EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Introduction

1.      This is the 49th monthly Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Report for the First Phase Development of Kwu Tung North (KTN) and Fanling North (FLN) New Development Areas (NDAs), comprising the Advance Works and First Stage Works (hereinafter called the ¡§the Project¡¨). This report is prepared by Wellab Limited under ¡§Service Contract No. NDO 04/2019 Environmental Team for Environmental Monitoring and Audit Works in Construction Phase for the First Phase Development of KTN and FLN NDAs¡¨ (hereinafter called the ¡§Service Contract¡¨). This report documents the findings of EM&A works conducted in November 2023.

 

2.      During the reporting month, the following Works Contracts under relevant Environmental Permit(s) were undertaken for the Project:

 

Table I     Works Contracts under relevant Environmental Permit(s) in the Reporting Month

Works Contracts

Environmental Permit No.

Designated Project (DP)

Commencement date of construction

Contract No. ND/2019/01 ¡V                Kwu Tung North New Development Area, Phase 1: Site Formation and Infrastructure Works

EP-466/2013/A

Castle Peak Road Diversion

12 August 2020

EP-467/2013/A

Kwu Tung North New Development Area Road P1 and P2 and Associated New Kwu Tung Interchange and Pak Shek Au Interchange Improvement

12 August 2020

EP-468/2013/A

Kwu Tung North New Development Area Road D1 to D5

1 June 2020

EP-470/2013/A

Utilization of Treated Sewage Effluent (TSE) from Shek Wu Hui Sewage Treatment Works

23 March 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/02 ¡V                  Kwu Tung North New Development Area, Phase 1: Roads and Drains between Kwu Tung North New Development Area and Shek Wu Hui

EP-469/2013

Sewage Pumping Stations in Kwu Tung North New Development Area

28 October 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/03 ¡V                  Kwu Tung North and Fanling North New Development Areas, Phase 1: Development of Long Valley Nature Park

EP-468/2013/A

Kwu Tung North New Development Area Road D1 to D5

3 July 2020

EP-473/2013/A

Fanling Bypass Eastern Section (New Road)

6 October 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/04 ¡V           Fanling North New Development Area, Phase 1: Fanling Bypass Eastern Section (Shek Wu San Tsuen North to Lung Yeuk Tau)

EP-473/2013/A

 

Fanling Bypass Eastern Section (New Road)

23 February 2021

EP-546/2017

Fanling North Temporary Sewage Pumping Station

16 February 2021

Contract No. ND/2019/05 ¡V            Fanling North New Development Area, Phase 1: Fanling Bypass Eastern Section (Shung Him Tong to Kau Lung Hang)

EP-473/2013/A

Fanling Bypass Eastern Section (New Road)

1 August 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/06 ¡V            Fanling North New Development Area, Phase 1: Re-provisioning of North District Temporary Wholesale Market for Agricultural Products

EP-475/2013/A

Reprovision of temporary Wholesale Market in Fanling North New Development Area

29 October 2019

Contract No. ND/2019/07 ¡V            Fanling North New Development Area, Phase 1: Site Formation and Infrastructure Works

Works area not under relevant Environmental Permit for Phase 1 of the Project.

1 March 2021

Environmental Monitoring and Audit Progress

3.      A summary of the EM&A activities in this reporting month is listed in Table II below:


 


Table II   Summary Table for EM&A Activities in the Reporting Month

EM&A Activities

Monitoring Station (s)

Works Contracts

ND/2019/01

ND/2019/02

ND/2019/03

ND/2019/04

ND/2019/05

ND/2019/06

ND/2019/07

1-hr Total Suspended Particulates (TSP) Monitoring

FLN-DMS1

N/A

N/A

2, 8, 14, 20, 24 and 30 Nov 23

2, 8, 14, 20, 24 and 30 Nov 23

N/A

N/A

N/A

FLN-DMS3

N/A

N/A

2, 8, 14, 20, 24 and 30 Nov 23

FLN-DMS5

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

KTN-DMS4(B)

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

24-hr TSP Monitoring

FLN-DMS1

N/A

N/A

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

N/A

N/A

FLN-DMS3

N/A

N/A

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

FLN-DMS5A

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

KTN-DMS4(B)

