Pokfulam Filter Beds / West Point Filter Beds [????- ]
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Submitted by David on Wed, 2017-03-15 17:18
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These filter beds were built at the end of the Pokfulam Conduit that brought the water round from the Pokfulam Reservoir.
An 1889 map labels them as the "West Point Filter Beds", but 20th Century maps (eg 1905, 1924) show them as the "Pokfulam Filter Beds". On those later maps, the "West Point Filter Beds" name is attached to the newer set of filter beds built where the University's Centennial Campus is today.
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On the 1936 map the filter
On the 1936 map the filter beds above HKU are referred to as West Point and the newer ones on Pok Fu Lam road are called Elliot
Good point - I just checked
Good point - I just checked the maps at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html, and the names were still inconsistent in a series of maps dated 1945:
So these maps aren't a reliable source for what the beds were called in a given year. More detailed government maps or the annual PWD reports might give a clearer picture.
West Point/Elliot Point Filter Beds
We could not help noticing the filter beds at the western end of HKU's campus as we crossed over them.
Are they still functioning or have they been left as a historic feature?
The modern government map
The modern government map labels them as a "Service Reservoir".
I'm not sure if any of the old filter beds are still in use. We recently added photos of the old Bowen Road Filter Beds, but that was converted to a reservoir, sometime in the early 1950s. I guess the techniques to purify water changed, and the old filter beds fell out of use.