BUILDING contractors have transformed the village of Luk Tei Tong into a disaster area.
Everywhere about my residence, apartment buildings are being hastily constructed.
Slabs of concrete are being laid in muddy marshland, and everywhere ugly, three-storey apartment buildings with little or no reinforcement are being thrown together haphazardly.
This once-lovely peaceful farming village on Lantau Island near Mui Who has been transformed into a bedlam of ear-shattering noise and pungent pollution. Daily, huge piles of toxic waste are burned, and thick black clouds of smoke fill my apartment, staining my clothing and harming my health.
Where are Hong Kong's building inspectors and its environmentalists? What will become of the marsh land and its wildlife sanctuary? Where will the beautiful egrets find shelter? Just how long can such erratic construction continue? SHERIDAN L. PETERSON Lautau
