Sewerage Master Plans

The Sewerage Master Plan studies identified works estimated to cost a
total of $11.5 billion to bring the sewers up to standard in a phased
improvement programme.

The main sewerage work in southern Hong Kong island is completed,
with a treatment works in a rock cavern at Stanley, the first such works
in Asia. Sewer connections to individual properties are still in progress.
Improvements in several parts of Kowloon are well under way.
Significant progress is being made in providing sewerage to the villages
around Tolo Harbour in order to complement the improvements already
made to the water quality by such schemes as the diversion of treated
effluent from the Sha Tin and Tai Po sewage treatment works to Victoria
Harbour and livestock waste controls.

Public sewers are being provided for 38 rural villages and areas that were
previously unsewered. Under the Water Pollution Control (Sewerage)
Regulation, the EPD requires house or development owners to connect
their sewage to the public sewers. In 1997, 729 house owners responded
and connected their premises to the new sewers. This intercepted sewage
from 5 400 people for proper disposal. In all, 936 house owners were
asked to connect to public sewers.

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