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Refreshing appearance: There are a number of ways to beautify slopes and retaining walls, such as planting flowers and keeping existing trees. An artist's impression of the slope on Lyttelton Road, Mid-levels, after upgrading and greening work. (Sketch provided by Urbis Limited) |
Enhancing slope appearance has become a priority for the Civil Engineering Department. Committed to landscaping every government slope, it plans to spend $60 million this year in slope beautification.
Since the early 1980s, the department has been trying to grow vegetation on slopes. From 1999 onwards, it has taken landscape treatment and bio-engineering into consideration at the initial stage of its slope upgrading works.
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