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         No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded for air quality in the reporting period.

Noise

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

Water Quality

5.4         No Action/Limit Level exceedance for dissolved oxygen and turbidity was recorded in the reporting period.

5.5         There are two Action Level exceedances were recorded for suspended solids.

5.6         According to the investigation, the exceedances are considered not due to the Contract due to the following reasons:

No major marine construction activity was conducted;

No pollution discharge from construction activity was observed;       

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

Localized sediment plume due to the rough water condition was observed; and

Dispersion of sediment plume to the monitoring stations from the area outside the site boundary (i.e. area not under and related to HY/2011/09) was observed.

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.