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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1989

RECLAMATION PURPOSES AND

CONSIST

UNSUITABLE FOR LAND THE WASTES DUMPED ARF MATERIALS THAT ARE

AND MAINLY OF DREDGED

EXCAVATED CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES SUCH MARINE MUDS AND MATERIALS ARISING FROM AS PORT DEVELOPMENT. SEAWALL CONSTRUCTION OR BASEMENT EXCAVATIONS.

MATERIALS ARE

MARINE DUMPING

DIRECTED TO ONE OF THREE SOUTH OF CHEUNG DESIGNATED SPOIL GROUNDS AT EAST OF NINEPIN ISLANDS, CHAU OR MIRS BAY.

SAID

DEPARTMENT PROTECTION A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL

NEARLY 200 LICENCES, AND 10 THAT SO FAR THE DEPARTMENT HAD ISSUED APPLICATIONS HAD BEEN REJECTED ON ENVIRONMENTAL GROUNDS.

HIS LICENCE IS

A LICENSED CAN APPEAL TO THE APPEALS BOARD IF REFUSED. VARIED OR REVOKED. UNSUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS CAN ALSO APPEAL.

ANYONE WHO CARRIES OUT ILLEGAL MARINE PROSECUTION AND THE MAXIMUM FINE IS $5,000.

SINCE 1986.

THE EPI HAS

DUMPING IS LIABLE TO

INCIDENTS,

INVESTIGATED 50

ACTION HAS PROCEEDED IN 13 CASES AND THE PENALTY HAS, ON AVERAGE, $1.400.

LEGAL

BEEN

-

0

-

HYBRID SYSTEM EFFLUENT MEETS STANDARD

LIVESTOCK THE

* * * * *

WASTE TREATMENT

SYSTEM

IN A

PRIVATE

FARM IS PRODUCING

PARTICIPATING IN THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE HYBRID METHOD EFFLUENT WHICH COMPLIES WITH ANTI-POLLUTION STANDARDS.

ON

DEMONSTRATION

PROJECTS GROUP MEMBERS LEARNT OF HAD

SAMPLES TAKEN ON SHAN FOR ANALYSIS

DEPARTMENT

AT A MEETING OF THE STEERING GROUP ON PRIVATE FARMS THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON. THE THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TREATED EFFLUENT FROM THE PIG FARM IN MA CONFIRMED THAT THE EFFLUENT MFT THE REQUIRED STANDARD.

OVER THE HYBRID SYSTEM WAS HANDED

THE EFFLUENT

AND

TO THE PROVED

FARM THAT TREATMENT AREAS

OPERATOR

IN

IN TERMS

OF

METHOD WHICH

COMPLY TO

WITH

AUGUST AND THE ANALYSIS OF EFFECTIVENESS THE SYSTEM IS A FEASIBLE WASTE CAN ENABLE LIVESTOCK ANTI-POLLUTION REGULATIONS.

PARMERS

IN CONTROL.

A REPRESENTATIVE OF

THE ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION

DEPARTMENT

ANOTHER POULTRY

FARM

TOLD THE MEMBERS THAT THE EFFLUENT STANDARD OF FOR THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE HYBRID METHOD WAS ALSO SATISFACTORY.

THE MEETING ALSO DISCUSSED THE PROGRESS PRIVATE FARMS TAKING PART IN THE DEMONSTRATION METHOD AND THE HYBRID SYSTEM RESPECTIVELY.

TWO

PROBLEMS OF AND OF THE PIG-ON-LITTER

/THE STEERING