6.1 This Quarterly Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Report presents the EM&A works undertaken in the period between September and November 2013 in accordance with EM&A Manual.
6.2 No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded for noise.
6.3
For 1-hour TSP monitoring, no Action Level exceedance was recorded and one Limit Level exceedance was recorded in the reporting period.
6.4
For
24-hr TSP monitoring, no Action/Limit
Level exceedance was recorded in the reporting perod.
6.5
For water quality monitoring, 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.
6.6
According
to the investigation, all exceedances are considered
not due to the Contract.
6.7 During this quarter of dolphin monitoring, no adverse impact from the activities of the HKLR09 construction project on Chinese White Dolphins was noticeable from general observations, and the dolphin occurrence in West Lantau survey area remained the same as in the baseline period.
6.8 Environmental site inspection was conducted on 3rd, 10th, 17th and 27th September 2013, 2nd, 7th, 16th, 22nd and 29th October 2013, 5th, 12th, 19th and 29th November 2013 by ET in the reporting month. All deficiencies identified during the site inspection have already rectified / improved during the follow-up audit session.
6.9 The inspection to the Sha Lo Wan (West) Archaeological Site was conducted on 10th September 2013. No access to Sha Lo Wan (West) Archaeological site for works areas and storage of construction equipment was observed.
6.10 There were one environmental complaint, no notification of summons and successful prosecution received in the reporting period.
6.11 The ET will keep track on the EM&A programme to ensure compliance of environmental requirements and the proper implementation of all necessary mitigation measures.
6.12 According to the environmental audit performed in the reporting month, the following recommendations were made:
Air Quality Impact
·
To
regularly maintain the quality of machinery and vehicles on site.
·
To
implement dust suppression measures on all haul roads, stockpiles, dry surfaces
and excavation works.
·
To provide hoarding along the entire length of that portion of the site boundary.
Noise Impact
·
To
inspect the noise sources inside the site.
·
To space
out noisy equipment and position the equipment as far away as possible from
sensitive receivers.
·
To
provide temporary noise barriers for operations of noisy equipment near the
noise sensitive receivers, if necessary.
Water Impact
· To prevent any surface runoff discharge into any stream course and sea.
· To review and implement temporary drainage system.
· To identify any wastewater discharges from site.
· To ensure properly maintenance for de-silting facilities.
· To clear the silt and sediment in the sedimentation tanks.
· To review the capacity of de-silting facilities for discharge.
· To divert all the water generated from construction site to de-silting facilities with enough handling capacity before discharge.
· To avoid accumulation of stagnant and ponding water on site.
Ecology Impact
· To implement Spill Response Plan in the event of accidential spillage of or other hazardours chemicals.
· To implement Dolphin Exclusion Zone during the installation of bored pile casing located in the waters to the west of Airport.
· To implement Dolphin Watching Plan after the bored piling casing is installed.
· To ensure the acoustically-decoupled measures were implemented for air compressors and other noisy equipment mounted on construction vessels according to acoustic decoupling measures plan.
Waste/Chemical Management
·
To check
for any accumulation of waste materials or rubbish on site.
·
To ensure the performance of sorting of C&D
materials at source (during generation);
·
To carry out inspection of dump truck at site exit
to ensure inert and non-inert C&D materials are properly segregated before
removing off site.
·
To avoid
any discharge or accidental spillage of
chemical waste or oil directly from the site.
·
To avoid
improper handling or storage of oil drum on site.