Sunken village, opium boxes and soda water bottles give researchers glimpse of life at 100-year-old Hong Kong reservoir

A University of Hong Kong academic is calling for more historical landmarks around the century-old Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir to be included in a popular waterworks heritage trail.

These include the four brick caissons still protruding from Tai Tam Harbour, remnants of a pier, ruins of office buildings and workers’ quarters and a submerged Hakka village that was resettled in 1912 to make way for work on the reservoir on the south side of Hong Kong Island.