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Ma On Shan Water Treatment Works near completion

Work on the one-billion-dollar Ma On Shan Water Treatment Works at Kwun Hang, New Territories, is on schedule and will be ready for operation by the end of this year.

This is the newest water treatment works in Hong Kong built to meet the anticipated demand generated from the residential and industrial developments in Ma On Shan and parts of Sha Tin, a spokesman for the Water Supplies Department said today (Sunday).

"It will also be used to relieve the existing Sha Tin Water Treatment Works by providing additional capacity to meet the increasing demand from many other parts of the territory.

"The project includes the construction of a treatment plant, a pumping station, a primary service reservoir and the laying of nine kilometres of water mains of diameter ranging from 1,000 millimetres to 1,400 millimetres.

"The majority of the building work for the principal structures is nearing completion and the electrical and mechanical work is well advanced," he said.

The water mains for transferring water from the treatment works to Sha Tin have also been substantially completed.

Construction of the treatment work started in May 1994 and when commissioned will add a capacity of 227,000 cubic metres per day to the Water Supplies Department's overall treatment capacity.

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