3.1
Introduction
This
section presents the assessment of the potential air quality impacts arising from
the construction and operation of the Designated and Potentially Designated
Elements of the Project.
3.2
Relevant Legislation and Guidelines
The principal legislation for the management of
air quality is the Air Pollution Control
Ordinance, Cap 311 (APCO). The
Hong Kong Air Quality Objectives
(HKAQOs) stipulate statutory limits for air pollutants, as presented in Table 3.2a.
Table 3.2a Hong
Kong Air Quality Objectives (mgm-3) (a)
Pollutant |
Averaging Time |
||
|
1 Hours |
24 Hours (b) |
1 Year (c) |
Total Suspended Particulates (TSP) |
- |
260 |
80 |
Notes: (a)
Measured at 298K (25°C) and 101.325
kPa (one atmosphere) (b)
Not to be exceeded more than once per year (c)
Arithmetic mean |
In addition, the Technical Memorandum of Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (EIAO-TM) stipulates that a TSP
concentration of 500 mgm-3 measured at 298K (25°C) and 101.325 kPa (one atmosphere)
should not be exceeded for construction dust impacts. Mitigation measures for
construction activities are specified in the Air Pollution Control (Construction Dust) Regulation and should be
followed.
3.3
Baseline Environmental Conditions and
Sensitive Receivers
3.3.1
Baseline
Environmental Conditions
The Kam Tin and Nam Sang Wai areas are located
within a new development area. The
existing air quality within the Study Area is dominated by vehicle emissions
from the Kam Tin Road, Kam Sheung Road, Route 3, Fan Kam Road, Route Twisk and
cross boundary fluxes of pollutants.
There is currently no EPD air quality
monitoring station (AQMS) in operation in the Kam Tin and Nam Sang Wai
areas. The nearest station that is
most representative is located in Yuen Long. The annual average background TSP concentration monitored at
Yuen Long AQMS in 1999 was 102 mgm-3, which exceeds the
HKAQO.
3.3.2
Air
Sensitive Receivers
Representative Air Sensitive Receivers (ASRs)
were identified in accordance with the requirement in the EIAO-TM, through site inspections and reviews of landuse
plans. All the identified ASRs for
Designated Elements and Potentially Designated Elements are summarised in Tables 3.3a and 3.3b, respectively and are shown in Figures 3.3 a to
3.3 f.
Table 3.3a Locations
of Air Sensitive Receivers for Designated Elements
ASRs |
Location |
Approximate Distance from
Nearest Worksite Boundary (m) |
|
S4 |
Sewers/Rising Mains between Kam Tin Sewage Pumping
Station (KTPS) and Nam Sang Wai Sewage Pumping Station (NSWPS) |
||
D1 |
Scattered House near Kam Tin Shi |
80 |
|
D3 |
Yuk Yat Garden Phase III |
40 |
|
D4 |
Yuk Yat Garden Phase II |
20 |
|
D5 |
Ko Po Tsuen |
80 |
|
D6 |
San Tao Home for the Aged |
130 |
|
D8 |
Ha Ko Po Tsuen |
140 |
|
D10 |
Fishery Research Station |
320 |
|
D11 |
Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
50 |
|
D12 |
Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
5 |
|
S6 |
Sewers/Rising Mains from Nam Sang Wai Pumping
Station (NSWPS) to Yuen Long STW |
||
D13 |
Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
140 |
|
D14 |
Planned Residential Development (DPA/YL-NSW/12) |
380 |
|
D15 |
Nam Sang Wai |
60 |
|
D16 |
Planned Recreational Development (DPA/YL-NSW/12) |
60 |
|
D42 |
Tin Fook Wai Residential Development |
30 |
|
Table 3.3b Locations
of Air Sensitive Receivers for Potentially Designated Elements
ASRs |
Location |
