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The World Bank-financed Ma'anshan Cihu River Basin Improvement Project

Public Disclosure Authorized Environmental Impact Assessment Report

Public Disclosure Authorized

Leading Group Office for Ma’anshan Cihu River Project under World Bank Loan China Agricultural University Public Disclosure Authorized Nov. 2012

Content

Chapter I General ...... 1 1.1 Foreword ...... 1 1.2 Basis for preparation ...... 2 1.2.1 Laws on environmental protection ...... 2 1.2.2 Regulations, laws and normative documents on environmental protection ...... 2 1.2.3 Technical standards on environmental protection ...... 3 1.2.4 Relevant Policies of the World Bank ...... 4 1.2.5 Other relevant documents...... 4 1.2.6 Documents related to the Project ...... 5 1.3 Objectives and principles of assessment ...... 5 1.3.1 Objectives ...... 5 1.3.2 Principles ...... 6 1.4 Identification of impact factors and screening of assessment indicators ...... 6 1.4.1 Identification of environmental impact factors ...... 6 1.4.2 Assessment indicators ...... 7 1.5 Scope and key points of assessment ...... 8 1.5.1 Scope of assessment ...... 8 1.5.2 Key points of assessment ...... 8 1.6 Ratings and scope of assessment ...... 9 1.6.1 Ratings ...... 9 1.6.2 Scope of assessment ...... 9 1.7 Assessment standards ...... 10 1.8 Periods of assessment ...... 11 1.9 Assessment methods ...... 11 1.10 Environmental protection objects...... 11 Chapter 2 Project Overview ...... 15 2.1 Basic Information of the Project ...... 15 2.2 Scope of construction and technical indicators ...... 16 2.2.1 Rehabilitation of Cihu River and Improvement of Urban Drainage ...... 16 2.2.2 Rehabilitation of Tributaries ...... 22 2.2.3 Environmental management and monitoring ...... 25 2.2.4 Capacity building and implementation support ...... 26 2.3 Impact of Land Acquisition and Resettlement ...... 30 2.4 Overall construction arrangement ...... 30 2.4.1 Construction traffic ...... 30 2.4.2 Construction site arrangement ...... 30 2.5 Construction schedule ...... 31 Chapter Ⅲ Project Analysis ...... 33 3.1 The Conformity of Industrial Policies ...... 33 3.2 Analysis for Conformity of Plans ...... 33 3.3 The Analysis on Pollution Sources in the Project ...... 38 3.3.1 Analysis of the pollution source within construction time ...... 38

I 3.3.2 Analysis of pollution sources during operation ...... 42 Chapter IV Regional Environmental Overview ...... 43 4.1 Overview of Natural Environment ...... 43 4.1.1 Geographical Location ...... 43 4.1.2 Topography and Geomorphy ...... 43 4.1.3 Geo-technical Condition and Hydrogeology ...... 43 4.1.4 Climate and Weather ...... 45 4.1.5 Surface Water ...... 45 4.1.6 Soil ...... 47 4.1.7 Vegetation and Biomass ...... 47 4.2 Social Economy ...... 49 4.2.1 Administrative Division and Population ...... 49 4.2.2 Economic Development ...... 50 4.2.3 Mineral Resources ...... 51 4.2.4 Tourism Resources and Cultural Relics ...... 51 4.2.5 Land Resources ...... 52 4.2.6 Water resource ...... 53 4.3 Functional zoning ...... 53 4.3.1 Environmental functional zoning ...... 53 4.3.2 Water source protection zone ...... 54 4.3.3 Ecological functional zoning ...... 54 4.4 Present situation of environmental quality ...... 56 4.4.1 Present situation of atmospheric environment quality ...... 56 4.4.2 Present situation of surface water environment quality ...... 60 4.4.3 Groundwater environmental quality status...... 66 4.4.4 Acoustic environment quality...... 70 4.4.5 Sediment monitoring ...... 70 4.5 Environmental issues of the Cihu River basin ...... 74 4.5.1 Flood control and drainage ...... 74 4.5.2 Existing problems...... 82 4.6 Survey of pollution sources in the Cihu River Basin ...... 82 4.6.1 Mines in Upstream Area ...... 83 4.6.2 Industrial pollution sources ...... 89 4.6.3 Xiangshan Municipal Sanitary Landfill ...... 92 4.6.4 Other pollution sources ...... 94 4.7 Water pollution management facilities in the Cihu River basin ...... 94 Chapter V Related Management Project ...... 100 5.1 Construction Standard ...... 100 5.2 Construction content ...... 101 5.3 Impacts of Land Acquisition and Resettlement ...... 102 5.4 Water and soil conservation plan ...... 103 Chapter VI Comparison of Alternatives ...... 104 6.1 Analysis of With and Without Project ...... 104 6.2 Analysis of Different Technical Options ...... 105

II Chapter VII Environment Impacts Analysis and Mitigation Measures ...... 110 7.1 Environment Impacts Analysis and Mitigation Measures ...... 110 7.1.1 Ambient Air ...... 110 7.1.2 Surface-water environment ...... 113 7.1.3 Noise environment ...... 114 7.1.4 Solid Waste ...... 119 7.1.5 Ecological Environment ...... 120 7.1.6 Social Environment ...... 122 7.2 Regional Cumulative Impact Analysis ...... 123 Chapter VIII Environmental Management and Monitoring Plans ...... 128 8.1 Environmental Protection Plan ...... 128 8.1.1 The overall goal of environmental management ...... 128 8.1.2 Environmental management institutions ...... 128 8.1.3 Duties and personnel allocation for the environmental managemen ...... 130 8.2 Environmental Code of Practices ...... 132 8.3 Environmental Monitoring Plan ...... 137 8.3.1 Formulate objectives and principles ...... 137 8.3.2 Environment monitoring agency ...... 137 8.3.3 Environmental monitoring plan ...... 137 8.4 EMP training program ...... 140 8.4.1 Training purpose...... 140 8.4.2 Training objects ...... 140 8.4.3 Training content ...... 140 8.4.4 Training plans ...... 141 8.5 Environmental Supervision & Management Plan (ESMP) ...... 142 8.5.1 Environmental supervision organization during the construction period ...... 142 8.5.2 Guideline of environmental supervision ...... 142 8.5.3 Environmental supervision scope ...... 142 8.5.4 Work pattern of environmental supervision ...... 143 8.5.5 Specific working procedure of environmental supervision ...... 143 8.5.6 Environmental supervision organization and work system...... 144 8.5.7 Environmental supervision plan ...... 145 8.5.8 Document compilation of environmental supervision ...... 147 8.5.9 Environmental supervision archives management ...... 147 8.6 Public complaints and feedback mechanism ...... 148 8.6.1 Public complaints mechanism ...... 148 8.6.2 Public feedback mechanism ...... 149 8.7 Report mechanism of Environmental management plan ...... 149 8.7.1 Reorganize and save of Monitoring data ...... 149 8.7.2 Information exchange ...... 150 8.7.3 Recording ...... 150 8.7.4 Reports ...... 150 8.8 Investment Estimation of Environment Protection ...... 151 Chapter IX Public consultation and information disclosure ...... 152

III 9.1 Purpose and Significance of Public Consultation ...... 152 9.2 Methodology and Organizations of Public Consultation ...... 152 9.3 Specific Public Consultation Activities ...... 153 9.4 Information Disclosure...... 158 Appendix ...... 162

IV Chapter I General

1.1 Foreword

The World Bank-financed Ma'anshan Cihu River Basin Improvement Project (hereinafter, the “Project”) is located in Ma’anshan Municipality, Anhui Province, between north latitude 31°40′03.82″-31°46′33.45″ and east longitude 118°29′36.13″-118°34′25.17″, as shown in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1 The embankment of Cihu River was constructed since the 1949 to prevent the flooding, however, now could only prevent the flooding with 10 years recourence. According the ‘Ma’anshan city flood control planning’ and ‘Ma’anshan city drainage project planning’, embankment reinforcement and slope protection will enhance the ability of flood control and urban drainage. This project is consistent with the relative plans of Ma’anshan, compriseing the following four components: management of Cihu river and improvement of rainwater drainage system, management of branch river systems, environmental management and monitoring, capacity construction and project management support. The Feasibility Study Report for the Project has been completed by Central and Southern China Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute.

According to the Environmental Impact Assessment Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Categorized Administrative List of Environmental Impact Assessment for Construction Projects, and other policies and regulations on environmental protection, the Project should prepare an environmental impact assessment (EIA). For this purpose, the Leading Group Office for Ma’anshan Cihu River Project under World Bank Loan contracted China Agricultural University to undertake the EIA task of the Project in November 2011. After accepting the appointment, we organized technicians to make a detailed investigation on the project area to collect engineering data. On this basis, we prepared the EIA Report for the Project in accordance with the Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment.

1 1.2 Basis for preparation

1.2.1 Laws on environmental protection

1. Environmental Protection Law of the PRC (1989.12.26); 2. Environmental Impact Assessment Law of the PRC (2003.9.1); 3. Law of the PRC on Ambient Noise Pollution Prevention and Control (1997.3.1); 4. Law of the PRC on Atmospheric Pollution Prevention and Control (2000.9.1); 5. Law of the PRC on Water Pollution Prevention and Control (2008.2.28); 6. Law of the PRC on Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control (2005.4.1); 7. Law of the PRC on Water and Soil Conservation (2011.3.1); 8. Flood Control Law of the PRC (1998.1.1); 9. Land Administration Law of the PRC (2004.8.28); 10. Law of the PRC on the Preservation of Cultural Relics (2007.12.29)

1.2.2 Regulations, laws and normative documents on environmental protection

1. Decision of the State Council on Several Issues Concerning Environmental Protection, SC [1996] No.31; 2. Regulations on the Administration of Environmental Protection in Construction Projects, Decree No.253 of the State Council (1998); 3. Notice on Issuing the National Environmental Protection Outline, SC [2000] No.38; 4. Regulations on the Protection of Basic Farmland, Decree No.257 of the State Council (1998); 5. Regulations for the Implementation of the Law of the PRC on Water and Soil Conservation, Decree No.120 of the State Council (1993); 6. Regulations of the PRC on Nature Reserves, Decree No.167 of the State Council (1994); 7. Categorized Administrative List of Environmental Impact Assessment for Construction Projects, Decree No.2 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (2008); 8. Interim Measures for Public consultation in Environmental Impact Assessment, MEP [2006] No.28; 9. Administrative Measures for Water and Soil Conservation Programs for Development and Construction Projects, WSC [1994] No.512; 10. Opinions on Further Improvements in the Protection of Basic Agricultural Land, MLR [2005] No.196; 11. Guiding Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2011), Decree No.9 of the

2 National Development and Reform Commission of the PRC; 12. National Ecological Function Zoning, Announcement No.35 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (2008); 13. Notice on Strengthening the Administration of Environmental Impact Assessment in Projects Financed by International Financial Organizations, EM [1993] No.324; 14. Environmental Protection Regulations of Anhui Province (2010.11.1); 15. Notice on Issuing the Measures of Anhui Province for the Implementation of Environmental Supervision Trials in Construction Projects (2012.4.1); 16. Measures of Anhui Province for the Implementation of the Law of the PRC on Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control (2006.6.29); 17. Measures of Anhui Province for the Implementation of the Land Administration Law of the PRC (2004.7.1); 18. Regulations on Agricultural Environmental Protection of Anhui Province (1999.8.1); 19. Decision of the Anhui Provincial Government on Strengthening Environmental Protection Practically (1997.4.17); 20. Opinions of the Anhui Provincial Government on the Implementation of the Decision of the State Council on Carrying out a Scientific Outlook on Development and Strengthening Environmental Protection (2006.9.14) 1.2.3 Technical standards on environmental protection

1. Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—General program (HJ2.1-2011); 2. Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Atmospheric environment (HJ2.2-2008); 3. Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Surface water environment (HJ/T2.3-1995); 4. Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Groundwater environment (HJ610-2011); 5. Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Acoustic environment (HJ2.4-2009); 6. Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Ecological impacts (HJ19-2011); 7. Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Hydropower and water resources projects (HJ/T88-2003); 8. Technical code on soil and water conservation for development and construction

3 projects (SL204-98)

1.2.4 Relevant Policies of the World Bank

The Project includes river course management and dike reinforcement mainly. The Project involves no nature reserve, protected cultural relic or any other sensitive areas. Based on the nature, size and magnitude of impact, this project has been classified into Category B. By analyzing the the World Bank’s safeguard policies, it has been determined that the safeguard policies trigerred under the Project are OP 4.01 and OP4.12. In addition, the EHS General Guidelines and Waste Management guideline in EHS Guideline are considered in the preparation of the EA. See Table 1-1.

Table 1-1 Screening of the World Bank Safeguard Policies

Relevance with the No. World Bank safeguard policy Remarks Project Construction and operation of the project would affect the surrounding environment OP4.01: Environmental and the assessment is needed. After 1 Relevant Assessment screening, this project has been classified into Category B, and the EIA and EMP have been prepared. There is no nature reserve in the project 2 OP4.04: Natural Habitats Irrelevant area. This project does not involve use of 3 OP4.09: Pest Management Irrelevant pesticide. 4 OP4.10: Indigenous Peoples Irrelevant The Project involves no ethnic minority. According to the Ma’anshan culture OP4.11: Physical Cultural committee, within the project area there 5 Irrelevant Resources are no physical cultural sites. The Chance-find procedure will be adopted. Land acquisition of this project is 119.26 OP4.12: Involuntary 6 Relevant hm2, involve 552 households and 1714 Resettlement persons. The RAP has been prepared. 7 OP4.36: Forestry Irrelevant This project does not involve forestation.

8 OP4.37: Safety of Dams Irrelevant This project does not involve dams OP7.50: Projects on This project does not involve international 9 Irrelevant International Waterways waterways OP7.60: Projects in Disputed This project does not involve disputed 10 Irrelevant Areas areas The EIA of this project is based on the 11 General EHS Guidelines Relevant General EHS Guidelines.

1.2.5 Other relevant documents

1. Urban Master Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality (2002-2020), 2004.03; 2. Urban Drainage Engineering Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality (2005-2020), 2006.03;

4 3. Urban Flood Control Planning Report of Ma’anshan Municipality, 2006.11; 4. Plan for Integrated Water Environment Management of the Cihu River Basin of Ma’anshan Municipality, 2011.08; 5. Preliminary Design for the Ma’anshan Middle Cihu River (East Ring Road—Linli Road) Integrated Management Project, 2012.02; 6. Feasibility Study Report for the Upper Cihu River Surface Water Management Project, 2009.08; 7. Feasibility Study Report for the Ma’anshan Yuanxiang Mountain Troilite Mine Geologic Environment Management Project, 2010.04; 8. Measures for Division of Urban Suitable Functional Areas for Surface Water, Atmospheric and Noise Environment of Ma’anshan Municipality, 2011.6; 9. Notice of the Ma’anshan Municipal Government on Issuing the Integrated Environmental Management Plan for the Cihu River Basin (MMG [2008] No.48); 10. Master Plan for Mineral Resources of Ma’anshan Municipality (2006-2015); 11. Outline of the Master Land Utilization Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality (2006-2020); 12. Master Ecological Construction Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality (2004-2020) 1.2.6 Documents related to the Project

1. Feasibility Study Report for the World Bank-financed Ma'anshan Cihu River Basin Improvement Project, Central and Southern China Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute; 2. Project proposal approval of ‘Ma'anshan Cihu River Basin Improvement Project’ from Ma’anshan City Development and Reform Committee. (MDRC S [2012] No. 132) 3. Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance on the Request for Instructions on China’s Plan for Candidate Projects to be Financed by the World Bank in Fiscal Years 2011-2013 (NDRC FC [2010] No.2617); 4. Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance on China’s Plan for Candidate Projects to be Financed by the World Bank in Fiscal Years 2011-2013 forwarded by the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission (ADRC FC [2010] No.1306)

1.3 Objectives and principles of assessment

1.3.1 Objectives

1. To learn the natural and social environment, environmental quality and environmental restraints of the project area through environmental survey and monitoring,

5 and provide a basis for the EIA; 2. To identify the main environmental impact factors and impacts of the Project at the construction and operation stages based on the characteristics and environmental impact profile of water resources construction projects; 3. To predict the scope and extent of impact of the Project on the local environment, thereby proposing ecological restoration and pollution control measures to avoid or reduce pollution; 4. To make a definite conclusion on whether the Project is feasible from the perspective of environmental protection; and 5. To ensure that the EIA Report provides a scientific basis for decision-making, control measure design and environmental management.

1.3.2 Principles

1. Carrying through the state and local laws, regulations and bylaws on environmental protection seriously, and conducting the field investigation and the EIA in accordance with the applicable technical standards; 2. Ensuring that the EIA is comprehensive enough to reflect the regional environmental characteristics and the Project’s environmental impact profile; 3. Carrying through the environmental protection and construction policy of “environment first, prevention mainly, combination of prevention and control, and focus on practical effects”; 4. Complying with local planning and environmental functional zoning requirements; 5. Ensuring that the EIA highlights key points, and provides reliable data and definite conclusions.

1.4 Identification of impact factors and screening of assessment indicators

1.4.1 Identification of environmental impact factors

The environmental impact factors of the Project at the construction and operation stages have been identified based on its environmental impact profile and the surrounding environmental characteristics, as shown in Table 1-2.

Table 1-2 Identification of Environmental Impact Factors

Construction behavior Operation Construction stage stage

6 Environmental resources Pumping Pumping River course River course Dike station station broadening dredging reinforcement construction operation Employment +1D +1D +1D +1D +1C Social Economy +1D +1D +1D +1D +2C environment Quality of life -1D -1D -1D -1D +2C

Landscape -1D -1D -1D -1D

Soil -1D -1D -1D -1D

Agriculture -1D -1D -1D -1D Ecological environment Vegetation -1D -1D -1D -1D

Fauna -1D -1D -1D -1D Water loss and -1D -1D -1D -1D soil erosion Surface water -1D environment Environmental Acoustic -1D -1D -1D -1D -1C quality environment Atmospheric -1D -1D -1D -1D environment Notes: 1. In the above table, “+” denotes a positive benefit and “-” a negative benefit’ 2. The numbers in the table indicate relative degree of impact, where “1” denotes a minor impact, “2” a medium impact and “3” a major impact; 3. “D” denotes a short-term impact and “C” a long-term impact.

1.4.2 Assessment indicators

The assessment indicators of the Project have been identified based on the environmental impact factors identified, and the current environmental quality and pollutant characteristics in the surrounding area, as shown in Table 1-3.

Table 1-3 Summary of Assessment Indicators

Item Assessment indicators Current status SO2, NO2, PM10 Ambient air assessment Impact analysis Odor, flying dust, SO2, NOx, CO Water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, permanganate index, chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen Current status demand, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus, total nitrogen, Surface water assessment volatile phenol, cyanides, arsenic, hexavalent chrome, environment fluoride, copper, mercury, selenium, lead, zinc, cadmium, petroleum, anionic surfactant, fecal coliform, sulfides Impact analysis SS, COD, ammonia nitrogen Acoustic Current status Leq environment assessment

7 Impact analysis Current status Land utilization, vegetation, fauna Ecological assessment environment Impacts on landscape, soil, fauna, vegetation, water loss and Impact assessment soil erosion, etc. Solid waste Impact analysis Dredging spoil, construction waste, domestic waste Social Impact analysis Transport, cultural relics along the Project environment

1.5 Scope and key points of assessment

1.5.1 Scope of assessment

The scope of assessment of the Project has been identified as shown in Table 1-4.

Table 1-4 Scope of Assessment

No. Item Scope

1 Project overview Scope and tasks of construction, land acquisition Analysis of the Project’s compliance with industrial policies and plans, and 2 Engineering analysis engineering pollution source analysis Natural environment, social and economic environment, functional zoning, Regional environment 3 environmental quality, flood and draining, pollution investigation of the Cihu overview River basin, water pollution treatment facilities of the Cihu River basin. Related Management 4 Contents of related management project Project Engineering plan Comparison of null engineering, comparison of different technique plan, 5 comparison comparison of different Sediment disposal plan Environmental impact analysis of construction wastewater, waste gas, noise EIA and Environmental 6 and solid waste, ecological impact analysis, environment impact analysis of protection measures operating noise of pumping stations Environmental Proposing suggestions on environmental management, monitoring and 7 management and supervision, and providing a schedule for acceptance of environmental monitoring plan protection facilities Public consultation and Soliciting public comments on the Project through information disclosure and 8 information publication public consultation, and making a statistical analysis

1.5.2 Key points of assessment

Based on the Project’s environmental impact profile and the environmental characteristics in the surrounding area, the key points of the EIA will be the environmental quality status survey, engineering plan comparison, environmental impacts assessment and environmental protection measures, public consultation based on a detailed analysis of the scope of construction.

8 1.6 Ratings and scope of assessment

1.6.1 Ratings

1. Ecological environment The project area is an ordinary area, involving no special or key ecologically sensitive area. The course to be managed in the upper and lower Cihu River is 13.04 km long, the branch courses to be managed in the middle Cihu River are 32.05 km long, and 1788.89 mu. of land will be occupied permanently. According to the Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Ecological impacts (HJ19-2011), the assessment rating of ecological environment of the Project is III. 2. Surface water environment The project construction staff may utilize living infrastructure in the nearby villages, and construction wastewater will be recycled and will not be discharged, so the assessment rating of surface water environment of the Project is impacts analysis. 3. Groundwater environment The Project is located in an insensitive area in terms of groundwater environment, and will not result in any hydrogeological problem. According to the Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment—Groundwater environment (HJ610-2011), the assessment rating of groundwater environment of the Project is present status analysis. 4. Acoustic environment The Project will have minor impacts on the acoustic environment at the operation stage, and its impacts on the acoustic environment will occur at the construction stage mainly and are short-term in nature, so the assessment rating of acoustic environment of the Project is III. 5. Ambient air The impacts of the Project on ambient air will occur at the construction stage mainly and are short-term in nature, so the assessment rating of atmospheric environment of the Project is impact analysis in construction period.

1.6.2 Scope of assessment

According to the ratings of the identified environmental impact factors, the scope of assessment of these factors is as shown in Table 1-5.

Table 1-5 Scope of Assessment of the Project

Environmental No. Rating Scope of assessment impact factor Permanent land occupation by river courses and pumping Ecological 1 III stations; temporary land occupation by construction sites, environment access roads and dredging spoil dumps, etc.

9 Surface water Impact 2 Cihu River, branch river systems environment analysis Present Groundwater 3 situation Cihu River basin environment assessment EIA of the 4 Ambient air construction period 40m around the project site, and sensitive sites Acoustic 5 III environment

1.7 Assessment standards

According to the Measures for Division of Urban Suitable Functional Areas for Surface Water, Atmospheric and Noise Environment of Ma’anshan Municipality, the standards proposed for the EIA are as follows: 1. Environmental quality standards

Table 1-6 Environmental Quality Standards

Item Standards Class Ambient Air Quality Standard Ambient air: Class II (GB3095-1996), and the 2000 Amendment Environmental Quality Standard for Surface Class III (Yangtze river) and V (Cihu Surface water Water (GB3838-2002) river) standards Quality Standard for Groundwater Groundwater Class III (GB/T14848-93) Class 4 standard in the Quality Standard for Acoustic Environment Acoustic (GB3096-2008) for both sides of Acoustic Environment (GB3096-2008) environment trunk traffic lines, Class 3 standard for Cihu Industrial Zone, and Class 2 standard for other areas Soil Quality Standard for Soil Environment Class III environment (GB15618-1995)

2. Pollutant emission standards

Table 1-7 Emission Standard

Item Emission Standard Class Integrated Emission Standard for Air Raise dust --- Pollutants (GB16297-1996)

10 Emission Standard for Odor Pollutants Odor pollutants Class II (GB14554-93) Construction Environment Noise for Boundary of --- noise Construction Site (GB12523-2011) Noise of pump Environment Noise for Boundary of factory station Class III （GB12348-2008） operation Agricultural sediment the pollutant control Solid waste --- standard（GB4284-84）

1.8 Periods of assessment

According to the construction schedule of the Project, the periods of assessment include the construction and operation stages.

1.9 Assessment methods

The analysis method will be applied to water EIA, the model calculation method to acoustic EIA, the analogy analysis method to atmospheric EIA, a combination of survey and computational analysis to ecological EIA, and the investigational analysis method to the social environment and public consultation.

