Supplementary to Question No. 4
in LegCo Meeting on 8.4.87
Miss TAM : Sir, considering that the building and construction
industry is extremely active now and has always been important
to the Hong Kong economy, efficient
generated from the industry is vital to
disposal of material
its operation. And
number of lorries
also, at the moment there are a large
carrying such materials from building sites on Hong Kong Island
to remote areas in the New Territories thus creating traffic
congestion and environmental pollution. Can the Secretary for
Lands and Works say what justification is there now for the
Government not to have a formalised policy on this issue and
whether the Government will explore alternative methods of
dumping?
Secretary for Lands and Works
Government clearly needs, in
the present circumstances, to get its programmes up to date but
I may say that but for the problems of access to Telegraph Bay,
there would be no problem on Hong Kong Island. It so happens
that access to Telegraph Bay, which was the planned reclamation
and public dumping area for this particular period, became
impossible because of objections to the road passing by
residential flats. As а result, a kind of dumping scheme on
Western Reclamation a stockpiling scheme was instituted,
and only limited barging is possible in the
in the course of a day.
That is the cause for the present situation which has, I think,
brought this particular situation to attention.