TNAG-1724-FCO40-2437-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 209

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A study of the outline design and environmental

impact of the second landfill site in the North-East

New Territories is almost complete. Preparatory works

should begin in early 1991, with disposal of waste at

the site beginning in late 1993.

The third landfill site will be located at Junk

Bay to the north-east of Fat Tong Chau (Junk Island).

Work is in progress on the preliminary engineering

design and landfilling is expected to commence in late

1994.

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The existing landfill sites at Shuen Wan, Pillar

Point Valley and Junk Bay will continue to be operated

until the three new facilities are commissioned.

It is intended that the Kennedy Town incinerator

should be closed down in 1992 when a refuse transfer

station is commissioned in the western part of Hong

Kong Island. In the meantime, electrostatic

precipitators have been installed at the plant.

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Electrostatic precipitators significantly reduce the

amount of dust emitted, but do not remove gaseous and

fine particulate pollution.

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