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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1988

WORK WAS ALREADY IN PROGRESS AND WAS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED

IN 1989.

TWO OTHER PROJECTS, COSTING $180 MILLION AND $98

MILLION RESPECTIVELY, WERE ALSO PROPOSED TO PROVIDE A SEWERAGE SYSTEM, TO SERVE THE PUMPING STATIONS, RISING MAINS AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES AREAS AROUND TIN SHUI WAI AND KAM TIN.

"THE COMBINED SEWAGE LOAD FROM THESE AREAS WILL BE PUMPED INTO AN EFFLUENT TUNNEL WHICH WILL

INTO A LONG

OUTFALL CONSTRUCTED OUT INTO URMSTON ROAD, MR CHAMBERS SAID.

DISCHARGE

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SEA

"PROVISION HAS BEEN MADE IN THE SCHEME FOR A SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS SHOULD THAT PROVE NECESSARY IN FUTURE.

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AN ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE TO INSTALL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS SERVE THOSE AREAS TO BE COVERED BY MAINS SEWERAGE, MR CHAMBERS SAID.

ON DREP BAY AND THE

HOWEVER, THIS WOULD INCREASE THE LOWER REACHES OF THE YUEN LONG NULLAH.

LOAD

SCHEMES WERE BESIDES THESE PROJECTS, MR CHAMBERS SAID FURTHER

LOAD BEING PLANNED TO REDUCE THE NUTRIENT

ON THE NULLAH FROM THE

WORKS SEWAGE TREATMENT

AND ΤΟ PROVIDE SEWERAGE SYSTEMS FOR VILLAGES IN THE FLOOD PLAIN OF THE NULLAH SOUTH OF YURN LONG TOWN.

THE

WHILE CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS WOULD TAKE A NUMBER OF YEARS, MR CHAMBERS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT SCHEME WOULD ALLEVIATE THE POLLUTED NULLAH IN THE MEANTIME.

SAID

THE

EFFECTS OF

THE

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