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 – 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).
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 14th Quarterly EM&A Report for
the Contract which summaries findings of the EM&A works during the
reporting period from 01 December 2018 to 31 January 2019 (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 December 2018 to
31 January 2019) (the “reporting period”). Bi-monthly Landscape Monitoring Report is shown in Appendix H.
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. 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 Nos. 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 (includes Contract No. HY/2013/06 within
Contract No. HY/2013/03 works area) 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 during the reporting
period.
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 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.
There was no Action and Limit Level exceedance for
noise recorded at station NMS2 and NMS3C by the Environmental Team of Contract
No. HY/2013/04 during the reporting period.
Summary of
Action and Limit Level exceedance of water quality at the monitoring stations
shown as shown at Table 2.2 shall be
referred to the monthly EM&A report prepared by Contract No. HY/2013/04.
There were
Action Level exceedances recorded at different WQM stations 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 at Table 2.2 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 were no complaints received in relation to the
environmental impact during the reporting period.
Notifications of Summons and Successful Prosecutions
There were no notifications of summons or prosecutions
received during this reporting period.
Reporting Changes
As informed by the Contractor, all major construction
activities for Contract No. HY/2013/03 have been substantially completed and
only minor maintenance works will be carried out on site upon request. All land
areas have been handed over to relevant responsible parties. The EM&A
requirement of landscape soft works for establishment phase was appropriately
arranged. After reviewing the existing environmental conditions of the site, it
is considered that the potential environmental impacts associated with the
remaining works are insignificant and therefore propose to terminate the
Construction Phase EM&A Programme under Contract No. HY/2013/03. Independent Environmental Checker (IEC) verified the proposal for
termination of EM&A programme under Contract No. HY/2013/03 on 30 November
2018. Environmental Protection Department’s (EPD’s) memo reference ( ) in E771/E1/100 dated 01 February 2019
informing no comment on the proposal for termination of EM&A programme for
Contract No. HY/2013/03. With respect to the termination of
EM&A programme under Contract No. HY/2013/03 as approved by the authority
on 01 February 2019, a shorter cut-off reporting period (from 01 December 2018
up to end 31 January 2019) was stated for this Quarterly EM&A Report.