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EIA for Shenzhen River Regulation Project completed
An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study for the first two stages of the Shenzhen River Regulation Project has been completed.
The study, which commenced in December 1993, was jointly commissioned by Hong Kong's Drainage Services Department (DSD) and Shenzhen River Regulation Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Government, a spokesman for DSD said today (Sunday).
"The study aims at assessing the environmental acceptability of the Stage I and II of the project and recommending necessary mitigation measures," he said.
The spokesman noted that the EIA study had concluded that the project would not create any unacceptable air, noise, water quality, sedimentation, erosion, or ecological impacts upon implementation of adequate mitigation measures.
"The project is considered to be acceptable environmentally provided that the recommended environmental mitigation measures are implemented and that the works are implemented with general care to the issues identified in the EIA," he said.
Full report of the EIA and Executive Summary are available for public inspection at all public reference libraries of the Urban Council and Regional Council.
They are also available at the Environmental Protection Department headquarters on 28th floor, Southorn Centre, 130 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong; the Yuen Long District Office at Yuen Long District Office Building, 269 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long, New Territories; and the North District Office on third floor, North District Government Offices, 3 Pik Fung Road, Fanling, New Territories.
Copies of the Executive Summary can also be obtained free from these offices on a first-come-first-served basis.
The Shenzhen River Regulation Project is being developed jointly by DSD and Shenzhen Muncipal Government to reduce flooding in both the northern New Territories and the Shenzhen City.
The project consists of three-stage scheme to realign, widen and deepen a total of 17 kilometres in length of the river.