TABLE OF CONTENTS Page
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1.0 |
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2.0 |
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2.1 Project Activities in this Reporting Quarter |
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2.2 Project Organization
and Management Structure |
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2.3 Contact Details of Key
Personnel |
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3.0 |
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3.1 EM&A Programme |
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3.2 Monitoring Stations and Parameters |
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3.3 Monitoring Methodology and Calibration Details |
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3.4 Environmental Quality Performance Limits (Action/Limit
Levels) |
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3.5 Environmental Mitigation Measures |
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4.0 |
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4.1 Air Quality |
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4.2 Noise |
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4.3 Marine Water Quality |
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5.1 Inspection Results |
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5.2 Status of Environmental Licensing and Permitting |
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5.3 Advice on Solids and Liquid Waste Management Status |
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6.0 |
Non-compliance of the environmental quality performance limits |
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6.1 Summary of Non-compliance |
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6.2 Review of the Reasons for and the implication of
non-compliance |
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6.3 Summary of Action Taken |
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6.4 Summary of Environmental
Complaint, Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecution Handling |
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7.0 |
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APPENDIX |
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Organization Chart |
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Graphical Plots of Impact Air Quality Monitoring Data |
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Graphical Plots of Impact Noise Monitoring Data |
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Graphical Plots of Impact Marine Water Quality Monitoring Data |
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Environmental Quality Performance (Action / Limit Levels) |
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Event-Action Plans |
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Work Programme |
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Implementation Schedule of Environmental Mitigation Measures
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Statistical Analysis of the Trend of Suspended Solids in the
Quarter |
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Site General Layout Plan |
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Weather Condition |
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Complaint Log |
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Figure 1 |
Locations of Air
Quality Monitoring Stations – Tuen Mun Area 38 Fill Bank |
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Figure 2 |
Locations of Water
Quality Monitoring Stations – Tuen Mun Area 38 Fill Bank |
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Figure 3 |
Locations of Noise
Quality Monitoring Stations – Tuen Mun Area 38 Fill Bank |
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Tables |
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2.1 |
Contact Details of Key
Personnel |
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4.1 |
Summary of Number of
Exceedances for 1-hr and 24-hr TSP Monitoring |
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4.2 |
Total
Number of Marine Water Quality Exceedances in this
quarter |
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4.3 |
Summary of Statistically
Significant Results of SS |
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5.1 |
Summary of Environmental
Licensing and Permit Status |
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5.2 |
Estimated Offsite Waste
Disposal in the Reporting Quarter |
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6.1 |
Summary of Environmental
Complaints and Prosecutions |
This is Quarterly Environmental Monitoring
and Audit (EM&A) Summary Report No.10 prepared by ETS-Testconsult Ltd (ET) for
the “Contract No.
CV/2013/06 Handling
of Surplus Public Fill (2014-2016) – Tuen Mun (TM) Area
This report documents the findings of
EM&A Works conducted during the operation phase of Fill Bank at Tuen Mun
Area 38 from April
to June 2016.
Site Activities
As informed by the Contractor, the site activities in this reporting
quarter were as below:
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April 2016 |
1. Operation of the TM38 Fill Bank . 2. Transferring public fill to vessel and delivering to Taishan and
other parties; 3. Upgrade water spraying system for
existing wheel washing bays. |
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May 2016 |
1. Operation of the TM38 Fill Bank . 2. Transferring public
fill to vessel and delivering to Taishan and other parties 3. Upgrade water spraying system for existing wheel washing bays 4. Construction of Two new Wheel Washing Bays with WetSep 80 near
existing B4 WWB |
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June 2016 |
1. Operation of the TM38 Fill Bank 2. Transferring public
fill to vessel and delivering to Taishan and other parties 3. Upgrade water spraying system for existing wheel washing bays 4. Construction of Two new Wheel Washing Bays with WetSep 80 near
existing B4 WWB 5. Construction of 750mm Rectangular Channel and Steel Chain Railing
near existing WWB no. B4 6. Demolition of old wheel washing bay B2 |
Environmental Monitoring Works
Air Monitoring
No exceedance of
Action and Limit levels was recorded for 1-hr and 24-hr TSP monitoring in this
quarter.
Marine Water Quality Monitoring
According to the
summary of marine water monitoring results, no exceedance of
Action and Limit levels was recorded in this quarter.
Noise Monitoring
No exceedance of Action and Limit levels
for noise monitoring was
recorded in this quarter.
Environmental Complaints,
Notification of summons and successful prosecutions
In this quarter, one complaint was received.
