EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Introduction

1.              This is the 11th Quarterly Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Report prepared by Cinotech Consultants Limited for the project ¡§Contract No. HY/2011/09 ¡V Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Link Road ¡V Section between HKSAR Boundary and Scenic Hill¡¨ (hereinafter called the ¡§Contract¡¨). This report documents the findings of EM&A Works performed in the period between September and November 2015.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit Progress

2.              A summary of the monitoring activities in this reporting period is listed in Table I below:

Table I            Summary Table for Monitoring Activities in the Reporting Period

Parameter(s)

Monitoring Date(s)

1-hr TSP Monitoring

4th, 10th, 16th, 22nd and 28th September 2015

2nd, 8th, 14th, 20th, 26th and 30th October 2015

5th, 11th, 17th, 23rd and 27th November 2015

24-hr TSP Monitoring

Noise Monitoring

1st, 11th, 17th, 23rd and 29th September 2015

9th, 15th, 22nd and 27th October 2015

6th, 12th,18th and 24th November 2015

Water Quality Monitoring

2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 28th and 30th September 2015

2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, 29th and 31st October 2015

2nd, 4th, 6th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 27th and 30th November 2015

Dolphin Monitoring (Line-transect Vessel Surveys)

7th and 10th September 2015

7th and 15th October 2015

13th and 19th November 2015

Additional Land-based Dolphin Behaviour and Movement Monitoring

4th  and 23rd September 2015

2nd  and 14th October 2015

4th  and 20th November 2015

Environmental Site Inspection

1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 30th September 2015

6th, 13th, 20th and 28th October 2015

3rd, 10th, 17th and 25th November 2015

Archaeological Site Inspection

21st September 2015

Breaches of Action and Limit Levels

3.              Summary of the environmental exceedances of the reporting period is tabulated in Table II.

Table II          Summary Table for Events Recorded in the Reporting Period

 

Environmental Monitoring

Parameter

No. of Exceedance

No. of Exceedance related to the Construction Activities of this Contract

Action Level

Limit Level

Action Level

Limit Level

Air Quality

1-hr TSP

0

0

0

0

24-hr TSP

0

0

0

0

Noise

Leq(30min)

0

0

0

0

Water Quality

Dissolved Oxygen (DO) (Surface & Middle)

0

0

0

0

Dissolved Oxygen (DO) (Bottom)

0

0

0

0

Turbidity

0

0

0

0

Suspended Solids (SS)

14

12

0

0

Dolphin Monitoring

Line-transect Vessel Surveys

0

0

0

0

 

4.              Environmental monitoring works were performed in the reporting period and all monitoring results were checked and reviewed.  The details of each exceedance were attached in the Monthly EM&A Reports.

Complaint Log

 

5.              No environmental complaint was received in the reporting period.

Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecutions

 

6.              No notification of summons and successful prosecution was received in the reporting period.

Reporting Changes

 

7.              This report has been developed in compliance with the reporting requirements for the quarterly EM&A Summary Report as required by the EM&A Manual for Hong Kong Link Road (EM&A Manual).

Future Key Issues

8.              Major site activities for the coming reporting month will include:

WA4

Ÿ   Fabrication of lifting frames

Ÿ   Deliveries of frame structures

 

WA7

Ÿ   Fabrication of cofferdam frame structures

 

Marine Viaduct (P0 to P80)

Ÿ   Remove rockfill platform for  rock breaking for cofferdam installation

Ÿ   Completed concrete plug, cutting steel casing and blinding concrete

Ÿ   Enhancement work to cofferdam to improve water tightness

Ÿ   Pile testing

 

Pile Cap Construction:

Ÿ   Installation of precast cap shells

Ÿ   Concreting

Ÿ   Kingpost installation and associated steel welding works

Ÿ   Concreting trimming

 

Column Construction:

Ÿ   Lifting works

Ÿ   Lift concreting

Ÿ   Pier head works

Ÿ   Pier head concreting

 

Precast Column Erection

Ÿ   Installation of base units and precast units

Ÿ   Stressing of vertical nailing tendons

Ÿ   Vertical Tendons Stressed

Ÿ   Grouting Vertical Tendons

Ÿ   Pier Head Concrete

 

Deck Erection

Ÿ   Setting up of equipment

Ÿ   Segment erection

 

Precast Segment

Ÿ   Segment casting

 

 

Land Viaduct (P81 to Abutment at Scenic Hill Tunnel (SHT))

Ÿ   Commencement of reinstatement works

Ÿ   Removal of falsework

Ÿ   Removal of steel bracket system

Ÿ   Construction of upper bearing plinths