Approximate Distance from
Nearest Worksite Boundary (m) |
|
S1 |
Sewers/Rising Mains Along Kam Tin Main Drainage Channel
(MDC) From Shui Tsan Tin Sewage Pumping Station (STTPS) to Ng Ka Tsuen Sewage
Pumping Station (NKTPS) |
||
D32 |
Ng Ka Tsuen Historical Building |
85 |
|
D33 |
Ng Ka Tsuen |
5 |
|
D38 |
Kam Tsin Wai |
30 |
|
D39 |
Kam Kong Villa |
5 |
|
S2 |
Sewers/Rising Mains Along Kam Tin Main Drainage
Channel From Pang Ka Tsuen Pumping Station (PKTPS) to Kam Tin Pumping Station
(KTPS) |
||
D1 |
Scattered House Near Kam Tin Shi |
25 |
|
D3 |
Yuk Yat Garden Phase III |
95 |
|
D22 |
Kam Tin Shi North |
40 |
|
D23 |
Kam Hing Wai |
50 |
|
D24 |
Tai Hong Wai North |
75 |
|
D25 |
Kam Tin Tung Tak Public School |
125 |
|
D26 |
Scattered House Opposite To Proposed P6 |
40 |
|
S5 |
Branch Sewers/Rising Mains From Sha Po Pumping
Station (SPPS) to S4 |
||
D19 |
Fung Kat Heung |
60 |
|
D21 |
Mo Fan Heung |
90 |
|
P1 |
Kam Tin Sewage Pumping Station (KTPS) |
||
D1 |
Scattered House Near Kam Tin Shi |
160 |
|
D3 |
Yut Yat Garden Phase III |
85 |
|
D17 |
Scattered House Near Route 3 |
15 |
|
P2 |
Sha Po Sewage Pumping Station (SPPS) |
||
D19 |
Fung Kat Heung |
20 |
|
D21 |
Mo Fan Heung |
200 |
|
P3 |
Nam Sang Wai Sewage Pumping Station (NSWPS) |
||
D13 |
Scattered House I Nam Sang Wai |
150 |
|
P4 |
Shui Tsan Tin Sewage Pumping Station (STTPS) |
||
D41 |
Shui Tsan Tin Tsuen |
100 |
|
P5 |
Ng Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping Station (NKTPS) |
||
D30 |
Scattered House Beside Kam Sheung Life Lutheran Church |
30 |
|
D31 |
Kam Sheung Life Lutheran Church |
35 |
|
D32 |
Ng Ka Tsuen Historical Building |
5 |
|
P6 |
Pang Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping Station (PKTPS) |
||
D25 |
Kam Tin Tung Tak Public School |
210 |
|
D26 |
Scattered House Opposite To Proposed P6 |
70 |
|
D27 |
Hip Tin Kung |
55 |
|
P7 |
Leung Uk Tsuen Sewage Pumping Station (LUTPS) |
||
D28 |
Scattered House Opposite To Leung Uk Tsuen |
65 |
|
D29 |
Leung Uk Tsuen |
60 |
|
3.4
Potential Impacts
3.4.1
Construction
Phase
Major
activities associated with the construction of the sewers/rising mains and SPSs
include:
· excavation and backfilling of soil
for site formation and trenching;
· stockpiling of excavated materials;
· foundation works for the SPSs; and
· civil construction and E&M
installation of the SPSs.
Potential dust generating activities could
arise from the following operations:
· materials handling;
· wind erosion of stockpiles; and
· truck movements on any unpaved
roads.
As the sewers/rising mains will be constructed
section by section, the volumes of excavated spoil are expected to be low. The number of vehicle trips during
construction is expected to be very small and for most areas, vehicle movements
will be on paved roadways. Only
minimal movement of vehicles on unpaved roads will be required.
ASRs located very close to the worksite
boundary, including a scattered house near Kam Tin Shi (D1), Yuk Yat Garden
Phase II (D4), scattered house in Nam Sang Wai (D12), scattered house near
Route 3 (D17), scattered house opposite to proposed SPS P6 (D26), Ng Ka Tsuen
Historical Building (D32), Ng Ka Tsuen (D33) and Kam Kong Villa (D39) may
experience dust impacts. However,
it is expected that the dust impacts can be controlled by implementation of the
mitigation measures recommended in Section
3.5 and through the Environmental
Monitoring & Audit (EM&A) programme.
