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Cyberport
Development at Telegraph Bay
Artist's
Impression of the Cyberport Development. |
Project Description
The proposed
Cyberport development will be built as a world-class facility for
information technology companies. It involves the construction of
office buildings, distributor roads, a sewage treatment plant and
a 300m long submarine sewage outfall, together with housing blocks
on 26 hectares of reclaimed land at Telegraph Bay (Kong Sin Wan),
which is located on the western side of Hong Kong Island.
Construction
work commenced in September 1999 and is scheduled for completion
in 2007.
Mitigation Measures and Outcomes
- About 2.9km
of roadside noise barriers will be provided to protect 5,600 people
from excessive traffic noise.
- A sewage
treatment plant will be built, not only to properly treat sewage
generated from an existing population of 6,000 in Baguio Villa,
but also to treat that from the planned population of 23,000 within
the Cyberport development. This will bring improvements in the
long term to the marine water quality of the Southern District
where there are many gazetted public beaches.
- All residential
blocks within the Cyberport development have been designed to
meet established traffic noise criteria.
- Barges have
been used for transporting surcharge materials to avoid the environmental
nuisance associated with bulk transport on land.
- Adequate
buffers, as confirmed by assessment findings, will separate a
temporary concrete batching plant from Baguio Villa to avoid dust
and noise impacts associated with the plant's operation. On-site
concrete batching will help reduce the need for road transport
of concreting material, along with associated traffic problems
and environmental nuisance.
- Since commencement
of site activities, an environmental monitoring and audit programme
has been implemented to actively monitor compliance with EIA recommendations
and to activate speedy remedial measures as soon as praticable.
Key
environmental outcomes of the Cyberport EIA study.
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