3.                    NOISE

3.1                                     Monitoring Requirement

3.1.1                     In accordance with the Contract Specific EM&A Manuals, Leq (30min) monitoring is conducted for at least once a week during the construction phase between 0700 and 1900 on normal weekdays at the designated monitoring locations.

3.1.2                     According to the EPD’s reply email, EPD has no comment on the Proposal for Termination of Air quality and Noise Monitoring, the noise monitoring for Contract No: HY/2019/01 have been terminated on 25 March 2022. The last monitoring was completed on 24 March 2022.

3.2                                     Monitoring Parameters and Frequency

3.2.1                              The parameters and frequencies of impact noise monitoring is summarized in Table 3.1.

3.3                                     Monitoring Locations

3.3.1                              In accordance with the Contract Specific EM&A Manual, two noise monitoring locations, namely NMS2 and NMS3C are covered under Contract No. HY/2019/01 “Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities – Phase 2 and Other Works.

3.3.2                              Due to rejection from Ho Yu College (NMS3) for setting up a noise monitoring station at their school, an alternative location at site boundary of the site office area at Works Area WA2 (NMS3B) is proposed. Impact noise monitoring has been relocated from NMS3B to Ying Tung Estate Market Rooftop (NMS3C) on 20 August 2018 under Contract No. HY/2013/04. The same baseline and Action and Limit levels for noise, as derived from the baseline monitoring data recorded at Ho Yu College, are adopted for this alternative noise monitoring location.

3.3.3                              The most updated locations are summarized in Table 3.2 and the locations of the noise monitoring stations shown in Figure 3.