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

Noise Monitoring

CP-FLN-NMS1

N/A

2, 8, 14, 20, 30 Nov 23

N/A

CP-FLN-NMS2

N/A

2, 8, 14, 20, 30 Nov 23

N/A

CP-KTN-NMS2

1, 7, 13, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

N/A

CP-KTN-NMS3

CP-KTN-NMS5

CP-KTN-NMS6

N/A

1, 7, 13, 23 and 29 Nov 23

Ecological Survey

Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Disturbance to Water Birds on Ng Tung River, Sheung Yue River, and Long Valley

N/A

N/A

1, 2, 9, 10, 13, 16, 23, 24, 27 and 28 Nov 2023

1, 9, 16, 23 and 28 Nov 23

N/A

N/A

N/A

Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Impacts to Ma Tso Lung Stream and Siu Hang San Tsuen Stream

N/A*

N/A*

N/A*

N/A*

N/A*

N/A*

N/A*

Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Impacts on Ecological Sensitive Habitats from Disturbance and Pollution

14 and 20 Nov 23

14 and 20 Nov 23

20 Nov 23

20 Nov 23

20 Nov 23

N/A*

N/A*

Egretry Monitoring

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

24-hr RSP (Ambient Arsenic) Monitoring for Land Contamination

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

1, 7, 13, 17, 23 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Water Quality Monitoring

N/A

1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 27 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 27 and 29 Nov 23

N/A

N/A

N/A

Landfill Gas Monitoring

30 Nov 23

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Built Heritage Monitoring

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Environmental Site Inspection

7, 17, 21 and 29 Nov 23

1, 8, 15, 24 and 29 Nov 23

3, 10, 17, 21 and 28 Nov 23

2, 9, 16, 20 and 30 Nov 23

6, 14, 20 and 27 Nov 23

NIL

3, 10, 17 and 24 Nov 23

 




 

 

 

Remarks:  

N/A ¡V No relevant monitoring is required according to the updated EM&A Manual

N/A* ¡V No relevant monitoring is required according to the Baseline Ecological Monitoring Plan (Table 3.1)

[1] Since the distance between monitoring station CP-KTN-NMS2 and site boundary of ND/2019/03 under EP-468/2013/A exceeds 300m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/03

[2] Since the distance between monitoring station CP-KTN-NMS3 and site boundary of ND/2019/03 under EP-468/2013/A exceeds 300m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/03

[3] Since the distance between monitoring station CP-KTN-NMS1 and site boundary of ND/2019/02 under EP-469/2013 exceeds 300m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/02

[4] Since the distance between monitoring station FLN-DMS1 and site boundary of ND/2019/05 under EP-473/2013/A exceeds500m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/05

[5] Since the distance between monitoring station FLN-DMS3 and site boundary of ND/2019/03 and ND/2019/04 under EP-473/2013/A exceeds 500m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/03 and ND/2019/04

[6] Since the distance between monitoring station FLN-DMS5 and site boundary of ND/2019/05 under EP-473/2013/A exceeds 500m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/05

[7] Since the distance between monitoring station CP-FLN-NMS2 and site boundary of ND/2019/03 and ND/2019/04 under EP-473/2013/A exceeds 300m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/03 and ND/2019/04

[8] Since the distance between monitoring station CP-FLN-NMS1 and site boundary of ND/2019/03 under EP-473/2013/A exceeds 300m, the monitoring station is not applicable to ND/2019/03


Breaches of Action and Limit Levels

 

4.      Summary of the environmental exceedances of the reporting month is tabulated in Table III.

 

Table III   Summary Table for Events Recorded in the Reporting Month

Environmental Monitoring

Parameter

No. of non-project related Exceedances

Total No. of non-project related Exceedances

No. of Exceedance related to the Construction Works of the Contract

Total No. of Exceedance related to the Construction Works of the Contract

Action Level

Limit Level

Action Level

Limit Level

Air Quality

1-hr TSP

0

0

0

0

0

0

24-hr TSP

0

0

0

0

0

0

24-hr RSP

(Ambient Arsenic)

0

0

0

0

0

0

Noise

Leq(30min)

2

0

2

0

0

0

Water Quality

DO

0

0

0

0

0

0

Turbidity

0

0

0

0

0

0

SS

0

0

0

0

0

0

Arsenic

0

0

0

0

0

0

Landfill Gas

O2

0

0

0

0

0

0

CH4

CO2

Cultural heritage

Built Heritage Monitoring

0

0

0

0

0

0

Ecological Monitoring

Avifauna

0

0

0

0

0

0

Non-aquatic fauna

3

2

0

0

0

0

 

Air Quality

 

5.      All construction air quality monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded.

 

Construction Noise

6.      All construction noise monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. Two (2) Action Level exceedances were recorded. No Limit Level exceedance was recorded.


