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Monday, November 12, 1973

DESALTING PLANT ADMINISTRATION BUILDING READY SOON

The administration building for the sea-water desalting plant

at Lok On Pai, in the New Territories is nearing completion and is expected

to be ready for occupation in about four months.

The four-storey building, which stands at the waterfront near

the Castle Peak Hotel, will contain the main control room for the desalting

plant as well as offices, a laboratory, storage of records and a canteen.

Also housed in the building will be the main workshops and workshop stores

for maintenance of the plant.

In the meantime, work on other parts of the desalting plant is

going ahead at full speed.

Foundation work of the auxiliary plant building and boiler houses

is almost completed. These structures will house six turbo-generators

and six boilers respectively.

The base for one of the six evaporators, which will work in conjunction

with the boilers, has also been completed.

In addition, site formation work for fuel storage tanks and the

product water treatment house is well in progress.

The fuel jetty, where tankers will off-load fuel oil for the plant,

is half done and should be completed in about a month.

The sea-water ...................