Agreement No. CE 109/98

Deep Bay Link

Investigation and Preliminary Design

Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Manual

CONTENTS

1 	INTRODUCTION
1.1	Purpose of the Manual
1.2	Background of the Project
1.3	Environmental Monitoring and Audit Requirements
1.4	Project Organization
1.5	Construction Programme

2 	AIR QUALITY
2.1	Introduction
2.2	Air Quality Parameters
2.3	Monitoring Equipment
2.4	Laboratory Measurement / Analysis
2.5	Monitoring Locations
2.6	Baseline Monitoring
2.7	Impact Monitoring
2.8	Event and Action Plan for Air Quality
2.9	Dust Mitigation Measures

3 	NOISE
3.1	Introduction
3.2 	Construction Noise Monitoring
3.3	Construction Noise Mitigation Measures
3.4 	Operational Noise Monitoring
3.5 	Operational Noise Mitigation Measures

5 	WASTE MANAGEMENT
5.1	Contractor's Responsibilites
5.2	Measures To Be Taken In The Construction Stage To Reduce The Generation Of C&DM
5.3	Measures To Be Taken In The Construction Stage For C&DM Disposal
5.4	Other Measures

6 	LAND CONTAMINATION
6.1	Introduction
6.2 	Review Potential Contaminated Sites Identified in the EIA
6.3	Preparation of the Contamination Assessment Plan
6.4 	Programme for Land Contamination Investigation
6.5 	Mitigation Measures during Construction Phase

7 	ECOLOGY
7.1	Introduction
7.2	Ecological Monitoring

7.3	Trigger and Action Levels

8 	CULTURAL HERITAGE
8.1	Mitigation Measures

9 	LANDSCAPE WORKS
9.1	General
9.2	Mitigation Measures

10 	SITE ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT
10.1	Site Surveillance
10.2	Compliance with Legal and Contractual Requirements
10.3	Choice of Construction Method
10.4 	Variation of Works
10.5 	Environmental Complaints
10.6	Documentation

11 	REPORTING
11.1	General
11.2	Baseline Monitoring Report
11.3	EM&A Reports
11.4	Documentation
11.5	Interim Notifications of Environmental Quality Limit Exceedances
11.6 	Electronic Reporting of EM&A Information

LIST OF TABLES

2.1 	Proposed Dust Monitoring Stations for Construction Phase EM&A 
2.2	Action and Limit Levels for Air Quality (Dust)
2.3	Event/Action Plan for Air Quality (Dust)

3.1 	Proposed Noise Monitoring Stations for Construction Phase EM&A
3.2 	Action and Limit Levels for Construction Noise
3.3 	Event/Action Plan for Construction Noise
3.4 	Proposed Specific Construction Noise Mitigation Measures
3.5 	Proposed Noise Monitoring Stations for Operation Phase EM&A
4.1 	Water Quality Monitoring Data Record Sheet
4.2	Action Plan for Monitoring of Effluent Discharge
4.3	Action and Limit Levels for Local Stream Water Quality
4.4	Event and Action Plan for Local Stream Water Quality
4.5	Action and Limit Levels for Water Quality Monitoring in Deep Bay

4.6 	Characteristics of Highway Runoff
4.7	Proposed Criteria to be Used for Determination of Cleaning Frequency, Action Level and Action

6.1 	Summary of the Land Contamination Investigation Works
7.1 	Summary of Ecological Mitigation
7.2 	Ecological Monitoring
7.3 	Monitoring of Wetland Compensation Area

LIST OF FIGURES

1.1(A, B, C, D)		Proposed Deep Bay Link Alignment
1.2 			Project Organisation (EM&A)
1.3			Tentative Construction Programme
2.1(A, B, C, D)		Locations of Noise and Dust Monitoring Stations
4.1			Proposed Effluent Discharged Points/Monitoring Stations
4.2 			Proposed Monitoring Locations at Local Stream Courses
4.3 			Water Monitoring Stations for SWC Project (W1 and W2 are common for DBL and SWC)
6.1(A, B, C) 		Key Sites Identified for Land Contamination Assessment
8.1 			Plan of Mitigation Measures at Ngau Hom Shek
8.2 			Plan of Rescue Excavation at Tsing Chuen Wai and Lam Tei
10.1 			Complaint Response Procedures

APPENDICES

Appendix A		Implementation Schedule of Recommended Mitigation Measures
Appendix B		Sample Forms for EM&A Programme