Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir
{{short description|Reservoir in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong}}
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| caption = Dam of Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir
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| location = Tai Tam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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| date-built = {{Start date and age|1907}}
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{{Chinese
|t=大潭中水塘
|j=Daai6 taam4 zung1 seoi2 tong4
|y=Daaih tàahm jūng séui tòhng
|p=Dà tán zhōng shuǐ táng
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Tai Tam Intermediate 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 19.6 million gallons.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wsd.gov.hk/filemanager/en/share/pdf/fun_fishing-e.pdf|title=Fun of Fishing|work=Water Supplies Department|access-date=12 April 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsd.gov.hk/en/customer-services/other-customer-services/fishing-in-reservoirs/brief-introduction-of-reservoirs/tai-tam-reservoir/index.html|title=WSD - Tai Tam Reservoir|work=Water Supplies Department|access-date=12 April 2021}} The reservoir was completed in 1907.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB138-14-B-chi.pdf|title=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|work=Antiquities Advisory Board|access-date=12 April 2021|archive-date=26 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026003344/http://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB138-14-B-chi.pdf|url-status=dead}}
The reservoir can be accessed by the Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hongkongextras.com/_tai-tam-waterworks_heritage_trail.html|title=TAI TAM WATERWORKS HERITAGE TRAIL - HONG KONG EXTRAS3|work=Hong Kong Extras|access-date=12 April 2021}}
The reservoir is still in operation and the dam was constructed in slope style. Its dam and the valve house built at the centre of the dam are listed as declared monuments in September 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200909/18/P200909180115.htm|title=41 waterworks structures declared monuments (with photos)|work=Government of Hong Kong|date=18 September 2009|access-date=12 April 2021}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB-SM-chi.pdf|title=List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results (as at 11 March 2021)|work=Antiquities Advisory Board|access-date=12 April 2021|archive-date=18 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618060809/http://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB-SM-chi.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://industrialhistoryhk.org/x-the-tai-tam-reservoirs/|title=The Tai Tam Reservoirs – recent photographs – The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group|work=The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group|date=25 August 2016|access-date=12 April 2021}}
History
The Director of Public Works William Chatham had submitted to the Legislative Council a draft plan for The Extension of the Tai Tam Water Supply System, called the "Tai Tam Tuk Scheme", which will be carried out in two phases on 17 October 1903. The first phase of the construction of 195.5 million gallons (900,000 m3) water storage in Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir, which was carried out from 1904 to 1907. Therefore, Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir is geographically lower than the tunnel inlet of Tai Tam Upper Reservoir. Therefore, it is necessary to build a Tai Tam Tuk raw water pumping station on the west bank of Tai Tam Bay to pump the stored water to Tai Tam Valley and deploy it to the water supply system of the Central District through the entrance of the water conveyance tunnel. In 1977, the Water Supplies Department lowered the entire section of the dam's spillway by three metres for safety reasons, and this had left the dam looking slightly indented at its crest.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsd.gov.hk/filemanager/common/pdf/monuments/stream_of_memories.pdf|title=Commemorative Album: Stream of Memories|work=Water Supplies Department|access-date=12 April 2021}}
See also
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External links
{{commons category|Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir}}
- [http://www.hk-place.com/view.php?id=110 Reservoirs of Hong Kong (1) Hong Kong and Kowloon (in Chinese)]
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