The government is planning to build a treatment plant for wastewater reuse on a plot on the man-made island where the Macau border checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) is located, according to the proposed legal development conditions for the plot published by the Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU) yesterday.
According to Wikipedia, water reclamation, aka wastewater reuse or water recycling, is the process of converting municipal wastewater (sewage) into water that can be reused for a variety of purposes, such as the flushing of toilets, watering plants, road cleaning, car washing, and firefighting. Such water is also known as reclaimed water.
After the Lands and Urban Construction Bureau has drafted the legal development conditions for particular plots, for both public and private projects, they will then be uploaded to its website for residents to submit their opinions and suggestions. After collecting residents’ opinions and suggestions, the legal development conditions will then be discussed in a regular meeting of the Urban Planning Council (CPU) – a consultative body tasked with advising the government on its urban planning policies.
The proposed legal development conditions for the plot earmarked for the reclaimed-water plant project were uploaded to the bureau’s website yesterday for residents to submit opinions and suggestions by December 6. The plot covers 2,387 square metres.
The plot earmarked for the reclaimed-water plant project is located near a future wastewater treatment plant on the man-made island. The government now expects to launch a public tender for the wastewater treatment plant project by the end of this year.
The government will build the city’s first reclaimed-water plant on a plot located next to the Coloane Wastewater Treatment Plant near Concórdia Industrial Park, because of which the one to be constructed on the HZMB man-made island would be the second one.
This satellite image released by the Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU) yesterday shows the HZMB man-made island where a treatment plant for wastewater reuse would be constructed on a plot indicated by the red area.
