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The Chief Executive in Council has approved a scheme for the Tai Po Lam Tsuen Valley sewerage works.
The sewerage scheme will provide a public sewerage system for collecting and conveying sewage from five villages, namely She Shan, San Tong, Wo Liu, Chai Kek and Ng Tung Chai, in Tai Po Lam Tsuen Valley for proper treatment and disposal. The scheme will help improve the hygiene conditions in the area and reduce the amount of pollutants flowing into the Lam Tsuen River and Tolo Harbour.
Approval of the sewerage scheme was gazetted today (June 22).
Construction works for the scheme are to be carried out by the Drainage Services Department. The works are scheduled to start in late 2012 together with other sewerage schemes in Lam Tsuen Valley and are expected to complete by the end of 2016.
Details of the sewerage scheme were published in the Government Gazette on May 20 and 28, 2010; February 18 and 25, September 30 and October 7, 2011; and January 13 and 20 this year.
Ends/Friday, June 22, 2012
Issued at HKT 11:00
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