SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1980
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TSUEN WAN ROAD ARTERY OVER HALF COMPLETED
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TRAFFIC IN TSUEN WAN AND KWAI CHUNG WILL BE IMPROVED CONSIDERABLY EARLY NEXT YEAR WHEN TSUEN WAN BY-PASS STAGE ONE AN ELEVATED ROAD JOINING KWAI CHUNG ROAD AND TEXACO ROAD BYPASSING THE CENTRE OF TSUEN WAN, IS COMPLETED.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY THAT WORK ON THE ROAD PROJECT WAS PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILY AND WAS NOW 60 PER CENT COMPLETE.
STAGE ONE OF THE BY-PASS FORMS PART OF A MAJOR ROAD PROJECT TO COPE WITH THE HEAVY TRAFFIC GENERATED FROM DEVELOPMENT IN TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN.
THE TWO-KILOMETRE ROAD RUNS FROM A POINT NEAR THE CONTAINER TERMINALS AT KWAI CHUNG ROAD TO TEXACO ROAD NEAR YEUNG UK ROAD, AND HAS THREE INTERCHANGES LOCATED AT KWAI CHUNG ROAD, HING FONG ROAD AND TEXACO ROAD.
MA WAN TO GET IMPROVED WATER SUPPLY
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THE GOVERNMENT IS TO SPEND $300 000 ON IMPROVING WATER SUPPLY TO THE 5 500 RESIDENTS OF TWO VILLAGES ON MA WAN ISLAND.
AT PRESENT, THE TWO VILLAGES, MA WAN AND TIN LIU, ARE SERVED BY ONE WATER TANK, INSTALLED IN 1965. ITS CAPACITY IS 36 000 LITRES.
IN THE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME, A NEW WATER TANK OF 40 000 LITRES CAPACITY WILL BE PROVIDED TO GIVE DIRECT WATER SUPPLY TO TIN LIU. MA WAN VILLAGERS WILL CONTINUE TO BE SERVED BY THE EXISTING WATER TANK.
WORK INCLUDES CONSTRUCTING TWO PUMP HOUSES AND LAYING
1 800 METRES OF PIPELINE.
BOTH TANKS WILL BE FED BY TWO NEWLY CONSTRUCTED WELLS,
A SPOKESMAN FOR TSUEN WAN DISTRICT OFFICE SAID, WITH THE NEW SUPPLY SYSTEM, THE PROBLEM OF WATER SHORTAGE IN THE AREA WOULD BE SOLVED. THE PROJECT IS DUE TO BE READY BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.
AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE SCHEME FROM THE LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS VOTE OF TSUEN WAN DISTRICT OFFICE WAS REACHED AT A RECENT MEETING BETWEEN RURAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS FROM TSUEN WAN, TSING YI AND MA WAN AND DISTRICT OFFICE STAFF.
THE PROJECT