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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1989

PUMPING TESTS AT PROPOSED LANDFILL SITE

OF TA KWU LING TODAY DEEP

VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVES AND VILLAGERS (WEDNESDAY) SAW FOR THEMSELVES THE RESULTS OF PUMPING TESTS AT A TRIAL WELL FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSES.

THE WELL WAS DRILLED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AVAILABLE A LANDFILL SITE AT WONG MAU HANG SHAN, NORTH DISTRICT, TO REPLACE THE EXISTING SHUEN WAN REACHING ITS CAPACITY.

PROPOSAL ΤΟ MAKE PING YEUNG IN TRE LANDFILL WHICH IS

DEPARTMENT (EPD) A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY, WHICH WAS SAID A DETAILED ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLETED BY CONSULTANTS EARLY LAST YEAR, HAD RECOMMENDED A SERIES

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS MEASURES TO MITIGATE THE POTENTIAL LANDFILL.

OF

OF

THE

THE STUDY ALSO RECOMMENDED THE ADOPTION OF THE MOST

THAT A MODERN LANDFILL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY TO ENSURE BUILT.

UP-TO-DATE

WOULD

BE

IN THE VICINITY OF THE THE SPOKESMAN SAID VILLAGERS LIVING

FLOW PROPOSED LANDFILL SITE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE REDUCTION OF THE

SITE, AS A RESULT OF THE IN THE STREAM WHICH ORIGINATED FROM THE REDUCTION IN CATCHMENT AREA AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE LANDFILL.

AGGRAVATED

FOR STREAM

IRRIGATION AND THEY FARMERS USED WATER FROM THE

WHICH ALREADY EXISTED IN FEARED THAT THE PROBLEM OF WATER SHORTAGE,

OF MIGHT BE

THE

THE DROUGHT YEARS,

DEVELOPMENT

LANDFILL.

AFTER

VILLAGERS

AN UNDERTAKING

то

FIND LANDFILL

A

THE EPD HAD GIVEN THE RELIABLE SOURCE OF WATER TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS, BEFORE THE IS COMMISSIONED IN LATE 1993 OR EARLY 1994, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

40 ΤΟ 50

THE CURRENT PROPOSAL WAS TO SINK FOUR DEEP WELLS OF METRES DEEP AND IF FOUND NECESSARY, TO BUILD A STORAGE RESERVOIR.

EPD HAD TO ENSURE THAT THE DEEP WELL PROPOSAL WOULD WORK, THE

TESTS IN SEPTEMBER DRILLED A DEEP TRIAL WELL AND CONDUCTED PUMPING LAST YEAR. THE RESULTS HAD BEEN VERY GOOD.

ΤΟ

SEE IF

CARRIED BEING

OUT TESTS MORE PUMPING

WERE NOW SATISFACTORY RESULTS COULD BE OBTAINED AFTER THE DRY SEASON.

TESTS SAID THE

COMPLETED SO FAR HAD THE EPD SPOKESMAN

FOR INDICATED THAT SUFFICIENT WATER COULD BE OBTAINED FROM DEEP WELLS THE REPROVISION OF IRRIGATION WATER.

/HE ADDED