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Press
Releases - 1997 (July - December)
More
sewerage facilities proposed for Tin Shui Wai
The Environmental
Protection Department published in the Government Gazette
today (Friday) details of a plan to provide more sewerage
facilities in Tin Shui Wai to service further development
in the area.
The proposed
project will include the construction of a sewage pumping
station in Tin Shui Wai Reserve Zone Area -101 and the laying
of about 2.1 kilometre long twin 800 mm diameter sewage rising
mains along existing roads from the site of the proposed sewage
pumping station to the existing Ha Tsuen Sewage Pumping Station.
The proposed sewage rising mains will be laid across the existing
Tin Wah Road and along the existing footpath adjacent to the
Western
Drainage Channel.
The works
are scheduled to start in late 1998.
Details
of the proposal, in both English and Chinese, have been put
up on a notice board for public inspection near the site of
the proposed sewage pumping station.
Copies
of the plans of the proposed undertaking showing the areas
and the existing roads to be affected are available for inspection
at the following locations:
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Central
and Western District Office's Public Enquiry Services
Centre, ground floor, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road,
Central, Hong Kong;
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Yuen
Long District Lands Office, ninth-11th floor, Yuen Long
Government Offices, Tai Kiu Market, 2 Kiu Lok Square,
Yuen Long, New Territories; and
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Yuen
Long District Office, Yuen Long District Office Building,
269 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long, New Territories.
Any person
who wishes to object to the proposed project is required to
send his objection in writing to the Director of Environmental
Protection on or before December 23, 1997.
End/Friday,
October 24, 1997
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