Kowloon Reservoir 九龍水塘 1901-1910
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Information quotes (or more info) from following links
WSD - Commemorative Album: Stream of Memories / 水務署 《百載‧流傳》紀念特刊
戰前九龍水務設施發展及現況(Chinese only)
http://www.amo.gov.hk/b5/monuments_91.php
Earth Cache - GC3ATC4 - Plutons, reservoirs and a fault zone.
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Constructed between 1901 and 1910, Kowloon Reservoir was the fourth reservoir in Hong Kong, but the first to be built on the Kowloon Peninsula in response to the growth of the population there. It originally has a catchment of 438 acres (177 hectares) and a daily supply capacity of 750 000 gallons (3 400 cubic meters) of water.
九龍水塘是本港的第四個水塘，於1901至1910年間興建，是因應九龍半島人口不斷增加而在九龍興建的首個水塘。最初的集水區佔地438英畝(177公頃)，每日供水量達750,000加侖(3,400立方米)。
The British authorities, after negotiating the lease of the New Territories in 1898, decided that the arrival of the 20th century would herald the development of Kowloon and, in particular, the Kowloon Peninsula. An efficient fresh water supply network would be integral to this development.
1898年，英國政府租借新界後，認為20世紀的來臨將會帶動九龍一帶的發展，當中以九龍半島為甚。完善的食水供應網絡，將成為發展過程中的重要一環。
When the Kowloon Water works Gravitation Scheme was initiated, the search for a suitable site was led by an engineer with the then Public Works Department, L Gibbs, who undertook a topographical sur vey across Kowloon and the newly-leased areas of the New Territories. In terms of rich water catchments and ease of construction access, a tract of land north of the Boundary Street, which marked the demarcation line between the Kowloon Peninsula and the newly added territories, was identified by the inspection team and work on the Kowloon Reservoir began in 1901.
當九龍重力自流供水系統推出後，當時的工務局派出工程師傑斯（L Gibbs）率領勘探隊尋找合適地點。傑斯開始在九龍和新租借的新界一帶勘探地形。勘探隊最終覓得了一片位於界限街（九龍半島與新租借區域的分界線）以北的谷地，因該處集水量較大，建造地點亦較為方便。九龍水塘遂於1901年動工。
The Kowloon Reservoir became the first reservoir to be built in Kowloon and the first element of what was to become the Kowloon group of reservoirs which also included Shek Lei Pui Reservoir, Kowloon Reception Reservoir, and Kowloon Byewash Reservoir. The reservoir is set in a bush-clad valley overlooked West of Beacon Hill and South of Needle Hill, and consists of two dams, storage tanks, filter beds and a pipeline that connected the reservoir to the Yau Ma Tei Pumping Station. By the time the project reached completion in 1910, the system could store more than 350 million gallons (1.6 million cubic meters) of water and had radically changed the profile of development across the Kowloon Peninsula
九龍水塘是在九龍興建的首個水塘，也是九龍水塘群的首個部分。九龍水塘群還包括了石梨貝水塘、九龍接收水塘及九龍副水塘。水塘位於筆架山以西、針山以南一處由灌木覆蓋的山谷，包括兩座水壩、儲水池、濾水池，以及一條從水塘直達油麻地抽水站的水管。工程於1910年竣工時，新落成水塘的儲水量達3.5億加侖（1.6百萬立方米），九龍半島的發展面貌亦自此急劇轉變。
Nowadays, the following facilities of Kowloon Reservoir had been declared as Monuments in Hong Kong.
- Main Dam (1901-1910)
- Main Dam Valve House (1901-1910)
- Spillway Dam (1901-1910)
- Spillway Dam Recorder House (1901-1910)
- Recorder House (1901-1910)
時至今日，九龍水塘的以下設施已被列為香港法定古蹟:
- 主壩 (1901-1910)
- 主壩水掣房 (1901-1910)
- 溢洪壩 (1901-1910)
- 溢洪壩記錄儀器房 (1901-1910)
- 記錄儀器房 (1901-1910)