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Capital works to veduce
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the Yuen Long nullah
pollution
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Question No 10
WRITTEN REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE TO A QUESTION BY THE HON TAI CHIN-WÀH
IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 1988
Question: Will, Government inform this Council what capital
projects are or will be taken to improve the polluted state of the Yuen Long Nullah, with particular reference to
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(a) the nature of each and every capital works
item;
(b) the timing of their implementation;
(c)
(a)
the capital expenditure involved in each item; and
how each item can contribute to reducing pollution and improving the condition of the nullah?
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE:
Siz
The Yuen Long nullah is a heavily polluted
watercourse, which causes a considerable smell nuisance.
The pollution originates from livestock waste, unsewered
villages and isolated houses, industrial discharges, and
discharges in sewered areas that are wrongly connected to
the surface water drainage system.
Z.
A number of capital works are proposed which will
have the effect of reducing the pollution of the Yuen Long
nullah. For this purpose, it is, assumed that the nullah
excludes the Kam Tin river catchment which is a tributary
that joins the main watercourse near the point at which it
discharges into Deep Bay. The projects already in the
Public Works Programme are :X