📍LAU SHUI HEUNG RESERVOIR/ MIRROR OF THE SKY

👉 History : The reservoir was formed at the head of a valley with a construction of a 12m concrete gravity dam and a 10m earth filled dam to connect with a tunnel to provide water transfer to Hok Tau Reservoir. Construction started in 1966 and was completed in 1968. 👉In April 2018, mountain hikers discovered that the Lau Shui Heung Reservoir had been severely dried up recently, and cracks were seen at the bottom of the reservoir. They can walk down the reservoir to the opposite bank. The Water Supplies Department stated that the lack of rainfall in the past winter caused the water storage in the reservoir to be depleted due to irrigation by nearby villagers. However, the nearby Hok Tau Reservoir, which is also an irrigation pond and of the same size, did not dry up. It was suspected that the nearby Lung Shan Tunnel Project had drained the groundwater. Until the beginning of June that year, due to the influence of the outer rainbands associated with Tropical Storm Ewiniar, nearly 100 mm of rainfall had fallen in the past 3 days, which was more than 10 mm more than the total rainfall of the past two months. At the same time, more than 200 mm of rainfall was recorded in the past 24 hours in the northern New Territories, enough to fill the reservoir with a capacity of 170,000 m3 and restore the title of "mirror of the sky" #pindle #pindleindonesia #pindlehongkong #pindlegems #mytravelstory #guidebook