EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Introduction

1. This is the 9^th 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 July 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-468/2013/A	Kwu Tung North New Development Area Road D1 to D5	1^st June 2020
	EP-470/2013	Utilization of Treated Sewage Effluent (TSE) from Shek Wu Hui Sewage Treatment Works	23^rd March 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	3^rd July 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	29^th 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/2019/03	ND/2019/06
1-hr Total Suspended Particulates (TSP) Monitoring		2^nd,8^th,14^th,20^th,24^th,30^th July 2020		N/A
24-hr TSP Monitoring		2^nd,8^th,14^th,20^th,24^th,30^th July 2020		N/A
24-hr RSP (Ambient Arsenic) Monitoring for Land Contamination		6^th,10^th,16^th,22^nd,28^th July 2020		N/A
Noise Monitoring		2^nd,8^th,14^th,24^th,30^th July 2020
Landfill Gas Monitoring		7^th July 2020	N/A	N/A
Ecological Survey	Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Disturbance to Water Birds on Sheung Yue River, and Long Valley	N/A*	7^th,13^th,20^th,27^th July 2020	N/A*
	Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Impacts to Ma Tso Lung Stream	29^th July 2020		N/A*
	Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Impacts on Ecological Sensitive Habitats from Disturbance and Pollution	17^th July 2020	N/A*	N/A*
Environmental Site Inspection		9^th,16^th,21^st,28^th July 2020	3^rd,10^th,17^th,21^st,31^st July 2020	2^nd,9^th,15^th,23^rd,30^th July 2020

Remark:

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

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

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. One 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 (August and September 2020)
ND/2019/01	(a) Ground Investigation in Portion 1f; (b) Site Clearance, Ground Investigation in Portion 2 (c) Tree Survey, Site Clearance in Portion 3 (d) Sampling and testing for site trial for In-situ cement mixing (ICM) for soil treatment works in Portion 4 (e) Site Clearance, Ground Investigation in Portion 5 (f) Site Clearance, Ground Investigation in Portion 6a; (g) Completion of Soil Treatment Facility, Pilot trial for Ex-situ cement mixing (ECM) for soil treatment, provide soil treatment for HAC soil by ECM in Portion 6b; (h) Site Clearance, Tree felling, Construction of temporary road for alternative Po Lau Road, Land contamination assessment in Area T1, T2 & T3 in Portion 7; (i) Ground Investigation, Construction of Retaining Wall in Portion 8a; (j) Site Clearance, Ground Investigation, stockpile of soil in Portion 9c; (k) Site Clearance, Tree felling, Excavation in Portion 10a; and (l) Site Clearance in 10b
ND/2019/03	(a) Road and Drainage work in Portion 1; (b) Initial Restoration Work at Long Valley, Construction works of storage shed and Type 2 Storage House, construction of metal wire railing, site clearance in Portion 2 to 20; (c) Pre-relocation survey in Portion 23 and 24
ND/2019/06	(a) Construction of Management Office Building; (b) Installation of entrance gate at new run-in/out (c) Breaking up the concrete surface and disposal of C&D material off site at Portion 3 (d) Construction of footings of steel canopy of final stage market (e) Ground investigation works at Portion 3 (f) Tree felling at Portion 3 and 6.