TAI WAI & TAI PO, Hong Kong Client: Government of Hong Kong Country: Hong Kong No. of Vacuum stations: 2 No. of Valves: 110 Volume of Flow: 40 litres/second Specialist Feature: Vacuum sewers installed in narrow streets that restricted access. When the villages of Tai Wai and Tai Po in the New Ter- ritories of Hong Kong urgently required a replacement for their old septic tanks with a proper sewer system they were faced with a serious problem. They needed a completely new sewerage network, but the very narrow streets would not allow for trench digging machinery and conventional large bore sewage pipes simply could not facilitate the complexity of pipe runs required. Therefore a conventional gravity system could not be used. Iseki Redivac provided the answer.

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