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The project will include construction of a water treatment works and a treated water pumping station in Tai Po near Lin Au Village, a primary service reservoir at Butterfly Valley in Lai Chi Kok, and two aqueducts.
Works will begin in April this year for completion by April 2000.
The land resumption in North District of the New Territories is for the implementation of the Stage II remaining works of the Shenzhen River Regulation Project.
A total of 114 private agricultural lots covering 79,938.9 square metres of land will be resumed.
The works, scheduled to start in April and to be completed in about 42 months, will help relieve flooding hazard in the area.
Two sections of the Shenzhen River will be widened and deepened: from downstream of the existing Lok Ma Chau bend to the estuary and from the existing Liu Pok bend to the Lok Ma Chau bend.
The works will include the construction of part of the river embankments on both sides of these two sections, and the associated ecological mitigation measures such as restoring the old river at the Lok Ma Chau bend.
In Tung Chung, 601 private lots with a total area of 127,529.6 square metres will be resumed for residential development and construction of infrastructure as part of the Tung Chung New Town Development Phase IIB project.
The lots to be resumed comprise 126,939 square metres of agricultural land and 590.6 square metres of building land, and the project will begin in May this year for completion in about 27 months.
Details of the lots affected in these three areas are contained in the Government Gazette published today (Friday).
Plans of the affected areas in Tai Po and North District can be seen at the respective District Land Offices, while that for Tung Chung is available for public inspection at the Lands Department's New Airport Section (New Territories Office), 22nd floor, Tsuen Wan Government Offices, 38 Sai Lau Kok Road, Tsuen Wan.
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