No notification of summon and prosecution with respect to environmental issue
was received in this quarter.
HKPFH Operation Limited (HKPFH)
appointed
Environmental Team (ET) of ETS-Testconsult Limited (ETL) to undertake the
Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) for the “Contract No:
CV/2013/06 –Handling of Surplus Public Fill (2014-2016) – Tuen Mun (TM)
Area
In accordance
with the Condition 5 of Part C of Environmental Permit (No.: EP-210/2005/B) (the EP), an
EM&A programme as set out in the Project Profile should be implemented. The EM&A programme requires environmental monitoring for air
quality, water quality and environmental site inspections for air quality,
water quality, landscape and visual, and waste
management.
Baseline monitoring
was completed in May 2003 by Stanger Asia Ltd. Action and
Limit Levels were established for air and water quality parameters based on the
baseline monitoring results.
This quarterly report documented the findings of EM&A Works conducted during
the operation phase of Fill Bank at Tuen Mun Area 38 from
April to June 2016.
2.1
Work Programme in this Reporting Quarter
Details of work programme are shown in Appendix G.
2.2 Project
Organization and Management Structure
The project organization chart is shown in
Appendix A.
2.3 Contact
Details of Key Personnel
The key personnel contact names and telephone numbers are shown in Table 2.1.
Table 2.1 Contact
Details of Key Personnel
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Organization |
Name of Key Staff |
Project Role |
Tel. No. |
Fax No. |
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CEDD |
Simon Leung, Terry
Chock, Patrick Ng, James Sze, Phoebe Tang |
Engineer’s Representative |
2762 5555 |
2714
0113 |
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IEC (Ramboll Environ) |
Mr Tony Cheng |
IEC |
3465 2888 |
3465 2899 |
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Contractor
(HKPFH) |
Mr. K W Li |
Project Manager |
9750 6438 |
2744 6937 |
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ET (ETL) |
Mr C. L. Lau |
ET Leader |
2946 7791 |
2695 3944 |
3.0 Summary of EM&A Requirements
3.1
EM&A Programme
The EM&A programme required
environmental monitoring for air, marine water and environmental site
inspections for air, marine water, landscape and visual, and waste management.
The EM&A requirements for each parameter described in the following
sections include:
§ All monitoring parameters;
§ Monitoring schedules for the reporting month and forthcoming
months;
§ Action and Limit levels for all environmental parameters;
§ Event/Action Plans;
§ Environmental mitigation measures, as recommended in the Project
EIA study final report; and
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Environmental
requirements in contract documents.
The advice on implementation status of environmental protection and pollution control/mitigation measures is summarized in Section 5 of the Report.
3.2
Monitoring Stations and Parameters
The
EM&A Manual designates several locations to monitor environmental impacts
in terms of air quality, noise and water quality due to the Project. The description and detailed locations of monitoring
stations for air quality, noise and marine water quality are shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 and relevant sections of this Report.
3.3
Monitoring Methodology and Calibration Details
All monitoring works were conducted and monitoring equipment was calibrated in according with the EM&A Manual.
3.4
Environmental Quality Performance Limits (Action/Limit Levels)
The environmental quality performance limits, i.e. Action/Limit Levels (AL Levels) were derived from the baseline monitoring results. If the measured environmental quality parameters exceed the AL Levels, the respective action plan will be implemented. The AL Levels for each monitoring parameter are given in Appendix E. The event action plan is given in Appendix F.
3.5
Environmental Mitigation Measures
Relevant mitigation measures were recommended in the EM&A
Manual for the Contractor to implement. A list of mitigation measures is given
in Appendix H.
4.1
Air Quality
In accordance with the EM&A Manual, 1-hr
and 24-hr TSP air quality monitoring are to be
conducted three times and one time per six days
correspondingly. In the reporting quarter, no exceedances of Action and
Limit levels were recorded for 1-hr and 24-hr TSP monitoring. The monitoring trend of
air quality during the reporting quarter are given in Appendix B.
Major dust sources in the Fill Bank were dump truck traffic and hauling activities.
Table
4.1 presents the number of exceedances recorded in each month of the reporting
quarter. The number of monitoring event included regular monitoring events and
additional ones.
Table 4.1 Summary of Number of
Exceedances for 1-hr and 24-hr TSP Monitoring
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Monitoring
Parameter |
Level
of Exceedance |
April 2016 |
May 2016 |
June 2016 |
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24-hr
TSP |
No
of monitoring events |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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Action
Level |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Limit
Level |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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1-hr
TSP |
No
of monitoring events |
15 |
15 |
16 |
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Action
Level |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Limit
Level |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4.2
Noise
Since Lands Dept did not approve to carry
out noise monitoring at their
own area
where the
noise monitoring stations TM-N1 and TM-N2 located due to the
security, noise
monitoring carried out at two
noise monitoring stations TM-RN1
and TM-RN2
(refer to the figure attached) from 18 December 2007.
