Land resumption for drainage improvement works in Yuen Long
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    The Lands Department will resume 45 private agricultural lots with a total area of about 21,971 square metres in the area of Cheung Chun San Tsuen in Kam Tin and Kam Tsin Wai in Pat Heung to facilitate drainage improvement works to alleviate the flooding problem there.

     A notice for the land resumption was published in the Gazette today (December 22).

     The project is scheduled to begin in May, 2007, for completion in December, 2009.

Ends/Friday, December 22, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:40

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