345 Feet Stack to Cope with Smoke Nuisance 'A massive sicel chimney, the larg: fest of its Kind in the elly, is-to be constructed at the Shanghai Power Company's "Riverside Station to diffuse Into the air the sulphurous fumes emerging "from. the power lant, which have hitherto been the cause of complaint from people to the north-west of the station. "This culminates ten years of grappling with the smoke huisanee in Shenghai By no means an easy. problem solve, the particular smoke nuisance which affects certain parts of Shang: hal Is suffered in another" part of the world, and that is England, "The smoke problem has been taxing the minds of those responsible in Shanghai for the past 10 years", stated an ofeial of the Power Com: pany to the "North-China Herald" fon June 17, "It started asa smoke nuisance pure and simple, the grit from the Shanghai "Municipal Electricity: Department's plant cons ing inconvenience to those in the district, "The SINICD. overcome this nuisance, but with the growth of the power plant another heind of nuisance sprang up. 'The smoke and grit problem was conquered in the early 30s, and the present sulphur prob-Jem followed on the Imposition by the Chinese Government of an. import duty on coal. This meant' that there was a greater consumption, of Chinese coal, which has a large sulphurous content", To Cost $450,000
The action of the Shanghai Power Company follows conversations on the subject with the Watch Committee over the ~ast two years, The Watch Commitiew were informed at their meeting on June 8 that the company had decided to erect a stoot stade at its Riverside Power' Station. The cost Is now estimated at $480,000, If the slack succeeds in overcoming the sulphur nuisance, two other stacks will be erected, The sulphur nuisance occurs only from April to September, when the prevailing wind is from the south: east. This blows smoke from the plant over to factories situated to the North-West of the. Riverside Station. 'These factories are situated close to the station, so. that the sulphur has not had' an opportunity of being diffused before reaching them. Tt is still In concentrated form when striking the factories,
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