Examples of Environmentally Friendly Drainage Channel Designs Arising from Environmental Impact Assessments

Formation and Servicing in Area 36, Fanling

Title of EIA Formation and Servicing in Area 36, Fanling
Completion Date December 1997
EIAO Register Office Reference NA
Project Proponent Territory Development Department
Project Description The project is to provide 22 ha of land and the associated roads and drains for future housing and related developments.

 

Recommended environmentally friendly design measures of channels

The measures include (Figure10),

  1. use of grasscrete on both embankments of the new channel;
  2. use of perforated concrete bottom for the channel bed; and
  3. planting of trees and shrubs along channel banks to provide habitats

Image of Typical section through Shek Sheung River Diversion
Figure 10 Typical section through Shek Sheung River Diversion
<click the figure above to zoom in>

 

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