Cumulative Impacts
Several projects will be undergoing
construction in parallel with this Project. Details of the other concurrent projects have been presented
in Section 2. As the construction of the concurrent
projects may be carried out simultaneously with this Project and given the
close proximity of the worksites to the identified ASRs, cumulative dust
impacts have the potential to arise.
However, it is the sewers/rising mains will be constructed in 50 m segments. Given the very small scale of the construction
works, the contribution to dust impacts is very limited. In addition, construction works are
governed by the Air Pollution Control
(Construction Dust) Regulation, and hence the air quality impact should be
maintained within the statutory dust criterion.Thus, with the limited
contribution of dust from the Project, cumulative dust impacts would be
expected to be within statutory dust criteria.
3.4.2
Operational
Phase
There will
be no pollutant sources during the operation of the sewers/rising mains as
sewage is to be transferred within and enclosed system.As some of the sewage
pumping stations (SPSs) are located very close to sensitive uses, odour impacts
would potentially occur during the operation. Wet wells and screenings collection areas are the likely
sources of odour at SPSs; however, the of SPSs does not usually cause adverse
odour nuisance to nearby ASRs. The
design of the proposed SPSs will be similar to existing SPSs, ie the wet wells
and screenings collection areas will be enclosed with the provision for odour
removal systems, such as activated carbon filters. Adverse odour nuisance is
not envisaged. As a precautionary
measure, it is recommended that the discharge point of the odour removal system
should be directed away from the adjacent sensitive uses. Moreover, an effective and regular
maintenance programme should be put in place to maintain an odour removal
efficiency of at least 90%.
3.5
Mitigation Measures
3.5.1
Construction
Dust
With the adoption of the following mitigation
measures stipulated in the Air Pollution
Control (Construction Dust) Regulation, the potential dust impact can be
minimised to comply with the dust criterion:
· where a site boundary adjoins a road,
street, service lane or other area accessible to the public, a hoarding of not
less than 2.4 m high from ground level should be provided along the boundaries
of the seven pumping stations sites;
· the portion of any road leading only
to a construction site that is within 30 m of a discernible or designated
vehicle entrance or exit should be kept clear of dusty materials;
· any stockpile of dusty materials
should be either covered entirely by impervious sheeting, placed in an area
sheltered on the top and the 3 sides or sprayed with water so as to maintain
the entire surface wet;
· all dusty materials should be
sprayed with water immediately prior to any loading and unloading so as to
maintain the dusty materials wet;
· every vehicle should be washed to
remove any dusty materials from its body and wheels immediately before leaving
a construction site;
· where a vehicle leaving a
construction site is carrying a load of dusty materials, the load should be
covered entirely by clean impervious sheeting to ensure that the dusty
materials do not leak from the vehicle;
· water should be continuously sprayed
on the surface where any mechanical breaking operation that causes dust
emission is carried out, unless the process is accompanied by the operation of
an effective dust extraction and filtering device;
· the working area of excavation
should be sprayed with water immediately before, during and immediately after
the operation so as to maintain the entire surface wet;
· where a scaffolding is erected around
the perimeter of a building under construction, effective dust screens,
sheeting or netting should be provided to enclose the scaffolding from the
ground floor level of the SPS; and
· any skip hoist for material
transport should be totally enclosed by the impervious sheeting.
3.5.2
Operational
Phase
The
following odour control measures should be implemented during the operation of
the sewage pumping stations:
· the main odour sources such as the
wet well and screening house should be enclosed;
· odour removal systems, such as
activated carbon filters, should be installed to reduce the odour emissions;
· proper design of the discharge point
of the odour removal system should be adopted to direct the emission away from
the adjacent sensitive uses;
· the transportation of screenings
during maintenance should be arranged so as to prevent odour impacts; and
· effective and regular maintenance of
the odour removal system should be performed to maintain the removal efficiency
at least 90%.
3.6
Residual Impact
After the implementation of the recommended
mitigation measures described in Section
3.5, there will be no adverse residual impacts associated with the
construction and operation of the sewers/rising mains and sewage pumping
stations.
