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Monday, November 19, 1973
Officers from the Public Works Department, Urban Services
Department and various District Offices of the New Territories Administration
briefed the members of the party in different spots during the five-hour
tour.
N.T.A.,
Mr. I.F.C. Macpherson, Deputy District Commissioner, Mr. R. Oblitas
Deputy Director of the Urban Services Department, Mr. J.M Riddell-Swan, +
Deputy Director of Agriculture and Fisheries Department, Dr. S.H. Lee,
Deputy Director of Medical and Health Services, and Mr. H.D. Stead, Director
of Engineering Development also joined the visit.
At Gin Drinkers Bay Reclamation in Kwai Chung
formerly a
refuse dump they saw the progress work on the controlled tip where
operation had started and where work is carried out round the clook seven
days a week.
This controlled tip will take about two more years to form a
total of 47 acres of new land as its intake capacity is well over two
million tons of refuse other than covering material.
The members also gained information on the problem at the proposed
sites for controlled tipping at Crown Ridge and Chau Tau where objections
have been launched by villagers over sanitary conditions.
They also inspected controlled tipping sites at Shuen Wan off Ting
Kok Road, Taipo and Ngau Tan Mei in Yuen Long. Both sites were previously
used as refuse dumps but have been converted into controlled tips to provide
better environmental conditions.
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Suming up the visiting party's impression, Mr. H.M.G. Forsgate,
Chairman of the EPCOM, said he was greatly impressed by the great improvement
of environmental conditions in various controlled refuse tips since the
committee was formed two years ago.
Note to Editors: Copies of a photograph of the visit are boxed for
collection.
Release time: 7.30 p.m.