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HOWEVER HE ADDED THAT THIS WOULD REFLECT A PATTERN WHICH HAD BEEN COMMON OVER THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, WHERE THE TSP RATE HAD BEEN STEADILY CLOSE TO, OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE, THE AQO.
MR BARNES SAID THIS WAS A PROBLEM WHICH WAS COMMON THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPED AREAS OF HONG KONG.
"KWAI CHUNG IS NOT DISSIMILAR IN ITS POLLUTION CHARACTERISTICS FROM OTHER DEVELOPED AREAS SUCH AS KWUN TONG, SHAM SHUI PO OR CHEUNG SHA WAN.
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"THE POSITION WITH REGARD TO NO2 AND TSP IN KWAI CHUNG IS NOT CONSIDERED TO BE ANY MORE OR ANY LESS A MATTER FOR CONCERN THAN THE CLOSELY SIMILAR POSITION IN OTHER MAJOR INDUSTRIALISED AREAS OF HONG KONG," HE SAID.
MR BARNES POINTED OUT THAT THE PREDOMINANT SOURCE OF NO2 WAS THE COMBUSTION OF FUEL-OILS IN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND ALL TYPES OF MOTOR VEHICLES WHILE TSP WERE PREDOMINANTLY EMITTED FROM DIESEL VEHICLES, CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES ESPECIALLY THOSE INVOLVING TEXTILES.
"KWAI CHUNG IS A DISTRICT WHICH HAS A VERY HIGH CONCENTRATION OF TSP-PRODUCING POLLUTERS
A HEAVY CONCENTRATION OF TEXTILE FACTORIES, THE HEAVIEST CONCENTRATION OF CONTAINER TRUCKS WITHIN HONG KONG, AND A GREAT DEAL OF CONSTRUCTION, PARTICULARLY, IN RECENT YEARS, EARTHWORKS, CUTTING, AND RECLAMATION.
"AS A MAJOR INDUSTRIAL AREA, IT ALSO HAS A HIGH
OF INDUSTRIAL FUEL-OIL PLANT," HE SAID.
CONCENTRATION
MR BARNES SAID THE BASIC POLICY ON CONTROL OF THESE AIR POLLUTANTS WAS SET OUT IN THE GOVERNMENT'S WHITE POLLUTION IN HONG KONG, ISSUED IN JUNE 1989 AND REVIEWED IN YEAR.
"THIS LISTS OUT THE AQO'S WHICH REPRESENT WHAT THE CONSIDERS TO BE THE MINIMUM LEVEL OF ACCEPTABLE AIR QUALITY.
AND OTHER PAPER ON MAY THIS
GOVERNMENT
OF THE
"BASIC POLICY ON AIR POLLUTION IS TO BRING THE QUALITY AIR WITHIN THESE PARAMETERS: WHERE THE AIR IS WITHIN THEM, IT IS, BY DEFINITION, ACCEPTABLE," HE SAID.
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MR BARNES SAID MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO LOWER THE DENSITY OF THESE POLLUTANTS INCLUDED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL (FUEL RESTRICTIONS) REGULATIONS, THE SMOKY VEHICLE CONTROL PROGRAMME, AND THE NEW AIR POLLUTION CONTROL (VEHICLE DESIGN STANDARDS) (EMISSION) REGULATIONS TO BE EFFECTIVE FROM JANUARY 1 NEXT YEAR.
/HE SAID