EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Introduction

1.       This is the 14th monthly Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Report under First Phase Development of Kwu Tung North (KTN) and Fanling North (FLN) New Development Areas (NDAs), comprising the Advance Works and First Stage Works (the Project). This report was 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 Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) work conducted in December 2020.

 

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 - Kwu Tung North New Development Area, Phase 1: Site Formation and Infrastructure Works

EP-466/2013

Castle Peak Road Diversion

12th 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

12th August 2020

EP-468/2013/A

Kwu Tung North New Development Area Road D1 to D5

 

1st June 2020

EP-470/2013

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

23rd March 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/02 - 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

28th October 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/03 - Kwu Tung North New Development Area, Phase 1: Development of Long Valley Nature Park

EP-468/2013/A

Kwu Tung North New Development Area Road D1 to D5

 

3rd July 2020

EP-473/2013/A

Fanling Bypass Eastern Section (New Road)

6th October 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/05 -

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)

1st August 2020

Contract No. ND/2019/06 - 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

29th October 2019

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

Works Contracts

ND/2019/01

ND/2019/02

ND/2019/03

ND/2019/05

ND/2019/06

1-hr Total Suspended Particulates (TSP) Monitoring

4, 10, 16, ,22, 28, 31 Dec 2020

N/A

1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 16, 17, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31 Dec 2020

1, 7, 11, 17, 23, 29 Dec 2020

N/A

 

24-hr TSP Monitoring

4, 10, 16, 22, 28, 31 Dec 2020

N/A

4, 10, 16, 22, 28, 31 Dec 2020

4, 10, 16, 22, 28 Dec 2020

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

3, 9, 15, 21, 24, 30 Dec 2020

N/A

3, 9, 15, 21, 24, 30 Dec 2020

N/A

Noise Monitoring

4, 10, 16, 22, 28 Dec 2020

4, 10, 16, 22, 28 Dec 2020

1, 7, 17, 23, 29 Dec 2020

Landfill Gas

Monitoring

24 Dec 2020

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Ecologic-al Survey

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

River, and Long Valley

N/A*

N/A*

10, 11, 14, 15, 21, 23, 30, 31 Dec 2020

N/A*

N/A*

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

7, 18 Dec 2020

7, 18 Dec 2020

7 Dec 2020

7 Dec 2020

N/A*

Environmental Site Inspection

1, 8, 15, 22, 29  Dec 2020

2, 9, 18, 23, 30 Dec 2020

4, 11, 15, 22 30 Dec 2020

9, 14, 21, 28 Dec 2020

3, 10, 14, 24, 31 Dec 2020

Remark:

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

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

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

 

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)

0

0

 

 

 

0

0

0

0

 

Landfill Gas

O2

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

CH4

CO2


 

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. No Action/Limit Level exceedance was recorded.

Water Quality

7.       No construction of channel for alternation of natural streams was carried out in the reporting month. Therefore, no water quality monitoring was conducted. For the details, please refer to 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 gases 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.

Ecological Monitoring

10.   All ecological monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. Action and limit level will be compared after the issue of Final Baseline Ecological Report. The ecological monitoring result in the Reporting Month is shown in Appendix H.

Complaint Log

11.   No environmental complaint was received in the reporting month.

 

Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecutions

 

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

 

Reporting Changes

 

13.   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

14.   The major site activities for the coming two months are shown in Table IV.

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

Contract No.

Site Activities (January 2021 and February 2021)

ND/2019/01

 

(a)           Site clearance and site formation in Portion 1f;

(b)           Site clearance, ground investigation, working platform erection for soil nail in Portion 2

(c)           Site clearance and ground investigation in Portion 3

(d)          Erection of temporary noise barrier steel frame and laying of rising mains in Portion 4

(e)           Site clearance, temporary slope cutting for temporary soil nailing, Stockpile of soil, Ground Investigation in Portion 5

(f)            Site Clearance, temporary slope cutting for temporary soil nailing, sheetpiling and excavation, pipes laying, backfilling, pre-bored H-piling in Portion 6a

(g)           Arsenic soil treatment works in Portion 6b

(h)           Site Clearance, Construction of temporary road for alternative Po Lau Road, Construction of site accommodation in Area T2 and T3 in Portion 7

(i)            Ground Investigation, Construction of Retaining Wall, slope cutting, soil nailing, slope drainage and maintenance access construction, Excavation for Fresh Water Service Reservoir, RC construction of Flushing Water Service Reservoir in Portion 8a

(j)            Ground Investigation in Portion 8b

(k)           Construction of temporary haul road in Portion 9b

(l)            Site clearance, Stockpile of soil in Portion 9c

(m)         Excavation, sheetpiling for ELS, pipes laying in Portion 10a

(n)           Site Clearance in Portion 10b

(o)           Laying of rising mains in in Portion 11b

(p)           Site clearance, Construction of temporary sewage pumping station, laying of rising mains in Portion 14

(q)           Site clearance, Construction of CLC in Portion 16

ND/2019/02

(a)           GI

(b)           Trial Pit

(c)           Tree felling

(d)          Hoarding erection

(e)           Pre-bored Socketed H-pile

ND/2019/03

 

(a)         Drainage works along Yin Kong Road, soil replacing in Portion 1;

(b)         Portion 2 to Portion 20

-          Erection of Permanent Boundary Structure

-          Construction of Irrigation Channel

-          Geotechnical Works in Long Valley (Trail Pits & Drill Hole)

-          Construction of Temporary Road in Long Valley

-          Asbestos Removal in Long Valley

-          Demolition of Existing Construction in Handed over Area

-          Construction works of type 2 Storage House

-          Construction of Outdoor Composting Facility

-          Construction of Bird Hide

-          Construction of Outdoor Classroom

-          Wetland Creation & Restoration works after Obtaining Approval from AFCD

(c)         Portion 22 and Portion 27

-          Planting at Portion 22

ND/2019/05

(a)         Ground investigation works

(b)         Pre-drilling for bored poles

(c)         Bored oiling

(d)        Socketed H-pile installation

(e)         Construction of haul road

(f)          Construction of Footpath

(g)         Footing construction

(h)         Site Formation

(i)          Utilities Diversion works

(j)          Project Manager¡¦s site Accommodation Construction

(k)         Tree Transplant

(l)          TTA

(m)       Drainage & Water Mains construction

(n)         Temporary removal of noise barrier and sign gantry 

 

 

ND/2019/06

 

(a)           Construction of finishing works, E&M works and Building Services works of Management Office Building (MOB) at Portion 4.

(b)           Installation of steel canopy column at Portion 3.

(c)           Construction of underground utilities in the final stage market at Portion 3.

(d)          Formation of carriageway and footway at Portion 3.

(e)           Off-site fabrication, welding and application of coating of columns and steel truss of steel canopy in China.  

(f)            Slope improvement works at Portion 6.