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Press
Release
Proposed
sewerage system in Yuen Long South gazetted
The Environmental
Protection Department (EPD) is planning to construct a sewerage
system in Yuen Long South as part of the government effort
to improve the local sewage collection system and water quality
of Deep Bay.
The proposed
works were published in the Government Gazette today (May
25).
The proposed
system comprises a sewage pumping station in Yuen Long South
and a trunk sewer along Yuen Long Highway in Yuen Long, a
spokesman for the EPD said.
"It will
collect sewage generated from an estimated population of about
116 000 to the 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 August 2003 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 above works are also available
for public inspection at the following locations:
(i)Central
and Western District Office, Public Enquiry Service Centre,
Ground Floor, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central;
(ii) District
Lands Office, Yuen Long, 9th Floor, Yuen Long Government Offices
and Tai Kiu Market, 2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen Long;
(iii)
Yuen Long District Office, Yuen Long District Office Building,
269 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long;
(iv) EPD
Headquarters, 28th Floor, Southorn Centre, 130 Hennessy Road,
Wan Chai;
(v) Local
Control Office (Territory West),EPD, seventh floor, Chinachem
Tsuen Wan Plaza, 455-457 Castle Peak Road, Tsuen Wan;
(vi) Yuen
Long New Territories Land Registry, seventh floor, Yuen Long
Government Offices and Tai Kiu Market, 2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen
Long; and
(vii)
Land Registry, 19th Floor, Queensway Government Offices, 66
Queensway, Hong Kong.
Any person
who considers that he will be affected by the works and wishes
to raise objection to the proposal is required to send his
objection in writing to the Director of Environmental Protection
not later than July 24, 2001.
End/Friday,
May 25, 2001
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