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Ecological Enhancement
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It is our policy
to incorporate environmentally friendly features into new or upgrading
projects wherever possible. The features would provide greenery in the
countryside, restore or compensate for disturbed habitats and preserve
valuable freshwater ecosystems. As a result of our commitment and
actions, works in the past decade have cumulated into large tracts of
vegetated river banks, preserved meanders, wetland features and
mangrove habitats.
To give further
emphasis in conservation, we launched a new internal technical circular
in October 2004 on the protection of water courses from adverse impacts
arising from construction works. Following on the achievement, a
multidisciplinary team from six departments has now produced a
reference guide to ecological and landscape improvement considerations
in channel design. The work is elaborated in our Annual Report 2004.
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River Indus
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Nam San Wai
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In brief, our efforts included the creation of wetland, the
preservation and enrichment of habitat, and the harmonization of new
works with the surroundings in our two major river training projects,
namely Yuen Long Bypass Floodway and Construction of San Tin Eastern
Main Drainage Channel. Works on the projects were satisfactory and
these projects will ultimately create 7.9 and 3.7 hectares of wetland
habitats respectively upon their anticipated completion in 2006.
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Another area of ecological enhancement is the greening of our
sewage treatment plants and pumping facilities. Planting are provided
as a landscape buffer along the boundary of our facilities, between the
concrete structures and in areas accessible by the public. To maintain our effort on planting,
we target to plant a total of 11,300 trees and 214,000 shrubs in 2004
and 2005.
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Yuen Long Sewage Treatment Works
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Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works
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