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Supplementary to Question No. 4

in LegCo Meeting on 8.4.87

Miss TAM : Sir, considering that the building and construction

industry is extremely active now and has always been important

to the Hong Kong economy, efficient

generated from the industry is vital to

disposal of material

its operation. And

number of lorries

also, at the moment there are a large

carrying such materials from building sites on Hong Kong Island

to remote areas in the New Territories thus creating traffic

congestion and environmental pollution. Can the Secretary for

Lands and Works say what justification is there now for the

Government not to have a formalised policy on this issue and

whether the Government will explore alternative methods of

dumping?

Secretary for Lands and Works

Government clearly needs, in

the present circumstances, to get its programmes up to date but

I may say that but for the problems of access to Telegraph Bay,

there would be no problem on Hong Kong Island. It so happens

that access to Telegraph Bay, which was the planned reclamation

and public dumping area for this particular period, became

impossible because of objections to the road passing by

residential flats. As а result, a kind of dumping scheme on

Western Reclamation a stockpiling scheme was instituted,

and only limited barging is possible in the

in the course of a day.

That is the cause for the present situation which has, I think,

brought this particular situation to attention.