Press Release
20 Years of Beach Water Quality Monitoring report published
The Environmental Protection Department today (May 19) launched the report on "20 Years of Beach Water Quality Monitoring in Hong Kong" which highlights the changes and achievements of the past two decades.
An EPD spokesman said that the report summarized the state of the territory's beaches in the 1980s, the 1990s and today and placed the beach water quality of 2005 in the context of twenty years of work by the department.
"Over the years, EPD has developed an effective and scientific programme to monitor beach water quality to safeguard the health of the public in the territory," he added.
"EPD has also implemented effective measures to control pollution and improve the water quality of beaches, and to make Hong Kong's beaches a safe and pleasant environment for everyone. The improvements in the popular beaches in Hong Kong Island South and the re-opening of Castle Peak Beach in Tuen Mun are particularly noteworthy," he said.
"But the job of improving our beach water is not yet finished. For example, there are still a few closed beaches in Tsuen Wan," the spokesman said.
To ensure these can be reopened in the not too distant future, we will need the community's support both for the on-going village sewerage programme for the area and the remaining stages of the Harbour Area Treatment Scheme, which is planned to include a disinfection system specifically to improve Tsuen Wan beach water quality," he added.
Details of the report can be obtained from EPD's homepage at www.epd.gov.hk.
End/Friday, May 19, 2006
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