Kai Tak Nullah

History

Originally, the location of Kai Tak Nullah was a bay. During Japanese occupation, Kai Tak Airport was expanded through land reclamation. The extension of Fung Wong Kai Stream was named Lung Tsun River (龍津河). Lung Tsun River's original estuary is at the north of To Kwa Wan Road.

During New Territories' new town development in the 1970s, the river become a nullah for Tai Po Sewage Treatment Works, Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works and illegal discharge pollutants. This resulted in pollutants and heavy pollutants being in the water, which resulted in the waterway giving off a putrid smell. After treatment work by the Drainage Services Department in 2000, Kai Tak Nullah has seen significant improvement. Herons are occasionally now seen along the nullah.

File:Kowloon-Walled-City-1898.jpg|Kai Tak Nullah was a bay, close to Lung Tsun Stone Bridge (1915) File:Victoria City and Kowloon 1915.jpg|Map of Kowloon in 1915. The Kai Tak Nullah is next to Kowloon Walled City (or Chinese Town in this map) and Lung Tsun Stone Bridge. File:Dhch_1960.png|Kai Tak Nullah in 1960 File:Kai Tak Nullah Flowing into Kai Tak Airport.JPG|Water flow from Nullah to Kai Tak Airport in 2007 File:Fungwongkai 01.JPG|Meeting point of Fung Wong Kai Stream and Kai Tak Nullah (2008)

Proposal of covering nullahs

In January 2005, the Drainage Services Department announced plans for nullah-covering works for 16 nullahs, at the cost of 1.2 billion Hong Kong dollars. These included a plan to cover up part of the Kai Tak Nullah along Choi Hung Road, starting in 2010 and finishing by 2014. The Traffic and Transport Committee of Wong Tai Sin District Council demanded a faster timetable, in order to launch the greening work and widen Choi Hung Road.

As the water quality improved, at the urging of the pro-Beijing political party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress, the Federation of Trade Unions, and environment concern group Conservancy Association, the Civil Engineering and Development Department launched a feasibility study on turning the nullah into Kai Tak River. They aim to turn it into a new river like the Cheonggyecheon in South Korea.

References

References

1. "Kai Tak River".
2. "Public Engagement for Building our KaiTak River-Vision".
3. [http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070817/12/2dv3h.html 啟德明渠恐難成「河」 水量水質成隱憂] {{webarchive. link. (2012-07-12 《明報》，2007年8月17日)
4. Conservancy Association and [[LegCo. Legislative Council]]lor [[Chan Yuen-han]] proposed to government an "Urban Eco-river" in San Po Kong,gave the nullahs a new name as Kai Tak River. Details refers to [http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/kaitakriver/ 啟德河網誌] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-05-05)
5. 啟德明渠有望變清溪生態園 600米河道 料免全面覆蓋。參見 [http://hk.news.yahoo.com/080215/12/2oxz5.html啟德明渠有望變清溪生態園 600米河道 料免全面覆蓋] {{webarchive. link. (2012-07-09 《明報》，2008年2月16日)