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Environment Ministry decides EIA required for Athireege Project
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Work On Male' Hotel Postponed After Residents Complain
By Susannah Peter in Male'
| DATE: 2007-10-06 |
MALE, October 6, 2007 (Haveeru News Service) -- An Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report is required before construction of the 15-storey Holiday Inn hotel in a section of H. Athireege can proceed, the Environment Ministry has decided and notified the Male’ Municipality.
The Ministry’s Assistant Director General Ahmed Saleem said on Thursday that they had notified the Municipality on Wednesday that an EIA for the whole project was required.
Akram Kamaluddin, the Director of Male’ Municipality, also confirmed it and said that they were currently discussing how best to do the report with the Municipality’s consultant, the Public Works Ministry.
The notice to file an EIA report came after the Municipality had given the go ahead for the project and several piles required for the deep foundation work had been driven into the ground. However the pile driving work was temporarily halted on the Municipality’s orders after several buildings in the vicinity complained of tremors being experienced due to the pile driving.
A man named Ahmed Rasheed, living in a three-storey building called Athiree Villa located inside the grounds of Athireege, said on Thursday that due to the pile driving work being done on the foundation of Athireege, the walls of his house had developed cracks and some of the tiles inside the toilets had shattered.
“When the pile driving begins it feels like we are in the middle of an earthquake,” he said, describing what it feels like when the huge machines drive the piled 80 to 100 feet into the ground.
He said that 19 of the 200 piles required for the deep foundation had now been driven into the ground.
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