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Tuesday, March 20, 1973
CONTRACT FOR CASTLE PEAK DESALTING PLANT
Will Be Signed Tomorrow
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A $49.8 million contract for the plant foundations and site buildings
for the Single Purpose Desalter at Lok On Pai, Castle Peak, will be signed
tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Waterworks Office of the Public Works Department.
Signing for the contractors will be Mr. J.E. Ward, Managing Director
of Gammon (Hong Kong) Ltd. Mr. Li Hin-wing, Chief Engineer, Construction &
Planning, Waterworks Office, will sign on behalf of the Government.
When completed, the Lok On Pai desalting plant will be the largest
in the world, producing 40 million gallons of fresh water per day to supplement
Hong Kong's existing water supplies.
Consulting engineers for the project are Binnie & Partners (Hong Kong).
The main evaporator and boiler plant is. being, supplied by the Sasakura Engineering
Company of Osaka under separate contract.
Preparatory work at the site is already well advanced.
Gammon (Hong
Kong) Ltd. are at present undertaking the $25-million site formation and marine
works.
The new contract will involve the construction of foundations and
reinforced concrete sub-structures for six evaporator/boiler units, which will
rest on 270 cast-in-situ concrete piles.
The construction of the auxiliary plant building will involve the
placing of about 30,000 cubic yards of reinforced concrete.
About 1,800 tons
of structural steelwork and cladding will be used in erecting its superstructure.
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