Environmental Monitoring and Audit Sample Clauses

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. 3.1 Environmental monitoring and audit are recommended for dust, odour and construction noise, to check compliance with relevant statutory criteria and to ensure the effectiveness of the mitigation measures. Site inspection and audit are also recommended for water quality and waste management during construction. Details of the recommended mitigation measures, monitoring procedures and locations are presented in a stand-alone Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) Manual. This will enable the Contractor to have early warning and provide necessary action to reduce impacts at specific areas if the critical assessment criteria are approached. The effectiveness of on-site control measures would also be evaluated through a monitoring exercise. All the recommended mitigation measures will be incorporated in an EM&A programme during implementation.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. An environmental monitoring and audit (EM&A programme) has been recommended for implementation during construction of the Project to ensure compliance with environmental legislation and standards during Project implementation. Monitoring of construction noise and water quality is recommended during construction of the Project to verify the effectiveness of the mitigation measures and to obtain a robust, defensible database of baseline information of noise and water quality before construction, and thereafter, to monitor any variation of noise and water quality from the baseline conditions and exceedances of relevant noise criteria and water quality objectives (WQOs) at the sensitive receivers during construction of the Project.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. 4.8.1 Waste management will be the contractor’s responsibility to ensure that all wastes produced during the decommissioning works are handled, stored and disposed of in accordance with good waste management practices and EPD’s regulations and requirements. The mitigation measures recommended in Section 4.6 should form the basis of the site Waste Management Plan to be developed by the contractor in the construction stage.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. 8.1 In accordance with the EIA, EM&A procedures are required during the design, construction and operation phases of the project implementation. The EM&A works during the design phase shall comprise an iterative audit process of specific design elements and the preparation of specifications. The following specification are recommended to be prepared during the design phase: ▪ bored piling monitoring programme; ▪ pre, during and post construction dolphin monitoring; ▪ 250m dolphin exclusion zone for use during dredging, reclamation, bored piling and sheet piling works; ▪ acoustic decoupling methods for use during reclamation and dredging works; ▪ marine vessel control specifications; ▪ deployment of an artificial reef; ▪ hoarding for protection of pitcher plants; ▪ coral translocation; ▪ design of toll plaza for grave G1 set back and protection; and ▪ landscape design. 8.2 During the construction and operation phases, the EM&A requirements are divided into environmental monitoring and/or project auditing in the form of site inspection and supervision. Environmental monitoring for dust, noise, ecology and water quality during the construction phase is recommended in order to ensure all proposed mitigation measures are implemented and effective. All of these parameters will also be subject to audit through site supervision. 8.3 Site supervision and procedures audit will be required during the construction phase to ensure the proper handling, storage, transportation and disposal of the various waste arising from the Project. Audit of the implementation of the design elements and mitigation measures to avoid ecological, landscape and visual and heritage impacts have also been recommended by the EIA, and thus, monitoring in the form of regular site inspections shall also be required to ensure mitigation measures are being implemented and are effective. EM&A for both ecology and landscape and visual resources will extend through the construction phase and into the operation phase to ensure planting and replanting have been effective. 8.4 In addition, the Project Proponent will set up an Environmental Protection Office (ENPO), or equivalent, to oversee the concurrent construction projects in North Lantau area.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. 5.11.1.1 With proper implementation of the recommended pollution control measures, water pollution from the Project would be avoided and minimised and no adverse water quality impacts would be expectced during the construction and operational phases. Water quality monitoring is therefore not considered necessary. Nonetheless, regular weekly site audit during the construction phase is proposed to inspect the construction activities and works area to ensure the recommended pollution control measures are properly implemented. 5.11.1.2 While the Project is expected to improve the overall water quality of TWN and environmental monitoring and audit for water quality is not considered necessary for the operational phase under this EIA study, as detailed in Section 5.8.3.1, a post-revitalisation water quality monitoring programme to review compliance with the Water Quality Goals as stipulated in DSD PN No. 3/2021 will be establised and implemeneted by the DSD.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. 8.9.1 As none of the heritage resources examined will be affected by this Project, no monitoring and audit programme specific for cultural heritage would be required.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. 3.9.1.1 No adverse air quality impact due to the construction of the Project would therefore be anticipated. Nonetheless, dust monitoring is recommended near mid-stream TWN (sections 2 to 4 of TWN) during construction phase to ascertain that there would be no adverse cumulative dust impacts at the nearby sensitive receivers due to this Project and the concurrent construction with the interfacing Revised Trunk Road T4, which site area overlaps with this Project. Regular weekly site environmental audit is also recommended to ensure the implementation of recommended mitigation measures during construction phase. Details of the monitoring and audit programme are contained in a stand-alone EM&A Manual. No EM&A programme is required during operational phase.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. 5.11.1 No off-site water quality impact would be expected from the proposed decommissioning and decontamination activities, marine water quality monitoring is not considered necessary. It is recommended that regular site inspections be undertaken to inspect the decommissioning activities and works areas in order to ensure that the recommended mitigation measures are properly implemented. Regular monitoring of the treated effluent quality from the centralized wastewater treatment unit and stormwater discharges from major storm outfalls within the works areas will be conducted. Monitoring parameters should constantly include SS, turbidity, oil and grease, COD and less frequently include TPH, BTEX and selected metals. Parameters included in the WPCO licence, will also be included in the monitoring programme. The chemical testing of water samples collected in the monitoring programme should be undertaken by a Hong Kong Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (HOKLAS) accredited laboratory. Detail monitoring programme / plan will be submitted at later stage for EPD's agreement.

Environmental Monitoring and Audit. Marine Archaeology 12.10.1 The recent 2007 MAI concluded no further MAI is necessary, yet it did not preclude the possibility that there could be items buried within the Marine Deposit which may be exposed by the dredging works. It is therefore recommended that the dredging contractor(s) should monitor the dredged spoils from those marine works that caused significant impact to the seabed. Guidelines for the Monitoring Brief have been prepared in consultation with the AMO and are attached as Appendix 12. 1. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ works in KTD that may cause significant impact to the seabed include the dredging works for the immersed tunnel section of CKR at To Kwa Wan, dredging works for the relocation of the Hong Kong China Gas (HKCG) submarine main, dredging works for the proposed cruise terminal, and dredging works for the immersed tunnel section of Road T2 (including the dredging required for the associated reconstruction of a section of the existing ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ submarine outfall). Details of the impacts and the recommended mitigation measures for the dredging works for proposed cruise terminal are presented in the corresponding approved EIA Report (EIAO Register No.: AEIAR-115/2007). Whereas the impacts and mitigation measures required for CKR, HKCG submarine main relocation, and Road T2 will be examined under the respective Schedule 2 EIA study. Terrestrial Archaeology