7.
ENVIRONMENTAL
SITE INSPECTION AND AUDIT
7.1
Site Inspection
7.1.1 As all the sections under Contract No.
HY/2013/03 were handed over to the relevant authorities on 24 October 2018 and
the site had been changed to a closed area, no site inspection was conducted except
for bi-monthly landscape establishment monitoring.
7.1.2 The landscape work of green roof for
Contract No. HY/2013/03 was commenced on 7 November 2017. The landscape work of
all areas at ground level for Contract No. HY/2013/03 was commenced at early
February 2018. Detail commencement date of each building were shown in Table 7.1.
Table 7.1 Commencement date of green roof for each building
|
Building No. of Green
Roof |
Commencement dates of planting
for roof greening |
|
037 |
7 Nov 2017 |
|
043 |
20 Dec 2017 |
|
041 |
27 Dec 2017 |
|
026 |
22 Jan 2018 |
|
039 |
22 Jan 2018 |
|
All areas at ground level |
Early Feb 2018 |
|
031 |
8 Mar 2018 |
|
046 |
8 Mar 2018 |
7.2
Landscape Establishment Monitoring
7.2.1 During the reporting period, bi-monthly
landscape establishment monitoring for Contract No. HY/2013/03 was conducted on
30 November 2018. The corresponding landscape monitoring report is presented in
Appendix H.
7.3
Advice on the Solid and Liquid Waste
Management Status
7.3.1 The Contractor of Contract No.
HY/2013/03 registered as a chemical waste producer for the Contract. Sufficient
numbers of receptacles were available for general refuse collection and
sorting.
7.3.2 The monthly summary of waste flow table
for Contract No. HY/2013/03 (includes Contract No. HY/2013/06 within Contract
No. HY/2013/03 works area) are detailed in Appendix
D.
7.3.3 Contract No. HY/2013/03 has been
assigned to arrange for delivery of surplus filling materials from Contract No.
HY/2013/03 to other projects, including Tuen Mun - Chek Lap Kok Link (TM-CLKL) project of HZMB, the Airport Authority
Hong Kong’s Three Runway (3RS) Project, Wan Chai Development Phase II project,
Contract No. HY/2013/02 of HKBCF and Hong Kong Link Road (HKLR) project of
HZMB. As
confirmed by RSS, all surplus filling materials
delivery to other projects have been completed with the last batch on 7 May
2018. The
total transported quantity up to the last batch is 379.48358 (in‘000m3). The summary of
surplus filling materials delivered to other projects up to the end of May 2018
is shown in Table 7.2.
Table
7.2 Summary of Surplus Filling Materials Delivered from Contract No. HY/2013/03
to other projects
|
Month/Year |
Density (in tonnes/m3) |
Quantity disposed (in
‘000m3) |
|||||
|
To
HY/2013/02 |
To
TM-CLKL Project |
To
3RS Project |
To
WDII Project |
To
HKLR Project |
Total |
||
|
May 2017 |
2.3 |
0 |
12.637 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
12.637 |
|
June 2017 |
2.63925 |
0 |
14.769 |
11.238 |
0 |
0 |
26.007 |
|
July 2017 |
1.9 |
0 |
4.406 |
34.875 |
10.048 |
0.760 |
50.089 |
|
August 2017 |
1.9 |
0.480 |
0 |
67.942 |
2.761 |
7.455 |
78.638 |
|
September 2017 |
1.9 |
5.544 |
0 |
62.770 |
0 |
4.648 |
72.962 |
|
October 2017 |
/ |
3.384 |
0 |
45.92809 |
0 |
0 |
49.31209 |
|
November 2017 |
/ |
5.412 |
0 |
5.507 |
0 |
0 |
10.919 |
|
December 2017 |
/ |
12.57173 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
12.57173 |
|
January 2018 |
/ |
10.228 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10.228 |
|
February 2018 |
/ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
March 2018 |
/ |
0.45276 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.45276 |
|
April 2018 |
/ |
0 |
42.544 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
42.544 |
|
May 2018 |
/ |
0 |
13.123 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
13.123 |
|
Total |
/ |
38.07249 |
87.479 |
228.26009 |
12.809 |
12.863 |
379.48358 |
Remarks:
ž
The
variation in density is due to different compositions of surplus filling
materials
ž There may be discrepancies in the total
quantities with the quantities of inert C&D materials stated in Appendix D
and section 7.2.4, due to rounding errors
ž No density was given from October 2017
to May 2018 due to the direct volume figures as provided and confirmed by the
RSS
7.3.4 0.000 (in‘000m3) of
excavated marine sediment (from Contract No. HY/2013/03), 0.000 (in‘000m3)
of Inert C & D Wastes and 0.000 (in‘000m3) of Non-inert C &
D Wastes were generated (from Contract No. HY/2013/03) in this reporting period.
