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The Chief Executive in Council has authorised the scheme for the Lau Fau Shan trunk sewerage works.
The works mainly involve constructing a sewage pumping station, and about 420 metres of rising mains, 1,500 metres of gravity sewers and associated manholes. Other ancillary works include reinstatement of affected carriageways, footpaths and open space.
"The scheme will provide a public sewerage system to collect and convey sewage for proper treatment and disposal. It will help improve the area's hygienic condition and reduce the volume of pollutants flowing into Deep Bay," a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Department said today (November 19).
Construction works to be carried out by the Drainage Services Department are scheduled to commence in the second half of 2011, for completion by 2015.
Details of the sewerage scheme were published in the Government Gazette on September 26 and October 3, 2008, June 19 and 26, 2009, and March 12 and 19, 2010.
Approval of the sewerage scheme was gazetted today.
Ends/Friday, November 19, 2010
Issued at HKT 15:06
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