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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1983
WORK BEING DONE TO CLEAR KAI TAK SMELLS
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WORK WAS BEING CARRIED OUT IN STAGES TO COMBAT THE POLLUTED STATE OF KAI TAK NULLAH, WHICH IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF SMELLS IN THE AREA, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE HON HENRY CHING SAID TODAY.
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON T.S. LO, MR CHING EXPLAINED THAT THE FIRST PHASE OF WORK WAS BEGUN LAST YEAR TO PROVIDE FOR THE UP-RATING OF EXISTING PUMPING FACILITIES AND THE INSTALLATION OF NEW PUMPING STATIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO INTERCEPT THE POLLUTED DRY WEATHER FLOW IN THE UPPER STRETCHES OF KAI TAK NULLAH AND REDIRECT IT AWAY FROM THE NULLAH INTO THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
HE SAID THAT THE SECOND PHASE, WHICH IS BEING RECOMMENDED FOR UPGRADING TO CATEGORY A OF THE PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME AT THE FORTHCOMING ANNUAL REVIEW, PROVIDES FOR THE DREDGING OF THE ACCUMULATED SEDIMENT IN THE LOWER PART OF THE NULLAH AND IN THE CHANNEL RUNNING ALONGSIDE THE AIRPORT. IT ALSO PROVIDES FOR DIRECT OXYGEN INJECTION INTO THE WATER IN THE LOWER PART OF THE NULLAH TO ASSIST IN IMPROVING ITS QUALITY.
→BOTH THESE PHASES, AT A TOTAL ESTIMATED COST OF SOME $50 MILLION, ARE EXPECTED TO BE LARGELY COMPLETED BY MID-1985,+ HE SAID.
MR CHING FURTHER SAID THAT SHOULD A SIGNIFICANT POLLUTION PROBLEM REMAIN AFTER COMPLETION OF THE TWO PHASES, PROPOSALS WILL BE PUT FORWARD FOR A THIRD PHASE COMPRISING THE DREDGING OF THE TYPHOON SHELTER AT THE SEAWARD END OF THE NULLAH, AND THE MECHANICAL AERATION OF THE WATER IN THE WHOLE OF THE CHANNEL ADJACENT TO THE AIRPORT.
THE NEED FOR THIS PHASE WILL BE JUDGED IN THE LIGHT OF RESULTS OF THE FIRST TWO PHASES, HE CONCLUDED.
LIONS CLUBS THANKED FOR ANTI-DRUG EFFORT
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THE COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS, MR GORDON MORTIMER, PRAISED THE LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL, DISTRICT 303 MEMBERS LAST NIGHT (TUESDAY) FOR THEIR SPONSORSHIP AND PARTICIPATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST NARCOTICS.
SPEAKING AT A DINNER HELD BY THE CLUBS IN HONOUR OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT, DR JAMES FOWLER, MR MORTIMER POINTED OUT THAT DRUG ABUSE IS ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEMS FACING THE WORLD TODAY AND THAT THE INCREASING INVOLVEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN DRUGS WAS MOST DISTURBING.
+ IN THE FACE OF THESE DANGERS, THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS HAS DECLARED A WORLDWIDE LIONS WAR ON DRUGS,✦ HE SAID.
MR MORTIMER RECEIVED, ON BEHALF OF THE ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST NARCOTICS, A CHEQUE FOR $30 000 DONATED BY THE LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL, DISTRICT 303 TO HELP FINANCE THE ANTI-NARCOTICS YOUTH CAMP IN DECEMBER THIS YEAR, ORGANISED BY THE CIVIL AID SERVICES CADET CORPS.
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