Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project – Haveli, Kotli and Poonch Districts
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Bi-annual Environmental Monitoring Report Bi annual Report June 2018 PAK: Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project – Haveli, Kotli and Poonch Districts Prepared by Climate Change Center for the Asian Development Bank The Bi-annual Environmental Monitoring Report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB’s Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of the ADB website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgements as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Bi-annual Environmental Monitoring Report Project Number: No. 3264-PAK July-December, 2017 Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project (FERRP) (ADB Loan No. 3264-PAK) Prepared by: Climate Change Center For: Asian Development Bank (ADB) i CONTENTS Title Page i Table of Content ii List of Annexure iii List of Figures iv Abbreviations v PART I INTRODUCTION Construction activities of the project 1 Project Organization and Environmental Management Team 1 Relationship with the Contractor and the Engineer 1 PART II ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING Summary 4 Noise & Vibration 4 Surface & Ground Water 4 Air Quality 4 Flora & Fauna 4 Campsites 5 Top soil erosion 5 Cultural Heritage Sites 5 Safety Provisions 5 PART III ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Review of Rapid Environmental Assessment (REAs) 7 Campsite guidelines 7 EMP Compliance Checklist 7 Conclusion and Recommendations 8 Challenges while making Biannual Environmental Monitoring Report 9 ii Biannual Environmental Monitoring Report LIST OF ANNEXURE I. Construction activities of the project II. Campsite Guidelines III. Azad Pattan- Rawalakot Road- “Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level” & Pictorial view of the locations Rawlakot – Hajira Road-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level IV. Hajira – Tararkhel Road-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level V. Azad Pattan Rawlakot Road Package-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level VI. Rawlakot - Hajira Road Package -Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level VII. Hajira – Abasspur Road -Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level VIII. Tatta Pani – Hajira Road -Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level IX. Kotli – Tatta Pani Road -Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level X. Lasdana - Mahmood Gali Road-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level XI. Tarar Khel- Hajira Road-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level XII. Khaigalla - Ali Sojal- Chura Gali Road-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances -Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level XIII. Thaliar Bridge Kotli - Tatta Pani Road-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level XIV. Repair work of Kotli- Sahuratta Samror Road-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level XV. AK-CW-ll Bridges-Environment and Safety Monitoring and Safeguard Compliances - Impacts and Mitigation Measures and Risk Level XVI. Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan iii Biannual Environmental Monitoring Report LIST OF FIGURES Figure.1: Project Organogram Figure. 2: Civil works in Progress (Azad Pattan- RWK road) Figure. 3: Non- compliance of PPEs (Azad Pattan- RWK road) Figure. 4: Water Sprinkling (Azad Pattan- RWK road) Figure. 5: No extra construction waste on road side (Azad Pattan- RWK road) Figure. 6: No covering of construction material (Asphalt Plant Hajira) Figure. 7: Asphalt Plant (Hajira), no major non-compliance issue Figure. 8: Meeting with Contractor (Azad Pattan- RWK Road) Figure. 9: Supervision of G-3 ES of environmental safeguard of construction activities (Azad Pattan- RWK Road) Figure. 10: Stones on road (Hajira- Trarkhal Road) Figure. 11: Water sprinkling (Hajira- Trarkhal Road) Figure. 12: Meeting with Local Community (RWK-Hajira- Road) Figure. 13: Works in Progress (Hajira- Trarkhal Road) Figure. 14: No endangered or economical vegetation (RWK- Hajira Road) Figure. 15: Asphalt laying (RWK- Hajira Road) Figure. 16: No endangered or economical vegetation (Asphalt Plant Azadpattan – RWK road) Figure. 17: Meeting with Local Community (RWK-Hajira- Road) Figure. 18: Meeting with local community (Asphalt Plant Azadpattan – RWK road) iv Biannual Environmental Monitoring Report Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project (FERRP), ADB Loan No. 3264-PAK ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank CCC Climate Change Center EMMP Environmental Management Monitoring Plan ES Environmental Specialist FERRP Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project GoAJ&K Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir HSE Health Safety and Environment IA Implementing Agency PD Project Director PIU Project Implementation Unit PMC Project Management Consultants REA Rapid Environmental Assessment v Biannual Environmental Monitoring Report Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project (FERRP), ADB Loan No. 3264-PAK Part I Introduction 1. The unprecedented flood of 2014, as a result of torrential rains of monsoon, caused significant damages to the infrastructure (roads, bridges etc.) of three districts of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K) i.e. Haveli, Kotli and Poonch. The people had lost access to and utilization of various infrastructures, and had suffered from damages to their housing and commercial structures, loss of crops, businesses and other livelihood resources. 2. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) under Loan No. 3264-PAK with total loan package of Pak Rs. 6641.00 Million is supporting Government of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (GoAJ&K) for reconstruction and rehabilitation of damaged roads and bridges networks through Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project (FERRP). Construction activities of the project 3. Construction activities of the project were divided into two categories, i.e. small works and major works. Name of each Road Package, length of the road, contractor’s names and physical progress achieved during the reported period are detailed in Annex-I. Project Organization and Environmental Management Team 4. Overall responsibility for Environmental Management and Monitoring rests with the Project Implementation Unit (PIU), the implementing agency (IA), which is headed by a Project Director (PD). The PIU is supported by Environmental Specialist from Project Management Consultants (PMC) during implementation and monitoring of the Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan (EMMP). The contractors are responsible to ensure that all Project activities are in compliance with the EMMP. 5. Under the FERRP, it is mandatory to implement the environmental and social safeguard compliances. This is an essential part of project implementation and all the stakeholders involved in project implementation must consider environmental and social safeguard compliances. 6. Detailed monitoring visits have been undertaken by the PMC team during the reporting period accompanied by senior and junior engineers, supervisory staff engineers, and contractors and their workers. The objectives of the visits were to identify the impacts due to construction works being implemented, review the implementation of Environmental Management, and oversee the monitoring of the recommended mitigation measures described in the EMMP, extent of compliances of environmental and social safeguards and to find out any glaring discrepancies in environmental and social safeguards by the contractors and supervisory staff. 7. Environmental Specialist (ES) of PMC has conducted monitoring of environment and safety safeguards compliances of the project sites of FERRP (Table 1) during the months of July-December, 2017. 8. Communication and Works Department (C&W) is the Executing Agency whereas overall planning, monitoring and implementation of reconstruction activities are the complete responsibility of Project Implementation Unit (PIU). In addition to this, Project Management Consultants (PMC) is responsible for the execution of EMMP and PIU is responsible for EMMP compliance monitoring. The organizational chart of the project is shown in Figure-1. Relationship with the Contractor and the Engineer 9. The relationship of contractor and engineer with the community was reported 1 Biannual Environmental Monitoring Report Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project (FERRP), ADB Loan No. 3264-PAK Table 1: List of Project site roads visited by ES of PMC Sr. Package # Month of Visit Names of Road Packages # Rawlakot- Hajira Road, AK-CW-6 Azad Pattan- Rawlakot Road AK-CW-7 1 July 2017 Trarkhel- Hajira Road AK-CW-8 Tattapani- Hajira Road AK-CW-1 Hajira-Abbaspur Road AK-CW-2 2 August- Abbaspur-Mehmood Gali Road AK-CW-3