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Coffee Shop Talk - Thank you for trying, NEA </TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right>
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I WOULD like to extend my sincere thanks to the extremely courteous National Environment Agency (NEA) officers who attended to my recent complaints regarding construction noise and debris from the Holland Hill condominium construction.
My phone call was responded to swiftly, details taken down and calls returned not just once but twice in a week as the NEA investigated the problem. I believe its investigator visited the construction site to see for himself the noise and dirt it kicks up.
Thank you for the courteous phone calls and obvious desire to help - they are much appreciated.
Following such an excellent response, it is sad to see the contractor's flagrant disregard of a government agency's directive. Having lived through three to four months of demolition noise and dust, we are now subjected to construction drilling and piling with not as much as a gauze screen to keep the dust, not to mention noise, away.
I understand from the NEA that it asked the contractor to erect a safety and noise-reducing barrier along the row of residential properties adjoining the construction site. Not only has the contractor not done so, but it has also removed what little protection there was in the form of a flimsy blue cover (less than 2m high, I would say) and a bamboo grove.
The NEA is tasked with protecting the environment and is called on frequently to deal with all sorts of man-made pollution. I understand it cannot be everywhere at once. So contractors routinely make people's lives miserable by not securing worksites properly and pushing decibel levels to the downright painful, seemingly in blissful ignorance of the misery they cause.
Of course, most construction workers have hearing protection (or should have), so it's the people living in the neighbourhood who bear the brunt of the pollution.
Thanks again, NEA, for trying to sort this out. I am sorry your efforts did not pay off.
Odd Haavik
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I WOULD like to extend my sincere thanks to the extremely courteous National Environment Agency (NEA) officers who attended to my recent complaints regarding construction noise and debris from the Holland Hill condominium construction.
My phone call was responded to swiftly, details taken down and calls returned not just once but twice in a week as the NEA investigated the problem. I believe its investigator visited the construction site to see for himself the noise and dirt it kicks up.
Thank you for the courteous phone calls and obvious desire to help - they are much appreciated.
Following such an excellent response, it is sad to see the contractor's flagrant disregard of a government agency's directive. Having lived through three to four months of demolition noise and dust, we are now subjected to construction drilling and piling with not as much as a gauze screen to keep the dust, not to mention noise, away.
I understand from the NEA that it asked the contractor to erect a safety and noise-reducing barrier along the row of residential properties adjoining the construction site. Not only has the contractor not done so, but it has also removed what little protection there was in the form of a flimsy blue cover (less than 2m high, I would say) and a bamboo grove.
The NEA is tasked with protecting the environment and is called on frequently to deal with all sorts of man-made pollution. I understand it cannot be everywhere at once. So contractors routinely make people's lives miserable by not securing worksites properly and pushing decibel levels to the downright painful, seemingly in blissful ignorance of the misery they cause.
Of course, most construction workers have hearing protection (or should have), so it's the people living in the neighbourhood who bear the brunt of the pollution.
Thanks again, NEA, for trying to sort this out. I am sorry your efforts did not pay off.
Odd Haavik
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