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plants to serve those areas to be covered by
This would however increase
mains sewerage.
the load on Deep Bay and the lower reaches of
the Yuen Long nullah.
(iv) Further schemes are in the planning stage to
reduce the nutrient load on the nullah from
the sewage treatment works and to provide
sewerage systems for the villages in the
flood plain of the nullah south of Yuen Long
town.
Construction of additional sewerage and sewage
treatment work will take a number of years and the
environmental improvement scheme will alleviate the effects
of the polluted nullah in the meantime.