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introduction
ERM-Hong Kong,
Limited (ERM) was appointed by OSCAR Bioenergy Joint Venture (the Contractor)
as the Environmental Team (ET) to undertake the Environmental Monitoring and
Audit (EM&A) programme for the Contract No. EP/SP/61/10
of Organic Waste Treatment Facilities Phase I (the
Project).
This is the ninth quarterly EM&A summary
report, which summarizes the impact monitoring results and audit findings for
the EM&A programme during the reporting period from 1 June 2017 to 31 August
2017.
The structure of the report is as
follows:
Section
1 : Introduction
It
details the scope and structure of the report.
Section 2 : Project
Information
It summarises
background and scope of the Project, site description, project organization,
construction programme, the construction works undertaken and the status of
Environmental Permits (EP)/licences over the construction phase of the Project.
Section
3 : Environmental
Monitoring Requirements
It summarises the environmental monitoring including
monitoring parameters, monitoring programmes, monitoring frequency, monitoring
locations, Action and Limit Levels, Event/Action Plans, environmental
mitigation measures as recommended in the approved EIA report, EP and relevant
environmental requirements stated in the Contract Specification.
Section
4 : Implementation Status on Environmental
Mitigation Measures
It summarises the implementation of environmental
protection measures during the reporting period.
Section
5 : Waste Management
It summarises the quantity of public fill and
construction waste generated in the reporting period
Section
6 : Environmental Site Inspection
It summarises the audit findings of the weekly site
inspections undertaken within the reporting period.
Section
7 : Environmental Non-conformance
It summarises any exceedance of environmental
performance standard, and environmental complaints and environmental summons
received within the reporting period.
Section 8 : Conclusions
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Project
information
The
Organic Waste Treatment Facilities (OWTF) Phase I development (hereinafter
referred to as “the Project”) is to design, construct and operate a biological
treatment facility with a capacity of about 200 tonnes per day and convert source-separated
organic waste from commercial and industrial sectors (mostly food waste) into
compost and biogas through proven biological treatment technologies.
The environmental acceptability of the construction and operation
of the Project had been confirmed by findings of the associated Environmental
Impact Assessment (EIA) Study completed in 2009. The Director of Environmental Protection
approved this EIA Report under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance
(EIAO) (Cap. 499) in February 2010 (Register No.: AEIAR-149/2010) (hereafter referred to as the approved EIA Report). Subsequent Report on Re-assessment on
Environmental Implications and Report on Re-assessment on Hazard to Life
Implications were completed in 2013, respectively.
An Environmental Permit
(EP) (No. EP-395/2010) was issued by the Environmental Protection Department
(EPD) to the EPD, the Permit Holder, on 21 June 2010 and varied on 18 March
2013 (No. EP-395/2010/A) and 21 May 2013 (No. EP-395/2010/B),
respectively. The Design
Build and Operate Contract for the OWTF (Contract No. EP/SP/61/10 Organic Waste
Treatment Facilities Phase I (the Contract)) was awarded to SITA Waste Services
Limited, ATAL Engineering Limited and Ros-Roca, Sociedad Anonima jointly trading
as the OSCAR Bioenergy Joint Venture (OSCAR or the Contractor). A Further EP (No.
FEP-01/395/2010/B) was issued by the EPD to the OSCAR
on 16 February 2015. Variation to both EPs No. EP-395/2010/B
and No. FEP-01/395/2010/B were made in December
2015. The latest EPs, No. EP-395/2010/C and No. FEP-01/395/2010/C, were issued by the
EPD on 21 December 2015.
Under the requirements of
Condition 5 of the EP (No.
FEP-01/395/2010/C), an Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) programme
as set out in the Agreement No. CE7/2008 (EP) EM&A Manual (hereinafter
referred to as EM&A Manual) is required to be implemented. ERM-Hong Kong, Ltd (ERM) has been
appointed by OSCAR as the Environmental Team (ET) to undertake the EM&A programme
for the Contract.
The construction works commenced on 21 May 2015 and
are scheduled for completion by November 2017.
2.2
General Site Description
The Project Site is located at Siu Ho
Wan in North Lantau with an area of about 2 hectares. The layout of the upgrading
works is illustrated in Annex A.
A summary of the major construction activities
undertaken in the reporting period is shown Table
2.1. The locations of the
construction activities are shown in Annex B. The construction programme of the
Project is presented in Annex C.
Table 2.1 Summary
of Construction Activities Undertaken in the Reporting Period
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Construction Activities Undertaken
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·
Building 1 - structure for parts
store, FSI chamber, ABWF and finishing work, cladding work for steel roof,
covered walkway and CAPCS stack steelwork, E&M & BS installation.
