Everything tagged: reservoir

Completion date from Wikipedia.

The WSD website says:

There are some notes about it on the Wikipedia Page for Choi Sai Woo Park.

I'm not sure of the date it changed from reservoir to park. In the book Mapping Hong Kong, the 1964 map (plate 3-6) shows it as "Braemar Reservoir", but the 1990 map (plate 3-7) shows it as "Choi Sai Woo Park", so sometime between those two dates.

From WSD website:

Construction work commenced in 1957 and was completed in 1963. The reservoir intercepts and gathers the gully water flowing from the neighbouring mountain ridges on its three sides. With a storage capacity of 24 million cubic metres, it was once the largest reservoir in Hong Kong during the 1960's.

The most likely reservoir referred to by Booth as he travels with his family, in their car, along Tai Po Road towards Shatin.

This reservoir replaced the smaller, 1st generation reservoir that was built just below this site.