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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1975
TEMPORARY SEWAGE PLANT FOR SHATIN NEW TOWN
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THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS TO PROVIDE EXTRA SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES FOR SHA TIN NEW TOUN AS AN INTERIM MEASURE PENDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PERMANENT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT IN THE AREA.
TENDERS ARE BEING INVITED FOR THE SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PLANT FOR THE INTERIM TREATMENT WORKS WHICH WILL SERVE ADOUT 60,000 PEOPLE. THE PLANT TO BE SUPPLIED INCLUDES FLOATING AERATORS FOR INTRODUCING AIR INTO THE SEWAGE. PUMPING STATION EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY FOR DEWATERING THE SLUDGE.
MR. WONG KWOK-CHOY, CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE P.W.D.'S CONSULTANTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, EXPLAINED TODAY THAT THE INTERIM TREATMENT WORKS WAS REQUIRED TO SUPPLEMENT THE EXISTING TEMPORARY SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AT FO TAN UNTIL THE PROPOSED PERMANENT PLANT IS BUILT.
+ IT IS NOT ANTICIPATED THAT THE PERMANENT PLANT WILL BE READY UNTIL MID-1979 BUT IN THE MEANTIME ADEQUATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES MUST BE PROVIDED TO CATER FOR THE EXPECTED GROWTH IN POPULATION AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW TOWN PROGRESSES+, HE SAID.
THE PRESENT TEMPORARY PLANT, WHICH HAS A SERVING CAPACITY FOR SOME 33,000 PEOPLE, HE SAID, WOULD BE ABLE TO COPE FOR ANOTHER YEAR OR SO BUT THEREAFTER ADDITIONAL SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES WOULD BE NEEDED.
+THE NEW INTERIM TREATMENT WORKS IS EXPECTED TO BE OPERATIONAL BY MID-1977 AND WILL FILL THE GAP UNTIL THE PERMANENT PLANT IS SET UP,+ HE ADDED.
MR. WONG SAID THE NEW WORKS WOULD INCORPORATE A COMPLETE SEWAGE PURIFICATION SYSTEM CONSISTING OF PRELIMINARY UNITS FOR REMOVING LARGE FLOATING SOLIDS, BIOLOGICAL TANKS WHERE ORGANIC POLLUTANTS WILL BE REMOVED, AND EQUIPMENT FOR DEWATERING THE SLUDGE.
THE CLARIFIED EFFLUENT WOULD BE DISCHARGED INTO FO TAN NULLAH WHILE THE DEWATERED SLUDGE WOULD BE DISPOSED OF AS LANDFILL IN TIPS.
THE WORKS HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTION WILL BE SUPERVISED BY WATSON (H.K.) CHARTERED CIVIL ENGİNEERS, CONSULTANTS TO THE GOVERNMENT, UNDER THE OVERALL SUPERVISION OF THE CONSULTANTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING OFFICE, P.W.D.
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