Tai Lam Chung Reservoir is a

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

Tai Lam Country Park Tai Lam Country Park, established on 23 February 1979, is a country park located in Tai Lam, at the south of Yuen Long Town, Kam Tin and Shek Kong and east of Tuen Mun Town, in the western New Territories of Hong Kong. This country park has an a ...

Tuen Mun District Tuen Mun District is one of the 18 administrative districts of Hong Kong. It is the westernmost continental district of Hong Kong. It had a population of 487,546 in 2011. Part of the district is the Tuen Mun New Town (or simply Tuen Mun), w ...

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

, Hong Kong. Tai Lam Chung Reservoir is the first reservoir built in Hong Kong after the

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. The construction work of the reservoir commenced in 1952 and was completed in 1957. Formed by a main

dam A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use ...

across the

Tai Lam Chung Tai Lam () or Tai Lam Chung () is an area of Tuen Mun District, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Village Tai Lam Chung Tsuen () is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the 36 villages represented wi ...

Valley, there are three supplemental dams that cross the nearby valley. Its water storage capacity is about 21 million cubic metres. Several villages were flooded by the reservoir, including Tai Lam Village (), Tai Wai Village, Kan Uk Tei Village () and Wu Uk Village.

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Infrastructure completed in 1957 Reservoirs in Hong Kong Tai Lam Chung {{coord, 22.3850393, 114.0319818, scale:50000, format=dms, display=title