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Wednesday, October 4, 1972
CASTLE PEAK SEWAGE SYSTEM SCHEME COMPLETED
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The final phase of an overall sewage system to serve the initial
development of Castle Peak New Town - the Pak Kok pumping station
will be officially opened on Friday (October 6).
The station is part of stage LA of the development and will
provide screening and disposal facilities for the new town as well
as neighbouring areas.
Among the first to benefit will be the 5,000 residents of the
Castle Peak Resettlement Estate, but when stage I of the new town is
completed it will serve the projected population of 58,000.
The sewage system consists of the pumping station, screening
plant, an 800-foot submarine outfall at Pak Kok Tsui on the west coast
of Castle Peak Bay, and staff quarters.
The cost of the scheme is $2.1 million.
The Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Environmental Pollution
on Land and Water, Mr. H.M.G. Forsgate, will officiate at the ribbon-cutting
and plaque unveiling ceremony at 11 a.m. The Director of Engineering
Development, Mr. J.R. Whitaker will also be present.
Note to Editors:
You are invited to send a reporter and/or photographer to have the opening ceremony covered. Transportation will be provided at 9.15 a.m. at the metered car park beside the Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office. Two nine-seater vans, AU 568 and AP 8959, will take the Press to the Pak Kok station. Two Public Works Department officers, Mr. Leung Ming-lam and Mr. Cheung Koon-lam will be on hand to assist the Press,
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