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Rural
Drainage Rehabilitation Scheme
| Title
of EIA |
Rural
Drainage Rehabilitation Scheme |
| Completion
Date |
June
1996 |
| EIAO
Register Office Reference |
EIA-093/BC |
| Project
Proponent |
Drainage
Services Department |
| Project
Description |
The
project covers six streams in the NWNT including Mo Fan
Heung Stream, Wing Kei Tsuen Stream, Sha Po Tsuen Stream,
Nam Hang Drainage Channel, Small Traders New Village Stream
and Wai Tsai/Mai Po Channel; and three rivers and their
tributaries in NENT including the River Indus, Beas and
Ganges. It involves the construction of new channels and
the modification of existing ones by enlargement, straightening
and removal of obstructions. |
Recommended
environmentally friendly design measures of channels
The measures
include (Figures 11 and 12),
| i. |
the
use of varied bank materials other than concrete such
as provision of fabric geotextile reinforced grass lining
at side slopes; |
| ii. |
replanting,
preferably with native species, along the new channel
banks; |
| iii. |
retention
of abandoned meanders; and |
| iv. |
creation
of aquatic planting bays at channel base of the new river
channels. |
Figure
11 <click the figure above to zoom in>
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