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(i) Item 41 CD (Category AB) : Yuen Long Nullah
Environmental Improvement. This project is
aimed at reducing the smell and visual
nuisance of the Yuen Long nullah in the
interim period before the livestock waste
controls come into effect in this area in
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1991, and the sewage treatment and sewerage
А
schemes are completed. This scheme comprises:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(a)
erection of an inflatable dam downstream
of Yuen Long to exclude polluted tidal
waters;
construction of low flow channels to
confine the flows to the centre of the
nullah§, maximise velocities and
minimise deposition of sediment;
construction of a pumping station to
convey low flows around or over the
inflatable dam; and
construction of the concrete lining of
the nullah northwards to the location of
the inflatable dam.
This project is in the design stage and
construction is expected to begin in
September 1989 and be completed by June 1991.
$48 million,
However, the
$22 million,
The total project cost is $48M
concrete lining, estimated to cost $22M, is
A
part of the Government's proposed works to
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