Info leaflets for flat owners, from the
"Sewage Connection Mini-exhibition" in the Rural Committee last weekend in the Rural Committee Bldg. opposite HSBC, see below. Still available from their literature rack at the entrance.
Plus some info not on the leaflet I got from the civil servants from various depts. present in the mini-exhibition:
Cost per Village House typically below $20,000, to be shared by the flat owners. Govt. will advise in general, but NOT recommend contractors or get involved in the connections, relying on the local boys to handle it all, including promoting their connection services to the house owners.
Village Reps and local politicians are supposed to inform the house owners. But have you ever heard from your village rep or even know who he is?
Letters to the first batch of houses to be connected has been issued, list of addresses available from Drainage & Sewage Dept. My neighbour is listed, but not my house.
Completion of YSW Sewage Treatment Plant at end of this month, Sok Kwu Wan Plant mid 2014. The very first houses in YSW have been notified that they should start to think about connecting, mainly the most polluting businesses along Main Street.
Experiences from other islands shows that it'll take over 5 years to connect less than 50% of houses. Enforcement to connect is similar to illegal structures, meaning very patient, long-term and rarely ever an enforcement law suit (to "maintain social harmony").
Govt. loans for connection costs available for application.
2nd stage of the sewage pipes has not even been gazetted yet to find a contractor, still under negotiation in Govt. This stage means another 7km of pipes being dug up over the next several years, starting next year, connecting most Village Houses to the top of Po Wah Yuen, Tai Peng Old Village, Tai Wan Old Village and even Hung Shing Yeh, but not Pak Kok.
The Sok Kwu Wan Sewage Treatment Plant - that massive "landslip" in the Ling Kok Shan hillside, in-between Sok Kwu Wan and Mo Tat Wan, will have a capacity of max. 2,500 people, several times as many as are living down there now. But it won't be big enough for the Govt.'s housing plans for the ex-Quarry on the opposite side of Picnic Bay. Those suggested 5,000 people would get their own Sewage Treatment Plant.
Leaflet:
"Connections to Sewers, Eng - Page 1" - Who Will Pay?
"Connections to Sewers, Eng - Page 2" - Why Connect? How to Connect?