To make a firm foundation for the dam, a trench up to 50 ft deep is being dredged on the bed of Plover Cove. The 'Biarritz' (above) is equipped with the largest grabs of their kind in the world. The dam will be 14 miles long and will impound 30,000 million gallons of water. Cost of the Plover Cove integrated scheme is $550 million.
Each panel in the control wing at the Sha Tin treatment works (top) controls a filter bed. Jet disperser (above) reduces pressure of water drawn off from Shing Mun Reservoir. The Sha Tin treatment works (below) are situated in a valley near the northern end of the Lion Rock Tunnel. The works have been designed for an output of 160 million gallons a day.
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