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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Monday, September 11, 1972

MAJOR POLLUTION INVESTIGATION FOR NEW TERRITORIES

CHEESE JE DE

The Government is to appoint a firm of consulting engineers to undertake

a detailed investigation into the environmental aspects of stream pollution in

the New Territories.

The consultants appointed for the task, Binnie and Partners, are

already engaged by the Water Authority on an investigation into the extent and

causes of stream pollution in the Yuen Long District.

This investigation has confirmed the seriousness of the pollution

problem and substantial sections of streams have been found to be "grossly

polluted" with a total absence of oxygen.

Their report, which will outline the measures necessary to enable a

potable supply of water to be abstracted from the streams in the area during the

summer months, will be submitted to the Water Authority within a month or so.

The Government, on the advice of the Advisory Committee On Environmental

Pollution On Land and Water, has now decided that the consultants should carry

out a full-scale investigation on stream pollution in the New Territories,

including the islands, and prepare a comprehensive report with particular regard

to five main points:-

The location and quantification of sources of pollution ...in the New Territories;

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