1.10 Environmental protection objects

There is campus of Anhui industrial university, arable land, villages along the channel of upstream Cihu river. However, most places are still undeveloped or mining area. The left side area of middle stream Cihu river is construction land, mostly is residential area. The right side area of middle stream Cihu river is also arable land. The area of along the downstream Cihu river is industrial area. Environmental protection objects of ambient air and acoustic environment is the nearby communities and campuses (see table 1-8, figure 1-2, the detailed location see annexed figure 1-3). Environmental protection objects of surface water are the Cihu river and the branch streams, as well as the Ma’anshan section of Yangtze river. There is no water source protection zone, nature reserve, scenic spot or cultural relic protection unit involved in the project scope. Table 1-8 Sensitive point in the project scope Closest Person Rivers Sensitivity point distance to the amount Pollutants river involved

11 Anhui industrial Very close 4000 Raise dust, Noise university Community of Up stream of Cihu Xiaxi group in 13m 15 Raise dust, Noise Village of Fengzhuang Village of 90 Odor pollutants, Raise Down stream of Cihu Shuguang No.1 7-8m dust, Noise Village of Cihu 90 Branch streams Village of Odor pollutants, Raise Nantang river Very close 30 tangchalou dust, Noise Ma’anshan second middle 5m 600 Odor pollutants Wangbaitan school Villa of 10m 18 Odor pollutants Yingjunlingyu Community of Yangqiao ditch 5-10m 693 Odor pollutants Wanjiayiyuan Community of Xitang International 5m 525 Odor pollutants Huacheng West ditch of Village of Odor pollutants, Raise 34m 3 Wudangang Shiqiao dust, Noise Community of South ditch of East urban 5-10m 540 Odor pollutants Fengshou Garden

Anhui industrial university Community of Xiaxi group in Village Fengzhuang

12

Village of Shuguang No.1 and Cihu Village of tangchalou

Ma’anshan second middle school Villa of Yingjunlingyu

Community of Wanjiayiyuan Community of International Huacheng

Community of East urban Garden

13 Figure 1-2 The present situation of sensitivity point in the project scope

14 Chapter 2 Project Overview

2.1 Basic Information of the Project

1. Name: World Bank-financed Ma'anshan Cihu River Basin Improvement Project 2. Location: Cihu River basin, Ma’anshan Municipality, Anhui Province 3. Construction agency: Leading Group Office for Ma’anshan Cihu River Project under World Bank Loan 4. Investment: RMB 1,319,417,300, including RMB 642,280,000 for improvement of Cihu river and rain-water drainage, RMB 496,350,000 for improvement of branch streams, RMB 9,000,000 for environmental management and monitoring, RMB 10,000,000 for service capacity building and support of project operating, inflation reserve funds of RMB 30,371,100, Basic reserve funds of RMB 104,660,000, First levy of RMB 1,560,000, interest of RMB 25,200,000 during the construction period. 5. Scope of construction: management of the Cihu River course and branches to enhance the ability of flood control and draiage. 6. Flood control and drainage design indicators According to the Urban Flood Control Planning Report of Ma’anshan Municipality and Urban Drainage Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality (2005-2020), the design flood control standard of the Cihu River is resisting floods that occur every 20 years, to be reviewed based on the standard of resisting floods that occur every 50 years; the design flood drainage standard for the pump drainage area of the Cihu River is resisting floods that occur once a year. 7. Content of the project (1) Component 1: Rehabilitation of Cihu River and Improvement of Urban Drainage a) Rehabilitation of the upper river course is 6.8km long, including ecological revetment construction, landscaping and maintenance road construction; b) Rehabilitation of the lower river course is 6.24km long, including dredging, dike reinforcement, revetment, landscaping, maintenance road construction etc.; c) Demolition and re-construction of 5 stormwater pumping stations. (2) Component 2: Rehabilitation of Tributaries a) Rehabilitation of 19 branch rivers with a total length of 32.05 km, including dredging, slope protection, greening, and maintenance road construction. b) Rehabilitation of 2 ponds as rainwater retention ponds, including ecological revetment construction and greening; c) Rehabilitation of Lijianwan River, including dike reinforcement along the left side, slope

15 protection, greening and maintenance road construction (3) Component 3: Environmental management and monitoring a) Installation of an auto surface water quality monitoring station; b) Development and implementation of water resource monitoring plan; c) Preparation of mine closure guideline. (4) Component 4: Capacity Building and Implementation Support This Component comprise hiring consulting companies to support the project management, training and overseas study tour of staff in project office and construction units, facilities of the project office and operation agency.

2.2 Scope of construction and technical indicators

2.2.1 Rehabilitation of Cihu River and Improvement of Urban Drainage

1. Rehabilitation of Upper Cihu River The scope of the rehabilitation of the upper Cihu River is East Ring Road—Provincial Highway 313, about 6.8 km long. Due to the influx of the Zhennan branch stream, the upper river course is divided into two segments, in which the East Ring Road—Hunan East Road segment is about 3.0 km long, connected to Xiushan Lake under construction on the north, and to the Yanghe River (main stream of the upper Cihu River) and the Zhennan branch stream (a branch river system in the upper Cihu River) on the south, and the Hunan East Road—Provincial Highway 313 segment is the Yanghe River (main stream of the upper Cihu River), about 3.8 km long.

The scope of upper Cihu River construction includes ecological revetment construction, landscaping and dike top road constuction. (1) River course direction The upper course area is a transition area between developed and undeveloped areas, where the upper river course will maintain its existing direction, and changeful riverbed and slope lines will be designed. Where it is possible to connect to riverside green spaces, wandering waterways and ponds may be built to create a diverse water environment. (2) Cross section design The upper Cihu River has a very low discharge at ordinary times, and no inland inundation has occurred. The existing cross section is largely sufficient for safe drainage. In the Project, a compound cross section will be employed, where the existing main channel will be maintained, and river flats will be built on both sides for wetland development or landscaping. The primary platform (waterborne platform) will be 1.0m wide, the outer slopes will have a gradient of 1:1.5, and the protective control blue line of the upper river course will be 10.0m

16 out of the bank line. See Table 2-1 and Figure 2-1.

Table 2-1 Results of cross section design

Design Design Form of Length, water section River segment Gradient, ‰ Spec. section km depth, discharge, m m3/s

Upper course Upper Provincial Bottom width 23.5m, Highway Compound 3.0 1.5 2.5 top width 33.0m, canal 113.58 313—Hunan East section height 3.5m Road

Hunan East Bottom width 33.0m, Compound Road—East Ring 3.8 0.9 3 top width 44.0m, canal 170.51 section Road height 4.0m

Standard section of the Provincial Highway 313—Hunan East Road segment

Standard section of the Hunan East Road—East Ring Road segment

Figure 2-1 Standard section design of the upper Cihu River course

(3) Revetment design of the upper river course Since the banks of the upper Cihu River are essentially natural earth banks with poor water and soil conditions, and vegetation and other bank protection measures are very deficient,

17 landslide and soil erosion are very frequent. In the Project, the upper course revetments will be natural ecological revetments, and soil-reinforcing plants with a developed root system will be utilized to protect the river banks and ecology. In order to prevent the sliding of side slopes, the following measures will be taken: 1) To prevent the riverbed from heaving and the bases of the side slopes from becoming unstable, woodpiles will be driven at the bases in a quincunx layout with 1.0m spacing. 2) 3-dimensional vegetation will be provided on the surfaces of the side slopes to reduce scouring by water flow and improve the landscaping effect. (4) Maintenance road design The upper Cihu River has no dike, and the maintenance roads will be arranged within 10.0m and not more than 4.0m wide. A concrete pavement will be employed, with a 22cm concrete surface layer, a 30cm cement-stabilized gravel layer, a 20cm lime, pulverized coal ash and gravel layer, and compacted plain soil. (5) Landscaping design The landform of the upper Cihu River is composed mainly of natural factors and green vegetation. Except trees and grasses on the banks and beside the river, hygrophytes and emerging plants may also be cultivated. 2. Rehabilitation of Lower Cihu River The range of rehabilitation of the lower Cihu River is from Linli Road to the river entrance, about 6.3km long. Due to the influx of the Tianran River branch stream, the lower river course is divided into two segments, in which the river entrance—Tianran River segment is about 5.3km long, and the Tianran River—Linli Road segment about 1.0km long. The scope of construction includes dredging, dike body reinforcement, revetment and dike top road construction. (1) River course direction Most of the lower river course is in a built-up area, and the bank line is mostly straight. The dikes should be arranged to facilitate local urban construction planning and minimize environmental impacts. Therefore, the dikes will be arranged essentially along the existing river course direction without much adjustment. (2) Cross section and revetment design There are already dikes on both sides of the lower Cihu River, and the cross section is largely trapezoidal, but the river course is narrow and the flow section cannot meet the design flood discharge. In the Project, the lower river course will be broadened generally and the existing dikes will be set back. A trapezoidal section will be employed for most of the river course, with a gradient of 1:3 for the outer slope and 1:4 for the inner slope, and the slopes will be earth slopes mainly, covered with vegetation. In the Cihu Town segment, a rectangular

18 dry-laid masonry section will be employed. The protective control blue line of the lower river course will be 10.0m out of the base of the inner slope. See Table 2-2 and Figure 2-2.

Table 2-2 Results of cross section design

Design Design Form of Length, section River segment Gradient, ‰ water Spec. section km discharge, depth, m m3/s

Lower course Lower Tianran River Bottom width 25.0m, mouth—Linli Trapezoidal 0.89 0.15 6.5 top width 69.0m, dike 233.05 Bridge height 7.5m Cihu River Bottom width 20.0m,

mouth—Tianran Trapezoidal 5.35 0.15 7 top width 68.0m, dike 366.15 River mouth height 8.0m

Standard section of the Tianran River mouth—Linli Bridge segment

Standard section of the Cihu River mouth—Tianran River mouth segment

Figure 2-2 Standard section design of the lower Cihu River

(3) Dike reinforcement design 1) Most of the dikes of the lower Cihu River are made of earth. In the Project, the dikes will be subject to dike reinforcement, anti-seepage treatment for dike body and shallow dike

19 foundation, and dike foundation reinforcement, as detailed below: ① Dike body reinforcement design: by slope cutting outside and reinforcement inside; ② Anti-seepage treatment for dike body and shallow dike foundation: by concurrent cone penetration grouting for both the dike body and the shallow dike foundation; ③ Dike foundation reinforcement design: by pond filling; 2) Due to the low availability of land in the Cihu Town segment, reinforced concrete floodwalls will be used to reinforce the dikes, and floodwalls with a length of 130m and 330m will be constructed on the left and right dikes respectively. (4) Maintenance road design The access road of the lower Cihu River will be on the dike top, with a planned width of 8.0m, 1.0m wide road shoulders and 6.0m wide motorized vehicle lanes. A concrete pavement will be employed, with a 22cm concrete surface layer, a 30cm cement-stabilized gravel layer, a 20cm lime, pulverized coal ash and gravel layer, and compacted plain soil. (5) Landscaping design The lower Cihu River area is a densely populated urban area, where it is more suitable to grow trees and grasses on the banks and beside the river, such as willows. (6) River course dredging The average sediments thickness of the existing river course is about 0.5m, and the amount of sediments to be dredged will be about 77,000 m3. Dredging will be conducted by hydraulic dredging in sections, delivery of sediments to a stockpile site for temporary storage and sedimentation, and transport to the Xiangshan landfill where the sediments will be further dried and used as cover soil. 3. Reconstruction of stormwater pumping stations According to the Urban Master Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality, the catchment area of the Cihu River basin in the urban planning area is 85.29 km2, including 43.62km2 in the upper hilly area (gravity drainage area) and 41.67km2 in the embankment area (pump drainage area). The pump drainage area west of the Cihu River is 16.79km2, all in the built-up area or planned built-up area; the pump drainage area east of the Cihu River is 24.88km2, in which 15.52km2 is in the built-up area or planned built-up area, and 8.51km2 is in the suburb. 14 storm water drainage zones have been planned in the Cihu River basin as follows:

Storm water drainage zones in the lower course—Magang new area, Nantang, Sulfuric acid plant, Zhaoming, Xiaonanwei and Zhendong zones, located mainly in Cihu Industrial Zone. Storm water drainage zones in the middle course—Xiaohezha, Yangqiao, Xitang, Xiaohecha, Linli, Fengshou and Fengqiao zones; the west zones are mostly in the built-up area and the east zones in the newly developed district.

20 Storm water drainage zones in the upper course—Xiangshan zone, including the market town and the newly developed district. It is planned to expand the existing stormwater pumping stations for the 14 storm water drainage zones. The existing stations have a total installed capacity of 52.15m3/s, which will be expanded to 150.9m3/s. See Table 2-3. Table 2-3 Planning of storm water drainage zones River segment No. Zone Pumping station Catchment area, km2 1 Magang new area Stations 2, 3 and 4 3.15 2 Nantang Tongyi (2) 2.01 3 Sulfuric acid plant Sulfuric acid plant 1.20 Lower course 4 Zhaoming Zhaoming 2.83 5 Xiaonanwei Xiaonanwei 1.37 6 Zhendong Tailai 2.0 7 Xiaohezha Xiaohezha 2.24 8 Yangqiao Yangqiao 4.71 9 Xitang Xitang 2.32 Middle course 10 Xiaohecha Xiaohecha 2.36 11 Linli Linli 3.58 12 Fengshou Fengshou 11.20 13 Fengqiao Fengqiao 1.85 Upper course 14 Xiangshan 43.62 Total 84.44

The ongoing Ma’anshan Middle Cihu River (East Ring Road—Linli Road) Integrated Management Project includes the construction of the 6 planned stormwater pumping stations in the middle course. Among the 6 storm water drainage zones planned in the lower course, the stormwater pumping station of the Magang new area is a corporate pumping station, and the stormwater pumping stations of the other 5 storm water drainage zones will be constructed in the Project, as shown in Table 2-6. Each stormwater pumping station will include a grill room, a catchment room, a pump room and a power distribution room. Since these pump stations will be construction on former sites, the existing water passages, culverts and sluices will be utilized.

Table 2-4 Design parameters of stormwater pumping stations

Design discharge, Water pump Single-pump No. Name Qty. m3/s spec., m3/s power, kW 1 Tongyi (2) 6.3 2.1 3 250 2 Jiandanzha 11.5 2.9 4 180 3 Zhaoming 6.9 2.3 3 250

21 4 Xiaonanwei 4.2 2.1 2 250 5 Tailai 5.2 1.8 3 180

2.2.2 Rehabilitation of Tributaries

This Component comprises rehabilitation of 19 branch rivers, with a total length of 32.05 km, and 2 ponds as rainwater retention ponds, including ecological revetment construction and landscaping. This Component also comprise rehabilitation of left side of Lijianwan river, including dike reinforcement, slope protection, landscaping and dike top maintenance road construction, and the 19 branch river systems, including dredging, slope protection, landscaping, and dike top maintenance road construction. 1. Rehabilitaiton of Lijianwan river Lijianwan river is the branch of Cihu river. The Lijianwan river discharge into the downstream of Cihu sluice, connecting the Yangtze river. This river is the boundary of Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. The right side belongs to Jiangsu, and the right dike has been constructed to the standard. The left side belongs to Anhui, where the dike is still the earth embankment. This project will rehabilitate the Lijianwan river of 1.7km length, including dike reinforcement, revetment, maintenance road construction on the dike top, and greening. (1) Dike reinforcement design The detailed of standard sections of the dike could be seen in table 2-3. Table 2-5 Standard section of the left dike design of Lijianwan river Over height of Width of the dike Slope facing Back water Dike level dike top /m top/ m water slope

4 1.0 8.0 1:2 1:2.5

1) Dike body reinforcement and heightening Outside slope of the dike will be cut. The dike body will be reinforced to reach the section standards. 2) Filling ponds and ditches The ponds and ditches closed to the dike will make the dike risky. Some ponds are as deep as 2.5m; highly weakening the solidity of dike. So, the ponds and ditches within the distance to the foot of the dike of 20m will be filled up, beyond the ground level for 0.5m (allowable settlement). 3) Anti-seepage of the dike body The soil uniformity is poor of the left side dike of the Lijianwan river. Clay soil grouting will be used to anti-seepage of the dike body. (2) Sloping design

22 According to the “Levee engineering design specifications”, the sod revetment on the embankment which faces the water could resist level 4 or less waves and water scouring slower than 2m/s. both slopes of the embankment will apply the sod revetment. (3) Maintenance road on embankment The road surface on the left embankment of Lijianwan river is bare soil. The access road of the lower Cihu River will be on the dike top, with a planned width of 8.0m, 6.0m wide motorized vehicle lanes. A concrete pavement will be employed, with a 22cm concrete surface layer, a 30cm cement-stabilized gravel layer, a 20cm lime, pulverized coal ash and gravel layer, and compacted plain soil. (4) Landscape greening This project planning to greening the embankment top and road shoulder, as well ass the embankment in 25m scope. 2. Rehabilitation of the branch river systems In the Project, besides the Lijianwan river, 19 branch river systems and 2 ponds including Hupo pond and Yaochang pond will berehabilitaed for a total length of 30.35km, located in the Jiandanzha, Xiaonanxu, Zhendong, Nantang, Xiaohezha, Yangqiao, Xitang, Xiaohecha, Linli, Fengshou and Fengqiao zones respectively. The scope of construction includes dredging, ecological revetment and landscaping. See Table 2-6.

Table 2-6 Design results of management of the branch river systems

Average Average Length of Canal Normal Construction Water Branch Length, Direction bottom top width, the bank, depth, Water content system stream m width, m m m m level Dredging, Jiandan river Shendibanroad – Ecological 1210 4.0~6.0 4~6 Null 2.5 5.5 water system Lijianwan river revetment, greening Jiandanjia Ecological Hupo pond zone Lake shore 3320 ------3 --- 5.5 revetment, water system greening Yaochang Dredging, pond water Lake shore 1770 ------3 --- 5.5 Ecological system revetment, Xiaonanxu Ditch of Tianmen road - Cihu greening 1086 6.0 12 1.5 2.0 5.5 zone Dianye road river East side ditch of Tianmen road- 1642 10.0 16 1.5 2.0 5.5 Zhendong Ningwu natural river zone railroad North side Tianmen road – 1233 10.0 16 1.5 2.0 5.5 ditch of tailai pumping

23 natural river station Nantang Tianmen road – Nantang river 1898 11.0 11.0 --- 2.0 5.5 zone Cihu road Cross stream Xiaohezha Health New Town— in Xindu 1169 5.0 12.5 1.5 2.5 5.0 zone Caicun stream Community Wangbaitan Jiangdong Avenue— Dredging 820 17 23 1.5 3.0 5.1 water system Cihu River Yangqiao Yangqiao zone Mapu Road— stream water 772 14 14 --- 2.0 5.1 Wangbaitan system Dredging, Xitang water Maxiang Railway— Ecological Xitang zone 1094 15 21 1.5 2.0 6.0 system Cihu River revetment on one side Xiaohecha Maxiang Railway— Dredging, 240 19 25 1.5 2.0 6.1 Xiaohecha branch stream Cihu River Ecological zone Xiaohecha Huayuan Road— revetment, 1230 8 14 1.5 2.0 6.1 main stream Cihu River greening Qiaoshan Geyang Road— 1253 8 8 --- 2.0 5.2 stream Cihu River Linli zone Geyang water East Ring Road— 539 10 10 --- 2.0 5.2 system Cihu River Wudangang Xiushan Road— 1980 10.5 18 1.5 2.5 5.5 east stream Shanghu River Xiushan West 2nd Wudangang Road— Shanghu 2120 14.5 22 1.5 2.5 5.5 west stream River Fengshou North stream zone on right bank Taodian Road— 990 1.5 9 1.5 2.5 5.5 of Shanghu Shanghu River River Tuanqishan Road— Shanghu Fengshou pumping 3670 18.5 26 1.5 2.5 5.5 River station Mapu Road— Dredging Fengshou Fengqiao pumping 900 9 9 --- 2.0 6.0 south stream station Fengqiao Dredging, zone East Ring Road— Qianjin Ecological Fengqiao pumping 1410 10 10 --- 2.0 6.0 stream revetment, station greening

(1) Plane direction

24 Most branch river systems in the middle Cihu River are located in the built-up area or planned built-up area. Due to the restriction of land planning, the branch river systems will maintain their existing directions, and bended or straightened locally. (2) Cross section and revetment design A trapezoidal section will be usually employed for the branch river systems in the middle Cihu River. The bank slopes will be mostly made of earth, and covered with 3-dimensional vegetation. Where land use is restricted seriously, a rectangular dry-laid masonry section will be employed. See Figure 2-3.

Trapezoidal section Rectangular section

Figure 2-3 Cross section design of the branch river systems in the middle Cihu River

(3) Road and landscaping design of branch river systems 2m wide sidewalks will be provided within the controlling range of the branch river systems, and vegetation will be cultivated in the remaining spaces. The sidewalks will be made of 6cm thick pre-fabricated slabs, with 2cm cement mortar (1:3), 15cm graded gravel and compacted plain soil. (4) Dredging of the branch river systems The total amount of dredging of the branch river systems will be 79,700 m3 based on the design thickness of 0.3m. In low flow season, the water in the river will be diverted by cofferdams which will be constructed in stages. The water within the cofferdam will be pumped out into the river couser downstream of the cofferdam so as to ensure the air dry of the sediments exposed. Mechanical method will be used to dredge the sediments when they are dried. Tankers will be used to transported to Xiangshan Landfill. As the pumps to be used are in small size, the noise from the pumps is minor, and will not affect the surroundings. 2.2.3 Environmental management and monitoring

1. Cihu river basin management systems The systems would enhance the supervision of the whole basin by local relevant departments.

25 The governments in each district should establish long term management of the basin environment, with long term documents managing systems, annually examining systems, and daily supervision systems. The governments in each district should also establish operation systems, to conduct joint law enforcement, intensify law enforcement, enhance the investigation and treatment of illegal drainage sewage, illegal construction, illegal land use and acquisition, channel jam and damage. The systems would promote effectively control and prevention of basin environmental pollution and ecological violation. 2. Aquatic environment monitoring system of the Cihu River An automatic water quality monitoring station will be constructed for monitoring by the Ma’anshan Central Environment Monitoring Station on a monthly basis. There are 25 monitoring indicators, including water temperature, pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, COD, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, etc. During the implementation of the World Bank-financed project, extra monitoring will be performed as necessary. Currently, the Ma’anshan Central Environment Monitoring Station can essentially meet the monitoring requirements. 3. Environmental early warning system for the Cihu River basin In order to integrate water quality monitoring data and strengthen environmental risk prevention capacity, a water quality evaluation model for the Cihu River will be established, where GIS technology will be applied to develop an integrated monitoring data analysis software and a release platform of early warning signs, realize the visualization of forecast, early warning and simulated analysis, and improve the overall analysis and evaluation level of aquatic environment quality. The establishment of the environmental early warning system for the Cihu River basin includes hardware purchase, network operation and maintenance, GIS platform development, development of water quality evaluation model, integrated monitoring data analysis software and early warning platform software, and staff training, which will be implemented by the Information Center of the Ma’anshan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. 4. Establishing a mine management system The mine protection plan will be developed, covering the background, present situation and existing problems of mines in the Xiangshan area, mitigation measures and follow-up monitoring. Environmental problems arising from mining will be prioritized, and pertinent mitigation measures proposed and their feasibility analyzed. The focus is to eliminate the potential risk of river water quality degradation by acid water.

2.2.4 Capacity building and implementation support

1. Expert, consultant service It is necessary to hire experts and consultants to assist the review of the design document and bidding documents, manage the project and construction, supervise social/environmental security plan, and establish the monitoring system and the completion report.

26 2. Ability construction The staff of the project office and construction units will promote their ability, through training, visiting, to ensure the successful project implementation. 3. Office facilities Necessary facilities will equipped to cooperate the project implementation of the project office.

27 Table 2-7 list of the constructions contents

No. Name Standard Material / uni amou The scope of constuction Compone Management of Cihu river structure t nt t 1 1.1 Upper Cihu river 1.1.1 Provincial Highway 313-hunan bottom width23.5m，top width33.0m，canal soil m 3800 Ecological revetment, greening, road construction east road depth3.5m 1.1.2 Hunan east road – East ring road bottom width33.0m，top width44.0m，canal soil m 3000 Ecological revetment , greening , road construction depth4.0m 1.2 Lower Cihu river 1.2.1 Tianran river mouth – Linli Bridge bottom width25.0m，top width69.0m，dike soil m 890 Dike reinforcement , revetment , greening , road construction on dike top , pond height7.5m filling , dredging 1.2.2 Cihu river mouth – Tianran river bottom width20.0m，top width68.0m，dike soil m 5350 Dike reinforcement , revetment , greening , road construction on dike top , pond mouth height8.0m filling , dredging 1.3 Stormwater pumping station 3.1.1 Tongyi (2) Design discharge 6.3m3/s Reinforced set 1 concrete 3.1.2 Jiandanzha Design discharge 11.5m3/s Reinforced set 1 concrete 3.1.3 Zhaoming Design discharge 6.9m3/s Reinforced set 1 concrete 3.1.4 Tailai Design discharge 4.2m3/s Reinforced set 1 concrete 3.1.5 Xiaonanwei Design discharge 5.2m3/s Reinforced set 1 concrete Compone Management of branch river t 2 systems 2.1.1 Jiandan river water system bottom width4~6m，top width4~6m，canal rubble m 1210 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.5m 2.1.2 Hupo pond water system Revetment height 4.0m rubble m 3320 ecological revetment , greening 2.1.3 Yaochang pond water system Revetment height 4.0m rubble m 1770 ecological revetment , greening 2.1.4 Ditch of dianye road bottom width6m，top width12m，canal rubble m 1086 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.5 East side ditch of Ningwu rail road bottom width10m，top width16m，canal rubble m 1642 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.6 North side ditch of tianran river bottom width10m，top width16m，canal rubble m 1233 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.7 Nantang river bottom width11m，top width11m，canal rubble m 1898 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m

28 No. Name Standard Material / uni amou The scope of constuction 2.1.8 Cross stream in Xindu community bottom width5m，top width12.5m，canal structurerubble mt 1169nt dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.5m 2.1.9 Wangebaitan water system bottom width17m，top width23m，canal rubble m 820 dredging depth3.0m 2.1.10 Yangqiao stream water system bottom width14m，top width14m，canal rubble m 772 dredging depth2.0m 2.1.11 Xitang water system bottom width15m，top width21m，canal rubble m 1094 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.12 Xiaohecha main stream bottom width19m，top width25m，canal rubble m 240 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.13 Xiaohecha branc stream bottom width8m，top width14m，canal rubble m 1230 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.14 Qiaoshan stream bottom width8m，top width8m，canal depth2.0m rubble m 1253 dredging , ecological revetment , greening 2.1.15 Geyang water system bottom width10m，top width10m，canal rubble m 539 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.16 Wudangang east stream bottom width10.5m，top width18m，canal rubble m 1980 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.5m 2.1.17 Wudangang west stream bottom width14.5m，top width22m，canal rubble m 2120 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.5m 2.1.18 North stream on right bank of bottom width1.5m，top width9m，canal rubble m 990 dredging , ecological revetment , greening shanghu river depth2.5m 2.1.19 Shanghu river bottom width18.5m，top width26m，canal rubble m 3670 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.5m 2.1.20 Fengshou south stream bottom width9m，top width9m，canal depth2.0m rubble m 900 dredging 2.1.21 Qianjin stream bottom width10m，top width10m，canal rubble m 1410 dredging , ecological revetment , greening depth2.0m 2.1.22 Left side of Lijianwan river soil m 1700 Dike reinforcement, grouting , revetment , road construction on dike top , pond filling Compone Including Cihu river basin management system, Cihu river water quality monitoring system, Cihu river basin Environmental management and monitoring t 3 environmental warning system and mining management system.

