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SUNDAT, APRIL 29, 1917

FIRST STAGE OF TAI PO SEWAGE PLANT COMPLETED

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WORK ON THE FIRST STAGE OF THE TAI PO SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS, WHICH AIMS TO SERVE THE TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, HAS BEEN COMPLETED.

THE $11 MILLION PROJECT, WHICH WILL ALSO HELP TO PROTECT TOLO HARBOUR FROM ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, WAS BUILT ON A THREE-HECTARE RECLAIMED LAND SOUTH OF TING KOK ROAD NEAR SHUEN WAN.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SAID THAT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS USING THE ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS WOULD PROVIDE COMPLETE SEWAGE PURIFICATION.

+SEWAGE WILL FIRST PASS THROUGH GRIT CHANNELS AND SETTLING TANKS TO REMOVE GRIT AND SUSPENDED SOLIDS AND THEN THROUGH AERATION TANKS FOR BIOLOGICAL REDUCTION OR ORGANIC MATERIALS, + HE ADDED.

+AS A RESULT OF THIS PROCESS, THE QUALITY OF THE EFFLUENT WILL BE SUCH THAT TOLO HARBOUR WILL NOT BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED.

TENDER FOR STAGE 1 OF THE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS, WHICH WILL SERVE THE TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE AS WELL AS THE TAI PO NEW TOWN, WILL BE INVITED IN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS.

KIDNEY DISEASE EXHIBITION *****

A THREE-DAY EXHIBITION WILL BE HELD AT THE OCEAN TERMINAL NEXT FRIDAY TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON WHAT KIDNEY DISEASES ARE ALL ABOUT.

THE EXHIBITION CLIMAXES TWO MONTHS OF ACTIVITIES BY THE PENINSULA JAYCEES, THE HONG KONG SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY AND THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN THE IR CURRENT KIDNEY DONATION CAMPAIGN.

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THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS EXHIBITION THE FIRST IN HONG KONG IS TO ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE TO BECOME KIDNEY DONORS SO THAT MANY MORE LIVES COULD BE SAVED THROUGH THE PROCESS OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS.

THE DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DR. K.L. THONG, WILL PERFORM THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE EXHIBITION.

THOUSANDS OF BOOKLETS EXPLAINING HOW KIDNEY TRANSPLANT CAN SAVE LIVES AND HOW ONE CAN BECOME A KIDNEY DONOR WILL BE AVAILABLE FREE TO VISITORS TO THE EXHIBITION.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO COVER THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THREE-DAY KIDNEY DISEASE EXHIBITION AT THE OCEAN TERMINAL ON FRIDAY (MAY 4) AT 3 P.M.

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