No
exceedance was recorded in this reporting quarter.
4.3
Marine Water Quality
In accordance with the Project Profile, impact marine water quality monitoring was conducted at two control monitoring stations (TM-FC1 and TM-FC2) and two impact monitoring stations (TM-FM1and TM-FM2) in this quarter.
Impact marine water quality monitoring
was conducted three days per week. Measurements were taken at both mid-ebb and
mid-flood tides at three depths (i.e.
According
to the summary of marine water monitoring results, no exceedance
of action and limit level
was
recorded in this quarter. Table
4.2
presents the total number of marine water quality exceedances in the reporting
quarter. The trend of marine water quality in the
past three months is depicted in Appendix D.
Table 4.2 Total Number of Marine Water Quality
Exceedances in this
quarter
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Parameter |
Exceedance Level |
April 2016 |
May 2016 |
June 2016 |
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Number of monitoring
days |
13 |
12 |
12 |
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Dissolved Oxygen, DO
(S&M) |
Action |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Limit |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Dissolved Oxygen, DO
(B) |
Action |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Limit |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Turbidity |
Action |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Limit |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Suspended Solids, SS |
Action |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Limit |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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A
comparison between the quarterly mean/median of SS and the 1.3 times of the
baseline mean was made for each tide at each station.
The statistical analysis results are given in Appendix I. Monitoring stations with significant difference
(p<0.05) is summarized in Table 4.3.
Table 4.3 Summary
of Statistically Significant Results of SS
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Monitoring Station |
Significant difference? |
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Mid-flood |
Mid-ebb |
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Designated
Control Station |
FC1 |
X |
X |
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FC2 |
X |
X |
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Designated
Monitoring Station |
FM1 |
X |
X |
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FM2 |
X |
X |
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5.1 Implementation Status of
Environmental Mitigation Measures
ET conducted weekly site inspections to monitor the Contractor’s
implementation of environmental mitigation measures.
Air quality was the major environmental issue in the reporting
quarter. The Contractor generally implemented most of the environmental
mitigation measures in the reporting quarter. Dump truck traffic was the major
dust source in the Fill Bank. Generally, the Contractor implemented adequate
dust mitigation measures in the reporting quarter including dampening of haul
roads, water spraying on the truckloads,
during loading and unloading of material and for crushing plant, operation of
automatic wheel washing facilities, dampening of fill material prior to
handling or stockpiling, etc.
The major noise source was dump truck traffic in the Fill Bank. All site
equipment and machinery were well maintained and no noise nuisance was observed
during operating.
Drainage channels and wastewater treatment
facilities were found maintained in good condition for merit function. The
Contractor arranged site workers to clean up the silt and mud regularly.
Although there were a few observations
regarding improper handling of oil drums and chemical containers, such as lack
of drip tray and accumulated of stagnant water in the drip tray, the Contractor
rectified most of these problems. Besides, the Contractor should provide
tarpaulin sheets before repairing and maintenance works and also carry out
proper cleaning activities immediately after such works.
Overall site area was found tidy and clean. The Contractor was reminded to collect and dispose of the general
refuse and other C&D waste in a timely manner.
5.2
Status of Environmental Licensing and Permitting
The status of licences and permits is summarized in Table 5.1.
Table 5.1 Summary
of environmental licensing and permit status
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Description |
Permit No. |
Valid Period |
Section |
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From |
To |
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Environmental
Permit |
EP-210/2005/B |
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Issued |
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Marine Dumping Permit |
EP/MD/16-193 |
01/04/16 |
30/06/16 |
Approval for dumping 4,400,000 tons (approximately equal to 2,444,444
cu.m. bulked quantity) of Public Fill (Reclamation Materials) from Tseung
Kwan O Area 137 Fill Bank and Tuen Mun Area 38 Fill Bank to designated
dumping area at Guanghaiwan of Taishan |
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Chemical
Waste Producer |
5296-421-H3555-01 |
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Spent battery containing heavy metals and spent lubricating oil |
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Effluent
Discharge License |
WT00018973-2014 |
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Discharge of Industrial Trade Effluent arising
from public fill reception facilities, screen and sedimentation tank |
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Billing Account for Waste Disposal |
7018998 |
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5.3
Advice on Solids and Liquid Waste Management Status
Table 5.2 summarizes data on offsite waste disposal in the quarter.
