1                INTRODUCTION

 

1.1          Wellab Limited was commissioned by Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) as the Environmental Team to undertake the Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) services for the Works Contracts involved in the implementation of First Phase Development of Kwu Tung North (KTN) and Fanling North  (FLN) New Development Areas (NDAs) Project to ensure that the environmental performance of the Works Contracts comply with the requirements specified in the Environmental Permits (EPs), Updated Environmental Monitoring & Audit (EM&A) Manual, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Report of the KTN FLN NDAs project and other relevant statutory requirements. 

Purpose of the report

 

1.2          This is the 8th EM&A Report which summarises the key findings of the EM&A programme in June 2020.

Structure of the report

 

1.3          The structure of the report is as follows:

Section 1:

Introduction - purpose and structure of the report.

Section 2:

Project Information - summarises background and scope of the Project, site description, project organisation and contact details, construction programme, the construction works undertaken and the status of Environmental Permits/Licences during the reporting month.

Section 3:

Air Quality Monitoring - summarises the monitoring parameters, monitoring programmes, monitoring methodologies, monitoring frequencies, monitoring locations, Action and Limit Levels, monitoring results and Event / Action Plans.

Section 4:

Noise Monitoring - summarises the monitoring parameters, monitoring programmes, monitoring methodologies, monitoring frequencies, monitoring locations, Action and Limit Levels, monitoring results and Event / Action Plans.

Section 5:

Water Quality Monitoring - summarises the monitoring parameters, monitoring programmes, monitoring methodologies, monitoring frequencies, monitoring locations, Action and Limit Levels and Event / Action Plans.

Section 6:

Land Contamination (Ambient Arsenic Monitoring) -  summarises the monitoring parameters, monitoring programmes, monitoring methodologies, monitoring frequencies, monitoring locations, Action and Limit Levels, monitoring results and Event / Action Plans.

Section 7:

Landfill Gas Monitoring - summarises the monitoring requirement, monitoring parameters and frequency, monitoring locations, Action and Limit Levels, monitoring results and observation, and Event / Action Plans.

Section 8:

Ecological Monitoring – status of ecological monitoring

Section 9:

Environmental Site Inspection - summarises the audit findings of the weekly site inspections undertaken within the reporting month.

Section 10:

Environmental Non-conformance - summarises any monitoring exceedance, environmental complaints, environmental summons and successful prosecutions within the reporting month.

Section 11:

Future Key Issues - summarises the impact forecast and monitoring schedule for the next three months.

Section 12:

Conclusions and Recommendations