EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
This Quarterly 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).
The Contract 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 8th Quarterly EM&A Report for the Contract which summaries
findings of the EM&A works during the reporting period from 01 September
2017 to 30 November 2017 (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 01 September 2017 to 30 November 2017) (the ¡§reporting
period¡¨).
Environmental
Monitoring and Audit Progress
The 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/2010/02 ¡§Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
HKBCF ¡V Reclamation Works¡¨ 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 AMS6 and AMS7, noise monitoring at NMS2 and NMS3B, water
quality monitoring at the locations shown in Figure 3 and ecological monitoring as shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5 as
part of EM&A programme if these monitoring stations are no longer covered
under Contract Nos. HY/2010/02 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:
¡P
08, 15,
21 and 25 September 2017
¡P
06, 12, 19
and 27 October 2017
¡P
02, 09,
16, 23 and 30 November 2017
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 is reported in the
monthly EM&A report prepared by Contract No. HY/2011/03.
There was one Action and Limit Level
exceedance of 24-hr TSP level recorded at station AMS3B by the Environmental
Team of Contract No. HY/2013/01 during the 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 of 1-hr
TSP level and 24-hr TSP level recorded at station AMS7 by the Environmental
Team of Contract No. HY/2010/02 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/2010/02 during the reporting period.
There
were twenty-eight Action and Limit Level exceedances for water quality recorded
at the monitoring stations shown at Table
2.2 by the Environmental Team of Contract No. HY/2010/02 during the reporting period.
Ecological
monitoring results at all transects are reported in the EM&A report
prepared by Contract No. HY/2010/02.
Complaint
Log
There were four complaints received in
relation to the environmental impact during the reporting period.
Log No. |
Environmental
Complaint Ref. No. |
Date of
Complaint Receipt |
Description |
013 |
ENPO-C0127 |
27 October 2017 |
Water discharge |
014 |
ENPO-C0128 |
23 November 2017 |
Air pollution |
After investigation, Complaint No. 013
and 014 were not related to Contract No. HY/2013/03.
Notifications
of Summons and Successful Prosecutions
There were no notifications of summons
or prosecutions received during this reporting period.
Reporting
Changes
The
implementation of environmental monitoring for air quality, noise, water
quality and marine ecology (dolphin monitoring) have been conducting by the ET
for Contract No. HY/2013/01 of which the noise monitoring station (NMS3B) and
the meteorological station have been slightly re-located to AECOM PRE's Office
without re-branding since 1 September 2017 as shown below: