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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1992

INDIVIDUAL ENGLISH

"FROM SEPTEMBER 1993 LANGUAGE INSTITUTES AND EMPLOYERS WILL BE ABLE TO MOUNT COURSES USING THE VOCATIONAL MATERIALS TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF THE WORKPLACE.

"THE VOCATIONAL ENGLISH PROGRAMME, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE STANDARDS OF ENGLISH IN THE WORKPLACE, WILL EVENTUALLY BE EXTENDED FROM BASIC TO ADVANCED LEVEL, MR CHAN ADDED.

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WATER QUALITY OF SHING MUN RIVER IMPROVING

THE IN

WATER PLANNING, COUNCIL

THERE HAVE BEEN SLOW BUT STEADY IMPROVEMENTS

OF THE QUALITY

SHING MUN RIVER, THE SECRETARY FOR ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR TONY EASON, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR EASON SAID SUBSTANTIAL MEASURES WERE IN HAND TO UPGRADE SEWERAGE PROGRAMMES FOR THE RIVER AND ITS CATCHMENT.

THE

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON EMILY LAU WAI-HING, PLAN TO ABATE SAID THESE MEASURES WERE PART OF A COMPREHENSIVE POLLUTION IN TOLO HARBOUR THE TOLO HARBOUR ACTION PLAN.

HE

AND

WATER POLLUTION THE ACTION PLAN COMBINES ENFORCEMENT OF THE CONTROL ORDINANCE WITH SEWERAGE PROGRAMMES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY

TOLO HARBOUR CATCHMENT REDUCE THE QUANTITY OF DISCHARGES INTO THE INCLUDING THE SHING MUN RIVER.

THE SEWERAGE PROGRAMMES ARE:

* UPGRADING OF THE SHA TIN AND TAI PO SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS TO ABATE THE NITROGEN POLLUTION IN DISCHARGES FROM THE WORKS;

IN

* IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SEWERAGE MASTER PLAN FOR THE

THE PROVISION OF THE TOLO CATCHMENT. THE PLAN FACILITIES

OVER TO SOME 165 UNSEWERED VILLAGES

UNSEWERED

INVOLVES

AREAS SEWERAGE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD;

A 10-YEAR

ENTERING THE THIS

* TO REDUCE STILL FURTHER THE POLLUTION LOADING TOLO HARBOUR AN EFFLUENT EXPORT SCHEME IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. SCHEME WILL TRANSFER ALL TREATED EFFLUENTS FROM THE SHA ONE) AND THE TAI PO (STAGE TWO) SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS HARBOUR THROUGH THE KAI TAK NULLAH, STAGE ONE WILL BE NEXT YEAR; STAGE TWO IN 1995.

THE SHING MUN RIVER LIES WITHIN THE TOLO HARBOUR WATER CONTROL ZONE.

TIN (STAGE TO VICTORIA COMPLETED IN

AND CHANNEL

TO

DATE,

ALL

PRIVATE DOMESTIC

PLANTS SEWAGE TREATMENT

WITH COMPLY UNSEWERED AREAS ARE LICENSED AND OVER 90 PER CENT TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM (TM) REQUIREMENTS, THE REMAINING 10 PER CENT BEING ADVISED TO COMPLY BY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION STAFF.

/OVER 90

IN

THE ARE