·
Building 2 & 3 –ABWF and
finishing work, E&M installation.
·
GRP ductwork to Building 1 & 2
roof.
·
Installation of Roller Shutter.
·
Installation of Tunnel Doors,
Roller Shutter and Rapid Door.
·
Building 3 – ABWF, Electrical and
BS installation inside rooms at G/F & LR/F.
·
Weighbridge control room structure,
weighbridge installation, CHP/ASP stack installation.
·
Link bridge steelwork.
·
Conical tank footing construction,
conical tank installation.
·
Guard house excavation and water
meter cabinet structure.
·
AD area – piping & electrical
work.
·
Biogas and desulphurization
pipework.
·
Pipe racks - cable pulling &
piping work.
·
Pipe rack and cable rack
installation.
·
Ammonia Stripping Plant –mechanical,
electrical & instrumentation work.
·
Electrical installation (cable
trays, Local Control panels/switch installation, general cabling works,
instrumentation and control installation, lighting installation)
·
Site wide –Underground drainage,
draw pit and catch pit work, water pipe, boundary fence wall construction,
U-channel & roadworks.
·
Portion 4 – Material handling and
storage.
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2.4
Project Organisation
and Management Structure
The project organisation chart and contact details are
shown in Annex D.
2.5
Status of
Environmental Approval Documents
A
summary of the valid permits, licences, and/or notifications on
environmental protection for this Project is presented in Table 2.2.
Table 2.2 Summary of Environmental Licensing,
Notification and Permit Status
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Permit/ Licenses/
Notification
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Reference
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Validity Period
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Remarks
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Environmental
Permit
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FEP-01/395/2010/C
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Throughout the
Contract
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Permit granted on 21
December 2015
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Notification of
Construction Works under the Air Pollution Control (Construction Dust)
Regulation
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Ref No. 386715
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Throughout the
Contract
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-
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Effluent Discharge
License
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WT00021482-2015
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21 May 2015 – 31
May 2020
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Approved on 21 May
2015
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Construction Noise
Permit – P1&P2
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GW-RW0079-17
(Superseded GW-RW0678-16)
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07 March 2017– 20 July
2017
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Approved on 1 March 2017
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Construction Noise
Permit – P1&P2
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GW-RW0351-17
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21 July 2017– 20
January 2018
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Approved on 17 July 2017
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Construction Noise
Permit – P3
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GW-RW0267-17
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1 June 2017 – 30 November 2017
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Approved on 26 May 2017
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Chemical Waste
Producer Registration
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WPN
5213-961-O2231-01
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Throughout the
Contract
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Approved on 29
April 2015
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Waste Disposal
Billing Account
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Account number: 702310
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Throughout the
Contract
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Environmental Monitoring Requirement, environmental Mitigation
Measures
All the relevant environmental mitigation measures
listed in the EIA Report and EM&A Manual are summarised in Annex E.
According to the EM&A Manual and EP requirement,
no air quality, noise and water quality monitoring is required.
Bi-weekly landscape and visual audit is required to ensure that the design,
implementation and maintenance of landscape and visual mitigation measures
recommended in the EIA Report are fully achieved.
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Implementation
Status on Environmental Protection Requirements
The Contractor has implemented environmental
mitigation measures and requirements as stated in the approved EIA Report and
EM&A Manual. The implementation
status of the measures during the reporting period is summarised in Annex E.
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Waste Management
Wastes generated from this Project include inert
construction and demolition (C&D) materials (public fill) and non-inert
C&D materials (construction waste).
Construction waste comprises general refuse, metals and paper/cardboard
packaging materials. Metals
generated from the Project are also grouped into construction waste as the
materials were not disposed of with others at public fill. Reference has been made to the Monthly
Summary Waste Flow Table prepared by the Contractor (see Annex F). With reference to the relevant handling
records and trip tickets of this Project, the quantities of different types of
waste generated in the reporting month are summarised in in Table 5.1.
Table 5.1 Quantities
of Waste Generated from the Project
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Month
/ Year
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Quantity
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Total
Inert C&D Materials Generated (a)
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Non-inert
C&D Materials (b)
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C&D
Materials Recycled (c)
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C&D
Waste Disposed of at Landfill (d)
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Chemical
Waste
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June 2017
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352.12 tonnes
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30,230.00
kg
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70.58
tonnes
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700.00
L
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July 2017
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400.72 tonnes
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23,520.00
kg
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52.20
tonnes
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0.00
L
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August 2017
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589.89 tonnes
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55,629.00
kg
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69.52
tonnes
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700.00
L
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Notes:
(a) Inert
C&D materials (public fill) include bricks, concrete, building debris,
rubble and excavated spoil. In
total, 1,342.73 tonnes of inert C&D material were generated from
the Project, of which 471.00 tonnes were reused in this Contract and the
remaining 871.73 tonnes were disposed as public fill to Fill Banks at Tuen Mun Area 38. The detailed
waste flow is presented in Annex F.
(b) Non-inert
C&D materials (construction wastes) include metals, paper / cardboard
packaging waste, plastics and other wastes such as general refuse. Metals generated from the Project were
grouped into construction wastes as the materials were not disposed of with
others at the public fill.
(c) 31,630.00 kg of metals, 55,809.00 kg of papers/ cardboard packing and 21,940.00 kg of plastics were sent to recyclers for recycling during the reporting
period.
(d) Construction wastes other than metals, paper/cardboard packaging,
plastics and chemicals were disposed of at NENT Landfill by subcontractors.
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Environmental Inspections
Thirteen
site inspections were conducted during the reporting period. There was no non-compliance recorded
during the site inspections.
Follow-up actions were undertaken as reported by the Contractor and
observed in the subsequent weekly site inspections conducted in the reporting
period.
June
2017
Joint
site inspections were conducted by the representatives of the Contractor, SOR
and the ET on 5, 12, 21 and 26 June 2017. The IEC was also present at the joint inspection on 26 June 2017.
July
2017
Joint
site inspections were conducted by the representatives of the Contractor, SOR
and the ET on 3, 10, 19, 24 and 31 July 2017. The IEC was also present at the joint
inspection on 19 July 2017.
August
2017
Joint
site inspections were conducted by the representatives of the Contractor, SOR
and the ET on 7, 16, 21 and 30 August 2017. The IEC was also present at the joint inspection on 16 August 2017.
Seven
landscape and visual monitoring site inspections were conducted during the
reporting period. Follow-up actions
needed to be implemented were recommended to the Contractor and the status of
the follow-up actions was reviewed during the subsequent weekly site
inspections. It was confirmed that most of the
necessary landscape and visual mitigation measures as summarised in Annex E
were implemented by the Contractor.
In accordance with the EM&A Manual,
bi-weekly landscape and visual inspection is required to
ensure that the design, implementation and maintenance of landscape and visual
mitigation measures recommended in the EIA Report are fully achieved. The onsite inspection of the landscape and visual
mitigation measures has commenced since June 2015
during weekly site inspections.
June
2017
Bi-weekly site inspections
were conducted on 5
and 19 June 2017.
July
2017
Bi-weekly site inspections
were conducted on 3 and 17 July 2017.
August
2017
Bi-weekly site inspections
were conducted on 7 and 21 August 2017.
One more landscape and visual inspection was conducted on 24 August 2017 due to the Typhoon Hato swept through Hong Kong on 23rd August 2017. One tree (labelled
AT1) felled down after the typhoon and it was subsequently removed.
Key landscape and
visual mitigation measures implemented in the reporting period included:
· Provide
insect prevention measures to the exposed root of retained tree to prevent
potential damage due to the exposure.
· Provide
the non-moisture holding material around the trees to prevent potential damage.
· Avoid
placing machine near the tree protection zone.
6.3
Effectiveness of
Mitigation Measures and Monitoring
The
mitigation measures recommended in the EIA report and required by the EP are
considered effective in minimizing environmental impacts.
The
EM&A for the Project was conducted as scheduled during the reporting
period. No non-compliance events
were observed during site inspections and no
exceedances were recorded during this reporting period. The EM&A programme is considered effective.
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Environmental Non-conformance
7.1
Summary
of Environmental Non-Compliance
No non-compliance
event was recorded during the reporting period.
7.2
Summary
of Environmental Complaint
No complaint was received during the reporting
period. The cumulative
environmental complaint log is shown in Annex G.
No summon/prosecution was received during the
reporting period. The cumulative
summons/prosecution log is shown in Annex G.
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Conclusions
This
EM&A Report presents the EM&A works undertaken during the reporting period
from 1 June 2017 to 31 August 2017 in accordance with EM&A Manual and
requirements of EP (FEP-01/395/2010/C).
No air quality, noise and water quality monitoring is
required.
Bi-weekly
landscape and visual monitoring was conducted in
this quarterly period. Most of the
necessary landscape and visual mitigation measures recommended in the EIA
Report were implemented by the Contractor.
Follow-up actions would be implemented by the Contractor to improve protection
measures on the retained or to-be transplanted trees.
No non-compliance event was recorded
during the reporting period.
No
complaint and summons/prosecution was received during the reporting period.
The
ET will keep track on the EM&A programme to ensure compliance of
environmental requirements and the proper implementation of all necessary
mitigation measures in the coming periods.
