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/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 period.

Noise

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

Water Quality

5.5         There are 8 Action Level exceedances and 6 Limit Level exceedances were recorded for suspended solids. No Action/Limit Level exceedance 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)      Installation work at Pile Cap was carried at near the monitoring stations in which exceedances were recorded. Water quality impact due to this work is not anticipated;

2)      No pollution discharge was observed from the site;

3)      Sediment plume due to natural fluctuation of shallow water was observed but no vessels were observed near the plumes;

4)      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 observed; and

5)      No site activity was carried at near the monitoring stations in which exceedances were recorded.

 

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         No environmental related complaint was received in the reporting period. The Complaint Log is attached in Appendix L.

Summary of Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecution

 

5.9         There was one prosecution or notification of summons received since the Contract commencement.  Summary of successful prosecution is attached in Appendix M.