Table 5.2 Estimated Offsite Waste Disposal in the Reporting Quarter
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Waste Type |
April 2016 |
May 2016 |
June 2016 |
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Public Fill (m3) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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C&D Waste
(general refuse) (kg) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Chemical Waste e.g. Waste
oil (L) / Chemical Waste (kg) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6.0 Non-compliance of the Environmental Quality Performance Limits
6.1
Summary of Non-compliance
According to the monitoring results, no action and limit level exceedance was
recorded in this quarter.
6.2
Review of the Reasons for and the Implications of Non-compliance
Since no non-compliance was recorded in
this quarter, no review was required.
6.3
Summary of Actions Taken
Since no exceedance was recorded in this quarter,
no further action was required.
6.4
Summary of Environmental Complaint, Notification of Summon and
Successful Prosecution Handling
In this quarter, one complaint was received.
Complaint Investigation report of the event have been prepared and submit to
RE, IEC and Contractor by ET. Appendix L presents the complaint log of the
event.
No
notification of summon and prosecution with respect to environmental issue was
received in this quarter.
A summary of environmental
complaints and prosecutions was given in Table 6.1.
Table 6.1 Summary
of Environmental Complaints and Prosecutions
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Period |
Complaints logged |
Summon served |
Successful Prosecution |
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April
2016 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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May 2016 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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June
2016 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Cumulative |
26 |
0 |
0 |
7.0
Comments, Conclusions and recommendation
Major activity in the Fill Bank was the import and dumping of fill materials in this quarter. Air quality was the major environmental issue in the Fill Bank. Generally, the Contractor implemented most of the mitigation measures to minimize the dust impact.
No exceedance of
action and limit levels was recorded for 1-hr and 24-hr TSP monitoring in the reporting quarter.
According
to the marine water monitoring results in
this quarter, no exceedance
of action and limit level was recorded.
The
noise level measured at the monitoring station complied with the Limit Level of
65dB(A).
No complaint was received regarding noise issue in this reporting month.
In this quarter, one complaint was received.
No notification of summon and prosecution with respect to environmental issue was
received in this quarter.
According to the ET weekly site inspection and IEC site audits carried out in this quarter, it was indicated that site practices of the Contractor were generally undertaken in an environmentally acceptable manner and the overall site environmental performance was up to standard.
According to the environmental site inspections performed
in the reporting quarter, the following recommendations were provided:
Air
Quality
§
Ensure
the frequency of water spraying on haul roads, unloading areas and stockpiles
to be sufficient to suppress the dust sources;
§ Provide proper maintenance
for the powered mechanical equipment and barges to avoid emission of dark
smoke;
§ Provide water spraying onto
the truckloads during inspection of fill material;
§ Conduct road sweeping on
all paved haul roads and
public roads especially outside and near the site
egress by the road sweeper. Undertake water spraying on stockpiling area by
water bowser;
§
Erect
adequate speed limit signs to advise the truck drivers of the speed limit;
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Operate
mist spraying systems and automatic water sprinklers in the Fill Bank;
§ Implement the dust
mitigation measures for the construction activities;
§ Designate proper haul roads
to ensure effective water spraying; and
§ Ensure all vehicles to be
washed before leaving the site egress by provision, operation and maintenance
of automatic wheel washing facilities.
Noise
§ Conduct noisy activities at
a farther location from the NSRs.
Water Quality
§ Maintain the drainage
system, including the trapezoidal channels and permanent desilting chambers
regularly; and
§ Remove the stagnant water
or provide approved pesticides for the stagnant water in the permanent
desilting chambers, if any.
Chemical and Waste
Management
§ Remove waste materials from
the site to avoid accumulation regularly;
§ Handle and store chemical
wastes properly;
§ Remove unwanted material in
the existing stockpiles and avoid further dumping of such material;
§ Provide and maintain
sufficient drip trays for diesel drums, chemical containers, chemical waste
storage drums and diesel operated generator set;
§ Maintain good housekeeping
at the workshop area;
§ Ensure sufficient tarpaulin
sheets are provided to cover drip trays; and
§ Avoid soil being polluted
during oil filling and equipment maintenance; hence, properly remove and store
the contaminated soil, if any.
Landscape and Visual
§ Provide hydroseeding on the
exposed slopes, on which the final profile has been formed;
§ Erect all the site
hoarding/chaining fences in accordance with agreed design at proper location;
and
§ Maintain the hydroseeding
slopes in accordance with the Landscape Plan.
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