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nature are still continuing.
For example a project
involving a major new outfall from Stonecutters Island to
cater for sewage flows from Lai Chi Kok, Tai Kok Tsui and
Sham Shui Po will be proposed for upgrading to Category A in
the Public Works Programme in October this year, with a view
to starting construction early in 1987. The elimination of
a number of unsatisfactory short outfalls in this area
should have a significant effect on the water quality of
Victoria Harbour. At the Kai Tak Nullah, the most
notorious blackspot in Victoria Harbour, two major public
works projects are in progress to improve the situation.
These include the interception and diversion of the dry
weather flow into the Nullah and dredging and injection of
oxygen into the waters of the nullah.
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For the future, it is intended to tackle the
problems of water pollution in Victoria Harbour, and for
that matter in the rest of the Territory, by a coordinated
programme of planning, capital works and implementation and
enforcement of legislative controls, including the newly
enacted Water Pollution Control Regulations which will be
published in this week's Government Gazette. This will
require the development of a new overall strategy and this
task will be undertaken by the recently-established
Environmental Protection Department.
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