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(i) Item 41 CD (Category AB) : Yuen Long Nullah

Environmental Improvement. This project is

aimed at reducing the smell and visual

nuisance of the Yuen Long nullah in the

interim period before the livestock waste

controls come into effect in this area in

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1991, and the sewage treatment and sewerage

А

schemes are completed. This scheme comprises:

(a)

(b)

(c)

(a)

erection of an inflatable dam downstream

of Yuen Long to exclude polluted tidal

waters;

construction of low flow channels to

confine the flows to the centre of the

nullah§, maximise velocities and

minimise deposition of sediment;

construction of a pumping station to

convey low flows around or over the

inflatable dam; and

construction of the concrete lining of

the nullah northwards to the location of

the inflatable dam.

This project is in the design stage and

construction is expected to begin in

September 1989 and be completed by June 1991.

$48 million,

However, the

$22 million,

The total project cost is $48M

concrete lining, estimated to cost $22M, is

A

part of the Government's proposed works to

le