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 and construction noise.

8.3         All water quality monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. There are five Action Level and five Limit Level exceedances for suspended solids were recorded. No Action/Limit Level exceedance for dissolved oxygen and turbidity were recorded.

 

8.4         According to the investigation, the exceedances are considered not due to the Contract due to the following reasons:

1)      No pollution discharge was observed from the site;

2)      Sediment plume which is considered due to the movement of vessel was observed but no direct evidence to show the vessel was belonged to HY/ 2011/09;

3)      Sediment plume discharging to the monitoring stations from the area outside the site boundary; and

4)      Adverse water quality outside the site boundary.

Summary of Environmental Complaint

 

8.5         No 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

8.6         There was one prosecution or notification of summons received since the Contract commencement. Summary of successful prosecution as attached in Appendix Q.