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/Limit Level exceedance
was recorded in the reporting period.
5.3
For
24-hr TSP monitoring, no Limit Level exceedance and
4 Action Level exceedances were recorded in the
reporting period.
Noise
5.4
No
Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded in the
reporting period.
Water
Quality
5.5
There
are 40 Action Level exceedances and 27 Limit Level exceedances were recorded for suspended solids. 10 Action Level exceedance and 18 Limit Level exceedances
for turbidity were 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)
Adverse
water quality outside the site boundary;
3)
Sediment plume due to natural fluctuation of
shallow water and localized plume in the monitoring area;
4)
Sediment
plume and floating wastes discharging to the monitoring stations from the area
outside the site boundary;
5)
The exceedances at the monitoring station which is situated at
the upstream of the site;
6)
The exceeded results were similar or within the
ranges baseline monitoring results; and
7)
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.
5.8 Two environmental related complaints were 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-2014-01-001 |
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Link Road – Section between
HKSAR Boundary and Scenic Hill (Contract No. HY/2011/09 |
3 January 2014 |
Noise |
|
Com-2014-01-002 |
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge |
16 January 2014 |
Air Quality |
5.9
There
was no prosecution or notification of summons received since the Contract
commencement.