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The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) had conducted Environmental Review for the project in 1992 and recommended that an Environmental Impact Assessment Study should be carried out to provide information on the extent of the ecological, noise, air quality, water quality and visual impacts resulting from the proposed road works and to recommend practical mitigation measures to minimise the potential impacts.
The Study was started in September 1993 and completed in March this year. It had identified that about 4,300 dwellings and two schools will be affected by traffic noise to an unacceptance level once the road extension is in use.
To ameliorate the future traffic noise problem, a package of direct technical remedies costing $266 Million in the form of open-textured road surface, road enclosures, partial enclosures and noise barriers will be incorporated in the project proposal.
The final report and executive summary have been issued. The reports can be seen at the five public reference libraries of the Urban and Regional councils.
The report, at $500 a copy, and the summary, free of charge, are also available at the Major Works Project Management Office of Highways Department, third floor, Ho Man Tin Government Offices. 88 Chung Hau Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon.
End/Monday, September 25, 1995
GEO publishes guide to slope maintenance
The Geotechnical Engineering Office of the Civil Engineering Department has published a guide to slope maintenance entitled Geoguide 5.
Geoguide 5 presents a recommended standard of good practice for the maintenance of man-made slopes and retaining walls in Hong Kong.
Standards for the maintenance of slopes were given in the Geotechnical Manual for Slopes, the second edition of which was published in 1984. Experience gained over the intervening years has shown the need for revision. Thus, the main changes are embodied in chapters 3 and 4 of Geoguide 5.