Compone Including hiring consulting companies to support the project management, training and abroad investigation of Ability building and project implementationsupport t 4 staff in project office and construction units, facilities of the project office and operation agency.

29 2.3 Impact of Land Acquisition and Resettlement

According to the ‘Resettlement Action Plan of Ma'anshan Cihu River Basin Improvement Project’ compiled by the Immigrations Center of Hehai University, the project impacting scope include three districts (Huashan district, Jinjiazhuang district, Cihugaoxin district), one county, two blocks (Cihu county and Huoli block), with 552 households and 1714 persons. This project doesn’t involve housing demolition and relocation. The main impacts are the acquisition of collective-owned and state-owned land. The total land acquisition are 1788.89 mu., including 1253.89mu. collective-owned land, which are all non-prime arable land. The permanent land acquisition of national-owned land is 535 mu., which are all unused land along the river and branches. The temporary land acquisitions are all inside the blueline of Cihu river, without extra land acquisition or demolition. See detailed in table 2-8. Table 2-8 Immigration impacts of the project

River management Pumping Items Units Upper Lower Branches Total station river river Permanent land acquisition of Mu. 445 266.85 533.84 8.2 1253.89 collective -owned Permanent land acquisition of Mu. 0 150.35 367.65 17 535 national-owned Household 140 35 377 0 552 Directly impact Person 434 116 1164 0 1714

2.4 Overall construction arrangement

2.4.1 Construction traffic

There are some traffic arteries in the project area, and the existing roads may be utilized for the transport of construction materials and machinery during project construction. For construction sites away from traffic arteries, nearby existing roads may be utilized after renovation.

2.4.2 Construction site arrangement

Since the Project is close to the urban area and villages, nearby existing living infrastructure may be utilized, nearby residential houses rented, and other living, office and

30 construction facilities arranged within the land acquired permanently for the Project. Construction machinery will be arranged flexibly within the construction area and repaired at nearby repair shops. Only machinery parts will be replaced on construction sites.

2.5 Construction schedule

The Project will be implemented from January 2013 to April 2017, including project preparation, resettlement information disclosure, land acquisition, preliminary design and approval, design and review of construction drawings, bidding, civil works construction, equipment installation and commissioning, and final acceptance. See Table 2-8 for the project implementation schedule by bid package and Table 2-9 for the construction subcontracting plan.

Table 2-9 Project implementation schedule

Time of No. Component implementation Lower Cihu River rehabilitation (Cihu sluice—Sunjia sluice) MS1 Rehabilitation of left bank of the Lijianwan River 2016 Jiandanzha pumping station Lower Cihu River rehabilitation (Dianye Bridge—Cihu sluice) MS2 2015 Zhaoming pumping station Lower Cihu River rehabilitation (National Highway 205—Dianye Bridge) MS3 2014 Xiaonanwei pumping station MS4 Lower Cihu River rehabilitation (Linli Road—National Highway 205) 2013 Upper Cihu River rehabilitation (Provincial Highway 313—Hunan East MS5 2015 Road) MS6 Upper Cihu River rehabilitation (Hunan East Road—East Ring Road) 2014 Lakes and ponds MS7 2015 Yaochang pond MS8 Improvement of Jiandan ditch water system 2014 MS9 Improvement of Dianye Road ditch water system 2016 Improvement of Tianran River north ditch water system MS10 Improvement of Ningwu Railway east ditch water system 2017 Tailai pumping station Improvement of Nantang water system MS11 2013 Nantang (Tongyi pumping station 2) MS12 Improvement of Xindu Community cross ditch water system 2013 Improvement of Geyang water system MS13 2014 Qiaoshan ditch MS14 Improvement of Wangbaitan water system 2013 MS15 Improvement of Yangqiao ditch water system 2013 MS16 Improvement of Xitang water system 2013

31 Improvement of rivulet mainstream water system MS17 2015 Improvement of rivulet branch stream water system MS18 Improvement of north ditch water system of left bank of the Shanghu River 2017 MS19 Improvement of Shanghu River water system 2017 MS20 Improvement of Wudangang west ditch water system 2017 MS21 Improvement of Wudangang east ditch water system 2017 MS22 Improvement of Fengshou south ditch water system 2016 MS23 Improvement of Qianjin ditch water system 2016

Table 2-10 Construction subcontracting plan

Time of Package Composition Remarks implementation MP1.0 MS1, MS2, MS3, MS4 2013-2016 Lower Cihu River and pumping stations MP2.0 MS5, MS6 2014-2015 Upper Cihu River Lakes, ponds and branch water systems in MP3.0 MS7, MS8 2014-2015 Cihu Hi-tech Development Zone Urban branch water systems and pumping MP4.0 MS10, MS11 2013-2017 stations MP5.0 MS9, MS12—MS23 2013-2017 Urban branch water systems

32 Chapter Ⅲ Project Analysis

3.1 The Conformity of Industrial Policies

According to Catalog of Industrial Restructuring Guidance (Version 2011) (No.9 2011, NDRC), this engineering project falls into the first type of encouraged projects: “Second, Water Conservancy, 1. River dam construction and watercourse and reservoir treatment project”, thus it conforms to the industrial policy of China.

3.2 Analysis for Conformity of Plans

1. Urban Flood Control Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality According to Urban Flood Control Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality, the dam of Cihu River shall be designed to be safe when it confronts with once-in-two-decade flood, and shall be tested according to the standard that it can withstand once-in-five-decade flood.

The upstream of Cihu is a natural watercourse with a relatively smaller water flow, which has dam only along the reach near Donghuan Road. No dam is built along the other reaches since generally no flood happens there. Therefore no change is planned to be made there. In the upside of the downstream, the bottom width of the watercourse basically satisfies the requirements of the design. However, the main side slope and crown height of the dam is insufficient, so it is planned to do scaling on the side slope and retreat building in some reaches, considering the environmental construction design. Meanwhile, neither the bottom width nor side slope in the downside meets the requirements. Therefore scaling is planned to be done on the left bank and retreat building is designed to be adopted on the right one.

In the construction of Cihu River Dam, more attention should be paid to seepage proofing, the handling of potential safety problems in dam body and the reinforcement and danger-rooting of architectures across or through the dam. As for reaches where dam section is thin and current scouring happens, the construction of dam and embankment should be combined together with proper protection. To strengthen the overall flood control capacity of Cihu River, greater efforts should be made and more funding should be invested in the river. 2. Urban Drainage Engineering Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality

According to the Urban Drainage Engineering Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality, water in the depressions along Cihu River should be drained naturally or through pumping. Due to the higher terrain of the upstream, rainwater can flow out of Cihu River and arrive at both sides

33 of its downstream, where pumping stations are needed to pump rainwater in urban and suburban area into Cihu River during the flood season of Yangtze River.

The west-side pumping area of Cihu River covers a range of 16.79km2, where 11 pumping stations have been completed and others are in design. But the overall pumping capacity is relatively not enough owing to the small scale and poor equipments of most stations. So it is planned, according to the water catchment, to reduce the station number to 8, and enhance their capacity to standard. While in the east-side pumping area, which covers 24.03 km2, water catchment, 15.52 km2 completed or in design and 8.51 km2 in suburb, it is planned, according to water catchment, to make alteration or expansion to existing pumping stations, and check and ratify the stations to be built in accordance with both urban and rural flood control standard. The details are as follows: (1) Magang New District Zone

Magang New District Zone covers a catchment area of 3.15km2, where Santie Pumping Station, Ergang Pumping Station and Tongyi Pumping Station are in use to pump flood water into Cihu River at a rate of 2.4m3/s. According to the drainage design of Magang New District, 2#, 3# and 4#, these three pumping stations will be built with a rate respectively at 20.2m3/s, 9.5m3/s, and 19.7 m3/s.

Besides, the existing three ones will be done away after the completion of the above pumping stations. (2) Nantang Zone

In Nantang Zone, which covers a catchment area of 2.01km2, water logging is quite severe as a result of the silting up and encroachment in the 2.6km-long Nantang river system and the inadequate capacity of Tongyi pumping station (only 2.4m3/s) at the outlet. A thorough improvement of Nantang river shall be done in accordance with the requirements of the design to satisfy its discharge capacity. At the same time, it is planned to expand No.2 Tongyi pumping station and raise its capacity to 6.30m3/s, and abolish Zhennan Pumping Station (0.4m3/s) after the connection of drainage ditches. (3) Xiaohezha Zone

It covers a catchment area of 2.24km2 and is encircled by Nanjing-Wuhu Railway, Geyang Road and Cihu River. The serious blocking and poor drainage in the upstream of Xiaohezha River leads to water logging in Jiankang New Village on the south side. According to the

34 project, the whole Xiaohezha river, 2.3km in length, will be improved by expanding the capacity of its pumping station from 2.4m3/s to 6.8m3/s. Meanwhile, Tuanjie Pumping Station (1.2 m3/s), closely next to its north side, will be abolished according to the plan, because of its outdated equipments and disrepair, and the fact that it is connected with the catchment area of Xiaohezha. (4) Yangqiao Zone

Covering a catchment area of 4.71km2, this area is separated by Jiangdong Road into two parts, the urban built-up area in the west and the short-term planning area in the east. In this zone, natural river courses such as Jiumugou river, Wangbaitan river , Wangmutang river, etc. connect with each other. In the light of the project, these natural rivers will be kept to afforestation and improved to guarantee an unblocked draining and the function as a regulating reservoir. Particularly, the pumping capacity of existing Yangqiao Pumping Station will be expanded from 8.2m3/s to 15.5 m3/s. At the same time, the simply equipped No.2 Yangqiao rural pumping station (1.2 m3/s) next to the south will be discarded after the connection. (5) Xitang Zone

This zone covers a catchment area of 2.32km2, where rainwater flows through pipes, into Xitang River and then pumped into Cihu River. A length of 1.8km of the river will be kept and improved in line with the project. And the pumping capacity of Xitang Pumping Station will be raised from 2.2 m3/s to 6.7 m3/s. (6) Xiaohecha Zone

This zone covers a catchment area of 2.36km2, where rainwater flows through Xiaohecha river, collects and then is pumped into Cihu River. This river is planned to maintain a length of 1.7km2, and will be improved instead of being filled up. And the pumping capacity of Xiaohecha Pumping Station will be raised from 3.6 m3/s to 8.5 m3/s. (7) Sulfuric Acid Plant Zone

This zone, with a catchment area covering 1.20 km2, currently belongs to Cihu Industrial zone. Along the east side dam of Cihu River, there lie Jiandanzha Pumping Station and Sulfuric Acid Plant Pumping Station, with a respective rate of flow at 2.2 m3/s and 3.15m3/s. This project plans to keep and expand Sulfuric Acid Plant Pumping Station to 5.7m3/s and abolish Jiandanzha Pumping Station. At the same time, it will dredge and improve all the natural channels.

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In this zone, which covers a catchment area of 2.83 km2 and currently belongs to Cihu Industrial zone, rainwater is pumped by Zhaoming and Carbon Black Plant pumping stations into Cihu River after collecting through Lianhe river. So it is decided to preserve and improve current Lianhe river and expand the pumping capacity of Zhanming to 6.9m3/s, while the Carbon Black Plant (1.6m3/s) will be kept in recent years and then abolished in the future. (9) Xiaonanwei Zone

In this zone, which covers a 1.37 km2 catchment area, rainwater is pumped into Cihu River by Xiaonanwei Pumping Station with a capacity of 1.2 m3/s, which will be enhanced to 4.2m3/s. And in the light of the project, the Zhenbei Pumping Station with a flow rate at 0.40 m3/s, will be abolished. Besides, all the natural water system will be preserved and improved. (10) Zhendong Zone

With a 2.0km2 catchment area, this zone belongs to Jinjiazhuang Industrial zone. And the rainwater there is pumped into Cihu River by Tailai, an agricultural pump with a flow rate at 1.4m3/s. It is planned to keep and improve the Zhendong river along with the development of the industrial zone. Then Tailai Pumping Station there is designed to be re-constructed into one with a 5.2m3/s rate of flow and a capacity of 6000m3 as a regulating reservoir. (11) Linli Zone

This zone covers a catchment area of 3.58km2, the north-of-Linli-Road part of which belongs to Jinjiazhuang Industrial zone. In the project, Linli Pumping Station is to be re-constructed with a 10.8m3/s pumping capacity, which will pump rainwater in that area into Cihu River. In the short run, the agricultural pumping stations, Paishantou (0.8m3/s) and Linli (1.2m3/s), will be kept, but they will be abolished when river improvement and pumping station construction are completed. (12) Fengshou Zone

With a catchment area covering 11.2 km2, this zone is currently utilized for agricultural purpose, but the southwestern part of which, with Donghuan Road. and Lüyou St. as the border, covering 3.49 km2, will be turned into urban area and the northeastern part, covering 7.71km2, into suburban area within the designed time limits. The drainage capacity of pumps there is quite low, with Gaohan Pumping Station’s capacity at 3.6m3/s and that of Shanghu at 1.2m3/s.Based on the facts, the project is aimed to build a new Fengshou Pumping Station

36 with a capacity of 20m3/s at the location where the security gate at the outlet of Fengshou River System lies, which satisfies both the standard for urban draining and that for rural draining, in order to properly preserve existing natural rivers. (13) Fengqiao Zone

his area, which is now used as agricultural land includes a catchment area of 1.85km2. There are Fengqiao (0.4m3/s) and Dingjiaba (1.2m3/s), these two pumps along the embankment of Cihu River. This project plans to make an extension to Fengqiao pump and enhance its pumping capacity to 4.9m3/s, while Jingjiaba will be kept for a short time but eventually will be abolished in the future. Besides, it attempts to protect the existing natural rivers with moderate canalization, so as to satisfy the requirements of draining as well as landscape. (14) Xiangshan Zone

Rainwater in this zone, which contains a catchment area of 43.62km2, flows through various branches of Cihu River in the upstream, converge and then into the River, with no need for pumps. Therefore, it is planned to maintain the natural draining system there. 3. Plan on Comprehensive Water Environmental Improvement in Cihu River Basin,

Ma’anshan Municipality (1) Tasks and objectives

This project aims to build the dam into one that can prevent once-in-two-decade flood by adopting measures such as reinforcement and seepage-proofing of dam body, reconstruction of the revetment, dredging of sediments and others. It applies the same standard to its drainage, which will be met with efforts in the combination and optimization of draining zones and pump stations, and the reconstruction of structures running through or across the dam, such as sluice gates, bridges, and so on. Furthermore, it endeavors to realize its objectives to gradually improve the water quality of Cihu River and meet the requirements of functional zoning with measures like wetland treatment, dredging, and water supplement. And finally, it tries to create a harmony between the ecology and landscape of Cihu River with help of the design of lake view and urban greenbelt view and so on. (2) Specific contents of the project

This project considers mainly aspects such as flood control, drainage, water quality improvement, ecology and landscape and others, which includes the specific contents below: 1) Flood control and drainage project: dam alteration, river way widening, dredging,

37 construction of flood retarding lake, re-building of water-blocking bridges, construction of pumping stations , draining pipes, etc. 2) Water quality improvement: the laying of pollution interception pipes along the river, sewage treatment plant extension, tail water utilization and ecological water supplement in the watercourse and so on. 3) Landscape engineering: the creation of views along the mainstream and branches and water culture development. 4) Water ecological restoration project: the reconstruction of ecological revetment and river bed of its mainstream and branches, and the development of model ecological reaches.

In conclusion, the tasks, objectives and contents of this project are consistent with Urban Flood Control Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality, Urban Drainage Engineering Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality , and Plan on Comprehensive Water Environmental Improvement in Cihu River Basin, Ma’anshan Municipality . So it can be said that this project conforms with the requirements of various plans of Ma’anshan Municipality.

3.3 The Analysis on Pollution Sources in the Project

3.3.1 Analysis of the pollution source within construction time

The term of this construction work, which will be divided into sections and done by stages, runs from 2013 to March, 2017. During the construction, it is inevitable to occupy the land and tread on plants, causing damage to local ecological environment. Besides, noise, waste water, fugitive dust, odour, mud and other side effects resulted from construction will exert ill influence on the surrounding environment. 1. Wastewater the sand and gravels used in the project will be purchased thus avoiding the need to wash these materials.Only some simple mechanical maintenance will be done on the construction site but without washing. Therefore, the waste water, generated within construction time, were mainly the supernantent from the dredged sediment stockpiling siteand domestic sewage of the construction workers. (1) Supernatent from sediment stockpiling sites The project adopts the technology of cofferdam drdging in its branches, and hydraulic dredging in the lower reach of Cihu river. The sediments will be transported to the sediment stockpile yard through pipes. So the wastewater from the dredging engineering was mainly the supernatant. The main pollution factors of the supernatant is SS, which affects little to the surface water after settling tank, and could discharge into Cihu river directly. (2) Domestic sewage of the construction workers

38 The domestic sewage of the construction workers containing water pollution factors such as COD, NH3-N and SS. See Table 3-1 for the number of workers and construction period for each construction section.

Table 3-1 Number of workers and construction period for each construction section

Construction section Construction The number of Construction period time: constructors Downstream watercourse and 39 months 2013-2016 100 pumping station of Cihu River Upstream watercourse of Cihu 18 months 2014-2015 100 River Lakes and branches of Cihu River 18 months 2014-2015 100 in Hi-tech Zone Branch rivers and pumping stations 51 months 2013-2017 100 in urban area Branch rivers in urban area 2013-2017 100 51 months It is supposed that each worker consumes 60L of water a day and 80% of the water become sewage, the concentration of pollutants in which goes as about 350mg/L of COD, 25mg/L of ammonia nitrogen and 150mg/L of SS. Details about domestic sewage from the construction is shown in Table3-2. Since places along the river are mostly residential area, existing living facilities nearby the construction sites can be made use of. In addition, it is estimated that during the peak time of the construction period, totally about 200 workers will be working in the whole project. Table 3-2 Production of waste water within construction period Number of Water Production of Construction workers within Total amount of consumption waste water section construction waste water (m3) (m3/d ) (m3/d) period (persons/d) Downstream watercourse and 100 6 4.8 5616 pumping station of Cihu River

Upstream watercourse of 100 6 4.8 2592 Cihu River

Lakes and branches of Cihu 100 6 4.8 2592 in Hi-tech zone

Branch rivers and pumping stations 100 6 4.8 7344 in urban area

Branch rivers in 100 6 4.8 7344 urban area

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2. Waste gas The impact upon air environment mainly comes from air pollutants within the construction period, mainly fugitive dust, malodorous gas , and waste gas emission. (1) Fugitive dust Fugitive dust is mainly generated in the processes such as the transportation and stacking of materials, river dredging, dam reinforcement etc., where with the help of wind, the construction site and their surrounding will be polluted. In addition, passing transport vehicles will cause second pollution of fugitive dust on the road. Measures, such as regular road-surface watering, stacked materials covering and transport vehicles blanketing, are designed in this project to control fugitive dust within construction period. (2) Malodorous gas Malodorous gas , mainly NH3-N and H2S, will emerge during dredging and the stacking of sediments, and its intensity generally ranks level two or three, according to analog data. (3) Influence of waste gas emission Waste gas, which is mainly caused by the fuel burning of construction machinery and transport vehicles, includes smoke, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and other pollutants. 3. Noises Noises, generated by construction machinery such as excavators, auto-dumpers, bulldozers, sludge pumps, generally range from 90 to 95 dB（A）and will have certain negative influence on sound-sensitive places along the river. Therefore, low-noise equipments are planned to be used in this project, and other measures will also be carried out in order to mitigate noise impact, such as reasonable time management, proper equipment arrangement, and fencing etc. 4. Solid waste Solid waste produced in this construction includes dredged sediments, solid waste and domestic garbage of workers. (1) Dredged sediment This project will carry out dredging with hydraulic method in the lower reach of Cihu River, which amounts to 77,000m3. This project will also carry out dredging with cofferdam method in its branches, which amounts to 95,000 m3. In low flow season, the water in the river will be diverted by cofferdams which will be constructed in stages. The water within the cofferdam will be pumped out into the river couser downstream of the cofferdam so as to ensure the air dry of the sediments exposed. Mechanical method will be used to dredge the sediments when

40 they are dried. Tankers will be used to transported to Xiangshan Landfill. As the pumps to be used are in small size, the noise from the pumps is minor, and will not affect the surroundings. The sediments will transport to the Xiangshan Municipal Sanitary landfill site to be used as cover soil. (2) Solid waste This project will balance the earth work in excavation and filling, without any need to set up borrow area or spoil ground. The earth from slope cutting and revetment could be used in the dike enforcement. The construction solid wastes are mainly the construction waste from the demolition of the 5 pumping stations, which the estimated area of demolition is 1000 m2, the waste slag index from demolition area is 1350kg/m2, so the estimated construction slag is 1350t. The waste slag will be transported to the third construction slag deposition field, which located in the upstream area of Cihu river, 12km away from downstream. (3)Domestic garbage Within construction time, domestic garbage will be produced by workers in their daily life. Without timely disposal, it will become a home for mosquitoes, odour and diseases under suitable conditions, bringing extremely bad influence to the surrounding. Consequently, in order to avoid adverse impact on the surrounding environment, domestic garbage shall be stacked at fixed place instead of mixing with building waste, and should be delivered to places designated by sanitation departments to be transported timely. Assuming that 1.0kg of garbage is produced by each worker every day, and the total amount produced during the construction arrives at 531t, seeing Table 3-3 for details.

Table 3-3 Production of domestic garbage within construction period Number of workers Amount of domestic Total amount of Construction section within construction garbage (kg/d) domestic garbage (t) period (person/d) Downstream watercourse and 100 1 117 pumping station of Cihu River Upstream watercourse 100 1 54 of Cihu River Lakes and branches of Cihu River in Hi-tech 100 1 54 zone Branch rivers and pumping stations in 100 1 153 urban area Branch rivers in urban 100 1 153 area Total ------531

41 5. Impact on ecological environment The influences on the ecological environment within construction period fall into the following four aspects: firstly, disturbance and damage to soil and plants caused by the trampling of machines, vehicles and workers during watercourse dredging and widening, pumping station construction and so on; secondly, change of land use patterns resulted from temporary or permanent land occupation; thirdly, reduction of farming and vegetation area due to land occupation, which will have a negative effect on agricultural production; and finally, certain soil erosion may happen if re-vegetation fails in temporary occupied area.

6. Impact on social environment This project doesn’t involve housing demolition and relocation. The main impacts of immigration are the acquisition of collectively-owned and national-owned land. The total land acquisition are 1788.89 mu., including 1253.89mu. collective-owned land, which are all non-prime arable land. The permanent land acquisition of national-owned land is 535 mu., which are all unused land along the river and branches. According to Measures for Land Expropriation Compensation and Resettlement in Ma’anshan Municipality, compensation will be made to the affected persons. 3.3.2 Analysis of pollution sources during operation

Since this is a water environment improvement project, no waste gas or wastewater will be produced during operation. And the impact on surrounding environment comes from the operation noises of pumping stations.

This project plans to demolish and re-construct the five pumping stations along the downstream of Cihu River, each of which will be equipped with 3 pumps. And the power of each pump in Tongyi (No.2), Zhaoming, and Xiaonanwei pumping stations will come to 250kw and that in Sulfuric Acid Plant and Tailai 180kw. In the operation of pumping stations, noises mainly come from the operation pump motors, the noise intensity of each of which ranges between 75 and 85dB (A).

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Chapter IV Regional Environmental Overview 4.1 Overview of Natural Environment 4.1.1 Geographical Location

Located in the easternmost region of Anhui Province, Ma'anshan Municipality spans both sides of the Yangtze River, bordering on two capital cities of Nanjing and Hefei. It is located between 31°46'42''~31°17'26'' north latitude and 118°21'38''~118°52'44'' east longitude.

