Dams and Valve Houses of Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir (left) 大潭篤水塘 and Tai Tam Upper Reservoir 大潭上水塘, Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail 大潭水務文物徑, Tai Tam, Hong Kong

            Excerpt from the brochure "Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail" by Water Supplies Department:

Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir Dam 1912-1917: The masonry-faced concrete gravity dam features ornamental parapets and 12 large spillways to handle water overflow.  Spillways at either end of the dam are the original spillways while the other 10 have been modified with additional concrete structures to act as siphon spillways.  Over the spillways are a road deck formed by 12 arches supported by half-round granite columns.

Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir Valve House 1917: The valve house is situated near the south end of the Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir dam.  The valve house was built on a projecting platform which has cantilevered steel balconies or catwalks fixed to the front of it.  The valve house was built to a rectangular plan with walls of rock-faced rusticated granite.  The roof is flat and the parapet has a moulded projecting cornice and coping all round the building.  Window and door openings have semi-circular arches and flush cills.  The windows on the side facing the road have been blocked up.

Tai Tam Upper Reservoir Dam 1883-1888: The reservoir waters were contained by the towering walls of a granite and concrete dam, 100 feet high, 400 feet long and 60 feet wide at its base - the largest dam structure ever built in Hong Kong at that time.  From the reservoir, water gravitated through a 7,300 feet long tunnel through mountain and an aboveground 16,500 feet aqueduct to Central.

Tai Tam Upper Reservoir Valve House 1883-1888: The valve house for the dam is located at one third of the way along the top of the dam.  A simple square structure with a single door and small window openings which have since been blocked, the valve house has been built in rock-faced rusticated granite blocks.  The original hipped roof has been replaced with a flat roof with the projecting corice, supported by carved ornamental corbels, remains intact.

Taken in: 香港 / 南區 / 紅山半島 (show map)

Taken on: May 8, 2016

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Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir

Tai Tam Upper Reservoir

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Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail

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Declared Monuments

大潭篤水塘

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