St. George's residents need to hold a general meeting to discuss the impending implosion of Club Med, according to one of the town's concerned citizens.

Steve Hollis, who lives and works in St. George's, said he was concerned that questions had not been adequately answered at a public information session.

The meeting was held with the Minister of Works and Engineering, Derrick Burgess, and representatives from implosion experts D.H. Griffin, of North Carolina.

Mr. Hollis said he felt happy with the information from D.H. Griffin about the actual implosion, but that more questions were raised about what will happen afterwards.

He said: "I think the concerns about it (the implosion) were alleviated by the guys who are doing the implosion, but when it came on to the debris there was more concern.

"That's the Minister of Works and Engineering, but it (the meeting) didn't seem to be set up to discuss that. I was disappointed.

"The Corporation of St. George's should call a meeting for the issues or maybe an independent meeting because we should have a say in what's going on."

The Club Med site has been derelict for more than 20 years and on Friday, August 25 this year in a matter of seconds, the building will no longer exist.

To ensure families living in the area are safe during the implosion a 1,000-feet cordon will be set up around Club Med, and they will be housed in a safe point at St. George's Golf Clubhouse.

Before the building can be destroyed, however, the asbestos in the former hotel, will have to be removed and according to Mr. Hollis at the meeting David Kendall and environmental health officer allayed fears of this process.

According to another meeting attendee, the asbestos abatement will be completed in three to four weeks with inspectors regularly checking on the process.

But what raised the most concern at the meeting according to Ms. Hollis is the transportation and storage of the rubble that the implosion will create.

Minister Burgess has said the clean-up of debris will take about 48 days and in the meeting it was revealed that the debris will be trucked to the Airport for disposal.

Mr. Hollis said, the trucking of all of this rubble through the Town of St. George's which is a World Heritage site raised serious concerns at the meeting.

"It's all going to be trucked to the airport, but that raises questions of the swing bridge which has a ten tonne limit," he added.

"The removal of the debris with the amount of trucking that has to go through the town will be too much.

"Most of the town's buildings don't have foundations. The potential damage could be devastating. To wreck a World Heritage site, for what?"

One possibility that was raised at the meeting was a barge that could move the rubble, but according to another person at the meeting this would not work because of manoeuvring through the area.