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Plover Cove Reservoir, an impressive water storage facility inside Plover Cove Country Park, is renowned for its magnificent main dam. Measuring 680 ft (or 2 km) in length and some 24 hectares in area, it is Hong Kong's longest dam and the greatest structure of its kind. It is also the world's first "reservoir in the ocean" and the second largest reservoir in the territory. This imposing dam is as tall as a 9-storey building, i.e. 28 metres. Water storage capacity is 230,000,000 m3, which equals to 230 billion bottles of 1 L beverage.
The construction of Plover Cove Reservoir was prompted by sharp population growth in the 1950's. There demand for water was pressing but there was no available land to build a new reservoir. While swimming in Plover Cove one day, former Director of Water Supplies 毛謹was struck by an idea to transform the bay into a reservoir. Work commenced in 1960, and the facility was completed thirteen years later.
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