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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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