a fabridam. Erection of the fabridam was completed and three low lift pumpsets installed and ready for operation.
Shek Pik and Tung Chung Scheme
7.43. This scheme, at a cost of $264 million including the associated works carried out by the Waterworks Construction division, has increased the Colony's storage capacity by 50 per cent and is now fully operational. The catchwaters and tunnels are being extended to the north side of the island of Lantau in order to bring water from that area to Shek Pik Reservoir and work on this addition, under the title of the Tung Chung Scheme, was well advanced. Included in the latter scheme is a permanent road from Cheung Sha on the south coast, over the central mountain range of Lantau to Tung Chung on the north coast.
Water Supplies to Resite Areas
7.44. About $600,000 was spent on the provision of water supplies to the Chai Wan, Mount Davis, Jordan Valley and Sau Mau Ping resite areas including the provision of small pumping stations, reception tanks and pipelines.
General
PLANNING DIVISION
Chief Engineer:
W. D. A. TUCKER, M.A. (Eng.), A.M.I.C.E.
7.45. The division is concerned with the preparation in broad outline of proposals for providing water to new development throughout the Colony and also for the planning of major schemes in conjunction with consulting engineers.
Hydrological Section
7.46. Improvements and alterations were made to the raingauge network. Rainfall is now measured at 35 waterworks stations in addition to those of other departments and close supervision of these stations was maintained. An evaporation station was set up at Ting Kok near
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River Indus Flood Pumping Scheme
7.42. The greater part of this $25 million project has been completed although progress on civil works was somewhat behind schedule. The scheme involves construction of a pumping station with an installed capacity of 230 million gallons which will extract the flood flow from a basin behind a fabridam. Erection of the fabridam was completed and three low lift pumpsets installed and ready for operation.
Shek Pik and Tung Chung Scheme
7.43. This scheme, at a cost of $264 million including the associated works carried out by the Waterworks Construction division, has increased the Colony's storage capacity by 50 per cent and is now fully operational. The catchwaters and tunnels are being extended to the north side of the island of Lantau in order to bring water from that area to Shek Pik Reservoir and work on this addition, under the title of the Tung Chung Scheme, was well advanced. Included in the latter scheme is a permanent road from Cheung Sha on the south coast, over the central mountain range of Lantau to Tung Chung on the north
coast.
Water Supplies to Resite Areas
7.44. About $600,000 was spent on the provision of water supplies to the Chai Wan, Mount Davis, Jordan Valley and Sau Mau Ping resite areas including the provision of small pumping stations, reception tanks and pipelines.
General
PLANNING DIVISION
Chief Engineer:
W. D. A. TUCKER, M.A. (Eng.), A.M.I.C.E.
7.45. The division is concerned with the preparation in broad out- line of proposals for providing water to new development throughout the Colony and also for the planning of major schemes in conjunction with consulting engineers.
Hydrological Section
7.46. Improvements and alterations were made to the raingauge network. Rainfall is now measured at 35 waterworks stations in addi- tion to those of other departments and close supervision of these stations was maintained. An evaporation station was set up at Ting Kok near
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