New Pump to Be Tried Out Over Week-end The flood-protection system on The Bund has been completed by the Public Works Department and test ing of the new pump installed near the foot of Foochow Road will start on July 23 and will be continued over the week-end, it is understood, A two-foot sea-wall Is one of the defences against high water and this rampart has now been finished and will serve to minimize flood danger along the entire Bund.
Work started on June 10 and was rushed so as to complete: the scheme time for the start of the typhoon season, The sea-wall was built from the War Memorial north and extends the whole length of The Bund, except from Kiukiang Road to Peking Road where the now raised foreshore affords protection.
The pump 1s situated underneath The Bund near the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. It is an electrically-Powered device able to pump about 3,000 gallons of water per. minute by centrifugal, force. The acid test for the pump" would be a typhoon at high tide blowing the water up the Whangpoo River. It is "hoped, through its use, to bring about condi-ions in the drains similar to those at low tide even when the fide Is up, It is expected that the week-fend's trials, at high tide, will provide an index to the utility of the Installation in times of emergency. articles, medicines and' groceries, the dally added.
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