As the longest tributary of the Yangtze River within Man’anshan Municipality, Cihu River originates from Laomai Xian of the urban district’s eastern hilly regions, flowing from east to northwest through Xiangshan Town, Huoli Street and Cihu Village and meeting the Yangtze River at northern foot of Cimu Mountain. The tributary has a total length of 26.1 km and a drainage area of 124.8 km2. From around Donghuan Road to the river mouth, the main stem has a length of about 14km and joined by such branches as Wumushan River, Qiaoshan Ditch and Tianran River during its flow path. See fig. 1-1. 4.1.2 Topography and Geomorphy

The topography of Ma’anshan Municipality is high in east and low in west. The terrain is basically divided from east to west into three parts: eastern hilly areas with peaks’ heights of about 160 to 200m, western riverine areas distributed with low hills and middle fluvial plain which is relatively flat and wide with an average altitude of around 10m. Long and narrow terraces and washland are located between the western low hills and the Yangtze River. There is also sandbar in the Yangtze River. Networks of lakes and ponds (Yanghu Pond,Yushan Lake, etc.) intertwine with buttes (Yushan Mountain, Jiashan Mountain, etc.) among them, forming the landscape of “lake and mountain each sharing half of the city’s landscape”. 4.1.3 Geo-technical Condition and Hydrogeology

1. Engineering Geology Located in the middle piece of Ningwu fault basin from the geological structure perspective, and Ma’anshan Municipality is also located in the midsection of the Ningwu volcanic basin. The basin floor is composed of the Qinglong limestone of middle and lower triassic series, the Huangmaqing group sand shales of upper triassic series and the Xiangshan group sandstones of middle and lower Jurassic series. The upper part is composed of volcanic series at the phase of Yanshan. Most of the current geomorphic units are quarternary, which can be generally divided into Yangtze floodplain, first terrace, second terrace and paleogully.

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Figure 4-1 Geographic Map of the Project Area

The quarternary strata are widespread in Cihu River basin and the quarternary new alluviums are widespread in riversides and mountain alluvial plains with dualistic structure. The geomorphic unit of the basin’s northern section (with the intersection between Cihu River and Tianran River as the boundary) is Yangtze high flood plain and that of the basin’s southern section and Lijianwan Groove is the transitionary part from the Yangtze first terrace and paleogully to the second terrace. 2. Hydrogeology Th groundwater of Ma’anshan Municipality is generally located in sand aquifers with the depth of about 2m. Under the sand bed is silt stratification with the largest water content. The groundwater level changes from season to season, ranging from 0.2 to 0.5m. The general flow direction of groundwater is from the high geographical east towards the low west and finally into the Yangtze River.

Besides the artificial plain fill, most of the body soil on Cihu River bank is the quarternary new century alluvium. Except that the body soil on the bank is perched water, most of the groundwater is phreatic water. The ③-1 layer of Cihu River bank is fine sand with light silty soil layer which has better water permeability.

Recharge sources of the upper monimolimnion of the bank body soil are precipitation and infiltration in river’s high flow period. Way of drainage is evaporation, infiltration or scattering around with no obvious seasonal changes and no water level during rainless period.

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4.1.4 Climate and Weather

Located in the northern subtropical zone, Ma’anshan Municipality has the subtropical monsoon moist climate with four distinct seasons, marked monsoon featuring mildness and humidness and concentrated plum rains. It has features of a short frost period, long duration of sunshine and abundant rainfall. 1. Precipitation The precipitation has strong seasonal variations and uneven distributions in area and time. Rainfall from May to September accounts for over 60% of the whole year’s rainfall. According to the meteorological data over past years, the average rainfall of many years has been 1053mm with the maximum annual rainfall of 1895.5mm (in 1991) and the minimum one of 460.4mm (in 1978). 2. Temperature Average temperature of many years is 15.6℃ with the extremely high temperature of 41.1℃(August 3, 1959) and the extremely low temperature of -13.0℃（Feburary 5, 1969). The hottest month of a year is July with an average temperature of 28.2℃; the coldest one is January with an average temperature of 2.7℃. 3. Evaporation Capacity Average annual evaporation: 1458.7mm. Evaporations vary greatly from year to year and month to month with the maximum annual evaporation of 1767.6mm (in 1961) and the minimum one of 1171.7mm (in 1985). The month with the maximum evaporation is July with an average of 203.4mm and the minimum one is January with an average of 52.5mm. 4. Solar Radiation; The sunshine durations vary markedly from season to season with those in summer of about 14h and those in winter of about 10h. Average annual duration of sunshine is 2105h with a sunshine duration percentage of 48%. The maximum annual duration of sunshine is 2369h (in 1967) and the minimum one is 1875h (in 1977). The minimum monthly duration of sunshine is 127h at February and the maximum one is 246h at August. 5. Wind Direction and Wind Speed Distinct monsoon climate is with northerly wind in winter, southerly wind in summer and easterly wind in spring and autumn. The perennial dominant wind direction is east with an average annual wind speed of 3.3m/s and the maximum one of 24.3m/s(September 1, 1990) 4.1.5 Surface Water

With the Yangtze River of Man’anshan section as the main stream, surface water in Ma’anshan Municipality constitutes a relatively complete water system. Besides the Yangtze River, the main rivers within the city include Cihu River, Caishi River, Xiangcheng River, Yushan River, Liufen River, Lijianwan River that flow from east towards west into the

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Yangtze River and establish control gates at their own estuaries, see figure 4-2.

Figure 4-2 Surface water of Ma’anshan

（1）Yangtze River (Ma’anshan section) Yangtze River is the largest body of water flowing through Ma’anshan. Yangtze River of Ma’anshan section, 36km long, starts from east and west Mount Liang in the southwest to Mount Cilao in the northeast. It is a straight forky riverway narrow at both ends and broad in the middle. Yangtze river forks at Jiangxin Sandbar and Xiaohuang Sandbar and converges at the end of Xiaohuang Sandbar. (2) Cihu River Cihu River is the longest river in the territory of Ma’anshan Municipality, starting from Laomaixian, in the hilly area of the southeast part of the city. It flows past Shan Town, Huoli Town and Cihu County from the east to the northwest and falls into Yangtze River. Cihu River is 26.1km long with a river basin area of 124.8km2. At the place 5.36km away from its mouth, there are natural river tributaries on the right riverway; 9km away from its mouth, Wumushan River flows into it on the right. (3) Caishi River Caishi River forms the boundary of downtown area and Dangtu County. It has its source in the hilly area in the north of Dangtu County, flowing past Shan Town, south Jiashan Town from east to west, and empties into Yangtze River in Caishi Town. It ranges 18.1km long with

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a basin area of 102.1km2. (4) Yushan River Yushan River connects Yushan Lake upstream and is the main discharge channel for flood and production and life sewage in urbane zone. It runs 5.5km from southeast to northwest with a basin area of 27.5km2 and empties into Yangtze River on the north side of a power plant. A floodgate station has been set up at its mouth with 2888kw of pump station installation capacity and 46.4m3/s of drainage capability. (5) Liutouwan River Litouwan River flows in the north of the city on the border of Jiangsu and Anhui, with the former on the right side and the latter on the left. It is 2km long with a river basin area of 4.75km2. A check gate has been built at its confluence with Yangtze River to avoid the latter flowing backward.

4.1.6 Soil

The parent material types of Ma’anshan soil is complex, mainly including acid crystal rock residual deluvial, neutral crystalline rock class residual deluvial, crystalline rock class residual deluvial, argillaceous rock class residual deluvial, red sandstone class residues, siliceous rock kinds residual deluvial, shu system loess, modern Yangtze river alluvium and lacustrine water sediment. The parent material types of the modern Yangtze river alluvium, shu system loess and lacustrine facies calm water sediment were the main types, which the area accounted for 51.5% of the total area, 24.6% and 10.9%.

There are 4 soil class, 5 soil type, 11 sub-types and 60 soil species developed on the basis of these soil parent materials. The soil subclasses are mainly paddy soil, tidal soil and yellow brown soil, rocky soil and skeleton and soil, etc. The northeast and central urban of hilly area mainly distributed rocky soil, skeletal soil, yellow brown soil, yellow brown soil and clay dish yellow brown soil, etc., Soils in Southeast, south and south-west plain area were mainly the paddy soil. Soil parent material of the western Yangtze river alluvial plain and central bar is the newly Yangtze river alluvial material, and the soil types mainly are ash wet sand, grey wet sand soil, wet sand soil, grey sand, grey sand soil, calcareous sand mud field, etc.

4.1.7 Vegetation and Biomass

1. Vegetation Ma’anshan belongs to north subtropical deciduous broadleaf evergreen broadleaf mixed forest zone, along the wuhu lake vegetation area. The vegetation types of Ma’anshan are evergreen

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and deciduous alternate transitional characteristics. No national key protected rare or endangered species is found in research area.

Calculate NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) by remote sensing image data of 2010 with the formula of NDVI=（NIR-R）（/ NIR+R）；NIR means remote sensing image near infrared band data and R denotes remote sensing image red light band data Calculate the vegetation coverage rate by NDVI indicator with the formula of f=（NDVI-NDVImin）/ （ NDVImax-NDVImin ） See Figure 4-3 for vegetation distribution of Ma’anshan Municipality, the average vegetation cover along the Cihu river is 30.3%.

Figure 4-3 Vegetation Coverage Map of Ma’Anshan City

（2）Biomass Analyze the biomass by empirical formula; see Figure 4-4 for specific distribution. The average biomass along the Cihu river is 689.4g/m2.

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Figure 4-4 Biomass Distribution Map of Ma’Anshan Municipality 4.2 Social Economy 4.2.1 Administrative Division and Population

Ma’anshan Municipality rules three districts and one county. The three districts--- Jinjiazhuang District, Huashan District and Yushan District are all within urbane area. Jinjiazhuang District is located in the northwest part of the city, Huashan District the middle and east part and Yushan District south part. Anhui’s prefecture-level city Chaohu was divided into three parts on August 16, 2011, among Hanshan County and He County (exclusive of Shenxiang Town) were incorporated into Ma’anshan.

The whole city has a registered population of 2,283,000, among rural population of 1,469,300; urban population of 813,700 See Table 4-1 for the areas and populations of each administrative region. Table 4-1 Data of the areas and populations of the districts and counties of Ma’anshan Municipality

Administrative District(area) Area (km2) Population ( ten thousand) Hanshan County 1037 45 He County 1319 54.2 Dangtu County 1346 67 Huashan District 119 23.4 Yushan District 173 25.9 Jinjiazhuang District 48 11 Note: The above information is from ma’anshan city government website

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According to the March 2011 promulgated “Ma’ anshan city planning (2002-2020)” (2009 revision), planning in 2020, the Ma’anshan city center urban population will be 1.06 million people. 4.2.2 Economic Development

In 2011, Ma’anshan Municipality strove to push forward the strategy of “Great Plan, Great Construction and Great Development” and gained a sound momentum in economic and social development featuring “Stable and Fast Progress, Optimizing Structure, Strengthening Momentum, Improved Livelihood and Overall Health ”, making a good beginning for the twelfth “five-year development plan”. 1. Total economic volume: In 2011, the Municipality achieved GDP of RMB 114.418 billion Yuan with a growth of 12.1% from last year, breaking the 100 billion points for the first time. Of this, the value added of the primary industry was RMB 6.690 billion Yuan -- up by 4.1 percent -- the secondary industry was RMB 77.904 billion Yuan-- a rise of 14.3 percent-- and the tertiary industry was RMB 29.824 billion Yuan, up by 8.7 percent. 2. Fiscal Revenue Annual fiscal revenues are RMB18.635 billion Yuan in the whole year, an increase by 22.0% compared with that of the previous year. Local fiscal revenues are RMB 9,104 billion Yuan in the whole year, an increase by 16.2% compared with that of the previous year. Total annual accumulative fiscal expenditure is 13.825 billion Yuan in the whole year, an increase by 24.5% compared with that of the previous year. Of which, social security and employment expenses were RMB 1.198 billion Yuan, up 32.3% from last year. Total investment in livelihood project was RMB 11.888 billion Yuan, up 57.5% from last year. 3. Fixed Assets Annual fixed assets investment was RMB 131.1billion, up 47.4% from last year, with total investment ranking the third place and growth rate the first place in the province. 4. Industrial Economy The industry added value of annual-scaled of the whole municipality increased by RMB55.93 billion Yuan, an increase of 15.0% over the previous year. Industrial production in counties, development zones and new areas saw rapid growth. Above-scale total industrial output in three counties was RMB 52.938 billion Yuan, up 46.5%; above-scale total industrial output in three districts was RMB 28.03 billion Yuan, up 20.6%; above-scale total industrial output in development zones and new areas was RMB 41.461 billion Yuan, up 24.2%. 5. Income of Urban and Rural Residents Per capita disposable income of urban residents was RMB 27,329 Yuan, up 18.0% from last year, ranking the first place in the province. Per capita net income of rural residents was

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RMB 9,505 Yuan, up 18.5% from last year, ranking the first place in the province. 4.2.3 Mineral Resources

Being one of the seven largest iron producing area of China, Ma'anshan mining area locates in Ningwu--Luohe metallogenic belt in the lower Yangtze River. By October, 2006, iron mines inside the mining areas include Nanshan Mountain, Gushan, Mountain, Taochong iron mine and the Luohe iron mine which is to be developed, all subordinated to Ma'anshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. There are 31 discovered iron ore areas and 10 associated mine areas with iron ore reserves of 1.635 billion tons, accounting for 57.32% of total iron ore reserves in Anhui province, of which over 1 billion tons can meet the demand of industrial mining. Ore deposits are mainly of medium and large scale with large ore bodies. There are 5 ore deposits with reserves of over 100 million tons and average grade of 36.55%, which are mainly easy chosed magnetic iron ore. Gao Village, Tao Village and Heshang Bridge in Ma'anshan suburbs, Baixiang Mountain in Dangtu County and Luohe River in Lujiang County are back-up mines with great potential. Pyrite mainly lies in Mount Xiang and Mount Ma in Ma'anshan suburbs with reserves of 262 million tons, accounting for about 55.39% of total reserves in Anhui province. Associated phosphorus resources have large reserves and high grade. Mount Ao mining area and tailings dam in Nan Shan iron mines have reserves of 14.27 million tons, accounting for about 1/3 of total phosphorus reserves in Anhui province. K-feldspar mainly lies in western Geyang Mountain in the suburbs with reserves of 1 million tons. With thin spall layers and good mining conditions, it is important raw materials for ceramics, glasses and paper industries. Alunite ore used to produce potash fertilizer and sulfuric acid raw materials mainly lies in Dahuang Mountain of Mount Xiang area with reserves of 2.1 million tons, including alum grade of 38.7%. Gypsum mine that can be used as admixture for cement industries lies in Xiang Shan in southeast downtown, being medium scale ore deposit. Besides, nonferrous metals like gold and copper, non-metallic mines like kaolin and mica available for mining are also included here. 4.2.4 Tourism Resources and Cultural Relics

Ma'anshan Municipality has 10 senic spots, of which three are of national level: Caishiji Scenic Area, Qingshan Scenic Area and South Putang Scenic Area; three are of provincial level: North Putang Scenic Area, Yushan Lake Forest Park and Jiujingshan Scenic Area; four are of municipal level: Jinshan Lake Scenic Area, Jiashan Park, Yushan Park and Nanhu Park. There are 53 cultural relics protection units of above municipal level.

According to researches, this project does not influence natural reserves, forest parks, places of interest, etc.. The municipal-level cultural relic Wudangang is near the project area. The nearest distance between the project area and this relic is about 210m. The detailed location presented in the annexed figure 2.However, according to the opinion from Ma’anshan culture

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committee, this project does not located in the protection scope of Wudangang relics. The project does not involve tomb reallocations.

Fig 4-5 The present status of Wudangang Relics 4.2.5 Land Resources

Urban area of Ma'anshan Municipality covers 1,686 km2, accounting for 1.50% of the total land area of the province. Of which, farmland covers 1,231 km2, accounting for 73.05% of the total land area; construction land covers 241 km2, accounting for 14.32%; unused land covers 213 km2, accounting for 12.63% of the total land area. Land utilization situation of Ma'anshan urban area see figure 4-6.

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Figure 4-6 Present Land use map of Ma'anshan Urban Area

4.2.6 Water resource

According to the “Water Resource Report of Ma’anshan in 2010”, the total amount of water resources is 0.949 billion m3 of Ma’anshan in 2010, except of the water in Yangtze River and the repeated computation of surface water and groundwater. Specific see table 4-2. the transit water of Yangtze river is 1.021 billion m3. Table 4-2 water resources status of Ma’anshan in 2010 unit: billion m3 Groundwater resources Surface Total Annual Groundwater and surface water City water water precipitation resources resources not repeated resource resources measure Ma’anshan 2.139 0.859 0.195 0.009 0.949

Yangtze river is the major water source of Ma’anshan city, supplying 80.9% of the consumed water. The total water resources consumption is 2.091 billion m3, the consumption of surface water is 2.085 billion m3, which is 99.7% of the total consumption; the consumption of groundwater is 0.006 billion m3, which is 0.03% of the total. Industrial consumption is 0.002 billion m3, Residents living consumption is 0.004 billion m3. 4.3 Functional zoning 4.3.1 Environmental functional zoning

The project area is a Class II area defined in the Ambient air quality standard (GB3095-1996)

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in terms of ambient air; the Ma’anshan segment of the Yangtze River is a Class III water body defined in the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB3838-2002) and the Cihu River a Class V water body; the Class IV standard of the Standard for acoustic environmental quality (GB3096-2008) applies to both sides of traffic arteries, the Class III standard to industrial land and the Class II standard to other areas. 4.3.2 Water source protection zone

There are two drinking water source protection zone, which are water intake of Caishi shuichang and water intake of Cihu shuichang. See detailed in table 4-3 and locations in figure 4-7. This project does not located in the scope of water source protection zone. Table 4-3 the water source protection zone of Ma’anshan city Water Scope supply Water Name Types capacity system Class I Class II (thousand t/d) Area of 1000m up Area of 1200m up and 300m Caishi Yangtze and 100m down to the River 230 down to the water intake, width shuichang river water intake, width of of 200m 200m Area of 1000m up Area of 1200m up and 300m Cihu Yangtze and 100m down to the River 100 down to the water intake, width shuichang river water intake, width of of 200m 200m

Fig. 4-7 locations of the water source protection zone 4.3.3 Ecological functional zoning

According to the Master Urban Development Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality, Ma’anshan Municipality is divided into 4 Class 1 and 12 Class 2 ecological functional zones, as shown in Table 4-4. The project area is located in the industry and living environment development ecological functional zone of downtown Ma’anshan.

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Table 4-4 Ecological functional zoning of Ma’anshan Municipality

Class 1 Class 2 Range Main function I-1 Industry and living environment Downtown Ma’anshan and Modern manufacturing base, living development ecological functional zone development zone, 141. km2 in environment construction of downtown Ma’anshan size I-2 Industry and suburb agricultural Riverside areas in Gushu, Urban sub-center construction, ecological functional zone in secondary Yintang and Taibai Towns, 71.4 modern manufacturing, suburb I. Northwest urban urban area km2 in size eco-agriculture and industrial I-3 Central bar high-quality farm Jiangxin Xiang, Xiaohuangzhou Eco-agriculture, sightseeing development product development ecological and some water areas of the agriculture, high-quality vegetable ecological zone functional zone Yangtze River, 80.4 km2 in size production I-4 Yangtze River ecological protection, Riverside, along Ma’anshan – Maintenance of regional ecological landscape and water source Rentouji – Caishiji – Yangtze safety, natural and cultural conservation ecological functional zone River Bridge, 17.0 km2 in size landscape conservation, drinking water source conservation II-1 Riverside embanked area urban and Taibai and Niandou areas, 85.5 High-quality farm product agricultural development ecological km2 in size production, land reserved for urban functional zone development II. Southwest plain II-2 Dagongwei high-quality farm Basic farmland and surrounding Maintenance of regional ecological embanked area product production and wetland water area in Dagongwei, Dangtu safety, green food production base, agricultural conservation ecological functional zone County, 411.6 km2 in size artificial wetland landscape ecological zone conservation II-3 Daqing Mountain water, soil and Some parts of Taibai and Huhe Natural and cultural landscape landscape conservation ecological Towns, 43.7 km2 in size conservation, water, soil and water functional zone source conservation III-1 Shijiu Lake wetland conservation Shijiu Lake surface, 100 km2 in Biodiversity conservation, flood III. Southeast ecological functional zone size regulation, high-quality aquatic wetland product production conservation III-2 Lakeside plain agricultural and Huyang, and south and north Green food production, flood ecological zone wetland conservation ecological dikes of Danyang Lake, 114.8 regulation, wetland conservation functional zone km2 in size IV-1 Northeast hilly land forest, water Some parts of Huoli Sub-district, Forest protection, modern and soil conservation ecological Xiangshan Town, Danyang Town processing base, living IV. Northeast hilly functional zone and Bowang Town, 236.1 km2 in environment building, water, soil land forest, water size and biodiversity conservation and soil IV-2 Central mines restoration and Xiangshan mining area, 80.7 km2 Mineral production, ecological conservation, and reconstruction ecological control zone in size restoration and reconstruction of mine restoration mines ecological zone IV-3 Southeast Qiugangwei urban and Bowang Town and Gushu Town, High-quality farm product agricultural ecological functional zone 303 km2 in size production, water and soil conservation, urban industry

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Figure 4-8 The ecological function zoning of Ma’anshan 4.4 Present situation of environmental quality

This report evaluates the environmental quality of the project area based on the environmental quality data published by the Ma’anshan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau and the measured data. The Monitoring unit are Ma’anshan environmental monitoring center and Qingdao Jingcheng detection technology co., LTD. The detailed monitoring point could be seen in annexed figure 5. 4.4.1 Present situation of atmospheric environment quality

According to the standard in “The technical guideline for environmental impact assessment- atmospheric environment”, in order to know the atmospheric environment quality of the project area, Qingdao Jingcheng Detection technology co., LTD was engaged to operated a continuous 7 days monitoring of the atmospheric environment quality, from Aug.16th 2012 to Aug.22th 2012. The detailed monitoring option is as following: 1. Monitoring option

(1) Monitoring items: SO2、NO2、TSP、PM10. Synchronous monitoring wind direction, wind speed, air pressure, temperature. (2) Monitoring location: According to the ‘Technical guideline for environmental impact assessment - Atmospheric environment’, considering the location of sensitivity points along the Cihu river,

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3 monitoring points were setup. There are 1-1＃: Shuguangyicun (downstream); 1-2＃: Ma’anshan second middle school (middle stream); 1-3＃: Anhui industrial university (up stream). (3) Monitoring frequency Continuous field monitoring for 7 days (from Aug.16th 2012 to Aug.22th 2012.), obeying the Ambient air quality standard (GB3095-1996). (4) Monitoring methodology and equipment The applied monitoring methodology was gained from the Ambient air quality standard (GB3095-1996), the analysis method was gained from the ‘Air and exhaust gas monitoring analysis method (Fourth edition)’. 2. Assessment of the environmental quality (1) Assessment standards The Class II standard of Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996) and the amendment in 2000. (2) Assessment results

The detailed monitoring results of SO2、NO2、TSP、PM10 could be seen in table 4-5 and table

4-5. the table 4-5 shows, except the day average PM10 overweight in Shuguangyicun, the results from other monitoring point show none-overweight to the class II standard of Ambient air quality standard (GB3095-1996) and the amendment in 2000. The monitoring point of

Shuguang No.1 village was close to the road. So the exceed standard of PM10 could due to the vehicle exhaust.

