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Yuen Long Tai Tong "Super Shit Pit" 1.29 million public funds "shocking" only $2093 clean-up fee recovered

2021-11-05T04:18:58.914Z


In the middle of this year, the media revealed that a large piece of land in the Tai Lam Country Park in the back hill of the Yuen Long Tai Tong Organic Ecological Park was illegally felled, and a giant dung pond equivalent to a standard swimming pool was dug out. There was a suction truck.


In the middle of this year, the media revealed that a large piece of land in the Tai Lam Country Park in the back hill of the Yuen Long Tai Tong Organic Ecological Park was illegally felled, and a giant dung pond equivalent to a standard swimming pool was dug out. There was a suction truck. People were dumped on the scene to accumulate feces, and the stench was permeated.


In its latest response to the "Hong Kong 01" inquiry, the Environmental Protection Department pointed out that it had conducted investigations and collected evidence on the incident, and successfully prosecuted one of the persons involved, and imposed a fine of $3,000 and a clean-up fee of $2,093.


However, according to the information of the Lands Department and the Fisheries and Conservation Department, the two departments are "super dung pits" and the cleanup cost is about 90,000 yuan. The overall cost of backfilling materials and planting plants is about 1.2 million yuan, and the total cost is nearly 1.3 million yuan. "Carry shit" for offenders.

The authorities only recover 0.16% of the related expenses from the offenders, and most of the expenses have to be paid for by public money.


The site where the giant dung pond was discovered earlier is part of the land in Tai Lam Country Park and part of it is zoned as a recreation zone under the "Draft Tai Tong Outline Zoning Plan".

Two days after the incident was revealed, the government sent a fecal suction truck to the scene to deal with it.

At that time, relevant reports quoted the driver of the suction truck as saying that the incident was instructed by the manager of the Tai Tong Organic Ecological Park. In addition, each time the suction truck went to the "shit pit", it had to enter through the main entrance of the ecological park. The ecological park was from the New Territories. Lang Shiba Township squire, former chairman of Shiba Township Rural Committee Liang Mingjian, the son of Liang Fuyuan, and his wife Liang Lishi run.

When interviewed by "Hong Kong 01", Liang Fuyuan stated that according to his knowledge, the prosecuted in the case was a villager who "buy chicken manure water from the farm to "live" and ferment, and then grow vegetables." He emphasized the incident and The ecological park has nothing to do. "The road has always been convenient for the villagers, and the ambulances are all used."

EPD prosecutes one person and fines 3,000 yuan and charges 2,093 yuan for cleaning up

In response to the enquiry of "Hong Kong 01", the Environmental Protection Department stated that it had conducted investigations and collected evidence for the case of excrement dumping. In September this year, it successfully prosecuted one of the persons involved in the case under Article 16A of the Waste Disposal Ordinance. A fine of 3,000 yuan and a cleaning fee of 2,093 yuan were imposed.

In the past five years, the department has received seven complaints about illegal dumping of excrement, of which three were successfully prosecuted.

A piece of land in the Tai Lam Country Park at the back hill of the Tai Tong Organic Ecological Park in Yuen Long has been dug out of a giant dung pond equivalent to a standard swimming pool.

(Photo from the website of the Organic Ecological Park)

The aftermath cost of nearly 1.3 million yuan was recovered and the cleaning fee was only 0.16%

When the Lands Department responded to the "Hong Kong 01" enquiry, the Yuen Long Lands Office had negotiated with relevant departments to arrange for the contractor to complete the cleanup work in July and erect a warning sign on government land. The related cleanup cost was about 90,000 yuan.

The spokesman said that the department has stepped up inspections to prevent illegal occupation of government land. At the same time, it will continue to collect evidence. If there is sufficient evidence, prosecutions will be instituted against relevant parties.

The AFCD replied that it has formed an inter-departmental working group with relevant departments to follow up the incident, and it has also conducted investigations into possible violations involving the Country Parks and Special Areas Regulations (Chapter 208A), but there is insufficient Evidence takes further enforcement action.

The department has stepped up patrols in the area involved, and no other violations have been found so far.

The spokesman also said that it will be responsible for backfilling materials and planting plants to restore the environment. The work has been completed and the overall expenditure is about $1.2 million.

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