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Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section Report National Infrastructure Development Company Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section Report February 2009 National Infrastructure Development Company Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section Report February 2009 DocNo: 1 Revision: 9 Date: 09/02/2009 Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY 8 1 PRELIMINARIES 15 1.1 Objective of the Assignment 15 1.2 Scope of Work and Documents Reviewed 16 1.3 Assumptions and Limiting Conditions 17 1.4 The Need for the Project 17 1.5 Options Considered 20 2 LEGAL AND PLANNING FRAMEWORK 21 2.1 Relevant Environmental Legislation 21 2.1.1 Overview 21 2.1.2 Soil and Groundwater Quality 21 2.1.3 Surface Water Quality 25 2.1.4 Nature Conservation 26 2.1.5 Noise and Vibration 27 2.1.6 Air Quality 29 2.2 Environmental and Build Permitting Procedures 29 2.2.1 Former Rules on Environmental Permitting Applied to the Project 29 2.2.2 New Rules on Environmental Permitting 31 2.2.3 Build Permitting 31 2.3 Current Status of Permits 32 2.3.1 Environmental Permits and Public Consultations 32 2.3.2 Build Permits and Public Consultations 32 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT 34 3.1 Main Elements of the Project 34 3.2 Traffic Forecast 36 3.3 Main Construction Activities and Programme 40 3.4 Operational and Maintenance Activities 41 4 PRESENT STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT 42 4.1 Topography, Geology, Hydro-geology and Soils 42 4.2 Surface Water 44 Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 2 4.3 Habitats, Flora and Fauna 45 4.4 Wastes 50 4.5 People and Communities, Cultural Heritage 50 4.6 Landscape 52 4.7 Noise and Vibration 53 4.8 Air Quality 55 5 IMPACT ASSESSMENT 58 5.1 Construction Phase 58 5.1.1 Soil and Groundwater 58 5.1.2 Surface Water 59 5.1.3 Habitats, Flora and Fauna 59 5.1.4 Wastes and Hazardous Materials 60 5.1.5 Air Quality, Noise and Vibration 60 5.2 Operational Phase 61 5.2.1 Soil and Groundwater 61 5.2.2 Surface Water 62 5.2.3 Habitats, Flora and Fauna 63 5.2.4 Wastes 64 5.2.5 People and Communities, Cultural Heritage 64 5.2.6 Landscape 65 5.2.7 Noise and Vibration 66 5.2.8 Air Quality 69 6 MITIGATION MEASURES 73 6.1 Soil and Groundwater 73 6.2 Surface Water 73 6.3 Habitats, Flora and Fauna 74 6.4 Landscape 75 6.5 Noise and Vibration 77 7 MONITORING PLAN 80 7.1 Soil and Groundwater 80 7.2 Surface Water 81 7.3 Flora and Fauna 81 7.4 Noise and Vibration 82 7.5 Air Quality 83 8 SUMMARY EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS 85 Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 3 ANNEX A – Figures Figure 1: Sections of the M0 Ring Road Figure 2: Location of the Project elements Figure 3: Detailed location plan of the section between M1 and M6 motorways Figure 4: Detailed location plan of the section between M6 motorway and Trunk Road 51 Figure 5: Detailed location plan of the section between Trunk Road 51 and M5 motorway Figure 6: Visual impacts (without and with the Project) from overpass at Ch. 7+050 Figure 7: Visual impacts (without and with the Project) from overpass at Ch. 7+591 Figure 8: Visual impacts (without and with the Project) from overpass at Ch. 8+796 ANNEX B – References Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 4 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 – Studies and permits reviewed ........................................................... 16 Table 2 – EQSs for soil..................................................................................... 23 Table 3 – EQSs for groundwater....................................................................... 24 Table 4 – Restrictions in protection regions and zones .................................... 25 Table 5 – Territorial ELVs for wastewater emissions ...................................... 26 Table 6 – EQSs for traffic noise ....................................................................... 28 Table 7 – EQSs for air ...................................................................................... 29 Table 8 – Structures and cloverleaf junctions................................................... 35 Table 9 – Traffic forecasts for the section M1 – Trunk Road 51...................... 37 Table 10 – Natura 2000 sites affected by the Project ....................................... 46 Table 11 – Classification system of habitats’ degradation ............................... 47 Table 12 – Ambient noise level along the M0 Ring Road Southern Section ... 54 Table 13 – Ambient air quality in Törökbálint, at Ch. 7+200 .......................... 56 Table 14 – Expected noise levels between M1 and Trunk Road 51 (in 2010 and 2018) ................................................................................................................. 