The objectives of carrying out the EM&A include the following:

	To provide a database against which short or long term environmental impacts of the project can be determined;
	To provide an early indication should any of the environmental control measures or practices fail to achieve the acceptable standards;
	To monitor the performance of the project and the effectiveness of mitigation measures;
	To verify the environmental impact predicted in the EIA studies;
	To determine compliance with regulatory requirements, standards and government policies;
	To take remedial action if unexpected problems or unacceptable impacts arise; and
	To provide data to enable an environmental audit

Environmental Monitoring Criteria

Assessment conducted indicate that the CRIII works have the potential to generate adverse air quality, noise, water quality, waste and landscape and visual impacts during their construction. In order to ensure that the impacts are reduced to acceptable levels a number of mitigation measures have been recommended to be implemented during the works. With these measures in place assessments have shown that residual impacts will be acceptable.

Water Quality
Baseline monitoring for water quality is required to establish ambient conditions prior to the commencement of works and to demonstrate the suitability of the proposed impact, control and reference monitoring stations. Monitoring shall take place for 4 weeks prior to the commencement of marine works.

During the course of marine works, impact monitoring shall be undertaken at the designated monitoring stations at a frequency of 3 days per week, at both mid-ebb and mid-flood tides.

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Noise
Baseline monitoring for noise shall be carried out at designated monitoring stations over a continuous period of at least two weeks in order to establish ambient conditions prior to the commencement of any construction works. There shall not be any construction activities in the vicinity of the monitoring stations during the baseline monitoring.

Impact monitoring shall be carried out by taking continuous 24-hour noise measurements during the duration of the project. General construction work carried out during restricted hours shall comply with the conditions of a construction noise permit.

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Air Quality
Baseline monitoring for air quality shall be carried out at designated monitoring stations for both 1-hour and 24-hour TSP prior to the commencement of any construction work to establish ambient conditions. 24-hour monitoring shall be carried out on consecutive days for a period of no less than 14 days. 1-hour sampling shall be conducted at least 3 times per day when the highest dust impact is expected, over these same 14 days.

During construction activities, 24-hour TSP sampling shall be conducted at designated monitoring stations at a frequency of at least once every 6 days, when the highest dust impact is expected and one hour sampling shall be undertaken three times per week.

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Solid Waste
A comprehensive waste management plan shall be set up at the commencement of the Project and periodically audited to determine whether the waste is being effectively managed. These audits shall be conducted against approved procedures with review on all aspects of waste management including waste generation, storage, recycling, treatment, transport and disposal. A waste management audit shall be conducted at the commencement of construction works and quarterly thereafter.

Landscape and Visual
Monitoring and audit of landscaping works will to a large extent be conducted through site inspections to ensure that the works are implemented in accordance with specifications. Results of visual inspections would be reported in monthly audit reports.

Monitoring and audit work will be undertaken by designated environmental team and independent checker.