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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1989
PUMPING TESTS AT PROPOSED LANDFILL SITE
OF TA KWU LING TODAY DEEP
VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVES AND VILLAGERS (WEDNESDAY) SAW FOR THEMSELVES THE RESULTS OF PUMPING TESTS AT A TRIAL WELL FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSES.
THE WELL WAS DRILLED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AVAILABLE A LANDFILL SITE AT WONG MAU HANG SHAN, NORTH DISTRICT, TO REPLACE THE EXISTING SHUEN WAN REACHING ITS CAPACITY.
PROPOSAL ΤΟ MAKE PING YEUNG IN TRE LANDFILL WHICH IS
DEPARTMENT (EPD) A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY, WHICH WAS SAID A DETAILED ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLETED BY CONSULTANTS EARLY LAST YEAR, HAD RECOMMENDED A SERIES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS MEASURES TO MITIGATE THE POTENTIAL LANDFILL.
OF
OF
THE
THE STUDY ALSO RECOMMENDED THE ADOPTION OF THE MOST
THAT A MODERN LANDFILL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY TO ENSURE BUILT.
UP-TO-DATE
WOULD
BE
IN THE VICINITY OF THE THE SPOKESMAN SAID VILLAGERS LIVING
FLOW PROPOSED LANDFILL SITE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE REDUCTION OF THE
SITE, AS A RESULT OF THE IN THE STREAM WHICH ORIGINATED FROM THE REDUCTION IN CATCHMENT AREA AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE LANDFILL.
AGGRAVATED
FOR STREAM
IRRIGATION AND THEY FARMERS USED WATER FROM THE
WHICH ALREADY EXISTED IN FEARED THAT THE PROBLEM OF WATER SHORTAGE,
OF MIGHT BE
THE
THE DROUGHT YEARS,
DEVELOPMENT
LANDFILL.
AFTER
VILLAGERS
AN UNDERTAKING
то
FIND LANDFILL
A
THE EPD HAD GIVEN THE RELIABLE SOURCE OF WATER TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS, BEFORE THE IS COMMISSIONED IN LATE 1993 OR EARLY 1994, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
40 ΤΟ 50
THE CURRENT PROPOSAL WAS TO SINK FOUR DEEP WELLS OF METRES DEEP AND IF FOUND NECESSARY, TO BUILD A STORAGE RESERVOIR.
EPD HAD TO ENSURE THAT THE DEEP WELL PROPOSAL WOULD WORK, THE
TESTS IN SEPTEMBER DRILLED A DEEP TRIAL WELL AND CONDUCTED PUMPING LAST YEAR. THE RESULTS HAD BEEN VERY GOOD.
ΤΟ
SEE IF
CARRIED BEING
OUT TESTS MORE PUMPING
WERE NOW SATISFACTORY RESULTS COULD BE OBTAINED AFTER THE DRY SEASON.
TESTS SAID THE
COMPLETED SO FAR HAD THE EPD SPOKESMAN
FOR INDICATED THAT SUFFICIENT WATER COULD BE OBTAINED FROM DEEP WELLS THE REPROVISION OF IRRIGATION WATER.
/HE ADDED