STORMWATER DRAINAGE,
90. A small amount of flooding took place in certain areas due, in some cases, to insufficient capacity of the drains and in others to chokage following erosion from partly formed building sites, etc. Measures to prevent a recurrence were taken wherever possible; works of this type were carried out at Robinson Road, Wongneichong Road, Queen's Road Central, Carpenter Road, Valley Road, Cameron Road, Nairn Road and Tsun Wan.
91. The nullah in Argyle Street between Portland Street and the Railway Bridge was replaced by a reinforced concrete culvert. This replacement proved cheaper than rebuilding the nullah walls which were damaged by subsidence and provides an extra 10 feet width of carriage-way in the busy Argyle Street and also enables through traffic to proceed along Sai Yeung Choi, Tung Choi and Sai Yee Streets thus relieving Nathan Road.
92. Bridges were constructed over nullahs in Hing Wah and Tonkin Streets to enable Shun Ning Road to carry through traffic to relieve Castle Peak Road. A further bridge was made at Hung Hom to serve new rice godowns.
93. The increased density and weight of traffic frequently brings to light the poor state of many old central district stormwater culverts. They are invariably of masonry decked with granite slabs the thickness of which varies very considerably. Opportunities such as the raising of Queen's Road Central are taken to replace them with new culverts or to replace or strengthen the deck slabs according to their state.
94. Waste water from squatter areas and other overcrowded localities is received into stormwater culverts which are not designed for the purpose and the pollution caused has given rise to nuisances.
95. Considerable quantities of sand and débris were removed from open nullahs after rainstorms. The Government Sand Monopoly uses some of this material though the quantity of clean sand available for their purposes was not as great as in former years.
FOUL SEWERS.
96. Water-borne sewage, with a few exceptions, is discharged in a crude state through sea walls direct into the harbour where it is rapidly dispersed by currents. The growth of the water carriage system, now adopted for virtually all new buildings, combined with the large population has increased the flow in the sewers and nuisances now arise at some of the outfalls.
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