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Press
Releases - 2000
Public
hearing on Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme held to collect
views
A public
hearing on the review of the Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme
(SSDS) has been held today (May 28) to provide an opportunity
for the public to present to the International Review Panel
on the SSDS their views on and alternatives to the scheme.
Chaired
by Professor Lam Kin-che of the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, the hearing formed part of a consultation process for
the SSDS review.
Different
parties including green groups, academics, professional bodies
and commercial organisations have taken part in the presentations,
a spokesman for the Secretariat of the Review Panel on SSDS
said.
To ensure
transparency of the process, all oral presentations, views
and comments made at the public hearing have been recorded
and the verbatim will be made public at the SSDS review website
at http://www.info.gov.hk/ssds.review.
The spokesman
said: "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 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.
Members
of the public are 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.
"All
verbal and written submissions will be examined by the review
panel and findings of the examination will be released by
the end of this year.
"The
administration will consider the recommendations of the review
and announce the way forward in the first quarter of 2001,"
the spokesman noted.
End/Sunday,
May 28, 2000
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