EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Introduction

1. This is the 36^th 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 October 2022.

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	3, 6, 12, 18, 24 and 28 Oct 22	3, 6, 12, 18, 24 and 28 Oct 22	N/A	N/A	N/A
	FLN-DMS3			N/A	N/A	6, 12, 18, 24 and 28 Oct 22
	FLN-DMS5			5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	N/A
	KTN-DMS4(B)	5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22		5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	N/A
24-hr TSP Monitoring	FLN-DMS1	N/A	N/A	5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	N/A	N/A	N/A
	FLN-DMS3			N/A	N/A	5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22
	FLN-DMS5A			5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	N/A
	KTN-DMS4(B)	5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22		5, 11, 17, 21 and 27 Oct 22	N/A
Noise Monitoring	CP-FLN-NMS1	N/A			6, 12, 18 and 24 Oct 22			N/A
	CP-FLN-NMS2	N/A				6, 12, 18 and 24 Oct 22	N/A
	CP-KTN-NMS2	5, 11, 17 and 27 Oct 22	N/A	N/A
	CP-KTN-NMS3
	CP-KTN-NMS5
	CP-KTN-NMS6	N/A	5, 11, 17 and 27 Oct 22
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*	6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 21, 27, 28 , and 31 October 22	6, 13, 19, 27 and 31 October 22	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*
	Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Impacts to Ma Tso Lung Stream and Siu Hang San Tsuen Stream	17 October 22	N/A*	17 October 22	17 October 22	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*
	Monitoring of Measures to Minimise Impacts on Ecological Sensitive Habitats from Disturbance and Pollution	20 and 26 October 22	20 and 26 October 22	26 October 22	26 October 22	26 October 22	N/A*	N/A*
24-hr RSP (Ambient Arsenic) Monitoring for Land Contamination		3, 7, 13, 19, 25 and 31 Oct 22	N/A	3, 7, 13, 19, 25 and 31 Oct 22	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Water Quality Monitoring		N/A	3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28 and 31 Oct 22	N/A	3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28 and 31 Oct 22	N/A	N/A	N/A
Landfill Gas Monitoring		20 Oct 22	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Built Heritage Monitoring		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Daily assessment subject to construction works conducted within assessment area	N/A	N/A
Environmental Site Inspection		3, 11, 18 and 26 Oct 22	5, 12, 19 and 24 Oct 22	7, 14, 18 and 28 Oct 22	6, 13, 19 and 27 Oct 22	3, 12, 17, 24 and 31 Oct 22	6, 13, 19 and 27 Oct 22	7, 14, 19 and 28 Oct 22

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)	0	0	0	1	0	1
Water Quality ^[1]	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

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.

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. Built heritage monitoring was carried out in the reporting month by the Contractor under ND/2019/04 and ND/2019/05 for surveyed cultural heritage. No Limit Level exceedance was recorded.

Ecological Monitoring

11. All ecological monitoring was conducted as scheduled in the reporting month. The monitoring result is shown in Appendix L and will be compared with the Action/Limit level after the issuance of Final Baseline Ecological Report.

Complaint Log

12. Four environmental complaints were received in the reporting month. One for ND/2019/01, One for ND/2019/02 and Two for ND/2019/05.

