This Quarterly
Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Report is prepared for Contract
No. HY/2019/01 ¡§Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing
Facilities ¡V Phase 2 and Other Works¡¨ (hereafter referred to as ¡§the Contract¡¨)
for the Highways Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
Contract No. HY/2019/01 was awarded to China Harbour Engineering Co. Limited
and Fugro Technical Services Limited (FTS) was appointed as the Environmental
Team (ET) by the Contractor.
Contract No.
HY/2019/01 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 the Contract took place on 4
December 2019 and the construction site preparation works commenced in early February
2020.
Fugro Technical
Services Limited (FTS) 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 is
providing environmental team services for the Contract.
This is the 2nd Quarterly
EM&A Report for the Contract which summaries findings of the EM&A
programme during the reporting period from 1 June 2020 to 31 August 2020.
Environmental
Monitoring and Audit Progress
The Quarterly
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, noise
and the post-construction dolphin monitoring works for the Contract are covered
by Contract No. HY/2019/01 ¡§Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing
Facilities ¡V Phase 2 and Other Works¡¨. The ET of the Contract or another ET of
the HZMB project is required to conduct impact air quality monitoring at AMS6
as part of EM&A programme if the impact air quality monitoring work is no
longer covered by Contract No. HY/2011/03 respectively. However, this is
subject to ENPO¡¦s final decision on which ET should carry out the monitoring
work at these stations.
Breaches
of Action and Limit Levels
No Action and
Limit Level exceedance was recorded for air quality monitoring in the reporting
period. Also, no Action and Limit Level exceedance was recorded for
construction noise monitoring in the reporting period.
Complaint
Log
No complaints
were received in the reporting period.
Notifications
of any Summons and Successful Prosecutions
No notifications of
summons and prosecutions were received in the reporting period.
Reporting
Change
No reporting
change in the reporting period.
Contents
Tables
Figures
Figure 1 The
Site Layout Plan of the Contract
Figure 2 The
Location of the Air Quality Monitoring Station
Figure 3 The
Location of the Noise Monitoring Station
Figure 4 Post-Construction
Dolphin Monitoring Line Transect Layout Map
Appendices