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{{short description|Reservoir in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong}}
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| name               = Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir
| image              = Tai tam byewash reservoir 1.JPG
| caption            = Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir
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| location           = [[Tai Tam]], [[Hong Kong Island]], Hong Kong
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| date-built        = {{Start date and age|1904}}
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{{Chinese
|t=大潭副水塘
|j=Daai6 taam4 fu3 seoi2 tong4
|y=Daaih tàahm fu séui tòhng
|p=Dà tán fù shuǐ táng
}}
'''Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir''', part of the [[Tai Tam Reservoirs]], is a [[reservoir]] in [[Tai Tam Country Park]], [[Tai Tam]], [[Hong Kong Island]], Hong Kong, and has a water storage capacity of 22.4 million gallons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsd.gov.hk/filemanager/en/share/pdf/fun_fishing-e.pdf|title=Fun of Fishing|work=[[Water Supplies Department]]|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsd.gov.hk/en/customer-services/other-customer-services/fishing-in-reservoirs/brief-introduction-of-reservoirs/tai-tam-reservoir/index.html|title=WSD - Tai Tam Reservoir|work=[[Water Supplies Department]]|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref> The reservoir was completed in 1904.<ref name="大潭水塘群">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB138-14-B-chi.pdf|title=薄扶林水塘、大潭水塘群、黃泥涌水塘、九龍水塘、城門（銀禧）水塘和香港仔水塘的文物價值|work=[[Antiquities Advisory Board]]|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir and Tai Tam Upper Reservoir are separated by a vehicular bridge. When full, the water from Tai Tam Upper Reservoir will pass through the bottom part of the bridge to Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir giving the appearance that the two reservoirs are jointly known as '''Tai Tam Reservoir''' ({{zh|t=大潭水塘|labels=no}}).
The reservoir can be accessed by Stage 6 of the [[Hong Kong Trail]] or by the [[Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hiking-hong-kong.com/hong-kong-trail-stage-6/|title=Hong Kong Trail Stage 6 - Hiking Hong Kong|work=Hiking Hong Kong|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hongkongextras.com/_tai-tam-waterworks_heritage_trail.html|title=TAI TAM WATERWORKS HERITAGE TRAIL - HONG KONG EXTRAS3|work=Hong Kong Extras|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
Its [[dam]] and the [[valve]] house built at the centre of the dam are listed as [[declared monuments of Hong Kong|declared monuments]] while the ruins of the Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir senior staff bungalow and the workmen's quarters as well as the Tai Tam Reservoir Red Brick Building are classified as Grade III historic buildings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200909/18/P200909180115.htm|title=41 waterworks structures declared monuments (with photos)|work=[[Government of Hong Kong]]|date=18 September 2009|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB-SM-chi.pdf|title=List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results (as at 11 March 2021)|work=Antiquities Advisory Board|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=26 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126151137/https://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB-SM-chi.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://industrialhistoryhk.org/x-the-tai-tam-reservoirs/|title=The Tai Tam Reservoirs – recent photographs – The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group|work=The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group|date=25 August 2016|access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
==History==
The water storage capacity of Tai Tam Upper Reservoir is still inferior to the population growth. As Hong Kong Island lacks land that can be developed into a catchment area, the government decided to expand the water supply system of Tai Tam Valley, implement the second phase of The Extension of the Tai Tam Water Supply System and to construct the byewash Reservoir to collect the freshwater overflowing from the upper reservoir. The project was designed by James Orange, the resident engineer of the Tai Tam Reservoir construction project. The byewash reservoir consists of two dams, the main dam and the secondary dam. The main dam is a concrete gravity dam while the secondary dam is not far to the left of the main dam. There is a short pier between these two dams and the reservoir was completed in 1904.<ref name="大潭水塘群"/>
==See also==
*[[List of reservoirs of Hong Kong]]
*[[Tai Tam Reservoirs]]
*[[Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir]]
*[[Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail]]
==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Tai Tam Byewash Reservoir}}
*[http://www.hk-place.com/view.php?id=110 Reservoirs of Hong Kong (1) Hong Kong and Kowloon (in Chinese)]
{{Reservoirs of Hong Kong}}
[[Category:Dams completed in 1904]]
[[Category:Tai Tam Reservoirs]]
[[Category:Eastern District, Hong Kong]]
[[Category:1904 establishments in Hong Kong]]