 

Water Quality

7.      All additional water quality monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. No Action/Limit Level Exceedance was recorded. No construction of channel for alternation of natural streams was carried out in the reporting month. Therefore, no water quality monitoring was conducted according to the Updated EM&A Manual and Baseline Water Quality Monitoring Report (KTN & FLN NDA). Relevant details are given in Section 5.

Land Contamination

8.      All ambient arsenic monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded.

Landfill Gas Monitoring

9.      Monitoring of landfill gas in the reporting month was carried out by the Contractor under ND/2019/01 at excavation location Portion 6b. No Limit Level exceedance was recorded.

Built Heritage Monitoring

10.  No Built heritage monitoring was carried out in the reporting month due to no works causing for surveyed cultural heritage at all. No Limit Level exceedance was recorded.

Ecological Monitoring

11.  All ecological monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month.

12.  Three (3) action level exceedance and two (2) limit level exceedance for non-aquatic fauna were recorded at T1, T3 & T6. The exceedance were considered non-project related, as large proportion of vegetative habitat along T3 were observed either removed and tarmacked as haul road by construction works outside of project, first reported in the Monthly Monitoring Report in December 2021. Dry weather throughout the month might also have influenced number of species of odonates recorded. In addition, necessary Ecological mitigation measure were provided by all nearby project-related sites. No evidence to suggest that the exceedance was related to project activities.

13.  The ecological monitoring result in the Reporting Month is shown in Appendix L.

Complaint Log

14.  Two (2) environmental complaints were received in the reporting month. The complaint regarding noise from loading / unloading activities from construction site near Tong Hang is for ND/2019/05, which was referred by EPD on 7 Nov 2023 for the complaint case received by EPD on 2 Nov 2023.

15.  The other complaint regarding machine noise from the construction site near Junction of Ma Sik Road and Sha Tau Kok Road is for ND/2019/04. This case was received by EPD on 26 October 2023 and referred to ET and IEC on 7 Nov 2023. The investigation is still in progress and the detail will be reported in the next monthly EM&A report (December 2023).

Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecutions

16.  No notification of summons or successful prosecutions was received in the reporting month.

Reporting Changes

 

17.  This report has been prepared in compliance with the reporting requirements for the subsequent monthly EM&A Report as required by the ¡§Updated Environmental Monitoring and Audit Manual for Advance and First Stage Works of Kwu Tung North and Fanling North New Development Areas¡¨ (Updated EM&A Manual).

Future Key Issues

18.     The major site activities for the coming three months are shown in Table IV.

Table IV       Summary Table for Site Activities in the coming Three Months

Contract No.

Site Activities (December 2023 to February 2024)

ND/2019/01

(a)          Drainage works and sheet piles in Portion 1a

(b)         Site formation, stockpile of soil, erection of hoarding and construction of noise barrier in Portion 1c

(c)          Temporary storage of material in Portion 1e

(d)         Site formation work, construction of subway, road works and drainage works in Portion 2

(e)          Excavation, backfilling, drainage and watermain works in Portion 3

(f)          Watermain works, excavation, backfilling, road works, sheet piling and pipe jacking in Portion 5

(g)         Drainage works, backfilling, road works and watermains works in Portion 6a

(h)         Operation of HAC treatment facility in Portion 6b

(i)           Sheet piling, excavation, stockpile of soil, drainage works and watermain work in Portion 7

(j)           Construction of retaining wall, RC construction of fresh water reservoir, excavation at  WSD¡¦s maintenance access, backfilling works, drainage works,  soil nail and pipe pile wall installation in Portion 8a

(k)         Trenchless work, excavation, watermain works and ground treatment in Portion 8b

