5               ENVIRONMENTAL NON-CONFORMANCE (EXCEEDANCES)

Summary of Exceedances

 

5.1         Summary of exceedance is provided in Appendix K. The details of the exceedances were attached in the Monthly EM&A Report.

Air Quality

5.2         For 1-hour TSP monitoring, no Action Level exceedance was recorded and one Limit Level exceedance was recorded in the reporting period.

5.3         For 24-hr TSP monitoring, no Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded in the reporting perod.

Noise

5.4         No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded in the reporting period.

Water Quality

5.5         There are 15 Action Level exceedances and 10 Limit Level exceedances were recorded for suspended solids. One Action Level exceedance for turbidity was recorded in the reporting period.

5.6         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)      No marine construction works were conducted in vicinity of monitoring station in which exceedances were recorded;

3)      Sdiment plume due to natural fluctuation of shallow water and localized plume in the monitoring area were also observed;

4)      The exceedances at the monitoring station which is situated at the upstream of the site;

5)      The exceeded results were similar or within the ranges baseline monitoring results; and

6)      Water quality mitigation measures such as casting and silt curtain were also properly implemented.

 

Dolphin Monitoring (Line-transect Vessel Survey)

5.7         No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded in the reporting period.

Summary of Environmental Complaint

 

5.8         One environmental related complaint was received in the reporting period. The Complaint Log is attached in Appendix L. All investigation reports for complaint of the Contract have been submitted to summarize the investigation results.  The summary of environmental complaints is presented in Table 5.1. 

 

Table 5.1              Summary of Environmental Complaints in the Reporting Period

Complaint Log Ref.

Location

Received Date

Nature of Complaint

Com-2013-11-001

Chek Lap Kok (CLK) South Road

16 November 2013

Air Quality

Summary of Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecution

 

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