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Press
Releases - 2000
Proposed
sewerage system in Yuen Long South gazetted
The Environmental
Protection Department (EPD) is planning to build a sewerage
system in Yuen Long South as part of the government effort
to improve the local sewage collection system and the water
quality of Deep Bay.
The proposed
works were published in the Government Gazette today (December
8).
The proposed
system comprises a sewage pumping station at Au Tau and a
trunk sewer along Yuen Long Highway in Yuen Long, a spokesman
for the EPD said.
"The
system will collect sewage generated from an estimated population
of about 31 000 to the existing sewerage network leading to
the San Wai Sewage Treatment Works for treatment and disposal.
"The
works, which will be carried out by the Drainage Services
Department, are scheduled to start in November 2002 and expected
to be completed in 24 months," he said.
Details
of the proposal, in both English and Chinese, will be put
up at prominent positions near the works area.
Copies
of the plans and the scheme for the works are also available
for public inspection at the following locations:
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Central
and Western District Office, Public Enquiry Service Centre,
ground floor, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central;
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District
Lands Office, Yuen Long, ninth floor, Yuen Long Government
Offices and Tai Kiu Market, No. 2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen
Long;
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Yuen
Long District Office, Yuen Long District Office Building,
269 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long;
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EPD
Headquarters, 28th Floor, Southorn Centre, 130 Hennessy
Road, Wan Chai;
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Local
Control Office (Territory West), EPD, seventh floor, Chinachem
Tsuen Wan Plaza, 455-457 Castle Peak Road, Tsuen Wan;
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Yuen
Long New Territories Land Registry, seventh floor, Yuen
Long Government Offices and Tai Kiu Market, No. 2 Kiu
Lok Square, Yuen Long; and
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Land
Registry, 19th Floor, Queensway Government Offices, 66
Queensway.
Any person
who considers he will be affected by the works and wishes
to raise objection to the proposal is required to send his
submission in writing to the Director of Environmental Protection
not later than February 6, 2001.
End/Friday,
December 8, 2000
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