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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1977
CONTRACT FOR THE BIGGEST SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT SIGNED
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THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TODAY AWARDED THE MAIN CONTRACT FOR THE NEW $225 MILLION SHA TIN SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT TO THE AOKI CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. OF JAPAN.
THE CONTRACT, WORTH MORE THAN $153 MILLION, IS FOR THE CIVIL ENGINEERING AND BUILDING WORKS OF STAGE ONE OF THE PROJECT – THE BIGGEST OF ITS TYPE EVER UNDERTAKEN IN HONG KONG.
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IT INVOLVES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRIMARY SEDIMENTATION TANKS, AERATION TANKS, FINAL SETTLING TANKS, SLUDGE DIGESTION AND HOLDING TANKS, A LABORATORY, AN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, A POWER HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING ROADS AND FENCING, AND THE LAYING OF A SUBMARINE OUTFALL.
THE CONTRACT WAS FORMALLY SIGNED AT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS THIS MORNING BETWEEN MR. DAVID STEAD, DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT OF THE P.W.D., AND MR. HIROYOSHI AOKI, PRESIDENT OF THE AOKI CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.
HIROYOSHI
MR. STEAD SAID THAT THE PLANT, THE FIRST STAGE OF WHICH IS PARTLY FINANCED BY A $95 MILLION LOAN FROM THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, WAS A MAJOR PART OF COMPREHENSIVE SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES DESIGNED TO DEAL WITH INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC LIQUID WASTES FROM SHA TIN NEW TOWN.
IT WOULD BE BUILT JUST NORTH OF THE NEW RACECOURSE AT THE NEW TOWN ON 17 HECTARES OF RECLAIMED LAND.
WHEN FULLY DEVELOPED, THE PLANT WOULD SERVE THE NEW TOWN'S ENTIRE POPULATION OF MORE THAN HALF A MILLION.
MR. STEAD SAID THAT WORK WOULD BEGIN NEXT MONTH AND WOULD TAKE ABOUT THREE YEARS TO COMPLETE.
HOWEVER, HE POINTED OUT THAT PART OF THE PLANT WOULD BECOME OPERATIONAL BY JUNE 1930, SOME SIX MONTHS BEFORE COMPLETION.
+THE PLANT'S CONSTRUCTION TIMETABLE HAS BEEN GEARED TO KEEP PACE WITH THE VARIOUS STAGES OF THE NEW TOWN'S DEVELOPMENT AND,
IN FACT, IT WILL BE RACING AHEAD OF INITIAL POPULATION INCREASE,+ SAID MR. STEAD.
+BY THE TIME IT IS COMMISSIONED IN 1980 THE POPULATION OF SHA TIN NEW TOWN SHOULD BE ABOUT 150,000 WHILE THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WILL BE CAPABLE OF SERVING SOMĚ 230,000 PEOPLE.+
A FEATURE OF THE NEW PLANT WILL BE ITS ABILITY TO PARTLY SELF-PERPETUATE ITS OWN OPERATING POWER. METHANE GAS, A BY-PRODUCT OF SEWAGE TREATMENT. WILL BE FED BACK INTO THE SYSTEM TO HELP DRIVE THE PLANT'S ELECTRICAL GENERATORS.
THE PLANT