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Shenzhen meeting on new rail passenger crossing

The Secretary for Transport, Mr Haider Barma, will lead a Hong Kong delegation to Shenzhen on Thursday (September 21) to attend the first meeting of the Working Group on a new rail passenger crossing at Lok Ma Chau.

The Working Group has been set up under the Infrastructure Co-ordinating Committee following the third plenary meeting of the Committee in Beijing in August this year.

The Hong Kong delegation comprises representatives from the Transport Branch, Constitutional Affairs Branch, Highways Department, Customs and Excise Department, Immigration Department, the Police and Planning Department.

The Chinese side is headed by the Deputy Director of the Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office, Mr Zhang Qingping.

End/Tuesday, September 19, 1995

Works start on sewage treatment plant

The Drainage Services Department has started works on a sewage screening plant and a submarine outfall in Sandy Bay, Pok Fu Lam, to improve the sewage treatment facilities there.

The contract for the $57.9 million works was signed today (Tuesday) by the Assistant Director of Drainage Services (Projects and Development), Mr Clement Lau, and a representative of the contractor, Penta-Ocean Construction Company Limited.

Mr Lau said the sewage screening plant was designed to provide preliminary sewage treatment facilities to handle an average daily sewage flow of 8,900 cubic metres.

"The treated effluent will then be discharged at offshore water through a 500 mm diameter, 650-meter long subarmarine outfall," he said.

At present, the sewerage system of the Pok Fu Lam district is divided into a number of independent sewer networks.