Friday, June 9, 1972
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FLOODED TAI HANG TUNG SQUATTERS
To Be Offered Public Housing
Over 1,800 squatters living in the low lying southern portion
of the Tai Hang Tung Valley are now to be offered public housing.
This decision was announced today by the Resettlement Department
following further engineering studies by the Public Works Department of
the risk of landslide and flooding in the valley.
Valle
Nine hundred squatters living in the more northern part of the
ley were offered public housing immediately after the May rains and are
already starting to move into the Shok Li Resettlement Estate.
"Additional
A spokesman for the Resettlement Department said:
protective work has been completed by the Public Works Department
higher up the borrow-area, but there is still a remote possibility
of further heavy landslides in the event of very heavy rains,"
Not Uncommon
"Although the rainfall on the 3rd and 20th May was very heavy,
storms of this nature are not uncommon and could happen again at any time,'
he added.
"We are not prepared to risk danger to the inhabitants in this
low-lying area which could result from servere flooding, possibly made worse by
large quantities of soil being washed down," he said.
"In the light of the additional information contained in this
technical report, the Resettlement Department has decided that it would be
wrong to leave these families in the area.
Release time: 6.30 p.m.