3.7
Environmental Monitoring & Audit
Monitoring and auditing of air quality has been
recommended for the construction phase.
Environmental monitoring stations should be set up to monitor the dust
level during the construction of the Project. The recommended dust monitoring locations are summarized in Table 3.7a and shown in Figures 3.7a to e.
Table 3.7a Recommended
Dust Monitoring Stations
Dust Monitoring Station |
Location |
|
Designated Element |
||
S4 |
Sewers/Rising Mains between
Kam Tin Sewage Pumping Station (KTPS) and Nam Sang Wai Sewage Pumping Station
(NSWPS) |
|
AM1 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
|
S6 |
Sewers/Rising mains from
Nam Sang Wai Pumping Station (NSWPS) to Yuen Long STW |
|
AM2 |
Worksite Boundary in Nam Sang Wai |
|
Potentially Designated
Element |
||
S1 |
Sewers/Rising Mains along
Kam Tin Main Drainage Channel (MDC) from Shui Tsan Tin Sewage Pumping Station
(STTPS) to Ng Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping Station (NKTPS) |
|
AM3 |
Worksite Boundary facing Kam Kong Villa |
|
S2 |
Sewers/Rising Mains along
Kam Tin Main Drainage Channel from Pang Ka Tsuen Pumping Station (PKTPS) to
Kam Tin Pumping Station (KTPS) |
|
AM4 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House opposite to Proposed P6 |
|
S5 |
Branch Sewers/Rising Mains
from Sha Po Pumping Station (SPPS) to S4 |
|
AM5 |
Worksite Boundary facing Fung Kat Heung |
|
P1 |
Kam tin Sewage Pumping
Station (KTPS) |
|
AM6 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House near Route 3 |
|
P2 |
Sha Po Sewage Pumping
Station (SPPS) |
|
AM5 |
Worksite Boundary facing Fung Kat Heung |
|
P3 |
Nam Sang Wai Sewage Pumping
Station (NSWPS) |
|
AM7 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
|
P4 |
Shui Tsan Tin Sewage Pumping
Station (STTPS) |
|
AM8 |
Worksite Boundary facing Shui Tsan Tin Tsuen |
|
P5 |
Ng Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping
Station (NKTPS) |
|
AM9 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House beside Kam Sheung Life
Lutheran Church |
|
P6 |
Pang Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping
Station (PKTPS) |
|
AM10 |
Worksite Boundary facing Hip Tin Kung |
|
P7 |
Leung Uk Tsuen Sewage
Pumping Station (LUTPS) |
|
AM11 |
Worksite Boundary facing Leung Uk Tsuen |
|
3.7.1
Baseline
Monitoring
Baseline
monitoring should be carried out 1 month before the commencement of the
construction works. The monitoring
should be conducted at the designated monitoring locations for at least 14
consecutive days to ascertain the existing 24-hr Total Suspended Particulate
(TSP) concentrations. 1-hr
sampling is also recommended to be undertaken at least 3 times per day at each
monitoring location.
The baseline monitoring results form the basis
for determining the air quality criteria for the impact monitoring. Table
3.7b shows the air quality criteria, namely Action and Limit Levels for
construction dust. Should
monitored TSP levels exceed the Action Level during construction, appropriate
control measures will need to be employed to restore the dust level to an
acceptable level.
Table 3.7b Action and Limit Levels for Air
Quality
(Construction Dust)
Parameters |
Action |
Limit
(mgm-3) |
24
Hour TSP Level in mgm-3 |
For
baseline level £
200 mgm-3,
Action level = (Baseline level * 1.3 + Limit level)/2; For
baseline level > 200 mgm-3,
Action level = Limit level |
260 |
1
Hour TSP Level in mgm-3 |
For
baseline level £
384 mgm-3,
Action level = (Baseline level * 1.3 + Limit level)/2; For
baseline level > 384 mgm-3,
Action level = Limit level |
500 |
3.7.2
Impact
Monitoring
24-hour TSP concentrations should be
measured utilising the techniques specified in High Volume Method for Total Suspended Particulates, Part 50 Chapter 1
Appendix B, Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations of the USEPA. It is considered that this form of
impact monitoring should be undertaken at the proposed monitoring locations
once every 6 days.
