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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1988
WAN CHAI DB MEMBERS VISIT EPD
* * *
HOW
THE
LEARNT MORE ABOUT POLLUTION WAN CHAI DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS
THEY WERE
BY TACKLED HONG
BEING KONG AND PROBLEMS IN
PROTECTION DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT DURING A VISIT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL TODAY (TUESDAY).
ACCOMPANIED BY DISTRICT OFFICER, MR ALLAN CHOW,
WERE MET ON ARRIVAL
DR
WHO
BY THE
OUTLINED
OF DIRECTOR
TO THEM
ENVIRONMENTAL
BOARD MEMBERS PROTECTION,
THE
RESPONSIBILITIES
AND
STUART REED, ORGANISATION OF THE DEPARTMENT.
THEY WERE SHOWN A THE PARTY VISITED AN AIR LABORATORY WHERE
FIELD TELEMETRY SYSTEM WHICH RELAYED AIR QUALITY MEASUREMENTS MADE AT
IN CONTROL CENTRE
THE DEPARTMENT VIA STATIONS TO A COMPUTERISED TELEPHONE LINES.
WASTE CONTROL GROUP ON WATER THEY WERE THEN BRIEFED BY THE POLLUTION CAUSED BY INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL DISCHARGES.
DISCUSSION
BEFORE CONCLUDING THEIR VISIT, BOARD MEMBERS HELD A WITH OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT ON THE POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN WAN CHAI.
ILLEGAL STRUCTURES CLEARED IN TO KWA WAN
THE STRUCTURES BOUNDED BY MOK CHEONG SHEUNG HEUNG ROAD AND
AND CANOPIES
AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT CLEARANCE
(TUESDAY)
WAS CARRIED ILLEGAL
OPERATION TO REMOVE 37 MORNING KWA WAN THIS OUT IN TO STRUCTURES AND NINE OVERSIZED CANOPIES IN THE REAR LANES.
WERE FOUND IN FOUR REAR STREET, PAU CHUNG STREET. PAK ΤΑΙ KOWLOON CITY ROAD.
LANES STREET,
OF THE
CLEARED
COMMERCIAL AND 13 FOR DESERTED.
STRUCTURES, STORAGE
10 WERE PURPOSES. THE
FOR
DOMESTIC,
11
THREE REMAINING
FOR WERE
SEVEN FAMILIES
COMPRISING
16 PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED
IN
THE
OPERATION.
TODAY'S OPERATION
WAS
CO-ORDINATED
DISTRICT OFFICE AND JOINTLY CARRIED OUT BY DEPARTMENT, HOUSING DEPARTMENT,
BY THE BUILDINGS AND LANDS URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND THE
THE
KOWLOON
CITY
POLICE.
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