A section of Tin Ying Road, Tin Shui Wai, suddenly sank on Monday (18th), making the two vehicles stuck in the slit and immobile. Two days later, the Drainage Services Department said today (20th) that the road was about 9 meters deep from the ground. The canal was damaged and caused an incident. The authorities are urgently repairing it. The section of the road needs to be temporarily closed, and sewage diversion measures have to be taken.
Residents in Tin Shui Wai said that the stench resembling a "shit drain" has come from many housing estates in the area recently. "You don't even dare to open the windows."
A road subsidence occurred on Tin Ying Road in Tin Shui Wai on Monday. Trucks and cranes passing by fell into "traps" and could not move.
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Residents: The stench of shit canal covers many villages
A netizen said on the Facebook "traffic accident" group on Monday (18th) that a road subsidence occurred on Tianying Road in Tin Shui Wai, causing trucks and crane trucks passing by to fall into "traps" and become immobile. As you can see from the photo, This section of the road is enclosed and cannot be transferred to Tianshengyuan.
A large number of residents of the housing estates along Tianying Road left messages on the Internet that the stench spread over the area from Monday night, covering many housing estates. Even the Tin Heng Village and Jun Wang Xuan, which are more than half an hour away from the site of the incident, were not immune. Some people even said that they did not even dare to open the window, but they have not been able to find the source of the smell, which is deeply troubled by the residents of the district.
Two days later, the Drainage Services Department issued a paper tonight stating that a sewer about 9 meters deep and about 2.1 meters in diameter on Tin Ying Road, Tin Shui Wai, near Ping Ha Road, was damaged, causing the road surface at that location to sink. The authorities are now urgently repairing it. , The relevant road section needs to be closed.
The department also pointed out that in order to prevent the sewage from overflowing the road upstream due to damage to the drainage pipes, it has implemented emergency sewage diversion measures, including temporary diversion of sewage to the Yuen Long Sewage Treatment Plant and the main nullah of Tin Shui Wai. Temporary sewage diversion measures will be terminated after completion.
In response to the situation in the main nullah of Tin Shui Wai, the Environmental Protection Department will send staff to take water samples for testing and use drones to patrol the sky to closely monitor the water quality of the nearby waters.
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