Due to the lengthy delay between the
sampling event and availability of the results for 24-hour sampling, 1-hour TSP
sampling should also be conducted in response to any complaints about
construction dust. 1-hour TSP
levels, while assessed against different criteria, are considered to be
indicative of the 24-hour results conducted on the same day. In this way expedient remedial actions,
should they be required, may be undertaken based on the 1-hour data, before the
24-hour results become available.
1-hour sampling, providing real time
airborne particulate measurements, can be undertaken using a direct reading
dust meter. Despite the advantages
of using a real time monitor to measure particulate concentrations such as in
response to dust complaints, results are not comparable with 24-hour High
Volume Sampler (HVS) data.
Therefore, if the use of a direct reading monitor is agreed for 1-hour
TSP sampling, both baseline and impact monitoring must be carried out by the
direct reading method.
Specific dust control measures and
monitoring during the construction phase should be included as part of the
works contracts. Regular compliance
checking by the Environmental Checker and the Engineer at the site and at the
Air Sensitive Receivers should be conducted.
3.8
Conclusion
Potential impacts arising from the construction
and operation of the sewers/rising mains and sewage pumping stations are
construction dust and odour, respectively. With the implementation of the mitigation measures
recommended in Section 3.5 and an
effective monitoring and auditing programme, the potential construction dust
and odour impacts will be minimised and kept within the relevant criteria. In addition, cumulative dust impacts
are also expected to be within the criteria.
3.9
Impact Summary
The air quality impacts during the construction
and operational phases are summarized in Table
3.9a.
Table 3.9a Impact Summary for Construction Dust
Parameters |
Construction Dust |
|
Assessment Criteria |
· Hourly dust
criterion recommended in EIAO-TM is 500 mgm-3 and daily dust
criterion stipulated in the Hong Kong Air Quality Objective (AQOs) is 260 mgm-3. |
|
Air Sensitive Receivers |
Designated
Elements |
|
|
S4 |
Sewers/Rising
mains Between Kam Tin Sewage Pumping Station (KTPS) And Nam Sang Wai Sewage Pumping
Station (NSWPS) |
|
D1 |
Scattered House Near Kam Tin Shi |
|
D3 |
Yuk Yat Garden Phase III |
|
D4 |
Yuk Yat Garden Phase II |
|
D5 |
Ko Po Tsuen |
|
D6 |
San Tao Home for the Aged |
|
D8 |
Ha Ko Po Tsuen |
|
D10 |
Fishery Research Station |
|
D11 |
Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
|
D12 |
Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
|
S6 |
Sewers/Rising
Mains from Nam Sang Wai Pumping Station to Yuen Long STW |
|
D13 |
Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
|
D14 |
Planned Residential Development
(DPA/YLMNSW/12) |
|
D15 |
Nam Sang Wai |
|
D16 |
Planned Recreational Development
(DPA/YL-NSW/12) |
|
D42 |
Tin Fook Wai Residential Development |
|
Potentially
Designated Elements |
|
|
S1 |
Sewers/Rising Mains
along Kam Tin Main Drainage Channel (MDC) from Shui Tsan Tin Sewage Pumping
Station (STTPS) to Ng Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping Station (NKTPS) |
|
D32 |
Ng Ka Tsuen Historical Building |
|
D33 |
Ng Ka Tsuen |
|
D38 |
Kam Tsin Wai |
|
D39 |
Kam Kong Villa |
|
S2 |
Sewers/Rising
Mains along Kam Tin Main Drainage Channel from Pang Ka Tsuen Pumping Station
(PKTPS) to Kam Tin Pumping Station (KTPS) |
|
D1 |
Scattered House near Kam Tin Shi |
|
D3 |
Yuk Yat Garden Phase III |
|
D22 |
Kam Tin Shi North |
|
D23 |
Kam Hing Wai |
|
D24 |
Tai Hong Wai North |
|
D25 |
Scattered House near Kam Tin San Tsuen |
|
D26 |
Scattered House opposite to Proposed P6 |
|
S5 |
Brach
Sewers/Rising Mains from Sha Po Pumping Station (SPPS) to S4 |
|
D19 |
Fung Kat Heung |
|
D21 |
Mo Fan Heung |
|
P1 |
Kam Tin Sewage
Pumping Station (KTPS) |
|
D1 |
Scattered House near Kam Tin Shi |
|
D3 |
Yut Yat Garden Phase III |
|
D17 |
Scattered House near Route 3 |
|
P2 |
Sha Po Sewage Pumping
Station (SPPS) |
|
D19 |
Fung Kat Heung |
