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construction of capital works projects for treatment and
disposal of all sewage;
maintenance and regular updating of an ongoing integrated
sewage strategy.
3.
As a result of this study the Hong Kong Government identified
a number of areas which require essential and particularly urgent
action. These form the High Priority Programme (HPP). The HPP
is estimated to cost HK$7.3 billion (1992 prices). Its
construction will be financed entirely by the Hong Kong
Government and will be completed in early 1997. On its
commissioning, the HPP will help curtail harbour pollution
significantly and should remove some 70% of the major pollutant
loads in the sewage discharges.
4. The HPP comprises the construction of a new principal
collection and treatment system and the improvement of six
regional sewage collection networks leading into it. The
principal collection and treatment system will be made up of a
deep tunnel system to collect all sewage from Chai Wan, Shau Kei
Wan and areas between Tsuen Wan and Tseung Kwan O and to deliver
it to Stonecutters Island; a chemically assisted treatment works
and a submarine outfall at Stonecutters Island for the treatment
and disposal of the sewage; sewage pumping stations along the
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