The Megapolis, Port City and the project contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) have begun inspections of the quarries that will be supplying material for the Port City project.
Only licensed quarries can be used for the supply and the inspection tours are to ensure that all the conditions stipulated in the environment approvals are properly met. Nihal Fernando, Deputy Director General of the UDA and Director of the Port City Development Project, led the first of the visits.
The team included representatives from the Ministry of Megapolis, UDA, CHEC Port City Colombo (Private) Limited (the Project Company) and CHEC.
The visit was made to licensed quarries located in Meegoda and Korathota.
Of the total 250 quarries located in the districts of Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara, only 11 quarries will be used for the supply of quarry material for the Port City Project.
The traffic related impact in transporting quarry material to the construction site was also analyzed, and transport hours have been divided into two sessions that avoid peak hours of the day, the Port City said in a press release
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