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Monday, April 5, 19/6
SGA TIN NM, TOWN PERALINENT SEWAGE TRENENT WORKS
The Public Works Department is inviting tenders for the first three
contracts for Hong Kong's largest sewage treatment works to be built at Sha
Tin New Town.
The permanent sewage treatment plant will be partly financed from
a US$20 million loan from the Asian Development Bank finalised last month in
Manila between the Hong Kong Government and the Bank.
The first three contracts are for the supply and erection of some
of the mechanical and electrical equipment for the first stage of the treatment
works which will provide sewage treatment facilities for some 230,000 people
in Sha Tin New Town by 1980.
Tenders for these contracts, gazetted last Friday, are being invited
on an international basis from manufacturers in all member countries of the
Asian Development Bank, as well as from Luxembourg.
hr. wong Kwok-choy, Chief Engineer of the P.w.D.'s Civil Engineering
Consultants Management Division, said today that another 13 contracts would be
put out to tender progressively over the next nine months for additional
mechanical and electrical plant and equipment, all of which would be funded
from ADB loan.
"The first set of tenders," he said, "include equipment for screening
the sewage entering the works, equipment for primary and final sedimentation
tanks and for diffused air equipment for the aeration tanks."
He said that civil engineering works in connection with the project
were scheduled to begin towards the middle of next year, and it was expected
that the mechanical and electrical plant and equipment would start to be
delivered for installation by April 1978.
/The sewage