0.000 (in‘000m3) of Inert C & D Wastes were reused in other
projects and 0.000 (in‘000m3) of Inert C & D Wastes was disposed
as public fill. 0.000 (in tonnes) of Inert C & D Wastes and 0.000 (in
tonnes) of Non-inert C & D Wastes were generated (from Contract No.
HY/2013/06 within Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area) in this reporting period.
0.000 (in tonnes) metals were generated and recycled (from Contract No.
HY/2013/06 within Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area) in this reporting period.
7.3.5 The Contractor was reminded that
chemical waste containers should be properly treated and stored temporarily in
designated chemical waste storage area on site in accordance with the Code of
Practice on the Packing, Labelling and Storage of Chemical Waste.
7.4
Environmental Licenses and Permits
7.4.1
The
valid environmental licenses and permits 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 summarized in Appendix
E. The Contractor of Contract No. HY/2013/06 was advised to register as a
chemical waste producer when chemical waste is expected to generate for the
foreseeable future from the operations (For Registration as Waste Producer
Pursuant to Waste Disposal (Chemical Waste) (General) Regulation).
7.5
Implementation Status of Environmental
Mitigation Measures
7.5.1
In response to the site audit findings,
the Contractor carried out corrective actions.
7.5.2
A
summary of the Implementation Schedule of Environmental Mitigation Measures
(EMIS) is presented in Appendix F.
All necessary mitigation measures at this stage of works were implemented
properly.
7.5.3
As
confirmed by RSS, all surplus filling materials transported from Contract No.
HY/2013/03 to other projects by marine
vessels have been completed with the last batch delivered on 24
March 2018.
7.5.4
With
respect to condition 3.26A of EP-353/2009/K approved by EPD on 11 April 2016,
the numbers and operating periods of floating grout production facilities and
floating concrete batching plants on-site to review on the compliance to this
EP condition were checked. Under Contract No. HY/2013/03, no floating concrete
batching plant was operated on-site during the reporting period.
7.5.5
As
all the works in Box Culvert B had been completed, the silt curtain was
uninstalled in July 2018. The Dolphin Watching Plan (DWP) is no longer
applicable.
7.6
Summary of Exceedance of the
Environmental Quality Performance Limit
7.6.1
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.
7.6.2 There was no Action and Limit Level
exceedance of 1-hr TSP level and 24-hr TSP level recorded at station AMS2,
AMS3C and AMS7B by the Environmental Team of Contract No. HY/2013/04 during the
reporting period.
7.6.3 There was no Action and Limit Level
exceedance for noise recorded
at station NMS2 and station NMS3C by the Environmental Team of Contract No.
HY/2013/04 during the reporting period.
7.6.4 Summary of Action and Limit Level exceedance
of water quality at the
monitoring stations shown as shown at Table
4.1 shall
be referred to the monthly EM&A report prepared by Contract No. HY/2013/04.
7.6.5 There were Action Level exceedance of
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.
7.6.6 Ecological monitoring results at all
transects are reported in the EM&A report prepared by Contract No.
HY/2013/04.
7.7
Summary of Complaints, Notification of
Summons and Successful Prosecution
7.7.1 There was no complaint
received in relation to the environmental impact during the reporting period.
The details of cumulative statistics of Environmental Complaints are provided
in Appendix G.
7.7.2 There was no notification for summons
or prosecutions received in relation to the environmental impact during this
reporting period.
7.7.3 Statistics on environmental complaints,
notifications of summons and successful prosecutions are provided in Appendix G.