Land resumption for drainage improvement works in Tuen Mun
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    The Lands Department will resume 82 private agricultural lots with a total area of about 17,055 square metres in the area of So Kwun Wat, Tuen Mun to facilitate drainage improvement works to alleviate the flooding problem there.

     A notice for the land resumption was published in the Gazette today (December 15).

     The project is scheduled to commence in June 2007 and will take about two years to complete.

Ends/Friday, December 15, 2006
Issued at HKT 14:45

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