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 – 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 – 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 39th
Monthly EM&A Report for the Contract which summaries findings of the
EM&A programme during the reporting period from 1
November 2018 to 30 November 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 November
2018 to 30 November 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 – Infrastructure
Works Stage II (Southern Portion)” and Contract No. HY/2011/03 “Hong
Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Link Road – 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, AMS3C, AMS6 and AMS7B, noise
monitoring at NMS2 and NMS3C, 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 Bi-monthly Landscape Monitoring
Report is shown in Appendix H.
As all the
sections under Contract No. HY/2013/03 and HY/2013/06 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.
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, AMS3C 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 NMS3C by the Environmental Team of Contract No. HY/2013/04 during the reporting period.
There were Action 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
There was no reporting change during
the reporting period.
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. Maintenance
Works at Vehicle Kiosk & Building 037