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Annexe 12.

City of Victoria and Hill District Water Works.

TOTAL COST.

1863

1871

10" Main to Pokfulam and Distributing Works Pokfulam Reservoir, &c. ...

...$ 170,000 223,270

Blue Pool and Mint Dam...

1877

Pokfulam Conduit

1889

Taitam Scheme...

2,667

62,090 1,257,474

1890

West Point Filter Beds

1892

1891

Peak Supply

Distribution Works ...

Water Account

1897-1904 City and Hill District Water Works included Reservoir and Catchwater Wong Nei Chong Gap, Taitam Catchwater, Bowen Road Filter Bed and Service Reservoir New Main in City and Mains to Wong Nei Chong and North Point

37,431

164,023

32,585

29,297

330,127

1895-1898 Raising Taitam Dam and Mount Parker Catchwater ...

65,588

1901-1904 Taitam Byewash

118,794

1902-1908 Taitam Tuk Scheme Intermediate Reservoir, Road,

Pumping Station and Pipe Line

1,040,058

1904-1910 Albany Filter Bed Extension

182,165

1893-1910 Distribution (part included in other items)

195,502

1911-1919 West Point Filter Beds and Service Reservoir

395,565

1911-1919 Miscellaneous

79,663

1912-1919 Taitam Tuk

1912-1919

Pokfulam Road Pumping Station

2,372,646 74,673

1919

Eastern Filter Beds ...

:

723

$6,834,341

Total cost to 1919

..$6,834,341, say $7,000,000.

This sum provides 6·7 million gallons a day or 2,445 million a year.

At 7% it equals $490,000 a year.

49,000,000

2,445,000

add for pumping

0.20 cents per 1,000 gallons.

half from Taitam 0.06 cents.

Tuk.

30th May, 1921.

0.26 cents.

L. GIBBS.