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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1987

TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE METS

(TUESDAY)

THE TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE WILL MEET TOMORROW TO DISCUSS THE EXTENSION OF THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS COMPANY'S (KMB) FRANCHISE.

COMMISSIONER

THE COMMITTEE WILL ALSO CONSIDER A REPORT BY THE FOR TRANSPORT, MR JAMES 80, ON HIS MEETING WITH THE PUBLIC LIGHT

AND BUS, GREEN MINIBUS

PUBLIC OMNIBUS ASSOCIATIONS ON AUGUST 21 CONCERNING THE INTRODUCTION OF 24-SEATER BUSES BY KMB ON TWO OF ITS ROUTES.

ALSO ON THE AGENDA 19 AN APPLICATION FOR FARE LANTAU TAXI OPERATORS.

INCREASE BY

ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS SEE WONG CHUK HANG NULLAH

SOUTHERN DISTRICT NULLAH TODAY (MONDAY) TO LEARN

MEMBERS OF THE ENVIRONMENT COMMITTER OF THE BOARD INSPECTED THE WONG CHUK HANG ABOUT SOURCES OF POLLUTION TO THE NULLAH.

LED

AND

YUET-HAR, MAR

LORD, AND SENIOR (EPD), COMMITTEE NULLAH IN WONG CHUK

MISS THE BY

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, ACCOMPANIED BY SOUTHERN DISTRICT OFFICER, MR SIMON OFFICERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT MEMBERS FIRST WENT TO INSPECT A STRETCH OF THE HANG INDUSTRIAL AREA.

THEY WERE TOLD

ENVIRONMENTAL BY THE ACTING PRINCIPAL

NUMBER OF FACTORIES IN PROTECTION OFFICER, DR MICHAEL CHIU, THAT A THE AREA WERE DISCHARGING INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT INTO STORM WATER DRAINS, WHICH EVENTUALLY FOUND THEIR WAY TO THE NULLAH.

DR

BRIEFED

THEM

A

OF ON THE PROGRESS ALSO

SURVEY CHIU

THE EFFLUENT, WHICH UNDERTAKEN BY THE EPD TO IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF GAVE RISE TO POLLUTION OF THE NULLAH.

TEST WHICH WAS USED TO

MEMBERS WERE ALSO SHOWN A DYE TRACE DETECT THE ORIGIN OF EFFLUENTS FROM FACTORIES.

IN WONG CHUK HANG

THE PARTY THEN WENT TO A SQUATTER VILLAGE WHERE THEY INSPECTED POLLUTION IN THE UPPER STREAM OF THE NULLAH.

A REPORT ON THE

POLLUTION

PROBLEM IN

THE NULLAH WOULD BR OF THIS YEAR

SUBMITTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE TOWARDS THE END

AFTER THE CURRENT SURVEY WAS COMPLETED.

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