Kai Tak River’s HK$2.8 billion makeover ready before rainy season in Hong Kong
The channel – previously known as the notoriously smelly Kai Tak nullah – will have a deepened riverbed and improved drainage capacity when completed next month
Long-awaited revitalisation works on Hong Kong’s Kai Tak River will be completed next month before the rainy season, giving the once putrid drainage channel a new lease of life as an “urban green river corridor” complete with aquatic and plant life.
A 1.1km (0.7-mile) stretch of nullah in the Wong Tai Sin section has been fitted with boulders along its banks, new colourful draping plants such as the great bougainvillea, rock planters – some covering flow detectors – and submerged mangrove plants. Rivers walls have also been strengthened.
Tong said the new environment would attract wildlife such as the little egret.
However, residents will not be able to enjoy a stroll by the river as floodwater can reach a height of one metre in less than eight minutes.