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Friday, May 4, 1973

MAIN PUMPING STATION FOR HIGH ISLAND RESERVOIR

A 37 million pumping station -- an integral part of the $1300 million

High Island Water Scheme is to be built at Yuen Ng Fan on the Sai

Kung Peninsula.

It will be the main pumping station for the High Island Reservoir,

and will be able to pump up to 120 million gallons of fresh water to the

recently extended Sha Tin Treatment Works, during period of low water level.

From Sha Tin, the water will be channelled into the supply to

meet Hong Kong's ever increasing demand for water.

The station will be 14 metres high and will consist of two

sections. The substructure will house five diesel driven pumps while all

the ancillary equipment required for the operation and maintenance of the

will be contained in the superstructure on top.

pumps

An annex to the superstructure will contain a workshop, office,

mess room and control room for the use of the operating staff.

Tenders for the project are invited in a notice published in

today's Gazette. The closing date is 12 noon on Friday, June 8.

An interesting feature of the contract is that all drawings and

- documents have been prepared in metric units, in accordance with the

government's programme for metrication.

Further contracts are to be awarded for a mechanical plant as

construction proceeds so that sufficient elements of the scheme can be

commissioned to enable water to be channelled into the supply at the

earliest possible date.

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