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 39 Action Level exceedances and 6 Limit Level exceedances were recorded for suspended solids. No Action/Limit Level exceedance for dissolved oxygen and 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)      Localized sediment plume due to the rough water condition was observed;

3)      The exceeded result was similar to the ranges baseline monitoring results;

4)      Monitoring station is situated at the upstream of the construction sites;

5)      Sediment plume due to natural fluctuation of shallow water was observed;

6)      Control Station value already exceeded either the Baseline Action or Limit Levels. (Please refer to table below);

Station(s)

Tide

Suspended Solids

( mg/L)

CS1

Mid-Flood Tide

26.5

 

 

 

 

 

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.