Table 4-5 monitoring results of Ambient air quality in project area unit : mg/m3

Hour average Day average Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring locations data time NO2 SO2 NO2 SO2 PM10 TSP class II standard of Ambient air quality standard (GB3095-1996) and the 0.24 0.50 0.12 0.15 0.15 0.30 amendment in 2000 2:00-3:00 0.047 0.047 8:00-9:00 0.062 0.062 8.16 0.052 0.068 0.118 0.205 14:00-15:00 0.041 0.041 20:00-21:00 0.052 0.052 2:00-3:00 0.042 0.056 1-1＃: 8:00-9:00 0.060 0.071 Shuguangyicun 8.17 0.053 0.063 0.132 0.224 (downstream) 14:00-15:00 0.048 0.052 20:00-21:00 0.055 0.064 2:00-3:00 0.040 0.068 8:00-9:00 0.055 0.075 8.18 0.047 0.068 0.144 0.260 14:00-15:00 0.041 0.051 20:00-21:00 0.036 0.084

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2:00-3:00 0.048 0.053 8:00-9:00 0.062 0.062 8.19 0.055 0.070 0.130 0.220 14:00-15:00 0.055 0.068 20:00-21:00 0.050 0.084 2:00-3:00 0.046 0.048 8:00-9:00 0.059 0.065 8.20 0.056 0.062 0.159 0.284 14:00-15:00 0.042 0.049 20:00-21:00 0.068 0.077 2:00-3:00 0.060 0.079 8:00-9:00 0.043 0.061 8.21 0.053 0.069 0.124 0.220 14:00-15:00 0.041 0.038 20:00-21:00 0.055 0.080 2:00-3:00 0.053 0.054 8:00-9:00 0.046 0.061 8.22 0.048 0.057 0.138 0.228 14:00-15:00 0.037 0.057 20:00-21:00 0.061 0.049 2:00-3:00 0.050 0.053 8:00-9:00 0.055 0.064 8.16 0.050 0.062 0.110 0.217 14:00-15:00 0.047 0.057 20:00-21:00 0.048 0.069 2:00-3:00 0.047 0.051 8:00-9:00 0.050 0.068 8.17 0.050 0.062 0.123 0.237 14:00-15:00 0.049 0.053 20:00-21:00 0.046 0.067 2:00-3:00 0.044 0.067 8:00-9:00 0.061 0.064 8.18 0.049 0.060 0.121 0.218 14:00-15:00 0.035 0.044 20:00-21:00 0.052 0.058 1-2＃: 2:00-3:00 0.047 0.060 Ma’anshan 8:00-9:00 0.055 0.067 second middle 8.19 0.049 0.065 0.098 0.181 school(middle 14:00-15:00 0.038 0.046 stream) 20:00-21:00 0.050 0.070 2:00-3:00 0.055 0.048 8:00-9:00 0.051 0.059 8.20 0.051 0.058 0.118 0.221 14:00-15:00 0.033 0.046 20:00-21:00 0.058 0.073 2:00-3:00 0.051 0.046 8:00-9:00 0.047 0.072 8.21 0.052 0.056 0.107 0.185 14:00-15:00 0.034 0.047 20:00-21:00 0.065 0.045 2:00-3:00 0.041 0.072 8:00-9:00 0.039 0.061 8.22 0.045 0.055 0.109 0.216 14:00-15:00 0.036 0.044 20:00-21:00 0.047 0.036 1-3＃: Anhui 2:00-3:00 0.056 0.060 industrial 8.16 8:00-9:00 0.049 0.052 0.051 0.059 0.102 0.199 university(up 14:00-15:00 0.037 0.040

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stream) 20:00-21:00 0.051 0.066 2:00-3:00 0.050 0.070 8:00-9:00 0.058 0.086 8.17 0.049 0.064 0.110 0.207 14:00-15:00 0.035 0.039 20:00-21:00 0.049 0.064 2:00-3:00 0.050 0.052 8:00-9:00 0.068 0.069 8.18 0.050 0.062 0.100 0.196 14:00-15:00 0.037 0.052 20:00-21:00 0.054 0.070 2:00-3:00 0.046 0.053 8:00-9:00 0.050 0.082 8.19 0.047 0.063 0.116 0.236 14:00-15:00 0.033 0.049 20:00-21:00 0.056 0.054 2:00-3:00 0.036 0.043 8:00-9:00 0.050 0.065 8.20 0.050 0.058 0.134 0.245 14:00-15:00 0.041 0.056 20:00-21:00 0.059 0.059 2:00-3:00 0.045 0.058 8:00-9:00 0.035 0.067 8.21 0.050 0.058 0.141 0.247 14:00-15:00 0.056 0.059 20:00-21:00 0.063 0.054 2:00-3:00 0.028 0.056 8:00-9:00 0.041 0.064 8.22 0.047 0.059 0.124 0.209 14:00-15:00 0.042 0.053 20:00-21:00 0.049 0.057 Table 4-6 Monitoring meteorological conditions during synchronous observations Air Monitoring Temperature Wind Wind speed pressure Total cloud Low clouds data (℃) direction (m/s) (kPa) 2012.08.16 ———————— 02:00~03:00 26.2 99.9 NE 2.0 —— —— 08:00~09:00 27.7 100.0 NE 2.3 5 3 14:00~15:00 29.5 99.9 NE 4.5 5 2 20:00~21:00 27.4 99.9 NE 4.6 —— —— 2012.08.17 ———————— 02:00~03:00 27.3 99.8 NE 4.7 —— —— 08:00~09:00 28.6 100.0 NE 2.0 4 3 14:00~15:00 32.4 99.8 NE 3.1 4 3 20:00~21:00 30.6 99.8 NE 4.1 —— —— 2012.08.18 ———————— 02:00~03:00 28.1 99.9 SE 2.6 —— —— 08:00~09:00 31.0 99.9 SE 2.1 2 0 14:00~15:00 36.5 99.7 NE 0.8 3 2

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20:00~21:00 30.6 99.8 SW 3.9 —— —— 2012.08.19 ———————— 02:00~03:00 26.5 99.8 SE 3.6 —— —— 08:00~09:00 29.4 99.8 SW 2.0 4 1 14:00~15:00 36.0 99.6 SW 2.7 3 1 20:00~21:00 27.9 99.7 NE 3.7 —— —— 2012.08.20 ———————— 02:00~03:00 25.1 99.7 NW 0.8 —— —— 08:00~09:00 27.9 99.8 NW 1.5 4 1 14:00~15:00 34.9 99.6 SE 1.4 5 2 20:00~21:00 28.1 99.6 SE 4.8 —— —— 2012.08.21 ———————— 02:00~03:00 25.2 99.6 NE 41.0 —— —— 08:00~09:00 26.4 99.7 NE 1.6 4 2 14:00~15:00 34.1 99.5 NW 1.3 5 2 20:00~21:00 24.4 100.0 NW 2.5 —— —— 2012.08.22 ———————— 02:00~03:00 21.4 100.2 NE 2.0 —— —— 08:00~09:00 22.1 100.4 NE 3.9 4 1 14:00~15:00 26.7 100.3 NW 2.7 4 2 20:00~21:00 23.2 100.4 NE 1.9 —— ——

4.4.2 Present situation of surface water environment quality

1. Yangtze River (Ma’anshan segment) According to the Measures of Ma’anshan Municipality for Environmental Functional Zoning of Urban Surface Water, Atmosphere and Noise, the Class III standard of the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB 3838-2002) applies to the Yangtze River (Ma’anshan segment). The Environmental Bulletin of Ma’anshan Municipality (2009-2011) published by the Ma’anshan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau indicates that during 2009-2011, the water quality of the Ma’anshan segment of the Yangtze River met the Class II standard of the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB 3838-2002) and was good.

According to routine monitoring data from the ma’anshan environmental monitoring station, the water quality of Yangtze River (Ma’anshan segment) reached the Class II standard of the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB 3838-2002), see detailed in table 4-7. Table 4-7 water quality monitoring data of Yangtze River (Ma’anshan segment) in 2012

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Items Jan. 2012 Jul.2012 Class II standard

pH 8.19 7.77 6~9 Dissolved oxygen 10.44 6.78 6

Permanganate index 2.00 1.67 4

COD Not detected Not detected 15 BOD 1.02 Not detected 3 Ammonia nitrogen 0.204 0.280 0.5 Total phosphorus 0.085 0.047 0.1

Total nitrogen 0.002193 0.001457 0.05

Arsenic 0.357 0.290 1.0

Hexavalent chromium Not detected Not detected 0.05

Zinc Not detected Not detected 1.0

Volatile phenol 0.0005 0.0006 0.002

2. Cihu River (1) Analysis of historical monitoring data The historical monitoring data was the routine monitoring data on the up, middle and down streams of Cihu river in 2009 and 2010, by the Ma’anshan environmental monitoring center. 1) Monitoring locations: Upstream of Cihu river (South side of huabanqiao), middle stream of Cihu river (Fengqiao), downstream of Cihu river (Beihuanluqiao). 2) Monitoring items: pH, Dissolved oxygen, Permanganate index, COD, BOD, Ammonia nitrogen, Total phosphorus, Total nitrogen, Arsenic, Fluoride, Zinc, Cadmium, LAS, Sulfides, Cyanide, Hexavalent chromium, Copper, Mercury, Petroleum. 3) Monitoring results: Except the total nitrogen was over-standard, there is no over-standard of other indicators, comparing to the Class V standard of the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB 3838-2002), in 2009 and 2010, both dry and wet season, of the up, middle and down stream of Cihu river.

Table 4-8 Water quality monitoring data of the Cihu River in 2009

Upper Cihu River Middle Cihu River Lower Cihu River Class V Item Jan. 2009 Jul. 2009 Jan. 2009 Jul. 2009 Jan. 2009 Jul. 2009 standard pH 6.12 6.47 7.20 6.46 7.67 6.85 6~9 Dissolved 7.40 4.36 7.15 4.12 7.48 7.22 2 oxygen Permanganate 7.46 3.73 6.98 4.69 5.48 4.74 15 index

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COD 29.30 18.80 30.40 24.40 24.60 21.50 40 BOD 5.47 4.35 5.86 5.22 4.60 3.62 10 Ammonia 1.380 1.440 1.780 1.410 1.770 1.300 2 nitrogen Total 0.068 0.058 0.395 0.149 0.395 0.175 0.4 phosphorus Total nitrogen 7.410 13.400 12.400 5.370 13.000 12.200 2

Arsenic 0.046 0.005 0.046 0.016 0.023 0.016 0.1

Fluoride 0.44 0.60 0.58 0.60 0.26 0.64 1.5

Zinc 0.110 0.201 0.110 0.117 0.130 0.052 2 Not Not Not Cadmium 0.00013 0.00013 Not detected 0.01 detected detected detected LAS 0.26 0.08 0.28 0.07 0.28 0.09 0.3

Sulfides 0.008 0.007 0.007 0.006 0.008 0.007 1 Not Not Not Not Not Cyanide Not detected 0.2 detected detected detected detected detected Hexavalent Not Not Not Not Not detected 0.005 0.1 chromium detected detected detected detected Copper 0.010 0.004 0.009 0.002 0.005 0.003 1.0 Not Not Not Not Not Mercury Not detected 0.001 detected detected detected detected detected Not Not Not Not Not Petroleum Not detected 1.0 detected detected detected detected detected

Table 4-9 Water quality monitoring data of the Cihu River in 2010

Upper Cihu River Middle Cihu River Lower Cihu River Class V Item Jan. 2009 Jul. 2009 Jan. 2009 Jul. 2009 Jan. 2009 Jul. 2009 standard pH 7.13 6.98 7.46 7.42 7.36 6.20 6~9 Dissolved 6.57 3.47 6.16 4.30 5.39 3.89 2 oxygen Permanganate 4.24 5.36 6.90 5.86 6.66 2.99 15 index COD 22.50 29.40 27.20 28.20 27.00 22.20 40 BOD 5.43 5.76 7.22 6.51 7.18 8.34 10 Ammonia 1.340 1.380 1.290 1.350 1.400 1.400 2 nitrogen Total 0.141 0.084 0.328 0.354 0.340 0.346 0.4 phosphorus Total nitrogen 8.230 7.660 8.840 7.450 13.800 8.420 2

Arsenic 0.002 0.004 0.003 0.035 0.006 0.001 0.1

Fluoride 0.43 0.81 0.40 0.61 0.48 0.92 1.5 Not Zinc 0.457 0.153 0.273 0.165 0.204 2 detected

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Not Not Not Not Cadmium 0.0001 0.0004 0.01 detected detected detected detected LAS 0.24 0.18 0.18 0.26 0.13 0.25 0.3 Not Sulfides 0.007 0.008 0.007 0.008 0.006 1 detected Not Not Not Cyanide 0.004 0.004L 0.004 0.2 detected detected detected Hexavalent Not Not Not Not Not Not detected 0.1 chromium detected detected detected detected detected Copper 0.002 0.004 0.003 0.006 0.001 0.003 1.0

Mercury 0.000026 0.000015 0.000010 0.000016 0.000042 0.000090 0.001 Not Not Not Not Not Petroleum Not detected 1.0 detected detected detected detected detected

(2) Assessment of present monitoring data The Ma’anshan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau conducted 6 rounds of monitoring on the Cihu River and the branch water systems from December 2011 to March 2012, in which all-indicator monitoring was conducted during December 9-11, 2011. In this evaluation, the monitoring data in December 2011 is used to analyze the water quality of the Cihu River. 1) Monitoring option ① Arrangement of monitoring points The monitoring scope cover the up, middle and down stream of Cihu river, the setup of the monitoring points are the regular monitoring locations, considering the spatial patterns of the pollutants. There were 8 surface water monitoring points, as shown in Table 4-10.

Table 4-10 Summary of surface water monitoring cross sections and locations

Monitoring cross section No. Functional zone

South side of Huabanqiao in the 2-1# D1 upper Cihu River Left D2-1 Middle Cihu 2-2# River Middle D2-2 Fengqiao Right D2-3 Ⅴ Lower Cihu Left D3-1 River 2-3# Middle D3-2 North Ring Road Bridge Right D3-3 2-4# Gaocun branch stream D4 2-5# Qingshuitang branch stream D5

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2-6# Huoli branch stream D6 2-7# Wumushan River branch stream D7 2-8# Tianran River branch stream D8

② Monitoring indicators There are 25 surface water monitoring indicators, including water temperature, pH, Dissolved oxygen, Permanganate index, COD, BOD, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus, total nitrogen, volatile phenol, cyanides, arsenic, hexavalent chrome, fluoride, copper, mercury, selenium, lead, zinc, cadmium, petroleum, anionic surfactant, fecal coliform and sulfides. ③ Monitoring and analysis methods The sampling method and the analysis method were gained from the ‘Water and wastewaters monitoring and analysis method (Fourth edition). 2) Present situation evaluation of environmental quality ① Evaluation criteria The Class V standard of the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB3838-2002) applies. ② Evaluation results Based on the results in Table 4-13 and Table 4-14, the water quality of the Cihu River and its branch water systems in 2011 was as follows:

Cihu River: In 2011, ammonia nitrogen and total nitrogen were over-standard in the upper Cihu River; COD, BOD, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus, total nitrogen, anionic surfactant and fecal coliform were over-standard in the middle Cihu River; COD, BOD, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus, total nitrogen, anionic surfactant, fecal coliform and cadmium were over-standard in the lower Cihu River.

Branch streams of the Cihu River: In the upper Cihu River, all indicators of the Gaocun branch stream met the Class V standard, except that ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and fecal coliform of Qingshuitang branch stream were over-standard, and COD of Huoli branch stream were over-standard; in the middle Cihu River, permanganate index, COD, BOD, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and fecal coliform of the Wumushan River branch stream were over-standard; COD, ammonia nitrogen and total nitrogen of the Tianran River branch stream in the lower Cihu River were over-standard.

Except that the Gaocun branch stream met the Class V standard, the water quality of the Cihu

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River, Qingshuitang branch stream, Huoli branch stream, Wumushan River branch stream and Tianran River branch stream falls into sub-Class V, and the main over-standard indicators are permanganate index, COD, BOD, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and fecal coliform, while all pH values meet the standard, showing that the Cihu River and its branches are affected by domestic sewage and non-point pollution sources.

Table 4-11 December 2011 the Cihu River monitoring data

Upper Cihu Middle Cihu River Lower Cihu River Class V Item River Left Middle Right Left Middle Right standard Water temperature 7.3 8.2 8.2 8.2 11.2 11.2 11.2 -- pH 7.18 7.82 7.8 7.84 8.03 7.95 7.92 6-9 Dissolved oxygen 8.71 5.66 5.75 5.63 7.45 7.43 7.41 2 Permanganate index 3.3 7 6.9 6.8 7.1 6.6 6.4 15 COD 12 53 47 46 59 42 47 40 BOD 0.75 14.8 12.8 11.9 17.6 15.7 14.7 10 Ammonia nitrogen 2.49 9.81 9.94 9.81 6.35 6.06 5.37 2 Total phosphorus 0.128 0.646 0.855 0.855 0.515 0.515 0.571 0.4 Total nitrogen 4.98 14.5 17.3 14.1 11 9.91 11.1 2 Volatile phenol 0.0009 Not detected Not detected 0.0004 0.0009 0.0024 0.0011 0.1 Cyanides Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.029 0.032 0.029 0.2 Arsenic 0.00136 0.00177 0.0017 0.00174 0.00192 0.00198 0.00201 0.1 Hexavalent chrome Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.1 Fluoride 0.62 0.56 0.55 0.54 1.36 1.43 1.36 1.5 Copper Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 1 Mercury Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.000192 0.000007 0.000003 0.001 Selenium Not detected Not detected 0.0003 Not detected 0.00543 0.00483 0.00484 0.02 Lead Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.038 0.1 Zinc 0.113 Not detected Not detected 0.057 0.104 0.082 0.076 2 Cadmium Not detected 0.00025 0.00023 0.00024 0.00026 0.00024 0.00015 0.01 Petroleum Not detected 0.02 Not detected 0.02 0.04 0.03 0.04 1 LAS 0.163 0.494 0.492 0.524 0.259 0.299 0.436 0.3 Fecal coliform 24000 24000 160000 160000 92000 92000 54000 40000 Sulfides Not detected Not detected 0.008 0.006 0.006 Not detected Not detected 1

Table 4-12 Water quality monitoring data of branch streams of the Cihu River in December 2011 Gaocun Huoli Wumushan Qingshuitang Tianran River Class V Item branch branch River branch branch stream branch stream standard stream stream stream Water temperature 9.4 8.6 9 11.4 6 --- pH 7.74 7.67 8.12 6.93 8.48 6-9 Dissolved oxygen 11.15 10.95 9.99 5.95 11.61 2 Permanganate index 2.2 2.9 3.9 29 6.4 15 COD 20 27 38 332 51 40 BOD 4.9 4.6 13.7 41 4.75 10 Ammonia nitrogen 1.56 3.62 1.08 12.9 2.01 2 Total phosphorus 0.08 0.135 0.056 1.01 0.08 0.4 Total nitrogen 1.69 2.84 1.42 15.4 2.7 2 Volatile phenol 0.0057 0.0009 0.0109 0.0004 0.0005 0.1

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Cyanides Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.004 0.2 Arsenic 0.00088 0.00112 0.00105 0.00522 0.00137 0.1 Hexavalent chrome Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Fluoride 0.59 0.56 0.54 0.35 1.5 1.5 Copper Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 1 Mercury Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.001 Selenium Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.00014 0.00351 0.02 Lead Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.033 Not detected 0.1 Zinc Not detected 0.32 0.124 0.159 0.134 2 Cadmium 0.00014 Not detected Not detected Not detected 0.00016 0.01 Petroleum 0.04 Not detected Not detected 0.05 Not detected 1 LAS 0.073 0.134 0.099 0.235 0.106 0.3 Fecal coliform 1400 92000 3300 92000 3300 40000 Sulfides 0.008 0.008 Not detected 0.006 Not detected 1

4.4.3 Groundwater environmental quality status

According to the requirement of Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment — Groundwater environment (HJ610-2011), in order to know the groundwater quality, Qingdao Jingcheng detection technology co., LTD. was authorized to monitor the groundwater quality on Aug. 22th 2012. 1. Groundwater monitoring option (1) Monitoring points According to the requirement of Technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment — Groundwater environment (HJ610-2011) 3 monitoring points of the shallow groundwater were set up along the Cihu river with average stationing method. 3-1＃: Fengzhuang village (upstream); 3-2＃: Fengshou village (middle stream); 3-3＃: Liannong village(Down stream). (2) Monitoring items 22 items including: pH, Total hardness, total soluble solid, sulfate, chloride, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, volatile phenol, hexavalent chromium, potassium permanganate index, nitrate nitrogen, nitrite nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, chloride, cyanide, mercury, arsenic, selenium, cadmium, lead. (3) Monitoring time and frequency August 22, 2012, monitoring for one day, sampling once and measure the well depth and water level. (4) Monitoring methods The sampling method and the analysis method was in line with the ‘Water and wastewaters monitoring and analysis method (Fourth edition)’.

2. Groundwater quality assessment (1) Assessment standard

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Class III level in groundwater quality standard (GB/T14848-93).

(2) Results of the groundwater monitoring and assessment Comparing to the class III level standard in groundwater quality standard (GB/T14848-93), the entire monitored items reached the standard and the groundwater quality in the project area is fine. See detailed in table 4-13.

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Table 4-13 Groundwater monitoring and assessment results Groundw Hexaval Monitori Well ater Total Solubility Mangan Volatile ent ng Factors depth pH sulfate chloride iron copper zinc depth hardness total solid ese phenol chromiu section （m） （m） m Standard — 6.5-8.5 ≤450 ≤1000 ≤250 ≤250 ≤0.3 ≤0.1 ≤1.0 ≤1.0 ≤0.002 ≤0.05 （mg/L） Fengzhua Monitored ＜ ng 5.00 1.00 7.41 155 335 50.7 20.2 ＜0.05 ＜0.05 ＜0.05 ＜0.001 ＜0.004 （mg/L） 0.005 village

Index — 0.273 0.344 0.335 0.203 0.081 0.167 0.5 0.005 0.05 0.5 0.08

Standard — 6.5-8.5 ≤450 ≤1000 ≤250 ≤250 ≤0.3 ≤0.1 ≤1.0 ≤1.0 ≤0.002 ≤0.05 （mg/L）

Fengshou Monitored ＜ 6.00 0.80 7.21 308 530 49.8 32.2 ＜0.05 ＜0.05 ＜0.05 ＜0.001 ＜0.004 village （mg/L） 0.005

Index — 0.14 0.684 0.53 0.199 0.129 0.167 5 0.005 0.05 0.5 0.08

Standard — 6.5-8.5 ≤450 ≤1000 ≤250 ≤250 ≤0.3 ≤0.1 ≤1.0 ≤1.0 ≤0.002 ≤0.05 （mg/L）

Liannong Monitored ＜ 5.50 0.65 7.45 253 642 120 35.5 ＜0.05 ＜0.05 ＜0.05 ＜0.001 ＜0.004 village （mg/L） 0.005

Index — 0.3 0.562 0.642 0.48 0.142 1.667 0.5 0.005 0.05 0.5 0.08

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Groundw Ammo Monitori Well ater Permanga Nitrate Nitrite nia cyanid seleniu ng Factors depth chloride mercury arsenic cadmium lead depth nate index nitrogen nitrogen nitroge e m section （m） （m） n Standard — ≤3.0 ≤20 ≤0.02 ≤0.2 ≤250 ≤0.05 ≤0.001 ≤0.05 ≤0.01 ≤0.01 ≤0.05 （mg/L）

Fengzhua Monitored ＜ ＜ ＜ ＜ ＜ ng 5.00 1.00 1.66 7.18 0.002 0.02 ＜0.10 ＜0.0005 （mg/L） village 0.002 0.0001 0.001 0.0004 0.0025

Index — 0.553 0.359 0.1 0.1 0.0004 0.04 0.1 0.02 0.04 0.05 0.05

Standard — ≤3.0 ≤20 ≤0.02 ≤0.2 ≤250 ≤0.05 ≤0.001 ≤0.05 ≤0.01 ≤0.01 ≤0.05 （mg/L）

Fengshou Monitored ＜ ＜ ＜ ＜ ＜ 6.00 0.80 1.83 0.35 ＜0.001 0.02 0.33 ＜0.0005 village （mg/L） 0.002 0.0001 0.001 0.0004 0.0025

Index — 0.61 0.018 0.01 0.1 0.001 0.04 0.1 0.02 0.04 0.05 0.05

Standard — ≤3.0 ≤20 ≤0.02 ≤0.2 ≤250 ≤0.05 ≤0.001 ≤0.05 ≤0.01 ≤0.01 ≤0.05 （mg/L）

Liannong Monitored ＜ ＜ ＜ ＜ ＜ 5.50 0.65 2.03 2.35 0.01 0.04 0.27 ＜0.0004 village （mg/L） 0.002 0.0001 0.001 0.0004 0.0025

Index — 0.677 0.118 0.5 0.2 0.001 0.04 0.1 0.02 0.04 0.04 0.05

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4.4.4 Acoustic environment quality

In order to know the acoustic environment quality of the project area, Qingdao Jingcheng Testing Technology Co., Ltd was engaged to operate a monitoring of the acoustic environment quality on August 21, 2012 1. Acoustic environment quality monitoring (1) Locations of the monitoring points: totally four points were set up (2) Monitoring time：August 21, 2012, once respectively in both day and night (3) Monitoring condition：No rain, no thunder and lightning weather, wind speed is less than 5.0 m/s (4) Monitoring method：Standards for acoustic environmental quality, (GB3096-2008) (5) Monitoring instrument：Multi-function noise statistical analyzer YQ-019. 2 .Assessment of present acoustic environment quality (1) Assessment standards Standards for acoustic environmental quality, (GB3096-2008) (2) Assessment results Based on the Monitoring results, the acoustic environment quality of the monitoring points along Cihu River meets the relative standards. See detailed table 4-14. Table 4-14 Monitoring results of the acoustic environment quality unit: dB(A) Monitoring results Leq〔dB(A)〕 Standards Monitoring note points day night day night 4-1#Shuguang 56.4 48.7 60 50 --- No.1 vilage 4-2# Close to the north Ma’anshan 68.6 51.3 section of second middle Jiangdong road school 70 55 4-3# Community Close to the Hunan 62.4 49.7 of Dongcheng east road garden 4-4# Anhui industrial 56.3 45.4 60 50 --- university

4.4.5 Sediment monitoring

1. Monitoring option (1) Monitoring points: According to the site survey, there are only three drainage outlets

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in the downstream of Cihu river. Due to lack of historical data on the quality of the sediments in the river of Cihu, three sampling sites were selected on the upper, middle and lower reach of the river respectively to under stand the actual contamination status of the sediments. According to the Water and Wastewaters Monitoring and Analysis Method issued by SEPA which requires to select the sampling points at the same location of the surface water monitoring points, and it is found that the sediments are evenly distributed, therefore only one sampling point is located at the upper, middle and lower reach respectively with on columnar samples on each sampling point. see detailed in table 4-15.

