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Drainage works will also be carried out in Kam Tin, Yuen Long to alleviate flooding problems in Shui Tau Tsuen and Kam Hing Wai villages.
Two open channels with lengths of 480 metres and 160 metres respectively and another 140 metres long overflow twin channel will be constructed.
There will be an ancillary 3.5-metre wide vehicular access road and two 1.6- metre wide footpaths, one on each side of the channel, to facilitate maintenance works.
The 480-metre open channel will run along the western periphery of Shui Tau Tsuen to collect stormwater runoff. It will be joined by another shorter open channel from the east before discharging into the Kam Tin River.
From further upstream, the overflow twin channel will run along the northern periphery of Kam Hing Wai and will eventually be connected to the 160-metre long open channel.
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Works will commence in early 1996 and scheduled for completion in mid-
To enable these drainage works to be carried out, two notices were published in the Government Gazette today (Friday), announcing government plans to resume 41 private agricultural lots with a total area of 27,075.1 square metres in Yuen Long and 43 private agricultural lots with a total area of 6,859.1 square metres in Tuen Mun.
Details of the lots affected are contained in the two Gazette notices.
Plans for the Tuen Mun project can be seen at the Tuen Mun District Lands Office, sixth floor, Tuen Mun Government Offices, 1 Tuen Hi Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories.
Plans for the Yuen Long project can be seen at the Yuen Long District Lands Office, ninth floor, Yuen Long Government Offices and Tai Kiu Market, 2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen Long, New Territories.
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