DSD launches DSD Facilities Online Tour and Thematic Webpage of Beautifying and Greening DSD Facilities

For the first time, the Drainage Services Department (DSD) launches thematic webpage of DSD Facilities Online Tour and Beautifying and Greening of DSD facilities, which provide 360-degree panoramic photos and high-definition photo albums, allowing public to explore sewage treatment and flood prevention facilities through the Internet, and to learn more about DSD’s works in flood prevention and sewage treatment anytime and anywhere. While you maintaining social distance and reducing outdoor activities during the coronavirus pandemic, you can still learn more about DSD comfortably at home.

From point-to-point, DSD Facilities Online Tour leads the public to explore DSD’s sewage treatment and flood prevention facilities through text and exquisite photo albums. The 360-degree panoramic photos are specially embedded to provide public with a spectacular sense of actually being at the facilities to learn the operation of the facilities at different angles.

Sewage treatment facilities which are available for online tour include:

• Hong Kong’ s first tertiary sewage treatment works with reclaimed water treatment facilities - Ngong Ping Sewage Treatment Works;
• the largest secondary sewage treatment works in Hong Kong – Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works;
• the sewage treatment facilities with the largest photovoltaic panels system among the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government facilities at present - Siu Ho Wan Sewage Treatment Works;
• the first sewage treatment works built in caverns in Hong Kong - Stanley Sewage Treatment Works; and
• the most efficient chemically enhanced primary sewage treatment works in the world which is temporarily close for public visit - Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works.

Flood prevention facilities that can be viewed online include:

• Hong Kong’s first flood protection project that combines the use of "movable weir" and the “Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System" - Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme;
• Hong Kong's first large-scale underground stormwater storage tank with a storage capacity of 100,000 cubic metres – Tai Hang Tung Stormwater Storage Tank;
• the major flood protection project in Northwest Kowloon - Lai Chi Kok Stormwater Drainage Tunnel;
• the flood protection project incorporated with environmental and ecological features - San Tin stormwater pumping station and Yuen Long Bypass Floodway.

In addition, the thematic webpage of Beautifying and Greening of DSD Facilities is newly launched to present the diversified beautification and greening design of drainage facilities to the public. You are most welcome to visit and enjoy the mural paintings at DSD’s facilities, as well as the landscaping works and public leisure areas of various DSD facilities. Drainage services is not only about flood prevention and sewage treatment, it is also our wish to beautify the community and maintain Hong Kong as a green livable city for you and me.

For more details, please visit DSD website:

DSD Facilities Online Tour

Beautifying and Greening of DSD Facilities

Ngong Ping Sewage Treatment Works

Siu Ho Wan Sewage Treatment Works Solar Farm Area B

Aeration Tanks at Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works

Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Tank

Murals Paintings on Whampoa Garden Sewage Pumping Station

Rain Water Harvesting Facilities in Kowloon City Sewage Pumping Stations No.1