1.1
Maunsell Environmental
Management Consultants Ltd. (MEMCL) (hereinafter referred as the “ET”) was appointed by Hongkong
International Theme Park Ltd. (HKITP) (hereinafter
referred as the “Operator”) to carry out operational Environmental Monitoring
and Audit at the Water Recreation Centre since its operation on 16 August 2005.
Under the requirements of Section 4 of the Further Environmental Permits EP-01/097/2001/C, EM&A
programme is required to be implemented in accordance with the Operational
EM&A Plan approved by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) on 31
August 2005.
1.2
The WRC is a portion of the Contract for “Theme Park and Associated
Infrastructures at Penny’s Bay”, which encompasses an area of approximately 12
ha and contains a multi-function artificial lake, water-based and land-based
recreational facilities and ancillary facilities. Apart from recreation
purpose, the lake water is a source of irrigation water for the entire Penny’s
Bay. The location of the WRC is given in Figure 1.1.
1.3
Following approval of the EIA, an Environmental Permit (EP) was issued
to the Civil Engineering Department (CED) (now Civil and Engineering
Development Department (CEDD) and the subsequent variation of the permit no.
EP-097/2001/B and EP-138/2002/C contain the requirements and obligations on the
Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) during the operation of the
WRC. Under the Contract for “Theme Park and Associated Infrastructures at
Penny’s Bay”, the WRC and ancillary facilities were designed and constructed
under the supervision of CEDD and the WRC would be turned over from CEDD to
HKITP for operation upon completion of construction. Environmental permit
no. EP-01/097/2001/C was issued to the HKITP for the operation of WRC.
1.4 This report summarises the environmental monitoring and audit works for the Project between 16 November 2005 and 15 December 2005.
1.5
The structure of the environmental management team is
shown in Figure 1.2. Contacts of key environmental staff of the Project are
shown in Appendix A.
1.6
The EM&A programme requires environmental monitoring
for water quality within the WRC. The EM&A requirements for each item are
described in subsequent sections, including:
·
Monitoring
parameters;
·
Action
and Limit Levels;
·
Event-Action
Plans;
·
Environmental
mitigation measures, as recommended in the EIA report, Operational EM&A Plan and EP-01/097/2001/C.
1.7
Site audits and the status of environmental licensing
and permits are described in Section 3.
1.8
Advise on the implementation status of environmental
protection and pollution control/mitigation measures are summarised in Section
3 of the Report.