Monday, November 12, 1973
DESALTING PLANT ADMINISTRATION BUILDING READY SOON
The administration building for the sea-water desalting plant
at Lok On Pai, in the New Territories is nearing completion and is expected
to be ready for occupation in about four months.
The four-storey building, which stands at the waterfront near
the Castle Peak Hotel, will contain the main control room for the desalting
plant as well as offices, a laboratory, storage of records and a canteen.
Also housed in the building will be the main workshops and workshop stores
for maintenance of the plant.
In the meantime, work on other parts of the desalting plant is
going ahead at full speed.
Foundation work of the auxiliary plant building and boiler houses
is almost completed. These structures will house six turbo-generators
and six boilers respectively.
The base for one of the six evaporators, which will work in conjunction
with the boilers, has also been completed.
In addition, site formation work for fuel storage tanks and the
product water treatment house is well in progress.
The fuel jetty, where tankers will off-load fuel oil for the plant,
is half done and should be completed in about a month.
The sea-water ...................