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MONDAY, MAY 23, 1977

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PERMANENT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT IN SHA TIN ANOTHER CONTRACT SIGNED

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THE PUBLIC WRKS DEPARTMENT TODAY AWARDED ANOTHER CONTRACT FOR THE NEW $175 ILLION PERMANENT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AT

SHA TIN NEW TOWN.

THE CONTRACT WORTH ABOUT $3.3 MILLION, IS FOR THE SUPPLY OF THREE LARGE AIR BLOWERS AND HAS BEEN AWARDED TO THE BRITISK FIRM OF COMPAIR INDUSTRIAL LTD., WHOSE LOCAL AGENT IS HUTCHISON-BOAG ENGINEERING LTD.

THE CONTRACT WAS FORMALLY SIGNED IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS THIS MORNING BY MR. J.W. BURTON, DIRECTOR OF COMPAIR AND MR. WONG KWOK-CHOY, CHIEF ENG | NÉER OF THE P.W.D.'S CIVIL ENGINEERING OFFICE'S CONSULTANTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT.

THE NEW SEWAGE PLANT WILL BE BUILT JUST NORTH OF THE NEW RACECOURSE AT SHA TIN NEW TOWN ON 17 HECTARES OF RECLAIMED LAND.

THE STAGE ONE CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS BEING PARTLY FINANCED BY A $95 MILLION LOAN FROM THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, WILL INVOLVE SETTLING AND AERATION TANKS AND AN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

MR. WONG SAID THAT WHEN FULLY DEVELOPED, THE PLANT WOULD SERVE THE NEW TOWN'S ENTIRE POPULATION OF SOME 500,000.

THE PLANT'S CONSTRUCTION TIMETABLE HAS BEEN GEARED TO KEEP PACE WITH VARIOUS STAGES OF THE NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT, AND IN FACT IT WILL BE RACING AHEAD OF INITIAL POPULATION INCREASE, HE SAID.

BY THE TIME IT IS COMMISSIONED IN 1980 POPULATION OF SHA TIN NEW TOWN SHOULD BE STANDING AT AROUND 150,000 WHILE THE SEWAGE WORKS WOULD BE CAPABLE OF SERVING SOME 230,000 PEOPLE, HE SAID.

THE TREATMENT WORKS WOULD BE ABLE TO TREAT MORE THAN 102,000 CUBIC METRES OF RAW SEWAGE A DAY, SAID MR. WONG.

+ THE MAXIMUM SEWAGE FLOW TO THE PLANT FOR FULL TREATMENT WILL BE 3.6 CUBIC METRES PER SECOND -- A TREMENDOUS INCREASE

IN TREATMENT CAPACITY OVER OUR EXISTING PLANTS.+

THE SHA TIN NEW TOWN PERMANENT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY WATSON (HONG KONG) CHARTERED CIVIL ENGINEERS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS FOR THE GOVERNMENT, UNDER THE OVERALL SUPERVISION OF THE CONSULTANTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION OF THE P.W.D. CIVIL ENGINEERING OFFICE.

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