EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
This Monthly
Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Report is prepared for Contract
No. HY/2013/03 ¡§Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing
Facilities ¡V Vehicle Clearance
Plazas and Ancillary Buildings and Facilities¡¨ (includes the construction works
of Contract No. HY/2013/06 ¡§Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary
Crossing Facilities ¡V Automatic Vehicle
Clearance Support System¡¨ within
Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area) (hereafter referred to as ¡§the
Contract¡¨) for the Highways Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region (HKSAR). Contract No. HY/2013/03 was awarded to China Harbour
Engineering Co. Limited (construction works of Contract No. HY/2013/06 was
awarded to ATAL
Technologies Limited within Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area) (hereafter referred
to as ¡§the Contractor¡¨) and MateriaLab Consultants
Limited (MCL) was appointed as the Environmental Team (ET) by the Contractor.
Contract No.
HY/2013/03 (includes the
construction works of Contract No. HY/2013/06 within
Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area) is part of the ¡§Hong
Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities¡¨ (HZMB HKBCF)
Project which is a ¡§Designated Project¡¨ under Schedule 2 of the Environmental
Impact Assessment (EIA) Ordinance (Cap. 499) and for which an EIA Report (Register
No. AEIAR-145/2009) was prepared and approved. The current Environmental Permit
(EP) for HKBCF, namely No. EP-353/2009/K, was issued on 11 April 2016. These
documents are available through the EIA Ordinance Register.
Commencement
of Contract No. HY/2013/03 took place on 10 April 2015 while the construction
works and the EM&A programme of Contract No. HY/2013/03 commenced on 29
August 2015 (commencement of Contract No. HY/2013/06 took place on 14 August
2015 while the construction works and the EM&A programme of Contract No.
HY/2013/06 within Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area commenced on 13 September 2016).
MateriaLab Consultants Limited (MCL) has been appointed by the
Contractor to implement the Environmental Monitoring & Audit (EM&A)
programme for the Contract in accordance with the Updated EM&A Manual for
HKBCF (Version 1.0) and will be providing environmental team services for the
Contract.
This is the 38th Monthly
EM&A Report for the Contract which summaries findings of the EM&A programme during the reporting period from 1 October 2018
to 31 October 2018 (includes the findings of the EM&A programme of Contract
No. HY/2013/06 within Contract No. HY/2013/03
works area during the reporting period from 1 October 2018 to 31 October 2018) (the
¡§reporting period¡¨). The monthly EM&A programme
was undertaken in accordance with the Updated EM&A Manual for HKBCF (Version
1.0). It should be noted that the air quality and noise monitoring works for
the Contract are covered by Contract No. HY/2013/04 ¡§Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao
Bridge HKBCF ¡V Passenger Clearance Building¡¨ and Contract No. HY/2011/03 ¡§Hong
Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Link Road ¡V Section between Scenic Hill and
HKBCF¡¨. The ET of the Contract or another ET of the HZMB project is required to
conduct impact air quality monitoring at AMS2, AMS3B, AMS6 and AMS7B, noise
monitoring at NMS2 and NMS3B, water quality monitoring at the locations shown
in Figure 3 and ecological
monitoring as shown in Figure 4 as
part of EM&A programme if these monitoring
stations are no longer covered under Contract No. HY/2013/04 and HY/2011/03.
However, this is subject to ENPO¡¦s final decision on which ET should carry out
the monitoring work at these stations.
The dates of
site inspection for Contract No. HY/2013/03 (includes Contract No. HY/2013/06 within
Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area) during the reporting period are listed
below:
Environmental
Site Inspection: 4, 11, 18 and 25 October 2018.
Breaches of Action and Limit Levels
Summary of
Action and Limit Level exceedance of 1-hr TSP level and 24-hr TSP level at AMS6
shall be referred to the monthly EM&A report prepared by Contract No.
HY/2011/03.
There was no Action and Limit Level
exceedance recorded on other monitoring dates at station AMS2, AMS3B and AMS7B
by the Environmental Team of Contract No. HY/2013/04 during the
reporting period.
There was no
Action and Limit Level exceedance for noise recorded at station NMS2 and
station NMS3B by the Environmental Team of Contract No. HY/2013/04 during the reporting period.
There were Action and Limit Level
exceedance for water quality recorded on two
days by the Environmental Team of Contract No. HY/2013/04 during reporting
period. After investigation, it was concluded that all exceedances were not
relevant to Contract No. HY/2013/03.
There was no Action and Limit Level exceedance recorded on other monitoring
dates at the monitoring stations shown as shown at Table 4.1 by the Environmental Team of Contract No. HY/2013/04
during the reporting period.
Ecological monitoring results at all
transects are reported in the EM&A report prepared by Contract No. HY/2013/04.
Complaint Log
There
was no complaint received in relation to the environmental impact during the
reporting period.
Notifications of Summons and Successful Prosecutions
There was no
notifications of summons or prosecutions received during this reporting period.
Reporting Changes
The Contract taking
up the impact air quality monitoring at AMS2, AMS3B, AMS6 and AMS7B, noise
monitoring at NMS2 and NMS3B, water quality monitoring at the locations shown
in Figure 3 and ecological
monitoring as shown in Figure 4 has
been changed from Contract No. HY/2013/01 to HY/2013/04.
Future Key Issues
The future key
issues to be undertaken in the upcoming month are:
For Contract
No. HY/2013/03
1. Maintenance
Works at All Site Area;
For Contract
No. HY/2013/06 within Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area
1. Defect fixing,
System Testing & commissioning at Vehicle Kiosk & Building 037