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MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1989

GOVERNOR LOOKS AT ANTI-POLLUTION MEASURES IN SOUTHERN

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WATER

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (MONDAY) THAT

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HAS IMPROVED QUALITY AT MOST OF THE BEACHES IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT

GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE AS A RESULT OF THE JOINT EFFORTS OF THE SECTOR.

THE 'SOUTHERN

"ANTI-POLLUTION MEASURES AND THE DECLARATION OF WATER CONTROL ZONE' HAVE HELPED TO IMPROVE THE WATER QUALITY OF BEACHES. THIS WILL CERTAINLY BE WELCOMED BY THE MANY THOUSANDS THESE POPULAR BEACHES, HE ADDED.

THE USING

SIR DAVID SAW

DURING A VISIT TO THE DISTRICT THIS AFTERNOON, FOR HIMSELF THE MEASURES BEING TAKEN TO TACKLE THE POLLUTION PROBLEM.

COUNCIL PROJECT TO

IMPROVE

WORK, SCHEDULED FOR

HE INSPECTED A $45-MILLION URBAN THE GENERAL CONDITION OF THE REPULSE BAY BEACH.

INCLUDES SAND REPLENISHMENT COMPLETION IN JANUARY NEXT YEAR, WILL. DOUBLE THE SIZE OF THE BEACH AND DIVERSION OF THE BEACH WHICH WILL REMOVE A MAJOR SOURCE OF POLLUTION.

SIR

WHICH NULLAHS,

BROUGHT PROTECTION

DAVID ALSO SAW A PRIVATE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, PREVIOUSLY A MAJOR SOURCE OF POLLUTION IN MIDDLE BAY, BUT NOW UF TO THE STANDARDS REQUIRED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT.

TO PRIVATE SEWAGE HE NOTED THAT, AS A RESULT OF IMPROVEMENTS

PLANTS TREATMENT

IN THE VICINITY AND THE COMMISSIONING OF AN WATER QUALITY INTERCEPTING PUMPING STATION FOR THE MIDDLE BAY NULLAH, AT MIDDLE BAY HAS GREATLY IMPROVED SINCE THE SUMMER.

A ESTATE

WITH

IN THE MA HANG VALLEY, SIR DAVID WAS TOLD THAT SQUATTER

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ΤΟ PHASES

MAKE WAY FOR VILLAGES THERE WOULD BE CLEARED IN LOW-RISE PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE FOR ABOUT 8,000 PEOPLE. THE NEW HAS BEEN SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO ENSURE THAT IT WILL BLEND IN WELL THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

COMMENTING ON THE REDEVELOPMENT, STR

GIVE STANLEY A NEW LOOK AND PROVIDE BETTER HOMES FOR PREVIOUSLY HAD TO LIVE AS SQUATTERS IN MA HANG".

DAVID SAID: "THIS WHO THOSE

WILL HAVE

A VIEW

HAD AT THE HONG KONG SEA SCHOOL IN STANLEY, SIR DAVID ACROSS TAL TAM WAN OF THE SHEK O QUARRY, FOR WHICH A COMPREHENSIVE "REHABILITATION SCHEME" HAS BEEN DEVISED.

HE WAS TOLD THAT THE SCHEME

WOULD INVOLVE

BACK CUTTING

THE SLOPE WHICH WOULD THEN #1 QUARRY FACE TO CREATE A NATURAL. LOOKING

FROM COVERED WITH NEW VEGETATION. THIS WOULD REMOVE A SCAR RESULTING 25 YEARS OF QUARRY OPERATIONS.

/BEFORE CONCLUDING