Notification of Summons and Successful Prosecutions

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

Reporting Changes

14. 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

15. 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 (November 2022 to January 2023)
ND/2019/01	(a) Site Clearance, tree felling, removal of existing structures, site formation and G.I works in Portion 1a (b) Sheet piling, excavation, backfilling, drainage works, construction of hoarding, road works and noise barrier in Portion 1b (c) Site clearance and site formation in Portion 1c (d) Temporary storage of material and site formation in Portion 1e (e) Site clearance, tree felling, site formation work and construction of subway in Portion 2 (f) Excavation, backfilling and drainage works in Portion 3 (g) Drainage works, watermain, excavation, backfilling, road works and sheet piling in Portion 5 (h) Drainage works, backfilling and road works in Portion 6a (i) Operation of HAC treatment facility in Portion 6b (j) Site formation, sheet piling, excavation and drainage works in Portion 7 (k) Construction of retaining wall, maintenance access construction, RC construction of flushing water service reservoir and fresh water reservoir, pipe pile wall of WSD¡¦s maintenance access and backfilling works in Portion 8a (l) ELS for jacking pit at LWSC¡¦s car park and trenchless work, excavation and watermain construction in Portion 8b (m) Sheet piling, excavation, drainage works and constructure of retaining wall and soil nail in Portion 9b (n) Stockpile of soil in Portion 9c (o) Excavation, sheet piling for ELS, drainage works, road construction and utilities works in Portion 10a (p) Sheet piling, excavation and drainage works in Portion 10b
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 - Road work at Yin Kong Road - Construction of Pai Lau (b) Long Valley - Erection of Permanent Boundary Structure - Construction of Irrigation Channel - Construction of Type 1 Storage House - Construction of Type 2 Storage House - Construction of Tea House - Construction of Composting Facility - Construction works of Bird Hide - Construction works of Outdoor Classroom - Wetland Creation & Restoration works - Construction of Compacted Earth Path/ Walkway - Construction of Wetland Boardwalk
ND/2019/04	(a) Tree Felling (b) Predrill (c) Bored Piling (d) Excavation (e) Sheet Piling (f) Drainage Works (g) Grouting (h) ELS
ND/2019/05	(a) North Team Works - Bored piling at B2 & C1(Portion II) and D2-01. - ELS works and Pile cap construction at B1-01m, B1-02ab, C1-01ab, C1-02ab, C2-01, C2-02,C2-03ab, C2-04ab, C3-01ab, C3-02, D1-02, D2-01 and E2-01. - Pier construction at B1-02ab, C1-01ab, C1-02ab, C1-03ab, C1-04ab, C2-01, C2-02, D1-02,E1-04 & E2-01. - Slope works of 3SW-C/F63 & FS05 of Jockey Club Road. Road and drainage works of northbound of Jockey Club Rd. (b) Viaduct Works - Segment fabrication for bridge C2 & C3 & D1 & E1. - Remaining components of Launching Girder (LG) assembly works. - Segments erection for bridges D1 and E1. - 2nd set FT delivery. To be used in October-2022. - 3rd set FT design and fabrication. To be used in Feb-2023. - 4th set FT design and fabrication. To be used in May-2023. - Complete construction of pile caps E2-01 and D2-01 and installation of cast-in rotation bridge components. - Bridge rotation system fabrication completion and delivery to site (b) (c) South Team Works - Venton Area ¡V Construct new road (section from Venton to Kei Kee). - Portion 13 ¡V Fw52 bay 1 to 4a, Telecom ducts laying. - Portion 17 and 18 ¡V Telecom ducts laying. Water main laying. - TWSR (West) ¡V Slope work for FS06. Soil nail for FS04. 132KV ducts laying at FS04. - TWSR (East) ¡V Form D300 new road, BBI footing - HKY FB (East) ¡V Erection of steel bridge - E2-03 ¡V Pile cap and Pier construction. - E3-02 ¡V Pier head construction - D2-02 ¡V Piling for tower crane construction. - D2-03 ¡V Cap and Pier construction. - E3-04b, E3-05M and E4-01 ¡V predrilling and piling. - NB109 ¡V base slab construction.
ND/2019/06	The construction phase has been completed and handed over to AFCD since 4 April 2022.
ND/2019/07	(a) Site clearance at Portion 4 (b) Road works at Portion 1 (c) C&D waste disposal at Portion 1, 2, 4 and 5 (d) Construction of box culvert at Portion 2 (e) Filling works at Portion 2 and 4 (f) Construction of site haul road at Portion 4 (g) Drainage works, sewerage works at Portion 1, 3, 4 and 5 (h) Mini piling works at Portion 4 (i) Construction of noise barrier at Portion 4 and 5 (j) Waterworks at Portion 1