|
D21 |
Mo Fan Heung |
|
P3 |
Nam Sang Wai
Sewage Pumping Station (NSWPS) |
|
D13 |
Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
|
P4 |
Shui Tsan Tin
Sewage Pumping Station (STTPS) |
|
D41 |
Shui Tsan Tin Tsuen |
|
P5 |
Ng Ka Tsuen
Sewage Pumping Station (NKTPS) |
|
D30 |
Scattered House beside Kam Sheung Life
Lutheran Church |
|
D31 |
Kam Sheung Life Lutheran Church |
|
D32 |
Ng Ka Tsuen Historical Building |
|
P6 |
Pang Ka Tsen Sewage
Pumping Station (PKTPS) |
|
D25 |
Scattered House near Kam Tin San Tsuen |
|
D26 |
Scattered House opposite to Proposed P6 |
|
D27 |
Hip Tin Kung |
|
P7 |
Leung Uk Tsuen
Sewage Pumping Station (LUTPS) |
|
D28 |
Scattered House opposite to Leung Uk Tsuen |
|
D29 |
Leung Uk Tsuen |
Activities |
Construction Phase |
|
|
· Dust level of
102 mgm-3
monitored at Yuen Long Air Quality Monitoring Station operated by EPD in 1999
was considered as a background dust level in the vicinity. · Dust nuisance
from construction works are the major impact. · Major
construction activities include excavation, backfilling, site formation,
foundation works, stockpiling, concreting, trucks on unpaved road and
construction of SPSs. · Materials
handling, wind erosion of stockpiles, truck movement on the unpaved roads are
the major dust generating activities among of the above mentioned
construction activities. · Those ASRs
located very close to the worksite boundary including scattered house near
Kam Tin Shi (D1), Yuk Yat Garden Phase II (D4), scattered house in Nam Sang
Wai (D12), scattered house near Route 3 (D17), scattered house opposite to
proposed SPS P6 (D26), Ng Ka Tsuen Historic Building (D32), Ng Ka Tsuen (D33)
and Kam Kong Villa (D39) have the potential to experience dust impacts. However, it is expected that the dust
impacts can be controlled by implementation of the mitigation measures
recommended in Section 3.5 and
through the Environmental Monitoring & Audit (EM&A) programme. · Cumulative
impacts are expected to be minimal as the scale of our construction work is
small and the contribution of the dust impact from this project is limited. |
|
|
Operational Phase |
|
|
· Odour impacts from
the operation of the sewers/rising mains are not expected; · As some of the
proposed sewage pumping stations are located very close to the adjacent ASRs,
odour impacts may occur |
|
Mitigation Measures |
Construction Dust |
|
|
Control measures stipulated in Air Pollution (Construction Dust)
Regulation as follows: |
|
|
· where a site
boundary adjoins a road, street, service lane or other area accessible to the
public, hoarding of not less than 2.4 m high from ground level should be
provided along the boundaries of the seven pumping stations sites and the
works area where the Engineer’s site office and the Contractor’s site office
erected; · the portion of
any road leading only to a construction site that is within 30 m of a
discernible or designated vehicle entrance or exit should be kept clear of
dusty materials; · any stockpile of
dusty materials should be either covered entirely by impervious sheeting,
placed in an area sheltered on the top and the 3 sides or sprayed with water
so as to maintain the entire surface wet; · all dusty
materials should be sprayed with water immediately prior to any loading and
unloading so as to maintain the dusty materials wet; · every vehicle
should be washed to remove any dusty materials from its body and wheels
immediately before leaving a construction site; · where a vehicle
leaving a construction site is carrying a load of dusty materials, the load
should be covered entirely by clean impervious sheeting to ensure that the
dusty materials do not leak from the vehicle; · water should be
continuously sprayed on the surface where any mechanical breaking operation
that causes dust emission is carried out, unless the process is accompanied
by the operation of an effective dusty extraction and filtering device; · the working area
of excavation should be sprayed with water immediately before, during and
immediately after the operation so as to maintain the entire surface wet; · where a