(l)           Sheet piling, excavation, road works, drainage works and watermain works in Portion 9b

(m)       Removal of existing structure in Portion 11b

(n)         Site clearance, tree felling, removal of existing structure and stockpile of soil in Portion 13

ND/2019/02

(a)           Pipe Jacking

(b)           Backfilling

(c)           Concreting

(d)           Bedding & Pipe Laying

(e)           ELS

(f)            Sheet Pile Installation

(g)           Cut and Fill of Slope

ND/2019/03

(a)        Portion 1 & Portion 1A

-            Construction of Pavilion at Yin Kong Road

(b)     Portion 2 to Portion 20C

-          Wetland creation & restoration, Dry agricultural land creation

-          Construction of compacted earth path

-          Construction of Water Treatment Wetland

-          Tree felling and tree pruning work

-          Construction of Lodging Facility

-          Construction of Dry Weather Flow Interception (DWFI)

-          Construction of Car Park and Farmer¡¦s Forum

ND/2019/04

(a)           Tree Pruning

(b)           Pile Cap

(c)           Back Filling

(d)           Excavation

(e)           Grouting

(f)            Sheet Piling

(g)           Road works

(h)           Formwork and Scaffolding Erection

(i)            Rebar Fixing

(j)            Bore pile

(k)           ELS

ND/2019/05

(a)           North Team Works

-          Backfilling and drainage work at C4-02 & C4-01.

-          Backfilling at C2-02, C3-03 & portion II.

-          Slope works at On Lok Garden FS 30.

-          Extraction of sheet pile in abutment B1 and construction of remaining abutment wall near portal B2-01.

-          Construction of FW 53.

-          Water works at Jockey Club Rd.

-          Road works of northbound of Jockey Club Rd & ducting works at central median.

-          Sampling of existing pavement in southbound of Jockey Club Rd.

-          Construction of new box culvert & retaining wall at Tong Hang Tsuen

-          Drainage works ¡V DN 900 at On Kui Street near B1.

-          pier head construction at D2-01.

-          Cross head construction at B2-01, B2-02 & B2-03.

(b)         Viaduct Works

-          Segment fabrication for bridge C2, C1, D1, D2, E1, E4

-          Segments erection by LG at bridges C3, C2

-          SOP construction at D2-01

-          Construction of Bridge B1

-          Parapet skin fabrication and parapet construction.

(c)          South Team Works

-          TWSRW ¡V Road work and UUs laying (Section P800 CH 450 to 600).

-          TWSRW ¡V Construction of lower berm and Hydroseeding at FS04.

-          TWSRW - CLP 11 kv cable diversion work (1ST)

-          TWSRW ¡V Gas (IPA400 and HP600) diversion work

-          TWSRW ¡V Foundation work of D2-04M

-          HKY FB (East) ¡V Installation of cladding and E&M works.

-          HKY FB (West) ¡V Construction of LT2 (Mini-piles)

-          E3-04a, E304b, E4-01 and E4-02 ¡V cap construction

-          E305M Pier Head construction

-          NB109 ¡V Bay 11~12 base slab construction. Bay 5 to 12 wall construction.

-          NB69 ¡V Bay 2~8 ELS works

-          NB110 ¡V Bay 6~7 ELS works

-          Demolish Existing NB74 and BBI

-          Removal Sign Gantry DS64

(d)         Form Traveler

-          E3-01 ¡V construction 3rd to 6th pair

-          E2-02 ¡V construction 14th pair & dismantling of FT1

-          D2-02 ¡V construction 06th to 8th pair

-          D2-03 ¡V construction 2nd pair to 4th pair

-          E2-01 - erection of 5th set of form traveler.

ND/2019/06

The construction phase has been completed and handed over to AFCD since 4 April 2022.

ND/2019/07

(a)        Road works at Portion 1, 4 and 5

(b)        C&D waste disposal at Portion 1, 2, 4 and 5

(c)        Construction of box culvert at Portion 2

(d)        Filling works at Portion 2 and 4

(e)        Construction of site haul road at Portion 4

(f)         Drainage works, Sewerage works at Portion 2, 3, 4 and 5

(g)        Construction of noise barrier at Portion 4 and 5

(h)        Waterworks at Portion 1, 2 and 4