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TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1990

NEXT

NOTING THAT TSUEN WAN WOULD BE DECLARED A

MR

REMINDED YEAR,

YOUNG

THE PRE-TREATMENT FACILITIES IN GOOD TIME.

MORE SAID

OWNERS

WATER

TO

CONTROL ZONE INSTALL

WATER

IN OF TRADE EFFLUENTS PER THE ENVIRONMENT AS MOST OF

THE

DISTRICT

WERE

DAY,

THE

HE

THAN 300 FACTORIES DISCHARGING ABOUT 85,000 CUBIC METRES

ON RESULTING IN A SERIOUS IMPACT EFFLUENTS WERE UNTREATED, AND SOME WERE EVEN CORROSIVE OR HARMFUL.

ARRANGED

THE CETI WAS TODAY'S VISIT TO

BY THE TSUEN INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS MANAGEMENT CO-ORDINATION TEAM FOR MEMBERS OF DISTRICT BOARD AND ITS WORKING GROUP ON POLLUTION PROBLEMS.

WAN

THE

AND

BOARD THE DISTRICT LED BY MR YOUNG

CHAIRMAN, THE MANAGER OF THE HOW-CHEN, THE PARTY WAS BRIEFED BY

SHOWN WAS

AND VARIOUS COST-EFFECTIVE PETER LIU, AND WAYS TO CONTROL INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION.

MR CHAU MR CENTRE, SPACE-SAVING

THE

MEMBERS

LATER

ATTENDED SEMINARS

AND

WATCHED

VIDEO

PRESENTATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF WATER PRE-

ANTI-POLLUTION

то DESIGNED

MEET THE

TREATMENT EQUIPMENT SPECIALLY NEEDS OF LOCAL FACTORY OWNERS.

THEY

OF

OF COMMON

AND POLLUTANTS

THE

ALSO LOOKED AT DISPLAYS ON THE SOURCES

AND THEIR EFFECTS ON WORKERS INDUSTRIAL POLLUTANTS ENVIRONMENT, PRACTICAL METHODS TO REDUCE THE DISCHARGE AND METHODS OF RECYCLING AND RE-USING RAW MATERIALS.

SIMILAR

VISITS

BY

MR YOUNG SAID

HAD BEEN ARRANGED

THE LOCAL INDUSTRIALISTS IN BUILDINGS MANAGEMENT CO-ORDINATION TEAM FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND THE RESPONSE WAS QUITE ENCOURAGING. MORE VISITS HAD BEEN PLANNED FOR THE NEAR FUTURE, HE ADDED.

PROCESS "WE WOULD LIKE TO STIMULATE A MORE EFFECTIVE SELF-HELP

IS HOPED THAT WITH THE CONCERTED AMONG THE FACTORY OWNERS AND IT

BETWEEN

AND

AN OVERALL EFFORTS

THE GOVERNMENT

INDUSTRIALISTS, IMPROVEMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT CAN BE ACHIEVED,

**

HE NOTED.

DB TO DISCUSS UC WORKS PROGRAMME

* *

THE

KOWLOON FIVE-YEAR COUNCIL'S THURSDAY (JUNE 28).

BOARD DISTRICT CITY

WORKS PROGRAMME CAPITAL

WILL

AT

DISCUSS

ITS

THE

URBAN MEETING ON

MEMBERS WILL

ALSO

CONSIDER

SOCIAL WELFARE

PROGRAMME AND THE PROVISION OF A TYPHOON SHELTER AT TO KWA WAN.

THE

DISTRICT'S

/OTHER AGENDA