{"id":52998,"date":"2016-03-16T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52998"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:01:22","slug":"importtant-necesscityy-before-port-city-is-re-kick-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/16\/importtant-necesscityy-before-port-city-is-re-kick-started\/","title":{"rendered":"IM(PORT)TANT\u00a0 NECESS(CITY)Y BEFORE PORT CITY IS RE-KICK STARTED \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath obeyskera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As an ardent supporter of Port City ,I suggest that following aspects should be looked at and action initiated from now ,much in advance\u00a0 to make it a successful venture \u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we treat \/dispose garbage of about 5000 tons per day ( expected ) from Port City and where ?-We do not have a plan to get rid of even existing 1500 ton garbage from Colombo as yet\u00a0 ?<\/li>\n<li>We need about 500 MW power for \u00a0Port City .Where do we get it ,from ailing Norrocholai and much talked about Sampur Coal Power Plant ?<\/li>\n<li>We may need LNG run generation plant in the Port City itself?<\/li>\n<li>How do we plan to make facilities to commute over 1 million workers to build it and later for operations? Buses \/Trams \/monorail \/bikes \/trains?? ( or horse back\/bullock cart \u00a0!)<\/li>\n<li>Extension of Airport Highway to port to facilitate transport ?<\/li>\n<li>Fuel storage tanks in the City and have arrangement to pump vis SPM (single point mooring buoy installed \u00a0or for \u00a0transporting from Kollonnawa or MurhurajAwela ??<\/li>\n<li>Planning to ban Three\u00a0Wheeler\u00a0not only entering Port City but a boundary around port city ?<\/li>\n<li>1 million tons of water required for construction and operation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>May be to install RO desalination plant dedicated for the Port City ?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sewerage treatment 500 ,000 cu m disposal to the sea perhaps far away for fish to consume ?( I may have to be vegetarian)<\/li>\n<li>SLT telephone services to be expanded and improve broadband services ??<\/li>\n<li>500,000 Work force to build ( are we allowing Indians or Chinese ?) as all our young work force is driving one million three wheelers ?<\/li>\n<li>Bricks, sand, earth and metal to be imported? (as we have Environmental Restrictions to transport )\u00a0or use sea sand ?<\/li>\n<li>Steps taken to provide work to local construction companies who are now idling?<\/li>\n<li>Do we have enough cattle ,goats and swine for the consumption by work force of Chinese when they build ? ( no problem if it is Indian as they are vegetarians and Dahl consumers ) If not ,we have a have to start \u00a0cattle farms ,piggeries ( not in Muslim areas) \u00a0,goat farms in the East and they should commence breeding from now ????????????<\/li>\n<li>Finally we may require lot of coconuts for opposition to smash in Seenigama against Port City and foreign invasion ??<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Sarath obeyskera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath obeyskera As an ardent supporter of Port City ,I suggest that following aspects should be looked at and action initiated from now ,much in advance\u00a0 to make it a successful venture \u2026\u2026 How do we treat \/dispose garbage of about 5000 tons per day ( expected ) from Port City and where ?-We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}