Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) officials yesterday underlined that the government has been carrying out routine and special inspections and maintenance of the city’s hillsides in response to the ongoing wet and typhoon seasons with the aim of ensuring slope safety.
The officials made the remarks during a meeting with members of the Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council.
Briefing reporters after yesterday’s closed-door meeting, Choi Seng Hon, a deputy convenor of the government-appointed council, noted that the government has divided the city’s 279 slopes into three categories in terms of their safety risk, namely low, medium and high risk.
Choi quoted the official as saying that only one of the 279 slopes is currently classified as posing a high safety risk, on a hillside in Taipa, while others have been classified as low or medium risk.
Choi said that the high-risk slope is located on Estrada Lou Lim Ieok, a road on Small Taipa Hill.
The 279 slopes comprise those on government plots and those on privately-owned plots.
According to Choi, the government’s inspections and maintenance of the city’s slopes is jointly carried out by the Public Works Bureau (DSOP), Lands and Urban Construction Bureau (DSSCU), and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM), in collaboration with the Civil Engineering Laboratory of Macau (LECM).
Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council Deputy Convener Choi Seng Hon (left) and member Leong Chi Hang pose during yesterday’s press briefing after the government-appointed council’s closed-door meeting on the sixth floor of the Seac Pai Van Community Complex, located in the sprawling public housing community in Coloane. – Photo: Tony Wong