Table 4-15 Sampling points of the sediment

No. River section Location 2-1# Up stream of Cihu river Huabanqiao 2-2# Middle stream of Cihu river Fengqiao 2-3# Down stream of Cihu river Beihuanluqiao

(2) Analysis items: Cadmium, mercury, arsenic, copper, lead, hexavalent chromium, (3) Sampling time and frequency: December 9, 2012. Sampling frequency: once. (4) Sampling and analysis method The sampling method was in line with the ‘Water and wastewaters monitoring and analysis method.” The 0-50cm sediments was sampled using columnar sampler and sealed into plastic sample box, then labelled and delivered to the libratory. The collected samples are air dried and the method of coning and quatering is used to get the desirable quantity of the samples for lab analysis. The analysis method is attached in the annex table.

2. Sediment assessment (1) Assessment standard Firstly, the heavy metal content in the samples is analyzed in line with the Ambient Soil Quality Standard (GB15618-1995), which classified the standard for three kinds of uses, as follows:  Class I: applicable to the natural reserves, centralized drinking water sources, tea garden, ranch and other areas under special protection; this class is designed to protect the regional natural ecology and ensure the natural background soil quality be maintained;  Class II: applicable to the ordinary areas such as cropland and vegetable farm; this class is designed to safeguard the agricultural production and the human health; and  Class III: applicable to the forests and the areas with large capacity accommodating pollution loads, such as the land near ore mines (except for vegetable farm); this class is designed to safeguard the growth of forests and plants.

The analysed results are compared to the Ambient Soil Quality Standard. If the analyzed

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results are found to be within the limit of the parameters in the standard, the sediments can be reagarded as non-toxic materials, and the analyzed results will be compared with the Pollutant Control Standard for Sludge for Agricultural Application (GB4284-84), the Sludge Quality for Municipal Landscaping, for Municipal Sludge (CJ 248-2007), and Mixed Sludge Quality for Landfill, Municipal Sludge (CJ/T 249), so as to determine the options for use of the sediments in agricultural, municipal landscaping and forestry. Secondly, if the analyzed results are found to be over the limits of the parameters of the standard, it can be concluded that the sediments are toxic and can not be used in agricultural, municipal landscaping and forestry. So a detailed protocol for testing the toxicity of the sediments should be developed and the treatment and disposal of the sediments should be in compliance with the relevant requirements for management of hazardous materials. (2) Assessment results Comparison with international standards In China, the Ambient Soil Quality Standard is used to evaluate the toxici level of the sediments so as to determine whether the sediments are hazardous materials or not. To further understand the relevant standards in developed countries in the screening of soils, Comparison with the standards in developed countries are made as follows: Table 4-16-1 Ambient Soil Quality Standard unit：mg/kg

Class Class I Class II Class III Natural Soil pH backgroun <6.5 6.5~7.5 ＞7.5 ＞6.5 d Cadmium ≤ 0.20 0.30 0.30 0.60 1.0 Mercury ≤ 0.15 0.30 0.50 1.0 1.5 Arsenic paddy land ≤ 15 30 25 20 30 dry land ≤ 15 40 30 25 40 Copper arable land ≤ 35 50 100 100 400 Orchard ≤ ---- 150 200 200 400 Lead ≤ 35 250 300 350 500 Chrome paddy land≤ 90 250 300 350 400 dry land≤ 90 150 200 250 300 BHC ≤ 0.05 0.50 1.0 DDT ≤ 0.05 0.50 1.0

Table 4-16-2 Soil Screening Levels in Developed Countries unit: mg/kg

Heavy metal USA1 Dutch3

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Industrial soil Residential soil

As 1.6 0.39 55

Cd 450 37 12

Cu 41000 3100 190

Hg 310 23 10

Pb 800 400 530

Cr 450 210 380 Note: 1. USEPA R9 PRGs. 2. Dutch Intervention Value (DIV) for residential soil. These SSLs ( Soil Screening Levels) alone do not trigger the need for response actions or define “unacceptable” levels of contaminants in soil. The “screening” refers to the process of identifying and defining areas, contaminants, and conditions, at a particular site that do not require further Federal attention. From Table 4-16-1 and 4-16-2, it can be seen that the Cd in the Chinese standard which is easily taken by plants and concentratedn in the reproductive parts such as flower and fruits that will pose the serious risk of health to people who ingest them is much lower that in the SSLs in USA and Dutch. The As in Chinese standard is much lower than that of Dutch but much higher than that in the USA. Other heavy metals limits in Chinese standard for Class III are equivalent to Dutch SSLs, but much lower than the USA’s SSLs.

Table 4-17 Monitoring results of sediment Unit： mg/kg

Items 2-1# Upper Cihu river 2-2# Middle Cihu river 2-3# Lower Cihu river mercury（mg/kg） 1.17 1.16 0.469 arsenic（mg/kg） 19.0 18.6 16.8 copper（mg/kg） 53.1 109 32.7

lead（mg/kg） 52.8 112 <2.8 cadmium（mg/kg） <0.23 <0.23 <0.23 Hexavalent <20 <20 <20 chromium （mg/kg）

Note: The numbers with left bracket is the minimum detectible value of the analysis equipment; this means the data is too low to be detected by the equipment.

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0.469 and 1.17mg/m3, arsenic is between 16.8 and 19.0mg/m3, copper is between 32.7 and 109mg/m3, lead is lower than 112mg/m3.

Comparing to the Soil environment quality standard (GB15618-1995), the monitored mercury exceed the Class II standard, and the monitored Mercury and copper also exceed the Class II standard at middle stream, however, reach the class III standards. The pollutants at the downstream sediments reaches class II. So the sediments are not toxic or hazardous material, will lead no harm to the plants and environment.

The analyzed results also indicate that with the operation of the industrial wastewater treatment facilities and municipal wastewater treatment plants, as well as the regular dredging works in Cihu River basin, the water quality in the river has been improved to some degree.

4.5 Environmental issues of the Cihu River basin

4.5.1 Flood control and drainage

1. Present situation of flood control and drainage (1) Present situation of river dikes 1) Upper Cihu River The upper Cihu River refers to the stretch from its origin to East Ring Road, about 13.1km long, in which the stretch from Provincial Highway 313 to East Ring Road segment is about 6.7km long. Only the Donghewan segment about 600m above East Ring Road in the upper Cihu River has flood protection dikes, as shown in Figure 4-9.

Figure 4-9 Present situation of the upper Cihu River channel

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2) Middle Cihu River The middle Cihu River refers to the stretch from East Ring Road to Linli Road, about 6.7km long, with dikes on both banks, as shown in Figure 4-10.

Figure 4-10 Present situation of the middle Cihu River channel

3) Lower Cihu River The lower Cihu River refers to the stretch from Linli Road to the river entrance, about 6.3km long, with dikes on both banks, as shown in Figure 4-11.

Figure 4-11 Present situation of the lower Cihu River channel

See Table 4-18 for the completed dike of the Cihu River.

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Table 4-18 Existing dikes of the Cihu River Structural Location Segment Length (m) Top level (m) Top width (m) type Cihu sluice – Fengqiao 9100 12.5-13.0 3.6-6.0 Earth dike Erdaofangxian 750 11.7 6.0 Earth dike Left dike Fengqiao – Tangzhuang 2800 12.4-14.2 4.0-11.8 Earth dike station Subtotal 12650 Cihu sluice – Tianran 3936 118-14.0 3.6-8.1 Earth dike River mouth Tianran River mouth – 1863 11.7-12.7 3.6-6.7 Earth dike Anhui-Jiangsu border Right Xiaoyingwu Mountain – 894 11.7-12.7 3.6-6.7 Earth dike dike Anhui-Jiangsu border Anhui-Jiangsu border – 1600 12.2-12.6 3.7-5.9 Earth dike Tianran River mouth Tianran River mouth – 8038 9.9-13.3 3.3-3.7 Earth dike Donghewan Subtotal 16331 Total 28981

(2) Present situation of Lijianwan river Lijianwan river inward to the Cihu river at the upstream 300m of the river mouth, Lijianwan river is the boundary river of Anhui an Jiangsu province. The right river embankment which belongs to Jiangsu reaches the standard after the renovation. The left River embankment which belongs to Anhui is soil embankment, mostly covering by weed, without any artificial protection facilities.

Figure 4-12 Present situation of Lijianwan river (left side belongs to Jiangsu Provice, the right side belongs to Anhui Province, in the photograph)

(2) Present situation of storm water drainage 1) Present situation of storm water drainage system

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The Cihu River is a river connected naturally to the Yangtze River, with a basin area of 124.8km2. The catchment area can be divided into a hilly area and an embanked area. The hilly area is relatively high in level, with a total area of about 81.0km2, with no dikes on both sides, in which storm water runoff can be drained into the Cihu River by gravity. The embanked area is in a low-lying plain, with a total area of about 43.8km2; many natural canals and ponds in this area are connected to the Cihu River, and there are dikes on both sides of the river channel. Since the dikes cut off the connections between the Cihu River and the natural canals, flood drainage pumping stations are used to drain storm water into the Cihu River. 2) Present situation of flood drainage facilities There are 24 flood drainage pumping stations on both sides of the Cihu River, in which 8 were built in the 1980s, 13 in the 1990s (including renewal) and 3 after 2000, as shown in Table 4-3. In addition, the Cihu pumping station for storm water discharge for the Cihu River is located beside the Cihu sluice on the Cihu River, with a design flow rate of 10.0m3/s and an installed capacity of 465 kW, completed in 2009.

In 2009, a controlling sluice gate (Cihu sluice) and a river pumping station (Cihu pumping station) were built at the entrance of the Cihu River. When the water level of the Yangtze River is low (less than 11.15m, Wusong sea level), the Cihu sluice opens, so that storm water in the Cihu River can flow into the Yangtze River by gravity; when the water level of the Yangtze River is high (above 11.15m, Wusong sea level), the Cihu sluice is closed to prevent floods in the Yangtze River, and storm water in the Cihu River is pumped into the Yangtze River via the Cihu pumping station.

Table 4-19 Summary of completed flood drainage pumping stations in the Cihu River basin

Year of Installed capacity Discharge Department in charge Pumping station Nature completion (kW per unit) (m3/s) Cihu Development Zone Jiandanzha 1986 4/220 Urban 2.2 Sulfuric acid Cihu Development Zone 2002 3/275 Urban 1.8 plant Cihu Development Zone Carbon plant 1992 3/140 Urban 1.6 Cihu Development Zone Zhaoming 1999 3/396 Urban 5.0 Jinjiazhuang District Xiaonanwei 1983 2/110 Urban 1.2 Jinjiazhuang District Zhenbei 1990 1/40 Urban 0.4 Construction Commission Updated in Jinjiazhuang District Tailai 3/132 Rural 1.4 2002 Magang 2nd steel plant 1992 4/220 Urban 2.4 Jinjiazhuang District Tongyi (1) 1987 4/220 Urban 2.4 Jinjiazhuang District Tongyi (2) 1995 4/220 Urban 2.4 Magang 3rd steel plant 1980s 4/180 Urban 2.4

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Jinjiazhuang District Zhennan 1990 1/30 Urban 0.4 Jinjiazhuang District Xiaohezha 1983 4/220 Urban 2.4 Magang Xitang 1998 4/220 Urban 2.2 Municipal Administration Tuanjie 1991 2/110 Urban 1.2 Office Jinjiazhuang District Yangqiao 2000 5/660 Urban 8.2 Yangqiao 2nd Huashan District 1994 2/90 Rural 1.2 Station Huashan District Xiaohecha 1982 5/275 Urban 3.0 Jinjiazhuang District Linli 1981 2/110 Rural 1.2 Construction Commission Jinjiazhuang District Tuishantou 1983 2/85 Rural 0.8 Updated in Huashan District Gaohan 5/335 Rural 3.6 2002 Jinjiazhuang District Shanghu 1993 2/110 Rural 1.2 Huashan District Fengqiao 1992 1/55 Rural 0.4 Huashan District Dingjiaba 1988 2/110 Rural 1.2

Sulphuric acid plant pumping station Shaoming pumping station

Figre 4-13 Present situation of pumping station of Cihu river (3) Present situation of branch streams The branch streams, in the middle and down streams of Cihu river basin, are the major composition of the urban rainwater system. These branch streams play important roles in urban drainage. Nowadays, some branch streams shrink, diverted or even disappeared during the urbanization process. The branch streams still existed and managed by the city are shown in table 4-20 and figure 4-13.

Table 4-20 present situation of the branch streams in Cihu River basin

Storm water No. Natural canals Specification Remarks drainage zone 1 Jiandan river (Miaopu) water system * L=2040m,A=2.92ha Jiandanjia zone 1/3 is in the boundary of 2 Hupo pond water system * A=48.87ha Jiangsu province

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3 Yaochang pond water system * A=11.72ha Artificial revetments Shaoming zone 1 Channel of Lianhe road L=1212m,A=0.98ha available on both sides Xiaonanxu Ditch of Dianye road * (Tianmen 1 L=1086m,A=0.72ha zone road-Cihu river) East side ditch of Ningwu railroad * 1 L=1642m,A=3.57ha (Tianmen road- natural river) Zhendong zone North side ditch of natural river * 2 L=1233m,A=6.36ha (Tianmen road – tailai pumping station)

Nantang river * (Tianmen road – Cihu Nantang zone 1 L=1304m,A=1.43ha road) North Huaguo Mountain water system 1 L=734m,A=2.09ha (Jiumugou) 2 Left bank west ditch of the Cihu River L=712m,A=2.40ha Artificial revetments 3 Left dike west ditch of the Cihu River L=795m,A=2.96ha available on both sides Yangqiao zone Wangbaitanwater system * (Jiangdong 4 L=820m,A=1.89ha Avenue—Cihu River) Wangmutang water system (Hubei Artificial revetments 5 L=350m,A=1.93ha Road—Wangbaitan) available on both sides Yangqiao ditch water system * (Mapu Artificial revetments 6 L=350m,A=1.46ha Road—Hubei Road) available on both sides Xitang water system * (Maxiang Artificial revetments with Xitang zone 1 L=1094m,A=1.74ha Railway—Cihu River) a length of 400m Xiaohecha branch stream * (Maxiang 1 L=240m,A=0.60ha Xiaohecha Railway—Cihu River) zone Xiaohecha branch stream * (Huayuan 2 L=1230m,A=1.76ha Road—Cihu River) Jinjiazhuang industrial south park water 1 L=2976m,A=11.59ha system Linli zone 2 Geyang water system * L=539m,A=0.53ha 3 Qiaoshan ditch * L=664m,A=1.20ha Right bank north ditch of the Shanghu 1 L=1798m,A=8.80ha River* Left bank south ditch of the Shanghu 2 L=1170m,A=4.25ha River Shanghu River* (Geyang Road—Cihu 3 L=2971m,A=10.09ha River) Fengshou zone Wudangang east ditch* (Xiushan 4 L=1382m,A=2.24ha Road—Shanghu River) Wudangang west ditch* 5 L=1475m,A=3.19ha (Wudangang—Xingguang Avenue) Fengshou north ditch (East Ring 6 L=1257m,A=2.40ha Road—Cihu River) Fengshou south ditch * (Mapu Artificial revetments 1 L=900m,A=0.79ha Road—Fengqiao pumping station) available on both sides Fengqiao zone Qianjin ditch * (East Ring 2 L=1410m,A=3.38ha Road—Fengqiao pumping station) Note: * are the branch streams planning to treat in this project

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Jiandan river Yaochang pond

Ditch of Dianye road East side ditch of Ningwu railroad

North side ditch of natural river Nantang river

Wangbaitanwater system Yangqiao ditch water system

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Xitang water system Xiaohecha branch stream

Qiaoshan ditch Geyang water system

Wudangang east ditch Wudangang west ditch

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Shanghu river South ditch of Fengshou

Figure 4-14 Present situation of branch water system of the Cihu River

4.5.2 Existing problems

The dikes of the Cihu River have taken form after many years of construction, and the flood control capacity has improved, but can just resist floods that occur every 10 years. In recent years, there have been 19 dangerous cases with the dikes of the Cihu River, including cases of seepage and water creep, 4 cases of landslide, two cases of cracking and one case of leakage. The main existing problems include: (1) Low flood control standard: The dikes of the Cihu River have not been subject to systematic reinforcement and are generally of poor quality, loose and irregular land filling. (2) Many risky segments: During the flood season, the dike bodies and bases generally have dangerous cases of seepage and water creep. Behind most segments of the dikes, deep ponds are densely distributed and the side slopes are steep, affecting the safety of the dikes. The culverts, sluices and gates on the dikes are mostly in masonry structure, and were built in the 1960s-70s, with leakage present extensively. (3) The dike-penetrating buildings are aged and leaking: The culverts and sluices built in the 1950s-80s have been operated for tens of years, and their masonry bodies or materials have been seriously weathered, resulting in water leakage, reduced structural strength, mortar disengagement or brick loosening. The reinforced concrete box culverts are also seriously aged. (4) Reduced rainfall regulation: During the urbanization process, the existing natural drainage system has been damaged, reducing rainfall regulation capacity. (5) The urban drainage system is unsound, and some parts were not constructed or updated in strict conformity with the drainage plan during construction, so that some storm sewers can not meet the standard. (6) Insufficient flood drainage capacity The design standard of the flood drainage pumping stations is low. With the urbanization of the city, rainfall runoff has increased sharply and is excessive for the flood drainage capacity of some flood drainage pumping stations in this area.

4.6 Survey of pollution sources in the Cihu River Basin

According to the survey, the main pollution sources include the upstream mining, industries, Xiangshan landfill, domestic sewage and non-point pollutions. In order to improve the water

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environment quality of the Cihu River, the Ma’anshan Municipal Government has taken measures accordingly. The completed water pollution management facilities include wastewater treatment systems, the leachate treatment facilities of the Xiangshan landfill, the acid leachate management project and the Upper Cihu River Surface Water Management Project, as shown in Figure 4-15 to Figure 4-18.

Figure 4-15

4.6.1 Mines in Upstream Area

The upper reach area of Cihu River is an iron ore mining area, where iron ore is shallowly buried and suitable for open-pit mining, with an average grade of 25%-30%, and the major mining areas are Gaocun, Xiaonanshan and Luoboshan, as shown in Figure 4-16. The non-point source pollution in the mining area is mainly the wastewater from open mines, leachate from tailing reservoir, washwater from ore dressing industries and overflow water from tailings ponds. Since iron ore is often associated with a variety of metals and sulfides, a variety of heavy metals will be leached out under the joint action of air, water and bacteria. Mine wastewater is highly acid and will pollute the Cihu River.

Figure 4-16 1. Mining enterprises There were 24 mining enterprises in operation in Ma’anshan Municipality in 2010, including state-owned and private enterprises. The state-owned enterprise is Magang Group, which transports iron ore by railway mainly and by highway as an auxiliary means; private enterprises transport iron ore mostly by highway, as shown in Table 4-21. All mining and ore-dressing enterprises in the upper Cihu River have been closed down.

Table 4-21 Basic information on mines in the upper Cihu River in 2010

Private iron ore State-owned Item Total mine iron ore mine Iron ore output in 2010 (t) 870,000 8,000,000 8,870,000

Number of iron ore mines in 2010 17 7 24 Number of iron ore mines with a remaining mining 0 0 0 period of less than 5 years Iron ore output of iron ore mines with a remaining 870,000 8,000,000 8,870,000 mining period of 5 years or more in 2010 (t) Number of new iron ore mines under construction 8 2 10 (not put into production) in 2011 Predicted iron ore output of new iron ore mines under 0 5,000,000 5,000,000 construction in 2011 (t) (design capacity)

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Number of iron ore mines closed down in 2011 0 0 0 Iron ore output of iron ore mines closed down in 2011 0 0 0 (t)

2. Control measures taken (1) Land restoration for closed down mines The Ma’anshan Municipal Government implemented the Ma’anshan Yuanxiang Mountain Troilite Mine Geologic Environment Management Project in 2007, which was completed in July 2009, with a gross investment of RMB5.33 million. 383.34 mu of degraded land after the closedown of the Mountain troilite mine was restored, with an earth and rock excavation volume of 522,288 m³. Drain ditches, flood ditches, slope revetments and retaining walls were built, the ground leveled and turfs laid. (2) Mine being closed down The Xiaonanshan mine was put into operation in 1997. According to the Regulations on the Protection of the Geologic Environment of Mines of Anhui Province promulgated in 2007, the Plan for Geologic Environment Protection and Integrated Management of the Xiaonanshan Iron Mine, Ma’anshan, Anhui was prepared, and approved by the Department of Land and Resources of Anhui Province in May 2009. This mine has been laid idle from the end of 2009 to date for some reason, and has not been subject to upgrading.

Figure 4-17 (3) Acid leachate management project This project includes the acid leachate management of the Xianshan and Xiangshan tailings ponds. The Nanshan mine dumping site acid wastewater management project will also be implemented to intercept and collect acid wastewater from the dumping site and eliminate acid wastewater pollution. Acid wastewater treatment facilities should meet the Class II standard of the Integrated wastewater discharge standard (GB8978-1996). 1) Xianshan tailings pond acid leachate treatment project This project aims to set up vertical intercepting ditches around the reservoir area to intercept water from surrounding massifs, and drain water from the reservoir area via horizontal drain holes effectively into the wastewater treatment workshop at the dam base. This facility has been put into operation, with a design capacity of 160m3/d. 2) Xiangshan tailings pond acid leachate treatment project This project is located below the tailings pond dam at the Xiangshan landfill, and aims to treat intercepted acid wastewater from the Xiangshan tailings pond and the Nanshan mine dumping site by neutralization and coagulating sedimentation, and discharge tail water into the upper Cihu River, so as to eliminate water pollution. An EIA report was prepared for this project in

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October 2008 and has been approved. This project was put into operation in October 2009.

This project has a design capacity of 100m3/d. Its main equipment includes a regulating pond, a lifting pump house, a neutralizing tank, a sediment sump, a reclaiming tank, a dewatering room and a chemical dosing room.

Figure 4-18 According to the acid leachate treatment monitoring data of tailings ponds from the Ma’anshan Environmental Monitoring Station in December 2011, the treated water quality of the Xianshan and Xiangshan tailings ponds meets the Class II standard of the Integrated wastewater discharge standard (GB8978-1996). See detailed in table 4-22. Table 4-22 Monitoring data of Tailings acidic water treatment facilities Tailings acidic water Tailings acidic water Integrated treatment facilities of treatment facilities of wastewater discharge Yanshan Xiangshan Items standard Inlet Outlet Inlet Oultlet (GB8978-1996)Class II pH 3.5 7.25 3.82 6.15 6~9 Not COD 130 Not detected 67 150 detected BOD 54.8 1.2 29.6 4.9 30 Ammonia 23.7 1.16 9.5 0.490 25 nitrogen Volatile phenol 0.0008 0.0014 0.0006 0.0006 0.5 Not Not cyanide Not detected Not detected 0.5 detected detected arsenic 0.00114 0.00090 0.00113 0.00085 0.5 Hexavalent Not Not Not detected Not detected 0.5 chromium detected detected fluoride 2.02 0.74 0.38 0.38 10 Not Not copper Not detected 5.69 1.0 detected detected Not Not mercury Not detected 0.000068 0.05 detected detected Not Not selenium 0.00039 0.00030 0.2 detected detected lead Not Not detected Not detected Not 1.0

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detected detected Not zinc 4.360 Not detected 3.89 5.0 detected Not cadmium Not detected 0.0988 0.00020 0.1 detected Not petroleum 0.04 Not detected 0.03 10 detected LAS 0.079 0.079 0.119 0.054 10 Not sulfide Not detected 0.008 0.008 1.0 detected

(4) Upper Cihu River Surface Water Management Project The Upper Cihu River Surface Water Management Project includes the Gaocun and Nanjiadian wetlands, and a preliminary treatment work. All these works were put into operation in April 2011. Both artificial wetlands employ the “pre-treatment pond + artificial wetland” treatment process. Each wetland is composed of plant root systems, wet soil, silicate gravel, calcium carbonate stone particles, coal cinder and soil, and the main plants are reed, cattail and water chive. Design water quality meets the Class V standard of the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB3838-2002). 1) Gaocun wetland The Gaocun wetland is located southwest of the Gaocun mine, with an area of about 10 hm2 and a design capacity of 16,700 m3/d.

Figure 4-19 Present situation of the Gaocun wetland

2) Nanjiadian wetland The Nanjiadian wetland is located beside Provincial Highway 313 in Xiangshan Town, with a narea of about 10 hm2 and a design capacity of 12,000 m3/d

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Figure 4-20 Present situation of the Nanjiadian wetland

3) Nanjiadian preliminary treatment work It employs the physiochemical methods of neutralization and coagulating sedimentation. Its main equipment includes a regulating pond, a mixing tank, a settling tank and a charge room. Treated tail water is drained into the Nanjiadian wetland downstream.

