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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1988

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MORE EMSD PLANTS TO TACKLE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

A PRELIMINARY SEWAGE SCREENING PLANT WILL BE COMPLETED

WAN YEARS TO SERVICE A POPULATION OF 400,000 IN THE TO KWA HOM AREAS.

IN TWO

AND HUNG

THIS WAS ANNOUNCED BY THE DIRECTOR OF ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL SERVICES, MR GRAHAM OSBORNE, AFTER HE SIGNED A $21.9 MILLION CONTRACT FOR THE SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE PUMPING, SCREENING AND BUILDING SERVICES EQUIPMENT FOR THE PLANT AT TO KWA WAN.

THE SCREENING PLANT, WITH A DESIGNED AVERAGE DAILY FLOW THREE TIMES CAPACITY OF 129,000 CUBIC METRES, AND A MAXIMUM CAPACITY

THE THAT AMOUNT, WILL PROVIDE PRELIMINARY TREATMENT TO

EXISTING AND FUTURE SEWAGE FLOW IN TO KWA WAN AND HUNG HOM AREAS.

AFTER BEING PUMPED AND UNDERGOING FINE SCREENING AND GRIT REMOVAL PROCESSES, THE SEWAGE WILL BE DISCHARGED INTO VICTORIA FOR HARBOUR THROUGH TWIN SUBMARINE OUTFALLS WITH MULTI-PORT DIFFUSERS BETTER DILUTION AND DISPERSION.

SITE WORK FOR THE PLANT, LOCATED NEAR BAILEY STREET, WILL COMMENCE IN LATE 1988 AND WILL BE COMPLETED BY MID-1990.

27 PRESENTLY, THE DEPARTMENT OPERATES AROUND THE CLOCK

SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS OF ALL TYPES AND 31 SEWAGE PUMPING STATIONS TO FEED THE TREATMENT WORKS AS WELL AS 26 SEPTIC TANKS FOR REMOTE LOCATIONS NOT SERVED BY A SEWERAGE NETWORK.

MR OSBORNE SAID: "THESE FACILITIES TERRITORY AT STRATEGIC LOCATIONS TO ENSURE DISCHARGED IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT.

IS "TO ENSURE COMPATIBILITY

ARE

SITED THROUGHOUT THE THAT THE EFFLUENT

DESIGNED, ANALYSED

AT

EFFLUENT THE

ACHIEVED AS INTERVALS AND

SAMPLES ARE TAKEN AT REGULAR DEPARTMENT'S LABORATORIES," HE ADDED.

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