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THE

HONGKONG

ABERDEEN DAM OPENED.

TELEGRAPH,

de

(Continued from Pago 2.) lower dam, and in capable of ivering some 2 million gallons par day.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931.

Air.

Mr.

be

bellove. In

particularly well situated to ro- | pipeline, and now the big second love the Western Districts of the Shing Mun scheme, with its City and to servo future devolop- enormous dam, may I think be pro- mant between Aberdeen' and Re-perty termed a veritable romance. puleo Bay. On complation, the The second part of the Shing Man Waterworks Catchment Arena will scheme has been carefully de- xtrotch continuously along the sigued,

And

I congratulate whole South side of the Island Creaay and his lieutenants, from the Penk to Mt. Collinson, Henderson and Mr. Purves, on the It is difficult to forecast for how them has had the complete appro

fact that the scheme prepared by In 1918 when Sir Henry May long the present works will suffice val of the consulting engineers. declared the Tytam Tuk Reservoir for the City without resorting to The final approval of the Seero- scheme open for public service, he restrictions. A note of warning lary of State is now awaited, and congratulated the engineers on might well be sounded with rogard I am confident that it

a further 1,419 million to the waste of water which is given. The dam will be the

will Adding

storage for the City water gain taking place in the City of largest of its kind, eply, and hoped that the exien- Victoria. From the report on the Lite Far East and will, it is anti- sion would meet the demanils of the Census for 1981 it will be seen cipated, make the water City for the next 15 years. The that while Kowloon consumos 20 safe in this Colony for years to Bupply total storage of the Island Was then 2,138 million gallons and the total gallons per head the Island con- come. It is a costly scheme, and

sumes 33.76 gallons per head. ir t storage for Kowloon

the Secretary of State approves, Was 352 Making allowances' for higher will have to be paid for from million gallons. To-day the total pressures, and the dully visits of loans, In view storage of Hongkong la 2,383

of our present million gallons and of Kowloon 688eighbours from the mainland, donncial position, it is not an million gallon in addition to which very considerable waste of water alightest dilliculty in raising such ia no doubt that there is a cipated that there will bo the 1,000 million gallons per annum is in Hongkong particularly in the tons on favourabla terms. The obtainable from The Shing Mun rider main districts where there

geleme is vital to the Colony, and is normally an unlimited free should not be delayed. The completion of the Aberdeen supply. Unless payment for ex- Damn brings us to the end of an-cess consumption ena ire generally other stage in the Waterworks ex- enforced there is no incentive to

I understand that, when my pre- tensions which have been in pro- the conservation of the water sadecessor Sir Henry May opened gress since the completion of the ply.

The introduction of univers the new dam at Tytan Tuk, he Tyian Tuk Scheme and witch to nal meterage is coming more read a homily on the evils of in- gether have resalled, in an

and more essential, and unless this mentation to The Colony's water method of prevention of waste is

temperance. I do not know how supply to even a greater extent adopted the unsatisfactory period-ar it was justified, but judging by than was obtained by that project.

the increase in water consumption. cal restrictions of the supplies to the rider main districts must con- fruit. Especially does this ap- it looks as if his advice had borne

pear to be so on Hongkong island. Whether the people in Kowloon are what | #11

enlled "harder

River.

י".

there

tinue.

Draught Warning.

were

Kowloon Increase,

Are

cases," or whether they prefer their whiskey less diluted. I am fancy, not prepared to say. I however, that the Club bar egipts in both places show con- siderable reduction,

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Without going into much detail and utoting distracting figures, 1

No appreciable freeh water propose to very brielly review the Waterworks extensions that have supply has ever been artificially taken place in recent years. After obtained to meet the full require merensing the catchment areas of ments of large towns or cities and The Kowloon Reservoir by the ex-most parts of the world are still tention to the Beacon 1 catch-entirely dependent upon rainfall water, the Shadipul Reservoir was for their water supply, Hongkong constructel -- this necessitated the la no exception as was proved by: removal of the village to the Shatin the severe drought of 1920.

At Director of Public Works in his Valles

and the old Kowloon filtere that time the supply of water in

warning against waste of water. followed storage fell to 141 million gallons We shall, I am convinced, be able enlarged. Then what is known as the First Section and the water supply had to bu

to meet legitimate consumption of the Shiar bun Scheme (neces-supplemented by water transported sitating the removal of the Shing from the mainland and by supplies when the Shing Man scheme is Mun Villages to Kumn in and other obtained from passing ships from completed, but we cannot under- localities). This First Section distant ports. The

take to provide for unlimited drought was waste. When consists of an intake tam in the the most severe ever recorded, the Municipal President in Penang. I first became Shing Man River, from which the rainfall being only 37.27 inches the consumption was enormous, enter is conveyed by a series of for the 12 month ending 30th amounting to 74 millions a day. Plaits auf Funnels to the exp- June, 1929 as against an average By the introduction of a sliding tion Reservoir which supplies the annual rainfall of about 85 inches, scale, under which the greater the new mechanical filters and then At one time it seemed that tan- consumption the greater was the passes into the Sheklipti filtered kers would have to be purchased rate charged, the consumption water servies reservoir connected vis Pipers til Reservoir with the Colon transport of water to the was reduced in two or three years *** 8ppiz. The next work [o]ny. All local sources

and a very serious position to some 4,900,000 gallona. There beled"

which is capable of stor- lug the overlow water from both fell in July, 1929 after an almost due to the people

continuous drought of 9 months. the Kowloon Reservoir and from I am glad to see Mr. Williamson the Shing Mun Valley This Rehere to-day for it was through hila servoir wry useful connect- ing link of although it ling been referred to be that our supply was augmented one Hon. Member of the Legislative

from the foreign ports and he was at that time able to obtain an offer Council as the Eyewash Reservoir.

