XN000022-1987-10-14 — Page 6

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1987

EXPLANATION AS TO HE SAID WHEN THE GROUP ASKED FOR A WRITTEN

ΤΟ SET

CONTROL NECESSARY

A

HIGH EFFLUENT RELATIVELY WHY IT WAS

WAS ESTIMATED THAT 70 STANDARD OF BOD 55 MG/L : SS MG/L AND HOW IT PER CENT OF THE FARMERS IN THE TERRITORY WOULD USE WASTE TREATMENT METHOD, WHICH WAS MUCH CHEAPER THAN THE METHOD, THE RESPONSE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WAS VERY SLOW.

THE DRY MUCK-OUT WET MUCK-OUT

SHOULD

"ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT SUCH KIND OF BASIC GROUND WORK

THE PRESENTING

PROPOSED CONTROL COMPLETED HAVE BEEN

LONG BEFORE

" MR CHEUNG SAID. SCHEME TO THE EXECUTIVE AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS,

AT MEETINGS,

"BUT THE FACT IS, DESPITE REPEATED REQUESTS MADE THE ADMINISTRATION DID NOT PROVIDE THE AD HOC GROUP WITH THE PAPERS UNTIL LATE AUGUST.

AD THE

HOC GROUP IS "AFTER STUDYING THE PAPERS, TOTALLY CONVINCED THAT SUCH A STRINGENT EFFLUENT CONTROL NECESSARY.

TH

RELEVANT

STILL STANDARD IS

NOT

HAD URGED AS FOR THE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT, HE SAID THE GROUP

DISCUSS THE CONSULTATIVE THE ADMINISTRATION AS EARLY AS IN APRIL TO

BY ANIMAL WASTE, ΤΟ CAUSED

SET UP PAPER TO CONTROL POLLUTION

COULD BE SHOWN DEMONSTRATION FARMS URGENTLY SO THAT THE FARMERS SOON AS POSSIBLE HOW THEY COULD COMPLY WITH THE CONTROL STANDARD.

AS

NOT BEEN FOLLOWED "IT IS REGRETTABLE THAT QUR ADVICE HAD

WAS NOT UNTIL AUGUST THAT

ON THE AND IT

WORK EXPEDITIOUSLY

COMMENCED. THIS

IN THE RESULTS PROJECT WAS DEMONSTRATION

THE THREE PROJECTS EMBARRASSSING SITUATION THAT UNTIL TODAY, TWO OF ARE NOT YET FULLY OPERATIONAL."

UP

COMMENTING ON THE PUBLIC

ASPECT RELATIONS

OF THE BILL, MR BEEN CHEUNG SAID DESPITE THE FACT THAT A CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION HAD

AND THE

IT FARMERS,

WAS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE ADMINISTRATION

THAT THE COMMUNICATION OBVIOUS, AT LEAST IN THE EYES OF THE PUBLIC, WAS NOT VERY EFFECTIVE.

HE SAID THE

FARMERS

HAD

BEEN

THE TO ALL

OBJECTING ALONG

WHETHER THEY DOUBTED

SUCH A HIGH CONTROL STANDARD OF 50:50. FIRST,

IT WAS FEASIBLE; STANDARD WAS NECESSARY; SECOND, THEY DID NOT THINK AND THIRD, THEY BELIEVED IT WOULD BE VERY COSTLY.

HAS TAKEN MUCH тоо LONG TO "I MUST SAY THE ADMINISTRATION

DATE THE PROVIDE SATISFACTORY EXPLANATIONS TO THE FARMERS BECAUSE TO RESULT OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT IS STILL ONLY A POSSIBILITY.

FARMERS "THE FLOW OF INFORMATION FROM THE ADMINSTRATION TO THE

TAKEN A LONG TIME FOR THE IS ALSO VERY SLOW. FOR EXAMPLE, IT HAS

MADE CHINESE TRANSLATION OF THE CODE OF PRACTICE AND THE MANUAL TO BE AVAILABLE.'

"

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