DSD Milestones

• 1988

  

  “Territorial Land Drainage and Flood Control Strategy Study – Phase I” commenced

• 1989

  DSD established on 1 September

• 1994

  

  Harbour Area Treatment Scheme (HATS) (formerly known as Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme) took off

  Established Flooding Blackspots System, announced 90 Blackspots next year

• 1995

  

  Launched Shenzhen River Regulation Project by phases

  

  First Southeast Asia's inside cavern sewage treatment plant, Stanley Sewage Treatment Works, commissioned

• 2001

  

  HATS Stage 1 completed. Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works commissioned

• 2004

  

  First underground stormwater storage scheme completed under Tai Hang Tung Playground

• 2006

  

  First tertiary treatment works with reclaimed water facilities in Ngong Ping commissioned

• 2008

  Successively embarked on Drainage Master Plan Review Studies

• 2009

  Sheung Wan Stormwater Pumping Station commissioned

  Improvement of Fuk Man Road nullah was awarded based on New Engineering Contract, first outside the United Kingdom

  

  The first river ecology improvement works in Ho Chung River was completed

• 2012

  

  Commissioning of Hong Kong West Drainage Tunnel

  

  Lai Chi Kok Drainage Tunnel commissioned

• 2013

  

  Tsuen Wan Drainage Tunnel commissioned

• 2015

  

  HATS Stage 2A commissioned. HATS is Hong Kong's largest ever environmental infrastructure project

  

  

  Diesel-electric powered Clean Harbour 1 and Clean Harbour 2 set sail

• 2016

  

  Solar farm at Siu Ho Wan Sewage Treatment Works commissioned, generating 1.1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity yearly

• 2017

  

  Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme in service

  

  Shenzhen River Regulation Project completed

• 2018

  

  Kai Tak River Improvement Works completed

• 2019

  

  The large-scale tertiary treatment plant, Shek Wu Hui Effluent Polishing Plant main works commenced

  

  Relocation of Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works to Caverns commenced