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Other attempts to improve water quality were made over the years. In 1993, a new trunk sewer was built along Castle Peak Road, from So Kwun Wat to Sam Shing Estate, directing sewage from the hinterland to the Pillar Point Sewage
Treatment Works. Additionally, the North Western Water Control Zone was
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868:22.379232; 113.980156
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658:Silver Mine Bay Beach
892:Beaches of Hong Kong
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881:Categories
851:22°22′45″N
765:Lido Beach
706:Trio Beach
289:References
249:Light Rail
209:Statistics
201:Restaurant
190:Facilities
70:200 metres
62:Dimensions
834:Strikeout
730:Tsuen Wan
239:Transport
113:, beside
111:Hong Kong
56:Hong Kong
897:Tuen Mun
785:Tuen Mun
673:Sai Kung
527:Southern
271:See also
136:(LCSD).
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52:Tuen Mun
48:Location
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140:History
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414:17 May
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