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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS
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Artist's impression of Hong Kong's second refuse incinerator
REFUSE DISPOSAL
DISPOSAL PLANT
Lai Chi Kok unit to have four burners
HAIGH ZINN & ASSOC.
consulting engineers
THE
HE second of two huge incinera- tor plants now being built in Hong Kong is designed to burn 750 tons of municipal refuse a day.
Steam generated by the plant will power a sea water distillation plant with a capacity of 3 million gallons a day. Distilled water will be pump- ed to a treatment plant and the treated water will be discharged into the domestic supply.
Thus in this one major public works project, measures will be taken to alleviate two of the colony's peren- nial problems too much rubbish and too little water.
Until the first of the two incinera- tors is completed at Kennedy Town
on Hong Kong Island, the colony's sole method of refuse disposal is by dumping into the sea at Gin Drinker's Bay where a land reclama- tion project is in hand. The refuse is transported by collection vehicles from all parts of the Kowloon peninsular and by barge from Hong Kong Island.
The amount of refuse being dealt with grows at an even faster rate than the population and the Public Works Department decided several years ago that more modern methods of dis- posal must be established.
The Kennedy Town incinerator should be completed by March next year and work starts this month on
GRIT
COLLECTORS
INCINERATOR PLANT
CRANE & BUNKER
BUILDING
70.00
RECEPTION BUILDING
-1.50
Transverse section through the Lai Chi Kok plant
Far East Architect & Builder July, 1965
28.00
17.00
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