Figure 4-21 Present situation of the Nanjiadian preliminary treatment work

According to the water quality monitoring data of the Gaocun and Nanjiadian wetlands from the Ma’anshan Environmental Monitoring Station in December, the water quality of the Gaocun wetland meets the Class V standard of the Environmental quality standard for surface water (GB3838-2002). Since the surrounding constructions, the water flows of inlet and outlet were cut and stopped. The samples at the outlets of Nanjiadian wetlands were the supernatent

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of outlets. See detailed in table 4-23. Table 4-23 monitoring data of Surface runoff treatment facilities

Wetland of Gao village Wetland of Nanjiadian Surface water environmental Item quality Inlet Outlet Inlet Outlet (GB3838-2002) Class Ⅴ pH 8.05 7.96 8.02 7.54 6~9 Dissolved oxygen 11.1 9.26 11.05 7.28 2 Permanganate 2 0.9 4.9 0.9 15 index Not COD 11 Not detected 27 40 detected BOD 3.93 0.6 9.76 1.4 10 Ammonia 1.08 0.747 0.876 3.39 2 nitrogen Total phosphorus 0.06 0.041 0.104 0.088 0.4 Total nitrogen 1.53 1.34 2.21 7.24 2 Volatile phenol 0.0003 Not detected 0.0013 0.001 0.1 Not Not cyanide Not detected Not detected 0.2 detected detected arsenic 0.00124 0.00088 0.00089 0.00101 0.1 Hexavalent Not Not Not detected Not detected 0.1 chromium detected detected fluoride 0.39 0.52 0.64 0.58 1.5 Not Not copper Not detected Not detected 1 detected detected Not Not mercury Not detected Not detected 0.001 detected detected Not Not selenium Not detected Not detected 0.02 detected detected Not lead 0.222 Not detected Not detected 0.1 detected Not Not zinc Not detected Not detected 2.0 detected detected cadmium 0.0424 0.00016 0.00086 0.00015 0.01 petroleum 0.03 0.05 0.04 0.05 1 Not LAS 0.052 0.065 0.136 0.3 detected Fecal coliform 200 Not detected Not detected 35000 40000 bacteria Not sulfide Not detected 0.006 0.007 1 detected Unit: mg/L except the pH

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4.6.2 Industrial pollution sources

1. Present situation of industry companies There are 5 industrial zones in the Cihu River basin, Xiangshan Industrial Zone in the upper reaches, Jinjiazhuang Industrial Zone and Huashan Industrial Zone in the middle reaches, and Cihu Hi-tech Development Zone and Magang New Zone in the lower reaches. See the detailed locations in annexed fig. 5 and detailed sewage discharge in table 4-24. Table 4-24 Sewage discharge of the industrial zones Status of Names Locations Types Sewage discharge pollution control The enterprises in the park have their own wastewater treatment facilities, and treated industrial wastewater may 4 companies be recycled. However, since the sewer were network in the park is unsound yet, regulated in most enterprises’ domestic sewage is 2008, the Xiangshan Mechanical discharged into the neighboring Upper results are Industrial processing, Yanghe River system after treatment in reaches permenant zone chemical their own wastewater treatment shut down 2 facilities. The sewer network of companies, 2 Xiangshan Industrial zone will be operated after completed by 2015, when all renovation wastewater in the park will be discharged into the East New District WWTP. Jinjiazhuang Middle Iron and steel Discharged into the Wangjiazhuang Industrial ---- reaches castings WWTP. zone Huashan Middle Iron and steel Discharged into the East New District Industrial ---- reaches castings WWTP. zone Iron and steel castings, Cihu Hi-tech Lower Inorganic acid Development Discharged into the Cihu WWTP. ---- reaches manufacturing, Zone Daily chemical manufacturing Discharged intoCihu river after treated Magang New Lower Steel, by the self-buit WWTP of Magang ---- Zone reaches ironmaking New Zone, there are 3 sewage discharge ports

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Before 2006, the main enterprises in the Xiangshan Industrial zone were Dongsheng Chemical Plant, Wensheng Chemical Plant, Yujiang Chemical Plant and Donghai High-molecular Material Factory, producing sulfuric acid and related products mainly. Due to these enterprises had no wastewater treatment facility or the existing facility was aged, the Cihu River was polluted. In 2008, the Ma’anshan Municipal Government closed down Dongsheng Chemical Plant and Donghai High-molecular Material Factory permanently, and improved Wensheng Chemical Plant and Yujiang Chemical Plant. Industrial wastewater recycling has been realized after their improvement, and these two enterprises are now operating properly. (1) Ma’anshan Donghai High-molecular Material Factory This factory was put into operation in 2006, and produces 6-nitryl-1 mainly, with a design capacity of 800t and an annual output of 600t. This plant has no wastewater treatment facility and has not realized storm-sewage separation, and its sewage outfalls have not been regulated, so this factory was closed down permanently in 2008. (2) Dongsheng Chemical Co., Ltd. This enterprise was put into operation in 1994, with a design annual capacity of 60,000t of concentrated sulfuric acid, and its actual output was 46,000t of sulfuric acid in 2007. This enterprise produces waste gas (acid mist, flying dust), noise and wastewater that affect the ambient environment greatly, and was closed down permanently in 2008. (3) Ma’anshan Wensheng Chemical Co., Ltd. This enterprise produces amino-C-acid mainly, with a design capacity of 600t/a. This enterprise has no wastewater treatment facility and has not realized storm-sewage separation, and its sewage outfalls have not been regulated. Industrial wastewater recycling has been realized after its improvement in 2008, and this enterprise is now operating properly. (4) Ma’anshan Yujiang Machinery & Chemical Co., Ltd. This enterprise was founded in 1998, and produces 800t/a of peri-acid and 300t/a of Laurent's acid. This enterprise has no wastewater treatment facility and has not realized storm-sewage separation, and its sewage outfalls have not been regulated. Industrial wastewater recycling has been realized after its improvement in 2008, and this enterprise is now operating properly.

3. Present situation of discharge ports Industrial wastewater is discharged into the Cihu River via 3 outalls, and all in Magang New Zone, as shown in Figure 4-22.

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Figure 4-12 Positions of sewage discharge ports of Magang New Zone

Currently, an online automatic wastewater monitoring system has been installed in Magang New Zone to monitor wastewater discharge and pollutant levels. It can be seen from the monitoring results (see Table 4-25) that all pollutants in wastewater from Magang New Zone meet the Class II standard of the Integrated wastewater discharge standard (GB8978-1996) after treatment.

Table 4-25 monitoring data of Sewage outfalls of Magang new zone 2012 Unit:mg/L, except the pH

Monitoring Sewage Suspended Volatile Ammonia pH Petroleum COD time outfalls matter phenol nitrogen 1# --- 101 <0.02 18 0.01 1.77 1st quarter 2# --- 22 0.04 36 <0.01 2.57 of 2012 3# --- 73 0.04 41 0.02 6.42

1# 8.15 35 0.46 92 <0.01 21.4 2nd quarter 2# 7.32 41 0.13 62 <0.01 2.65 of 2012 3# 8.01 38 0.05 69 <0.01 3.66

Standard 6-9 200 10 150 0.5 25

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4.6.3 Xiangshan Municipal Sanitary Landfill

The Xiangshan Municipal Sanitary Landfill is located on the obsolete tailings pond of the Xiangshan troilite mine, and broke ground in 1985. Its area was initially 4.3hm2 and expanded to 19hm2 in 2000. Currently, the landfill treats over 300 tons of domestic waste daily.

The leachate is derived mainly from rainfall, surface runoff, and decomposition of waste under microbiological action. Different from ordinary wastewater, waste leachate features high BOD5, COD, metal and ammonia nitrogen levels, great fluctuation of quality and amount, and disproportional biological nutrients.

In 2004, the expanded and improved Xiangshan landfill was put into operation. It has a lining system, leachate collection system and landfill gas collection system, with a design daily capacity of 400t of waste and 120t of leachate. An EIA report was prepared for this landfill in August 2004 and has been approved.

The leachate treatment facility employed “a regulating pond + a 3-stage mineralized bio-reaction bed and a biological aerated filter”, and was put into operation in 2005. Tail water is drained into branches of the upper Cihu River, and design water quality meets water pollutant discharge standard of the Pollution control standard for domestic waste landfill (GB16889-2008). However, with the increase of treatment demand, the treatment capacity of leachate treatment facility is no longer sufficient.

In 2009, the Xiangshan Landfill Domestic Waste Leachate Treatment Expansion Project was implemented in Ma’anshan Municipality, with a design capacity of 150t/d. This project was put into operation in July 2010. An EIA report was prepared for this project in January 2010 and has been approved.

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Figure 4-19 Existing leachate treatment facility of the Xiangshan landfill

According to the leachate treatment monitoring data of the Xiangshan landfill from the Ma’anshan Environmental Monitoring Station in December 2011, treated water quality meets the Pollution control standard for domestic waste landfill (GB16889-2008). See detail in table 4-26.

Table 4-26 monitoring data of the Landfill leachate treatment facilities of Xiangshan

Landfill leachate treatment facilities Landfill ground pollution control Items Inlet Outlet standards GB16889-2008 pH 7.81 7.83 6~9 Dissolved / 9.46 --- oxygen Permanganate 864 3.9 --- index COD 8.80×103 24 100 BOD 817 11.2 30 Ammonia 385 0.259 25 nitrogen Total 6.83 0.187 3 phosphorus Total nitrogen 183 35.6 40 Volatile phenol 0.1571 0.0013 --- cyanide Not detected Not detected --- arsenic 0.0234 0.00105 0.1

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Hexavalent Not detected Not detected 0.05 chromium fluoride 0.74 0.34 --- copper Not detected Not detected --- mercury Not detected Not detected 0.001 selenium Not detected Not detected --- lead 0.07 Not detected 0.1 zinc 0.31 Not detected --- cadmium 0.0084 0.00027 0.01 petroleum 0.25 Not detected --- LAS 2.6 0.326 --- Fecal coliform ≥240000 Not detected 1000 bacteria sulfide 0.017 0.011 --- Unit: mg/L except the pH

4.6.4 Other pollution sources

In addition to leachate from mines, industrial enterprises and landfills, the Cihu River is also polluted by domestic and farmland non-point pollution sources.

The main reason for domestic pollution is that the sewer network of the Cihu River basin is unsound, and domestic sewage is drained into the branch water system of the Cihu River locally, resulting in river pollution. The municipal facilities of some communities are not complete, and sewers have not been repaired timely after damage, so that community domestic sewage is drained into the branch water system, resulting in river pollution.

There is also vast farmland on both sides of the Cihu River and its branches, and non-point source pollution from pesticides and fertilizers may also pollute the Cihu River.

4.7 Water pollution management facilities in the Cihu River basin

1. Overview of sewage works in Ma’anshan Municipality According to the Urban Drainage Engineering Plan of Ma’anshan Municipality, there are 6 sewage collection systems in the urban area, which are Cihu, Wangjiashan, East New District, Shatang, North Development Zone and South Development Zone. The Cihu, Wangjiashan, Shatang, East New District and North Development Zone WWTPs have been completed. By the end of 2010, sewer lines (including storm lines) with a total length of 595km had been completed in Ma’anshan Municipality, as shown in Figure 4-18. The completed total treatment capacity of the WWTPs is 252,500 m3/d and actual treatment capacity is about

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143,000 m3/d, as shown in Table 4-27.

Table 4-27 Summary of WWTPs in Ma’anshan Municipality

Actual treatment Planned Completed Year of No. Name capacity in 2010, capacity, m3/d capacity, m3/d completion 0,000 m3 1 Cihu WWTP 80,000 20,000 2011 — 2 Wangjiashan WWTP 110,000 60,000 2007 1598 East New District 3 110,000 27,500 2011 — WWTP 4 Shatang WWTP 135,000 100,000 2004 2824 North Development 5 95,000 45,000 2006 803 Zone WWTP South Development 6 80,000 — — — Zone WWTP

2. WWTPs in the Cihu River basin The Cihu, Wangjiazhuang and East New District WWTPs have been completed in Ma’anshan Municipality, as described below:

The Cihu WWTP is located north of North Ring Road in Cihu Hi-tech Development Zone, intended to treat industrial wastewater of industrial enterprises in the development zone mainly and domestic sewage of some parts of Jinjiazhuang. An EIA report was prepared and approved for this WWTP in 2009, and this WWTP was put into operation in 2011.

The Wangjiashan WWTP is located left of the middle Cihu River, at the southeast corner of the junction of Jiangdong Avenue and Jiankang Road, serving a relatively developed area. This WWTP was put into operation in 2007.

East New District WWTP is located right of the middle Cihu River, south of Hunan East Road, east of East Ring Road and west of Huolishan Avenue, serving Xiushan New District, Huoli Sub-district and Xiangshan Town. An EIA report was prepared and approved for this WWTP in 2008, and this WWTP was put into operation in 2011.

See Table 4-28 for details.

Table 4-28 Existing WWTPs in the Cihu River basin

Item Cihu WWTP Wangjiashan WWTP East New District WWTP Cihu Hi-tech Development To Yushan Road on To Xiangshan Town on east, north Service range Zone and some parts of south, Cihuhe Road on area of University City on south,

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Jinjiazhuang east, Ningwu Railway, East Ring Road on west and Geyang Huashan Road and Road on east, including University Jiashan Road on west City, west Huashan Tourism Park and some areas of Xiangshan Town Service area (km2) 13.5 (planned) 17.9 (existing) 12 (planned) Existing served 3.80-4.40 13.90-16.10 3.70-4.10 population (0,000) Existing sewage 1.03-1.20 3.78-4.38 1.01-1.12 volume (0,000 m3/d) WWTP Planned capacity (0,000 8.0 11.0 11.0 m3/d) Completed capacity 2.0 6.0 2.75 (0,000 m3/d) Year of completion 2011 2007 2011 Actual treatment capacity 0.5-0.6 4.38 -1.0 (0,000 m3/d) Treatment standard Class I-A Class I-B Class I-A Actual water quality Meeting standard Meeting standard Meeting standard Wangbaitan water Receiving water body Jiandan River Qianjin ditch system Cihu Hi-tech Development Municipal Ma’anshan Priority Project Owner Zone Administration Office Construction Bureau Guangye Environmental Interchina Water Ma’anshan Urban Development Operator Protection Industrial Group Treatment Investment Group Municipal Municipal environmental Municipal environmental protection Supervising agency environmental protection bureau bureau protection bureau

3. Design effluent quality of WWTPs (1) Wangjiashan WWTP The design effluent quality of the Wangjiashan WWTP meets the Class I-B standard of the Pollutant Emission Standard for Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB18918-2002). Currently, this WWTP operates properly. See table 4-29. Table 4-29 Effluent quality monitoring of Wangjiashan WWTP 2011

COD(mg/L) BOD(mg/L) TN(mg/L) TP(mg/L) NH3-N(mg/L) SS(mg/L) Month Quality Standard Quality Standard Quality Standard Quality Standard Quality Standard Quality Standard 1 25.20 60 5.31 20 18.64 20 1.28 1.50 3.15 8.00 3.60 20 2 23.77 60 5.89 20 17.91 20 1.27 1.50 4.43 8.00 4.68 20 3 23.29 60 5.57 20 17.22 20 1.19 1.50 3.79 8.00 3.40 20 4 23.14 60 4.79 20 16.90 20 1.23 1.50 2.43 8.00 3.85 20 5 23.03 60 4.84 20 14.24 20 0.91 1.50 2.49 8.00 3.59 20 6 19.47 60 4.48 20 13.39 20 1.10 1.50 2.58 8.00 3.81 20 7 17.48 60 3.43 20 13.91 20 0.85 1.50 2.16 8.00 3.03 20 8 17.62 60 4.04 20 13.71 20 1.14 1.50 1.50 8.00 3.00 20 9 16.89 60 2.42 20 16.81 20 1.07 1.50 1.63 8.00 3.00 20

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10 15.22 60 3.46 20 17.15 20 1.11 1.50 1.22 8.00 3.19 20 11 18.09 60 4.01 20 17.74 20 1.09 1.50 1.21 8.00 3.48 20

According to the feasibility study report of the Ma’anshan Middle Cihu River (East Ring Road—Linli Road) Integrated Management Project, this project proposes the treatment process of ecological oxidation pond + ecological gravel bed + vertical undercurrent artificial wetland to reutilize water from the Wangjiazhuang WWTP for supply to the Cihu River. (2) Cihu WWTP The design effluent quality of the Cihu WWTP meets the Class I-A standard of the Pollutant Emission Standard for Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB18918-2002). Currently, this WWTP operates properly. See table 4-30. Table 4-30 Effluent quality monitoring of Cihu WWTP 2011

Pollutants Quality Standard Pollutants Quality Standard chromaticity COD（mg/L） <10 50 （ Dilution 2 30 multiple） Fecal coliform BOD（mg/L） 0.78 10 bacteria number <200 1000 （individual/L） Suspended 9 10 mercury（mg/L） <0.000001 0.001 matter（mg/L） Animal and plant oil <0.02 1 cadmium（mg/L） 0.00013 0.01 （mg/L） petroleum 0.57 1 chrome（mg/L） <0.00003 0.1 （mg/L） Anionic Hexavalent surfactant 0.046 0.5 <0.004 0.05 chromium（mg/L） （mg/L） Total nitrogen 1.93 15 arsenic（mg/L） 0.00046 0.1 （mg/L） Ammonia nitrogen 0.338 8 lead（mg/L） <0.001 0.1 （mg/L） Total phosphorus 0.029 0.5 （mg/L）

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Currently, this WWTP operates properly. 4. Existing problems of sewage collection systems Currently, the rainwater pipe system in the Cihu river basin is a separate system. Since the sewer network is still not complete, some sewage is still not collect and treated by WWTPs but discharged directly into the branch water system of the Cihu River, resulting in pollution:

The service range of the Cihu WWTP is a newly developed area. According to the urban development plan of Ma’anshan Municipality, sewers under urban roads will be laid along with road construction, so that some sewage is not treated by this WWTP but drained directly into the branch water system of the Cihu River, resulting in river pollution.

The service range of the Wangjiazhuang WWTP is a relatively developed area, where the drainage system is complete, but some places are still not covered by the sewer network, so that some sewage is not treated by this WWTP but drained directly into the branch water system of the Cihu River, resulting in river pollution.

The service range of the East New District WWTP is towns in the upper Cihu River and Xiushan New District, where the sewer network is under construction, so that some sewage is not treated by this WWTP but drained into branches of the Cihu River, resulting in river pollution. 5. Existing sewer network and construction plan To date, sewers with a total length of 145.6km have been laid in the Cihu River basin. It is planned to complete the whole sewer network of the Cihu River basin by 2015, with a gross investment of RMB41.9085 million, to be funded and constructed by the Ma’anshan Municipal Government. See Table 4-31.

Table 4-31 Sewer network construction plan in the Cihu River basin

Period of Investment Sewer line construction (0,000 yuan) Geyang Road (East Ring Road—Jinrui New Town) sewer line

Yushan Road (Cihuhe Road—East Ring Road West) sewer line

Huolishan Avenue (across the Cihu River) inverted siphon sewer line 2012 4190.85 Huolishan Avenue (Jiuhua Road—provincial boundary of Provincial Highway 313) DN500 pressure line Huagong Road (Tianmen Avenue—Zhaoming Road) sewer line

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Qinghe Road (Mapu Road—Hubei Road)

2012— 2015 Juyuan Road sewer line Sewer lines for Dongsan Road, Xiushan Road, Xiangxiu Road and other parts of Xiushan New District, with a total length of 10km

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Chapter V Related Management Project

The Ma’anshan Municipal Government proposed the Cihu River Basin Integrated Ecological Management Project in 2008, and issued the Notice of the Ma’anshan Municipal Government on Issuing the Integrated Ecological Management Program of the Cihu River Basin (MMG [2008] No.48), proposing the principle of “management after sewage interception and development after infrastructure construction”. 8 projects (chemical enterprise management, mining and concentrating enterprises management, acid leachate management, landfill leachate treatment facility reconstruction, centralized wastewater treatment, river management, water and soil conservation, ecological restoration, and landscaping) were to be implemented in 3 years. The short-term goal is to control pollutants effectively through the integrated management of the Cihu River basin, complete supporting infrastructure preliminarily, meet agricultural and landscaping water quality requirements, restore the storage function, and restrict the ecological deterioration trend significantly in 3 years.

So far , Municipal Government of Ma’anshan Municipality has got upstream reach of CIhu River dredged, has got chemical enterprise as well as mining mineral processing enterprise improved , and meanwhile ,has got the eastern sewage treating plant ,Cihu sewage treating plant as well as the surface water treating facilities established., As to the specific content, see 4.6, 4.7 for detailed information.

The present project being carried out is the comprehensive treatment engineering of Cihu River ‘s middle reach (Donghuan Road ~ Linli Road ) in Ma’anshan Municipality,mainly including the construction of flood preventing and drainage project, water quality improving project as well as ecological landscape engineering and so on , with the investment totaling RMB 1.254 billion Yuan , by means of BT mode construction financing. The EIA report was prepared in 2009 by Institute of Environmental Science of Ma’anshan and was approved by Environmental Protection Bureau of Ma’anshan municipality on April 20th 2009. the project was under construction, and planned to be finished at Nov. 2015. The specific contents of comprehensive treatment engineering of Cihu River ‘s middle reach (Donghuan Road ~ Linli Road ) go as follows :

5.1 Construction Standard

(1) The city flood control aspects: according to Ma’anshan Municipality Flood Control Project Report, the design is made referring to the selected flood control standard of Cihu River levee, supposing encountering the flood once in 20 years, and is reviewed according to

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the standard against flooding with recurrence of 50 years. (2) Drainage aspects: according to Ma’anshan Municipality drainage plan, the planning Cihu river pump exhaust area drainage design standard refers to municipal 1 year of flood encounter in design.

5.2 Construction content

(1) Flood Control and Drainage Project 1) Watercourse dredging It is planed to dredge the middle course (from Donghuan Road to Linli Road) of Cihu River, about 6.7km. The thickness of dredgeing is about 0.5m on average, and the quantity is about 204,000 m3 . After dredging using hydraulic method on each section, sludge pumps lift sediments to a mud pit by pipelines, then for settling and drying. There are 5 mud pits in all. 1# is used for watercourse dredgeing from Linli Road to Geyang Road, 2# from Geyang Road to Qiaoshan Road, 3# from Qiaoshan Road to Fengqiao Road, 4# from Fengqiao Road to Hunan Road, 5# from Hunan Road to Donghuan Road. The retaining walls of mud pits are made of woven bags with soil, and the insides are composite anti-seepage geomembrane. 2) Embankment Strengthening The full length of Embankment Strengthening is 13.64km, and the left embankment is 7.00km, the right 6.64km. The focuses are embankment heightening and thickening, grouting anti-seepage of dike body and embankment foundation and so on. 3) Drainage Project: it is planed to dismantle and rebuilt 6 Drainage Dumping Stations including Xiao Hezha, Fengshou, Yangqiao, Fengqiao, Xitang and Xiao Hecha. The total scope reaches 76m3/s. (2) Water quality improvement project 1) Utilization of tail water in the Wangjia Village sewage treatment plant. Current Situation: the water quality standard of Wangjia Village sewage treatment plant is first-level B. The project plans to adopt this treatment, ecological oxidation pond + ecological gravel bad + vertical-subsurface-flow artificial wetland, to treat and reuse the water of Wangjia Village sewage treatment plant, then supply to Cihu River. The water from sewage treatment plant is lifted by dump station, then flows through 1# artificial wetland around Hunan Road and 2# around Qiaoshan Road respectively, and then into Cihu River. The scope of water supply pump station is 60,000 m3/d, and the length of the water supply pipeline is 3.4kbutarym. 2) Interception in the master mouth of tributaries In order to achieve the goal of 100% interception along rivers in dry seasons, and certain initial (light) rain, this project plan to carry out tributary interception to better water quality in

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Cihu River under the guidance of experience in similar projects. The following are details.

Add a sewage dump in every drainage bump station on tributaries, and the sewage can be lifted to sewage pipe network under municipal administration. In dry season, the sewage of tributaries is intercepted to the sewage pipe network; while in rainy season, the sewage and the initial (light) rain are conveyed to sewage pipe network under municipal administration.The following Figure 5-1 is the interception scope of tributaries. Table 5-1 Summary of sewage intercepting pumping stations

Sewage drainage Capacity of sewage No. Zone Catchment area (hm2) capacity (m3/d) intercepting pump (m3/d)

1 Xiaohezha zone 2.24 3600 10000

2 Yangqiao zone 4.71 7600 23000

3 Xitang zone 2.32 3800 12000

4 Xiaohecha zone 2.36 3800 12000

5 Fengqiao zone 1.85 3000 9000

6 Fengshou zone 11.2 9000 27000

(3) Ecological landscape project It includes Cihe Pergola, Cihe Gallery, Cihe Park, Cihe Exploration, Cihe Pillow Bank, Bar Street, and Exhibition Pavilion etc. and matched installations to better landscapes along river.

5.3 Impacts of Land Acquisition and Resettlement

The requisition of land covers 1,230 mu (a unit of area ,one mu=0.0667 hectares ). The demolished houses are about 177800m2 with about 3,300 people.

According to the ‘Resettlement plan of Ma'anshan Cihu River Basin Improvement Project’ compiled by the Immigrations Center of Hehai University, the findings are as following: (1) The permanent land occupations of national-owned land are 48.59 mu, which should transfered to the construction unit for free. Thus means, the land occupation does not involve land acquisition and resettlement. (2) The newly acquisition of collectively-owned land of 475.7 mu, including agricultural land of 299.27 mu.( arable land 200.18mu.), construction land of 176.43 mu., will affect 71 households, 306 persons. The acquisition of collectively-owned land obey to the ‘Compensation and resettlement of land acquisition of Ma’anshan municipality (Ma’anshan People’s Government 43)’.

