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 40th
Monthly EM&A Report for the Contract which summaries findings of the
EM&A programme during the reporting period from 1
December 2018 to 31 December 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 December
2018 to 31 December 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.
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.
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 three 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