minor intakes, despite the exceptionally low rainfall in the last six months of the year.
1.17. An experimental desalination plant, capable of producing 50,000 gallons of fresh water per day, was commissioned in February 1971 near Castle Peak. Data obtained from the operation of this plant will be used in the design of a plant capable of providing 20 million gallons per day, which will be erected on the same site.
1.18. Works progressed during the year on the construction of access roads for the High Island Water Scheme, the raising of the Plover Cove Dams and the uprating of the Sha Tin Treatment Works and Tai Po Tau Pumping Station to increase their capacities.
1.19. Fuel storage systems for several large new Government buildings including the Canton Road Fire Station and Rumsey Street multi-storey car park were completed by the Electrical and Mechanical Office, together with six passenger bridges at Kai Tak Airport and magnetic separators at the incinerators at Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok. A further incinerator plant at Kwai Chung was one of several design projects under way and the Office continued to maintain and repair all the Government's 3,128 vehicles.
ORGANIZATION
1.20. The problems associated with a population of nearly 4,000,000, most of whom live on a small area of land, of which most is in the process of redevelopment to a very high density, coupled with the need to open up and service new land for immediate and future development, make it necessary for the Department to combine many functions which in other territories would be undertaken by a number of agencies. The main spheres of departmental responsibility are:
Building (a) The design and construction of Government buildings
(b) The control of private development
Engineering (a) Civil Engineering
Land (b) Highway Construction and Traffic Engineering (c) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
(a) The disposal of Crown Land
(b) Land Surveying
(c) Town Planning
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minor intakes, despite the exceptionally low rainfall in the last six months of the year.
1.17. An experimental desalination plant, capable of producing 50,000 gallons of fresh water per day, was commissioned in February 1971 near Castle Peak. Data obtained from the operation of this plant will be used in the design of a plant capable of providing 20 million gallons per day, which will be erected on the same site.
1.18. Works progressed during the year on the construction of access roads for the High Island Water Scheme, the raising of the Plover Cove Dams and the uprating of the Sha Tin Treatment Works and Tai Po Tau Pumping Station to increase their capacities.
1.19. Fuel storage systems for several large new Government buildings including the Canton Road Fire Station and Rumsey Street multi-storey car park were completed by the Electrical and Mechanical Office, together with six passenger bridges at Kai Tak Airport and magnetic separators at the incinerators at Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok. A further incinerator plant at Kwai Chung was one of several design projects under way and the Office continued to maintain and repair all the Government's 3,128 vehicles.
ORGANIZATION
1.20. The problems associated with a population of nearly 4,000,000, most of whom live on a small area of land, of which most is in the process of redevelopment to a very high density, coupled with the need to open up and service new land for immediate and future development, make it necessary for the Department to combine many functions which in other territories would be undertaken by a number of agencies. The main spheres of departmental responsibility are:
Building (a) The design and construction of Government
buildings
(b) The control of private development
Engineering (a) Civil Engineering
Land
(b) Highway Construction and Traffic Engineering (c) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
(a) The disposal of Crown Land
(b) Land Surveying
(c) Town Planning
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