of a Tanker at a very reasonable of State to make the water system Sufflelut has been sail to show cost. This

Aberdeen

reservoir in the Colony self supporting, and that the Kowloon Water Supply contains enough water to fill about in order to carry this out, univers Scheme is a very complicated affair 150 such Tankers. Luckily this al meterage is essential. Con- and it is gratifying to learn from expensive method of obtaining siderable progress has already the Consulting Engineers who have water was averted by nature com- been maile in the installation of lately visited and surveyed and ex-ing to the rescue and ending the meters, and the work steadily con- amined the scheme

whole

1910, drought. that they consider the works have been well and economically laid out, This is a great satisfaction to the Government und reflects the greatest credit upon the engineers all know that for concerned. We

before these years

*Achemes materialised that both Mr. Hender- son and Mr. Purves spent much time in exploration work which de manded the agility of a mountain goat upart from the engineering knowledge.

11 81

Was

iB

The Byewash was only just averted when rain no doubt that this riding

Frag

unnecessary waste when they found

they had to heavily for it. If the consumption Bay inirly

proves too high here, it may be

the two systems strenuous efforts amongst other necessary to introduce a somewhat

accessary

May it now please your Excel- lency to declare this Aberdeen Water Scheme open for service to the City of Victoria,

Governor's Reply. Replying, His Excellency said: So many reservoirs, dams and other works of like nature, have

been constructed in Hongkong that it has not been wannì to have formal openings of them all Water From Mainland. yielded, however, to Mr. Creasy's well known persuasiveness and The Kowloon supply having been agreed to a formal opening on this augmented it was possible to pro- occasion, in view of the fact that ceed with the Cross Harbour Pipe the construction of this dam com. and this was made available to In-pletes, a very important stage in crease the City supply in 1930. In

the waterworks programme and, connexion with this extension a as Mr. Creasy has stated, this is Service Reservoir is now being con- probably the last reservoir of any structed in the Botanical Gardens,

considerable size which will be The Second Section of Shing constructed on the island. fun Scheme now remains. to be undertaken. This involves the con- struction of much farger dam than any at present attempted in the Colony; the height of the dam will be 200 feet and the Reservoir when completed will contain 3,000 million gallons-about twice the capacity of the Tytam. Tuk Roser- voir. In view of the magnitude of this work it is now under construction of this dam and reser- sideration by the Consulting

do 1 voir and especially do Eng- ineers in accordance with the gratulate Mr. Henderson, who has instructions of the Secretary of been mainly responsible for the State. Other portions of this design and supervision. I scheme such as smaller reservoirs congratulato Captain Ede and his and catchwaters will still remain to Company in having completed this be undertaken departmentally. work so satisfactorily in spite of the various difficulties encoun- tered.

My complacency has been re- warded in that the history and de- scription of this work have been in the se adequately dealt with souvenir and in the speech of the Director of Public Works that there is little left for me to say. congratulate the Director and his officers on the successful con-

con

also

The Hongkong, water supply is not less intricate than that of the

Having been a Municipal Pre- mainlund and the storage capacity

In of the Island Reservoirs was first sident for over eight years augmented

a similar manner by Malaya, I am able to appreciato with on of catchwaters and the diMculties connected the construction

difficulties tem of increasing the catch water supply, but our this system of increasing ment areas is still to be continued there were lighter than they in connexion with the Tytam Tuk are here. Although occasional and Aberdeen Reservoirs. When it ator- became evident that further ago reservoirs would be necessary after considering all other projects, It was decided that the most econo- mient site would be in the Aberdoen Valley.

droughts occur in parts of Malaya, there is usually sufficient water to be obtained from somewhere, and the trouble of floods in a greator problem than drought.

to

Romantic History. From the time that I came Last Island Reservoir.

Hongkong, I have felt the greatest Abordeon is probably the last admiration for the ingenuity and reservoir of any considerable size qnergy with which, the water dif- which will be bulit on the Island | ficulty has been encountered. The and in moat valuable, as it adds a history of waterworks-schemas in further safety factor in the event this Colony, with the various re-t of interruption of the supply from : servoir, dams, filters, catchwaters, the mainland. The scheme is aqueducts, tunnels, cross harbour

similar system.

I have promised the Secretary

times.

The Colony owes a great debt to those engineers who have worked, and are still working, so hard and ably to provide what is one of the for essentials of fe, and it is those who beneft thereby to show their gratitude by not making the dimculties any greater,

I have much pleasure in formal- declaring this reservoir open.

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