1.1 ‘Harbour Area Treatment Scheme Stage 2A(HATS 2A) - Upgrading Works at Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works – Effluent Tunnel and Disinfection Facilities’ is a Project (hereafter referred to as “the Project”) under Drainage Services Department (DSD) Contract No. DC/2009/18. The general location plan of the Project is shown in Figure 1.
1.2 The Project mainly comprises the following works:-
(a) The Construction of an 880m long effluent tunnel at Stonecutters Island; and
(b) The Construction of disinfection facilities at Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works (SCISTW).
1.3
The Project is scheduled to commence in 2011 and to be completed in
2015.
1.4
Chun Wo – CEC Joint
Venture (hereafter called the Contractor) was commissioned by the Drainage
Services Department (DSD) to undertake the construction works under Contract No.
DC/2009/18 “Harbour Area Treatment Scheme Stage 2A (HATS
2A) - Upgrading Works at SCISTW– Effluent Tunnel and Disinfection Facilities”.
1.5
Cinotech Consultants Limited (Cinotech)
was commissioned by Chun Wo
– CEC Joint Venture to undertake the Environmental Monitoring and Audit
(EM&A) works for the Project and was appointed as the Environmental Team
(ET) of the Project under Condition 2.1 of the Environmental Permit (EP).
1.6
This Baseline Environmental Monitoring Report is prepared by Cinotech for the Project under EP (Permit No. EP-322/2008/E).
1.7 The purpose of the Report is to set out baseline levels for the air quality and noise in accordance with the EM&A Manual. These baseline levels will be used as the basis for compliance check during the impact monitoring in construction stage of the Project. This Report presents the locations, equipment, period, methodology, results and observations for the air and noise monitoring during the baseline period.