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nature are still continuing.

For example a project

involving a major new outfall from Stonecutters Island to

cater for sewage flows from Lai Chi Kok, Tai Kok Tsui and

Sham Shui Po will be proposed for upgrading to Category A in

the Public Works Programme in October this year, with a view

to starting construction early in 1987. The elimination of

a number of unsatisfactory short outfalls in this area

should have a significant effect on the water quality of

Victoria Harbour. At the Kai Tak Nullah, the most

notorious blackspot in Victoria Harbour, two major public

works projects are in progress to improve the situation.

These include the interception and diversion of the dry

weather flow into the Nullah and dredging and injection of

oxygen into the waters of the nullah.

4.

For the future, it is intended to tackle the

problems of water pollution in Victoria Harbour, and for

that matter in the rest of the Territory, by a coordinated

programme of planning, capital works and implementation and

enforcement of legislative controls, including the newly

enacted Water Pollution Control Regulations which will be

published in this week's Government Gazette. This will

require the development of a new overall strategy and this

task will be undertaken by the recently-established

Environmental Protection Department.

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