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7.

Construction of land fill sites and the

demolition of incinerators

Question No

REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH & WELFARE

TO A QUESTION ASKED BY THE HON CHUNG PUI LAM

IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARÝ 1988

MR. CHUNG asked (in Cantonese) :

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Question: With reference to the reply by the Secretary for

Health and Welfare on the question of pollution caused by the Lai Chi Kok Incineration Plant on 6 November 1985, will Government inform this Council:

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(a) what progress has been made on the

construction of controlled tips in the New Territories to replace existing incinerators in the territory; and

(b) when the incinerators at Lai Chi Kok and Kennedy Town will be demolished and what improvements have been made to minimiše the pollution caused by these incinerators in the meantime?

SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE:

Sir,

The incineration plants at Lai Chi Kok and Kennedy Town

will be shut down as soon as new facilities are available

there. to dispose of waste which is now being burned Under the

government's waste disposal strategy, these new facilities

will be refuse transfer stations located in urban areas,

from which waste will be transported in bulk to three large

controlled-tips, or landfill sites in the New Territories.

Detailed design for the first of the landfills, located

l.c. at Nim Wan in the Western New Territories has just begun.

Site preparation will begin in early 1989, and the landfill should

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wil begin receiving waste in late 1990.

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