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         There are six Action 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 from construction activity was observed;

2)      Control Station value already exceeded either the Baseline Action or Limit Levels;

3)      Monitoring station is situated at the upstream of the construction sites;

4)      Sediment plume due to natural fluctuation of shallow water was observed; and

5)      Adverse water quality outside the site boundary was observed. Dispersion of sediment plume to the monitoring stations from the area outside the site boundary (i.e. works area not under and related to HY/2011/09) was also observed.

 

Summary of Environmental Complaint

 

8.5         No environmental related complaint was 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.