TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1992
SPEL INSPECTS NORTHWEST KOWLOON SEWAGE PROJECT
AND
SITE VISIT TO
ENVIRONMENT PLANNING, FOR THE NEWLY-APPOINTED SECRETARY LANDS, MR A.G. EASON, TODAY (TUESDAY) PAID HIS FIRST AN IMPORTANT SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL PROJECT.
IT IS PART OF
HIS
OFFICE THIS MONTH.
FAMILIARISATION
PROGRAMME
SINCE HE TOOK
ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF DRAINAGE SERVICES, MR SIU CHUEN, THE SECRETARY WAS BRIEFED AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE OF THE NORTHWEST KOWLOON SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL SCHEME THAT THE PROJECT INTEGRAL PART OF THE PLAN TO IMPROVE WATERS.
WATER
QUALITY
THE IN
WAS AN COASTAL
SEWAGE
FROM A AND YAU MA
THIS SCHEME WILL COLLECT, TREAT AND DISCHARGE POPULATION OF OVER ONE MILLION IN SHAM SHUI PO, MONG KOK TEI DISTRICTS TO AN AREA IN THE SEA, SOUTHWEST OF STONECUTTERS ISLAND.
COST OF OVER DEPARTMENT'S LARGEST
THE SCHEME IS BEING IMPLEMENTED AT AN ESTIMATED
DRAINAGE SERVICES $1.35 BILLION AND IT IS THE CURRENT PROJECT.
IS DISCHARGED UNTREATED AT PRESENT, SEWAGE FROM SHAM SHUI PO
IS CLOSE TO ITS FERRY PIER, WHILE SEWAGE FROM THE OTHER TWO DISTRICTS
PLANTS AND DISCHARGED A ONLY PARTIALLY TREATED IN AGEING SCREENING FEW HUNDRED METRES OFFSHORE THROUGH SUBMARINE OUTFALLS.
BEING
CARRIED
OUT
IN
SEVERAL
STAGES
WEST
AND
THE SCHEME WHICH IS ENTAILS THE CONSTRUCTION OF INTERCEPTOR SEWERS RUNNING ALONG THE
EXISTING SYSTEMS KOWLOON FORESHORE TO PICK UP SEWAGE FROM THE THREE SCREENING PLANTS TO REMOVE GROSS SOLIDS.
SEWAGE THROUGH
BY
SEWAGE TO BE OUTFALL
A MAJOR PUMPING STATION IS ALSO BEING BUILT TO PUMP THE ACROSS THE HARBOUR FROM CHEUNG SHA WAN TO STONECUTTERS ISLAND A TWIN TWO METRE-DIAMETER SUBMARINE PIPELINE FOR TREATMENT TREATMENT FACILITIES ON STONECUTTERS ISLAND WITH THE DISCHARGED THROUGH ANOTHER TWIN 2.2 METRE-DIAMETER TO WATERS 600 METRES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE ISLAND,
EFFLUENT SUBMARINE
THE SCHEME IS EXPECTED TO BE COMMISSIONED IN AUGUST.
THE DISPOSAL
MR SIU SAID THE INTERCEPTOR SEWERS TOGETHER WITH SYSTEM WILL BE PUT INTO OPERATION TOWARDS THE LATER HALF OF THIS YEAR BEFORE THE FILLING ACTIVITIES OF THE ENCLOSED WATERS IN WEST RECLAMATION PROJECT STARTS.
COMPLETION
KOWLOON
SOURCE AWAY FROM WOULD ALSO SEWERS RESULTING FROM WORKING
WILL DISPOSAL
NO
POLLUTION AGEING APART FROM DIVERTING THE
OF THESE INSHORE WATERS, THE TIMELY CONSIDERABLY REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
PROJECT AS SEWAGE ACTIVITIES OF THE RECLAMATION
LONGER BE TAKING PLACE IN THE WORK SITE AREA.
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