Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir, part of the

Tai Tam Reservoirs The Tai Tam Reservoirs, also known as Tai Tam Reservoir Group, is a group of reservoirs located in the Tai Tam Country Park in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The four reservoirs have a total storage capacity of 6.2 million c ...

, is a

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

Tai Tam Country Park Tai Tam Country Park () is a country park in the Tai Tam area in the south end of Hong Kong Island. At , the park consists of one fifth of Hong Kong Island's land mass. During World War II, the Japanese encountered strong resistance from British ...

Tai Tam Tai Tam or ''Tytam'' is an area in Southern District, Hong Kong, Southern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Tai Tam means a ''big pool'' in the Chinese language which illustrates a triangular bay, namely Tai Tam Bay between Stanley ...

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, Hong Kong and has a water storage capacity of 19.6 million gallons. The reservoir was completed in 1907. The reservoir can be accessed by the

Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail The Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail is a Heritage Trails in Hong Kong, heritage trail in Hong Kong that comprises 22 waterworks structures with historical value near the Tai Tam Reservoirs, Tai Tam group of reservoirs. The Trail is about 5& ...

. The reservoir is still in operation and the dam was constructed in slope style. Its

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and the

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house built at the centre of the dam are listed as declared monuments in September 2009.

History

The Director of Public Works William Chatham had submitted to the

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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

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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.

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Reservoirs of Hong Kong (1) Hong Kong and Kowloon (in Chinese)
{{Reservoirs of Hong Kong Buildings and structures completed in 1907 Tai Tam Reservoirs Southern District, Hong Kong

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