scaffolding is erected around the perimeter of a building under construction,
effective dust screens, sheeting or netting should be provided to enclose the
scaffolding from the gound floor level of the SPS, or if a canopy is provided
a the first floor level, from the first floor level, up to the highest level
of the scaffolding; and · any skip hoist
for material transport should be totally enclosed by the impervious sheeting. |
|
|
Operational Phase |
|
|
· the main odour
sources such as wet well and screening house should be enclosed; · an odour removal
system, such as activated carbon filters should be installed to reduce the
odour emissions; · proper design of
the discharge point of the odour removal system should be adopted to direct
emissions away from the adjacent sensitive uses; and · effective and
regular maintenance of the odour removal system should be performed to
maintain the removal efficiency at about 90%. |
|
Residual Impacts |
No adverse residual impacts identified
during both construction and operational phases after the implementation of
the mitigation measures. |
|
Implementation |
· All the dust
control measures should be implemented by the Contractor. · The odour
control measures should be implemented by the DSD. |
|
EM&A Requirement |
EM&A is required.
Air monitoring stations include: |
|
|
Designated Elements |
|
|
S4 |
Sewers/Rising Mains between
Kam Tin Sewage Pumping Station (KTPS) and Nam Sang Wai Sewage Pumping Station
(NSWPS) |
|
AM1 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
|
S6 |
Sewers/Rising mains from Nam
Sang Wai Pumping Station (NSWPS) to Yuen Long STW |
|
AM2 |
Workstie Boundary in Nam Sang Wai |
|
Potentially Designated Elements |
|
|
S1 |
Sewers/Rising Mains along
Kam Tin Main Drainage Channel (MDC) from Shui Tsan Tin Sewage Pumping Station
(STTPS) to Ng Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping Station (NKTPS) |
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AM3 |
Worksite Boundary facing Kam Kong Villa |
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S2 |
Sewers/Rising Mains along
Kam Tin Main Drainage Channel from Pang Ka Tsuen Pumping Station (PKTPS) to
Kam Tin Pumping Station (KTPS) |
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AM4 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House opposite to Proposed P6 |
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S5 |
Branch Sewers/Rising Mains
from Sha Po Pumping Station (SPPS) to S4 |
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AM5 |
Worskite Boundary facing Fung Kat Heung |
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P1 |
Kam tin Sewage Pumping
Station (KTPS) |
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AM6 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House near Route 3 |
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P2 |
Sha Po Sewage Pumping
Station (SPPS) |
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AM5 |
Worksite Boundary facing Fung Kat Heung |
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P3 |
Nam Sang Wai Sewage Pumping
Station (NSWPS) |
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AM7 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House in Nam Sang Wai |
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P4 |
Shui Tsan tin Sewage
Pumping Station (STTPS) |
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AM8 |
Worksite Boundary facing Shui Tsan Tin Tsuen |
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P5 |
Ng Ka Tsuen Sewage Pumping
Station (NKTPS) |
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AM9 |
Worksite Boundary facing Scattered House beside Kam Sheung Life
Lutheran Church |
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P6 |
Pang Ka Tsuen Sewage
Pumping Station (PKTPS) |
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AM10 |
Worksite Boundary facing Hip Tin Kung |
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P7 |
Leung Uk Tsuen Sewage
Pumping Station (LUTPS) |
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AM11 |
Worksite Boundary facing Leung Uk Tsuen |