8               ENVIRONMENTAL NON-CONFORMANCE (EXCEEDANCES)

Summary of Exceedances

 

8.1         Summary of exceedance is provided in Appendix L.

8.2         No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded for air quality (1-hr TSP) and construction noise.

8.3         For 24-hour TSP monitoring, no Limit Level exceedance was recorded. One Action Level exceedance was recorded at AMS1 on 20 January 2014.

8.4         According to the investigation, no dust generation works was conducted at near the monitoring station during the monitoring and observable dust source from construction activity under Contract No. HY/2011/09. In addition, construction works from other site and stockpile of dusty materials without proper cover at near the monitoring station was observed. Therefore, the exceedance is considered not due to the Contract.

8.5         All water quality monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. There are seven Action Level and fourteen Limit Level exceedances for suspended solids were recorded. In addition, there are four Action Level and six Limit Level exceedances for turbidity were recorded.

 

8.6         According to the investigation, no pollution discharge was observed from the site. In addition, adverse water quality outside the site boundary was observed. Sediment plume and floating wastes discharging to the monitoring stations from the area outside the site boundary was also observed. Routine marine construction works was conducted as usual and water quality mitigation measures such as casing and silt curtains were properly implemented. Therefore, the exceedances are considered not due to the Contract.

Summary of Environmental Complaint

8.7         Two environmental related complaints were received in the reporting month. The Complaint Log is attached in Appendix P.

Summary of Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecution

8.8         There was no prosecution or notification of summons received since the Contract commencement.