Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir

Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir
Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir
Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir is located in Hong Kong
Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir
Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir
LocationTai Tam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°15′22″N 114°12′43″E / 22.256018°N 114.211836°E / 22.256018; 114.211836
Lake typereservoir
Built1904; 120 years ago (1904)
Water volume80,000 cubic metres (2,800,000 cu ft)
Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir
Traditional Chinese大潭副水塘
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDà tán fù shuǐ táng
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDaaih tàahm fu séui tòhng
JyutpingDaai6 taam4 fu3 seoi2 tong4

Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir, part of the Tai Tam Reservoirs, is a reservoir in Tai Tam Country Park, Tai Tam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, and has a water storage capacity of 22.4 million gallons.[1][2] The reservoir was completed in 1904.[3]

Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir and Tai Tam Upper Reservoir are separated by a vehicular bridge. When full, the water from Tai Tam Upper Reservoir will pass through the bottom part of the bridge to Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir giving the appearance that the two reservoirs are jointly known as Tai Tam Reservoir (大潭水塘).

The reservoir can be accessed by Stage 6 of the Hong Kong Trail or by the Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail.[4][5]

Its dam and the valve house built at the centre of the dam are listed as declared monuments while the ruins of the Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir senior staff bungalow and the workmen's quarters as well as the Tai Tam Reservoir Red Brick Building are classified as Grade III historic buildings.[6][7][8]

History

The water storage capacity of Tai Tam Upper Reservoir is still inferior to the population growth. As Hong Kong Island lacks land that can be developed into a catchment area, the government decided to expand the water supply system of Tai Tam Valley, implement the second phase of The Extension of the Tai Tam Water Supply System and to construct the byewash Reservoir to collect the freshwater overflowing from the upper reservoir. The project was designed by James Orange, the resident engineer of the Tai Tam Reservoir construction project. The byewash reservoir consists of two dams, the main dam and the secondary dam. The main dam is a concrete gravity dam while the secondary dam is not far to the left of the main dam. There is a short pier between these two dams and the reservoir was completed in 1904.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fun of Fishing" (PDF). Water Supplies Department. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. ^ "WSD - Tai Tam Reservoir". Water Supplies Department. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "薄扶林水塘、大潭水塘群、黃泥涌水塘、九龍水塘、城門（銀禧）水塘和香港仔水塘的文物價值" (PDF). Antiquities Advisory Board. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Hong Kong Trail Stage 6 - Hiking Hong Kong". Hiking Hong Kong. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  5. ^ "TAI TAM WATERWORKS HERITAGE TRAIL - HONG KONG EXTRAS3". Hong Kong Extras. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  6. ^ "41 waterworks structures declared monuments (with photos)". Government of Hong Kong. 18 September 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  7. ^ "List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results (as at 11 March 2021)" (PDF). Antiquities Advisory Board. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  8. ^ "The Tai Tam Reservoirs – recent photographs – The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group". The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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