EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Introduction

1.       This is the 13th 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 November 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

2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30 Nov 2020

N/A

2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 18, 19, 24, 25, 30 Nov 2020

3, 9, 13, 19, 25 Nov 2020

N/A

 

24-hr TSP Monitoring

2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30 Nov 2020

N/A

2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30 Nov 2020

2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30 Nov 2020

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

5, 11, 17, 23, 27 Nov 2020

N/A

5, 11, 17, 23, 27 Nov 2020

N/A

Noise Monitoring

2, 12, 18, 24 Nov 2020

2, 12, 18, 24 Nov 2020

3, 9, 19, 25 Nov 2020

Landfill Gas

Monitoring

17 Nov 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*

2, 13, 16, 25, 30 Nov 2020

N/A*

N/A*

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

20, 27 Nov 2020

20, 27 Nov 2020

27 Nov 2020

27 Nov 2020

N/A*

Environmental Site Inspection

3, 10, 17, 24 Nov 2020

4, 11, 20, 25 Nov 2020

6, 13, 17, 27 Nov 2020

2, 11, 16, 23, 30 Nov 2020

5, 9, 19, 26 Nov 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)

1

0

 

 

 

1

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. One Action Level exceedance was recorded due to documented noise complaints received for Contract ND/2019/05 in this reporting month. No Limit Level exceedance was recorded in the reporting month.

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.   Two environmental complaints were received in the reporting month. One complaint was received for ND/2019/01 and one complaint was received for ND/2019/05.

 

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 (December 2020 and January 2021)

ND/2019/01

 

(a)           Ground investigation, site clearance and tree felling in Portion 1f;

(b)           Site clearance, construct temporary road and soil nail in Portion 2

(c)           Tree survey and site clearance in Portion 3

(d)          Construct temporary noise barrier, construct open channel and sand trap in Portion 4

(e)           Temporary slope cutting and temporary soil nailing in Portion 5

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

(g)           Provide soil treatment for HAC soil by ECM in Portion 6b

(h)           Construction of temporary road for alternative Po Lau Road and stockpiling in Portion 7

(i)            Site clearance, construction of retaining wall, cut slope and soil nailing works, excavation works for fresh water service reservoir, sub-soil drain laying at flushing water reservoir, R.C. works for flushing water S.R. in Portion 8a;

(j)            Tree survey, site clearance and ground investigation in Portion 9b&9d

(k)           Sheetpiling and excavation works, pipes laying in Portion 10a

(l)            Site Clearance in 10b

(m)         Site Clearance in Portion 11a

ND/2019/02

(a)           GI

(b)           Trial Pit

(c)           Tree felling

(d)          ELS

(e)           Hoarding erection

(f)            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

-          Recommended initial maintenance work

-          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 storage shed and type 2 Storage House

-          Wetland Creation & Restoration works after Obtaining Approval from AFCD

(c)         Portion 22 and Portion 27

-          Site clearance and demolition at Portion 22

-          Fish cage placing for Pre-Translocation

ND/2019/05

(a)         Site Clearance

(b)         Establishment of Temporary Site

(c)         Tree Felling

(d)        Trial Pits

(e)         Installation of site hoarding, fencing and temp. facilities

(f)          Construction of PM¡¦s Site Accommodation

(g)         Ground Investigation/Pre-drilling

(h)         Bored piling

(i)          Socketed H-pile installation

(j)          Footpath construction

(k)         Removal of existing noise barrier

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)          Tree felling at Portion 6

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

(f)            Demolition of existing public toilet at Portion 5.

(g)           Slope improvement works at Portion 6.