67 Table 15 – Expected air quality between M1 and Trunk Road 51 (in 2010).... 70 Table 16 – Protecting forests, parklands and grassing...................................... 75 Table 17 – Noise barriers between M1 and Trunk Road 51 ............................. 77 Table 18 – Location of soil monitoring points.................................................. 80 Table 19 – Location of surface water monitoring points.................................. 81 Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 5 Table 20 – Location of noise monitoring points............................................... 82 Table 21 – Location of air quality monitoring points ....................................... 83 Table 22 – Evaluation matrix of the environmental impacts ............................ 87 LIST OF CHARTS Chart 1 – Ambient air quality in Diósd, at Ch. 7+600...................................... 56 Chart 2 – Ambient air quality in District XXII, Budapest, at Ch. 10+400 ...... 57 Chart 3 – Ambient air quality in Dunaharaszti, at junction of M0 and Trunk Road 510 ........................................................................................................... 57 Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 6 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ADT Average Daily Traffic BILC Budapest Inter-modal Logistics Centre Ch. Chainage CO Carbon-monoxide CTD Central Transportation Directorate dBA Unit of the A-weighted sound level DHV Design Hourly Volume EIA Environmental impact assessment ELV Emission limit value EQS Environmental quality standard ER Environmental report EüM Ministry of Health (Egészségügyi Minisztérium) FVM Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Földművelésügyi és Vidékfejlesztési Minisztérium) KHVM Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water (Közlekedési, Hírközlési és Vízügyi Minisztérium) KöM Ministry of Environment (Környezetvédelmi Minisztérium) KTM Ministry of Environment and Rural Development (Környezetvédelmi és Területfejlesztési Minisztérium) KvVM Ministry of Environment and Water (Környezetvédelmi és Vízügyi Minisztérium) LAeq A-weighted sound level MDVEI Middle Danube Valley Environmental, Water and Nature Protection Inspectorate NIDC National Infrastructure Development Company NMC National Motorway Company NO2 Nitrogen-dioxide NOX Nitrogen-oxides Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 7 PCU Passenger Car Unit PM10 Particulate matter (airborne dust) pSCI proposed Sites of Community Interest SAC Special Areas of Conservation SCI Sites of Community Importance SPA Special Protection Areas for birds Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 8 SUMMARY Main elements of the The Hungarian Government is currently making an application to the EU project Cohesion Fund for a project comprising the following elements: • Widening the existing carriageway by constructing of an additional carriageway (i.e. three new lanes) of the existing M0 ring road from M1 motorway to Trunk Road 51 (from Ch. 0+000 – 9+400 and 12+140 – 23+200). The widened sections will be operated as a dual three lanes ring road with central reserve. The section between Ch. 9+400 – 12+500 on the left carriageway and between 9+400 – 12+140 on the right carriageway is constructed as part of another project, so on completion of the project the dual three lane ring road will be continuous between M1 and Trunk Road 51. • Construction of a new dual three lane ring road from Trunk Road 51 to M5 motorway over 6.3 kms (Ch. 23+200 – 29+500) with a central reserve. • Construction the Növény Street Connection ensuring a new connection possibility between the M0 ring road, Trunk Road 6 and Nagytétényi Street (including passes under Trunk Road 6 and the railway line). • Reconstruction and capacity increase of the Váza Street rainwater pumping station. • Bed restoration works in arm No 2 of Gyáli creek in the bed section between 0+000 and 1+191 km. By mid 2012 (in case of section between M6 and Trunk Road 51 and Növény Street Connection) and by mid 2011 (in case of the other sections) the construction activities are expected to be completed and the elements of the project can be opened to the traffic. Environmental Impact Summary on the M0 Ring Road Southern Section 9 Need for the project Ultimate goals of the project are to connect the radial motorways, expressways and trunk roads accessing Budapest, to ease the densely populated inner parts of the capital from the transit traffic and to provide a collector-distributor function for local traffic connecting settlements in the agglomeration with each other and outer districts of Budapest. Main goal of the Növény Street Connection is to ease the overloaded road network of District XXII and that of the wider South-Budapest region. The objective of the capacity increase
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