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Press
Releases - 2000
Public
is welcome to attend hearing on Strategic Sewage Disposal
Scheme
The public
is welcome to attend a public hearing on the review of the
Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme (SSDS) to be held on Sunday
(May 28), a spokesman for the Secretariat of the Review Panel
on SSDS said today (May 26).
As part
of the consultation process for the SSDS review, the public
hearing provides the public with a chance to present to the
review panel their alternatives to the SSDS.
The review
panel consists of six international and local experts in wastewater
treatment, tunnelling, marine ecology and financial analysis.
They
are Professor Qian Yi, Professor Donald Harleman, Professor
Rudolf Wu, Dr Albert Koenig, Professor Sebastiano Pelizza
and Professor Leonard Cheng.
"The
review panel is formed to examine, based on the experience
of SSDS Stage I works, the environmental, engineering feasibility
and financial aspects of the existing plans for later stages
of the SSDS.
"The
review panel will also examine alternative plans that may
be submitted by members of the public in order to make recommendations
on the most sustainable way forward on the sewage system serving
the main urban areas," the spokesman said.
The public
hearing will start at 9:30 am at Theatre I of the Hong Kong
Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai,
Hong Kong.
Members
of the public are also welcome to send written submissions
on alternative schemes to the Secretariat of the Review Panel
on SSDS on or before June 10 by post to GPO Box 899 or by
e-mail to ssds.review@ssds.gcn.gov.hk.
Information
about the review and the SSDS is available from the website
at http://www.info.gov.hk/ssds.review.
End/Friday,
May 26, 2000
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