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(3) The houses demolished in the project were 183745m2, which would affect 485 households with 1896 persons. The resettlement and compensation apply property rights exchanging and monetization plus house purchasing reservations. The policy of resettlement and compensation obey to the ‘Announcement of resettlement and compensation option to the land acquisition and demolition of Cihu river management project (Huasha district)’ and ‘Resettlement and compensation option to the land acquisition and demolition of water conservancy facilities land and water surface’. (4) Demolished non-residental house were 19 companies and the Middle school 20th of Huashan district, Ma’anshan city, which do not involve commercial shops. The total demolished area was 23671.2m2. the compensation was according to the ‘Measures for the administration of urban house demolition of Ma’anshan city’, which were the monetary compensation and property rights exchanging.

5.4 Water and soil conservation plan

The report of water and soil conservation plan is finished in January, 2011, and the total investment is 8,857,900 Yuan. Figure 5-1 is the proposed measures of water and soil conservation.

Figure 5-1 System diagram of measures of water and soil conservation in middle course.

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Chapter VI Comparison of Alternatives

6.1 Analysis of With and Without Project

Currently, the project area is facing issues like low ability of flood prevention and urban drainage, serious river channel sedimentation, etc. The frequent occurrence of flood disasters has brought great negative impacts on the stability of local residents. This project will establish a complete system of flood prevention and urban drainage for the project area. However, the construction of the project may bring some adverse effects like occupation of land, resettlement, contamination during construction period, etc.

From the perspective of environmental profit and loss as well as social economy, to compare and analyze the alternatives of with and without project, see Table 6-1 for details. Table 6-1 Zero Option Comparison Analysis Description With project Without project Advantages ①The ability of flood prevention and water logging Maintain the current control is improved, and the average flood control environment situation, no benefits of several years in the project area are RMB environmental contaminations 75.42 million Yuan; produced from project ② Promote the development of regional social construction. economy; ③ Improve the situation of ecological environment and investment environment; ④ Promote harmonious development between people and environment. Disadvantage ①Occupation of land resources; Frequent Water logging situation s ②Short-term adverse effects on the environment is not improved, bringing huge caused by project construction and migrant losses of social economy; resettlement. Overall From social and environmental perspectives, the alternative of with project is better than analysis the alternative of without project.

According to Table 6-1, though without project alternative has no impacts on the environment, residents of the project area still suffer from flood disaster, and water pollution still increases, influencing life quality of residents and economic development; with project alternative may bring some adversde environmental impacts, but they can be avoided and reduced through relevant environmental mitigation measures. Besides, the environmental contamination of the construction period is temporary, while the social and environmental benefits of the project is permanent. Therefore, from the social and environmental perspective, with project alternative is better than without project alternative, and the project construction is necessary.

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6.2 Analysis of Different Technical Options

6.2.1 Comparison of revetment option Taking the revetment way of Cihu River upstream as an example, the assessment compared and analyzed the two ways of mortar rubble revetment and ecological revetment. 1. Option I (mortar rubble revetment) The option mainly aims at bank stabilization and rapid discharge. The river channel will use trapezoidal cross-section; the two sides of the stream channel cross-section will use mortar rubble revetment; riverbed bottom will use permeable lining, to which rock block (50cm in thickness) will be thrown after excavation, covered with geogrid and then 30cm –thickness rubble in upper position, to maintain the hydraulic connection between the river and the underground water outside the river channel. 2. Option II (natural revetment) This option mainly aims at bank stabilization as well as flood detention and drought release.

The river channel will use compound cross-section combining the main channel with the beach. Build beaches on both sides of the main channel, and build wetland or conduct greening in the beaches; Natural revetment is used to protect the riverbanks and ecological environment by solid fixation plants with developed roots. 3. Option Comparison Option I: In option I, the cross-section is simple, stable and scour resisting with low land occupation. The upstream area may not easily suffer from water logging due to the rapid discharge, but the downstream consequently bears great discharge pressure. The option uses mortar rubble as materials, cutting off the ecological exchanges between land and water. Riparian plants can hardly grow, damaging the biologic chain in the river and influencing the self-purification ability of the river channel. After management, the river loses the functions of ecological corridor, not in harmony with the surroundings. Option II: Compared with Option I, Option II has larger land occupation and investment. However, this option boasts good effects in flood control, eco-environmental protection, self-purification of water and so on, specifically introduced as follows: (1) Flood prevention effects The plants of the ecological revetment can be used to regulate the conditions of surface and underground water, which will make some changes in the water cycle channels. When flood comes, water will penetrate into the dyke and be stored through the plants on the surface of the revetment, which can weaken the flood peak, delaying the runoff. When drought season comes, the water stored in the dyke will in turn penetrate into the river, playing a positive role

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in adjusting the water volume. Meanwhile, the ecological revetment uses large amount of soil fixation plants with developed roots, which has good effects in water and soil conservation, strengthening the anti-scouring effects of the revetment. (2) Ecological effects Ecological revetment can combine the water and river channel with the dikes and riverside plants, forming a complete river ecological system. Plants on the revetment can change the current speed, which will bring places of foraging, habitat and refuge for aquatic animals and amphibians, and will thus have positive impacts on maintaining biodiversity. This option can also provide rest and entertainment sites for people, improving the overall taste of the city. (3) Self-purification effect The water plant of the ecological revetment can absorb inorganic salts nutrients from the water. The developed roots are also medium for microorganism to adsorb, which will promote the process of water purification and thus improve the water quality.

All in all, although Option II has larger land occupation and investment compared with Option I, it has obvious advantages in flood control, eco-environment protection and even the value of the surrounding land. Therefore, we recommend Option II. 6.2.2 Comparison of dredging option The upstream of Cihu river was dredged with hydraulic way in 2009. Based on the local circumstance and the upstream dredging experience, this project plans to apply hydraulic dredging on the downstream and cofferdam dredging on the branches. See the detailed comparison in table 6-2. Table 6-2 comparison of dredging options

Items Cofferdam dredging Hydraulic dredging Cofferdam the river channel during dry Mix the water and sediments by season. The dried sediments would be mechanical agitation. Transit the dredged Engineering digging out with excavator, transited to sediments to the yard through mud the dump truck and transported to the pumping system designated place Suitable to the rivers which are narrow or Suitable to the rivers with perennial Requirement no or little water during dry season. water Pile along the river on the bank, small Large land occupy, need to setup special Land occupy land occupy yard Environmental Small land occupy and vegetation Large land occupy and vegetation impacts damage. damage.

Based on the table 6-2, the cofferdam dredging will occupy less land and affect less on the environment. However, due to the restrict of engineering requirement, it is difficult to apply cofferdam dredging on the downstream of Cihu river, where the water level is around 4-5m.

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So this project plans to apply hydraulic dredging on the downstream and cofferdam dredging on the branches. And the applied options are reliable. 6.2.3 Sediment disposal option analysis Considering the features of the dredged sediments, different option of sediment disposal are analyzed. 1. Option 1（used on farmland） Applying thel dredged sediment as organic fertilizer on the farmland, to improve the soil condition, had been adopted in many counties and regions. Using the dredged sediment will add some heavy metal elements into soil, as well as the crops. However, the sediment which reached the standard could be useed to planting crops. The monitored indices of the sediment in this project reach Class II level of Soil environment quality standard (GB15618-1995) and limit of maximum permissible content in the pollutant control standards of sludge for agricultural application(GB4284-84). It means the sediment could be useed in the farmland, after strictly monitoring and inspection. See detailed in table 6-3.

However, the residents and farmers are worrying that the application of sediments on farmland would affect to the crop quality and production. So, they do not support the application of the sediments in farmland. Table 6-3 Comparison between sediment quality and agricultural sludge control standards The pollutant control standards of Monitoring item Monitoring results agricultural sludge Mercury（mg/kg） 0.469 ≤15

Arsenic（mg/kg） 16.8 ≤75

Copper（mg/kg） 32.7 ≤500

Lead（mg/kg） Not detected ≤1000

Cadmium（mg/kg） Not detected ≤20

Hexavalent chromium（mg/kg） Not detected ----

2. Option 2 (use in landscaping) The monitored indices of the sediment reach Class II of Soil environment quality standard (GB15618-1995) and the Urban Sewage Sludge Disposal - Landscaping Quality (J248-2007), see table 6-4.

This project will landscape the ecological revetment on Cihu river and branches within blue

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lines, where 25m width dike on both sides of Lijianwan river and 3m width dike on both sides of all branches would be vegetated. The ecological revetment and greening may needs fertile soil. So, the sediment could be used for the ecological landscaping.

However, the landscaping and greening using sediments could risk the people’s health, by pathogens, germs and odors. In the public consultation, local residents were also against the utilization of sediments on landscaping and greening. Table 6-4 Comparison between sediment and landscaping sludge control standards The pollutant control standards of Monitoring item Monitoring results agricultural sludge Mercury（mg/kg） 0.469 <15

Arsenic（mg/kg） 16.8 <75

Copper（mg/kg） 32.7 <1500

Lead（mg/kg） Not detected <1000

Cadmium（mg/kg） Not detected <20

Hexavalent chromium（mg/kg） Not detected <1000

3. Option 3 (Cover soil of Xiangshan landfill) Xiangshan landfill is located in the Tao village of Xiangshan county (upstream of Cihu river), 14 km to downtown, with a total capacity of 2.93 million m3, design capacity is 400 t/d. And at present, this landfill treat domestic garbage 300 t daily. The pollutants in dredged sediments meet the standards of landfill cover soil in ‘Urban sewage sludge disposal - Mixed landfill quality (CJ/T 249)’. The sediments could transport to the Xiangshan landfill site to be used as the cover soil. See detailed in table 6-5. Table 6-5 Comparison between sediment and covering soil of landfill control standards The pollutant control standards of Monitoring item Monitoring results covering soil of landfill Mercury（mg/kg） 0.469 <25

Arsenic（mg/kg） 16.8 <75

Copper（mg/kg） 32.7 <1500

Lead（mg/kg） Not detected <1000

Cadmium（mg/kg） Not detected <20

Hexavalent chromium（mg/kg） Not detected <1000

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4. Analysis of option comparison Based on the analysis of sediments monitoring results, the dredged sediments could be used on farmland, landscaping and as cover soil in landfill. However, during the public consultation, local residents are worrying about the impacts on human health of the sediments usage on farmland and landscaping. The local residents do not agree with the option 1 and 2. And the risks to health and environment are low and the techniques are reliable of option 3 in the public’s opinions.

So to sum up, the option 3 is recommended in this project to use the sediments as cover soil of landfill.

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Chapter VII Environment Impacts Analysis and Mitigation Measures

In construction period, fugitive dust, odour, noises, sewage, and sediments influence the surroundings and ecological environment; In operation period, noises of drainage pumping stations influence the surrounding sound environment.

7.1 Environment Impacts Analysis and Mitigation Measures

7.1.1 Ambient Air

1. Analysis of the Ambient Air Impact: In construction period, the pollution elements include odour, fugitive dust in construction and a small amount of waste gas in construction. (1) Analysis of odour pollution The odour appears in the process of watercourse dredgeing. In the watercourse, when the organics elements in sediments is disturbed or lies on the ground, the odour (mainly ammonia and hydrogen sulfide) will release in amorphous state and have a negative effect on the surroundings. In addition, the transportation of sediment from the watercourse can produce odour.

According to features of this project and surroundings, this estimation refers to the secondary standard of Emission Standards for Odor Pollutants (GB14554-93). 1) Classification of odour intensity grades The classification of odour intensity grades is based on the detection threshold. Nowadays, odour intensity is divided into 6 levels in China. See Table 6-1. The restriction generally equals to odour intensity levels 2.5~3.5. If beyond the range, it is considered that odour pollution has occurred, which requires to take mitigation measures. Table 7-1 Classification of odour intensity Classification of intensity Odour smelling intensity 0 Odour free 1 The odor could be smelt barely. (Detect threshold concentration) The property of weaker gas can be determined (make sure the 2 threshold concentration ) 3 The odour could be smelt easily. 4 The odour could be smelt quite easily. 5 Intense smell

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This evaluation adopts analogy method, analyzing and determining the intensity level of odour pollution. Refer to Mudanjiang Nanbaozi Dredging Project. The survey of its odour level sees Table 6-2. Table 7-2 Odour Intensity Chart of Mudanjiang Nanbaozi Dredging Project Distance Odour smelling intensity Level Shore With obvious odour Level 3 Bank side 30m Slightly Level 2 Bank side 80m Very slightly Level 1 Beyond 100m None - Level 0

Nanbaozi is situated in the southeast of Mudanjiang Municipality. It is the river channel that discharges and contains contaminants. Because of wantonly emission of domestic sewage, the water quality has been deteriorated severely. Now it failed to meet the Class V water quality standard. The river channel is cleared with dry method in summer. From Table 6-2, it could be seen that beyond 30m of the watercourse, there is slight odour during dredging, and the odour intensity of which is about level 2, lower than the restriction of odour intensity; beyond 50m, odour could be smelt rarely. During dry season, the project will adopt wet method to dredge the river. Then the sphere and intensity of influence of the sediment would be lower than that of the sediment of Nanbaozi Dredging Project. Therefore, the influence sphere from the storage yard of sediment is within 30m. (2) Analysis of fugitive dust pollution During the construction, fugitive dust, inevitably produced in earth-rock excavation and back-filling and delivering, loading and unloading of building materials, brings some bad effects to air environment. Especially dust produced in dreg stacking when it is windy and dry, in truck loading, and littered materials from running vehicles will cause secondary fugitive dust under the combined influence of wind and running wheels. Therefore, fugitive dust pollution in the construction process affects not only areas in this project, but also those along surrounding roads.

Fugitive dust in the construction is closely related to construction management, the climate within construction period and especially the speed of wind. Table 6-3 provides a list of measured data about dust in different construction sites from Shijiazhuang Environmental Monitoring Center.

Table 7-3 Results of dust monitoring in construction sites in Shijiazhuang Municipality Unit: mg/m3

Distance from the 10 20 30 40 50 100 Remark plant (m)

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No watering on the 1.75 1.30 0.78 0.365 0.345 0.330 construction site. Spring Watering on the measurement 0.437 0.350 0.310 0.265 0.250 0.238 construction site.

As Table 6-3 shows , if the site isn’t watered , the construction fugitive dust, 30 meters away from the construction site, can reach the requirement of the Integrated Emission Standard of Air Pollutants （GB16297-1996 ）; with the site watering , the construction fugitive dust, 10 meters away from the construction site, may reach 0.437mg/m 3, which may meet the requirement of the Integrated Emission Standard of Air Pollutants. (3) Analysis of waste gas pollution Waste gas, which is mainly caused by the fuel burning of construction machinery and transport vehicles, includes smoke, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and other pollutants. The transport vehicles discharge the most waste gas, which occurs mainly on the road. It is the line source. Since the construction equipments or the transport vehicles are mostly large machinery, the single emission coefficient is large. However, the construction equipments are less and dispersed, so the pollution intensity is comparatively slight and the exhaust gas would not cause obvious effect on the air quality in the surroundings.

2. Mitigation measures for ambient atmosphere To protect the air quality in the surroundings, the project should take the following measures. See Table 7-4. Table 7-4 Table of mitigaiton measures for ambient atmosphere

Bucket Name Security measures Dredging project should not be constructed in summer; meanwhile, the operating sphere of the storage yard of dredged materials should be Odour controlled .And the distance from the yard to the residential buildings should be more than 30m. Materials that are easy to produce dust shall be Pollution Construction humidified or shielded with tarpaulin from wind in sources period temporary storage. control Watering over dust points and roads 4-5 times at Construction regular time every day. fugitive dust Earthwork should stop in the windy days of larger than Level 4 winds Strengthen the management of transport vehicles; in the process of transportation, the materials should be sealed with tarpaulin.

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Machines and vehicles should be chosen according Mechanical to the National health protection standard, to waste gas guarantee the tail gas and smoke to meet emission standards.

Other Use commercial concrete

Construction site near sensitive points shall set Protection of sensitive places enclosure.

7.1.2 Surface-water environment

1. Environmental impact of the project construction on surface water Sand gravels used in this project are purchased with no need for washing in construction site, and only some simple mechanical maintenance will be done on the construction site without cleaning. Therefore, the wastewater comes from the supernatent of the sediments yard and the domestic sewage of the construction workers. (1) Supernatent of sediments yard The main pollutant in the supernatent is SS. SS can be removed through the physical precipitation. However, as the reduction of water depth in the sediment yard, the precipitation time of the muddy water would be shortened. To avoid the secondary suspension of the SS in supernatent, before discharging into Cihu river, the supernatent should be settled in a settling tank. The suspended matter concentration in the supernatent of sediments yard is a simulated result (See table 7-5). The suspended matter concentration reduced as the precipitation time increased, after 48 hours, the suspended matter concentration could meet the Class II of the Integrated wastewater discharge standard. Table 7-5 Pollutants in supernatent of sediments (simulation results) Units: mg/L

Condition SS

Sedimentation for 1h 932 Supernatent of sediments of Daguan river Sedimentation for 48h 71 mouse Background 86

Sedimentation for 1h 1013 Supernatent of sediments of Yunliang river Sedimentation for 48h 83 mouse Background 68

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and night soil sewage, which contain mainly fats and vegetable oils, waste food, detergent and etc. The major pollutants in domestic sewage are COD, BOD5, SS, ammonia and nitrogen.

According to the analogy survey, the water quality is COD300mg/L，BOD5150mg/L， SS150mg/L. The constructors could use the living infrastructure of the nearby villages, which may have minor influences on the surrounding waters. 2. Mitigation measures of surface-water environment The mitigation measures of surface-water environment see Table 7-6. Table 7-6 Table of mitigation measures of surface-water environment

Pollution sources Mitigation measures Supernatent of Setup Sedimentation tank, discharge into Cihu river after sediments yard sedimentation. Domestic sewage of The constructors could use the living infrastructure of the constructors nearby villages. Apply advance equipments to control strictly water leakage of the construction machinery. Apply Cotton, wood chip, oil absorption to absorb the machinery leakage.; Construction Establishing equipment maintenance, maintenance records, period conduct regular maintenance according to the operation of Others equipment; Repair construction machinery only in nearby factory, only consider the replacement of mechanical parts on construction site Construction material yard should be far away from surface water bodies, and avoid to set in soil erosion sensitivity area

7.1.3 Noise environment

1 Analysis of construction noise environment influences (1) Serious noise source The noisy equipment during construction is mainly from the dredging equipment and construction machinery and the vehicles that transport construction materials. The major machinery and transport vehicles are: excavators, bulldozers, sludge pumps and trucks, etc. According to the analogy survey and the data analysis, the level of noises caused by the machinery See Table 7-7. Table 7-7 Table of level of noises caused by construction machinery Serial No. Types of machinery and vehicles Test location (m) Noise value [dB（A）] 1 Bulldozer 1 92 2 Excavator 1 92

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3 Truck 1 90 4 Sludge pump 1 95

(2) Forecast Calculation This assessment adopts the model of point-source attenuation, predicting the geometric divergence attenuation from noise source to the receipt point, without considering the noise barrier and air absorption. The forecast formula is as the follows:

Lr=Lr0-20lg(r/r0)

In the formula: Lr----A sound pressure level from noise source r, dB(A)；

Lr0-----A sound pressure level from noise source, dB(A)；

r,r0-----Distance between the forecast point and the noise source，m，=1m.

According to the characteristics of the project construction, without considering the noise attenuation caused by barriers, plants and air, the decay of construction equipments with the change of distance see Table 7-8. Table 7-8 Influence range of major construction machinery noises Unit: dB（A） Noise level of forecast points of different distances Sourse strength dB Equipment from the noise source （A） 20m 40m 60m Bulldozer 92 66.0 60.0 56.4 Excavator 92 66.0 60.0 56.4 Truck 90 64.0 58.0 54.4 Sludge pump 95 69.0 63.0 59.4

Because there are some sensitive points such as residential buildings and schools along the river channel to be dredged in the project, construction is forbidden at night (22：00~6：00）. It could be seen from Table 6-7 that noises of the sludge pump at about 20m away from the construction site can reach level-4 in the day, and level-2 at about 60m. So, the sludge pump should be set 60m away from the residential buildings. Noises of the other construction machinery at about 20m away from the construction site can reach level-4 in the day, and level-2 at about 40m. (3) Forecast of construction noises at the sensitive sites According to the survey, both sides of Wangbaitan river system Yangqiaogou, Xitang river system and south ditch of Fengshou have been embanked. This project only dredges the above 4 river systems, with the method of hydraulic dredging. The major noise source is the sludge pump, which should be at least 60m away from the residential areas.

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other equipments work, the noises 40m away could reach the Class II of Environmental Quality Standard for Noise （GB3096-2008）, so the impact sphere of construction noise is 40m. This report gives forecast of the noise value at the sensitive points of noise environment in the assessment ranges, and the results are shown in Table 7-9. The noise was 61.3~92.0 dB(A) within 40m along the river which exceed the Class II of Environmental Quality Standard for Noise (GB3096-2008). So the temporary barrier should be set for the residential area and schools within 40m of the construction sites along the river, so as to reduce the influences of construction noise on the normal life of the residents and the teachers and students. Table 7-9 Predicted Value of Construction Noise at Sensitive Sites The minimum Name of distance from Contribution value of River channel Scale sensitive sites the river the noises dB (A) channel Anhui 4,000 teachers University of Adjacency 92 and students Technology Upstream of Cihu Zhongxi team River and Xiaxi team 13m 15 persons 69.8 of Fengzhuang village Shuguang No. 1 Downstream of 90 persons village 7-8m 75.0 Cihu River Cihu community 90 persons Tributaries in the river system Tangchalou Nantang River Adjacency 30 persons 92 village Tributary and Under main streams of Dongfang Cheng Adjacency 92 construction Xiaohecha Qiaoshan Anzhi Under Qiaoshan Gou 10m 72.0 community construction Wudan Gang Shiqiao village 34m 3 persons 61.3 Xigou Shanghu Anzhi Under Shanghu River 15m 68.4 community construction

2. Analysis of Operation Noise Impact of the Pumping Station In the operating process of the drainage pump station, the noises are mainly from the rotation of the pump motor. The noise intensity of single pump unit is about 75-85dB (A). The project is going to dismantle and reconstruct five pump stations along the down stream of Cihu River.

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The conditions of each station see Table 6-9. Table 7-10 Design Parameters of Draining Pump Station Design flow Single-machine Functional area Serial No. Name Quantity (m3/s) Power kw of the noises Tongyi (II) pump Class 3 1 6.3 3 250 station Pump Station of Class 3 2 Sulfuric Acid 5.7 3 180 Plant Zhaoming Pump Class 3 3 6.9 3 250 Station Xiaonanxu Pump Class 3 4 4.2 2 250 Station Tailai Pump Class 3 5 5.2 3 180 Station

The project plans to set up the pumps in the pump room and use base countion, flexible connection at the inlets and outlets, conduct regular equipment lubrication and construct green belt surrounding the pump stations, with grass as the major, with tall arbores and low shrubs as the auxiliary. After noise reduction, the noise from pumping stations to the boundary could meet the Class III of Industrial Enterprise Emission of Noise on Factory Boundary (GB12348-2008). Based on survey, there is no sensitive receptor such as residential area and school within 50m of the pump stations. 76m northeast of Tongyi (II) pump station is Cihu town; to the west it is next to the new district of Ma’anshan Iron and Steel Company; to the east there is a fish pond, the Nantang river system and the vegetable market; to the north there is a salvage station. Tailai Pump Station is surrounded by the ponds, the farmlands and enterprises. 200m around the Pump Station of Sulfuric Acid Plant is the vacant land .To the east of Zhaoming Pump Station is a factory; 52m to the south is the road; to the west is Cihu River and to the north is the vacant land. Xiaonanxu Pump Station is close to Dianye Road at the north, Cihu River at the west, and farmlands at the other sides.

To sum up, with the measures of wall isolation and planting taken in the drainage pump stations, the influences on the surroundings are reduced to an acceptable level. 3. Acoustic environment mitigation measures To ensure the acoustic environment quality of the surroundings, the project should take the following measures to protect acoustic environment. See Table 6-11. Table 7-11 Acoustic Environment Mitigation Measures

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All construction units should arrange the construction period reasonably, register the applications well and take

necessary measures to reduce and prevent noises.

Be strict in the management of construction intensity, machinery as well as vehicle operators and operating procedures. When it is necessary, the transport vehicles

could be installed with noise-abatement equipment; Pollution source control In the process of construction, it is better to choose low-noise equipment, maintain carefully the machinery equipments, keep good working conditions and reduce the

operation noises of the equipments; Lay out construction site rationally and scientifically and concentrate the fixed noise sources to reduce the impacts

on environment. Fixed machinery equipment could be installed in temporary rooms at the construction sites.

Construction Protection of Operating personnel on the sites with high noise machinery period constructors should be equipped with necessary noise protective articles. They should not work over 6 hours a day.

Construction time should be arranged reasonably when the construction is near the sensitive sites. It is necessary to avoid the rest time of the residents and stop working from

22:00 till 6:00 the next morning. When passing the residential areas, the transport vehicles should be driven at limited speed and the high tone loudspeaker is forbidden; transport time should be Protection of sensitive reasonably arranged in order to avoid disturbing the rest of places residents with the vehicle noises. During the construction of the project, the sludge pumpshould be considered to be 60m away from the residents. The sensitive sites of residential areas and schools within 40m along the river should be temporarily blocked so as to reduce the influences of the construction noises on the normal life of the surrounding residents and the teachers and students. The draining pump station should be equipped with low noise pump unit. Vibration damper should be installed at Operation duration the base of the pump; Strengthen the maintenance and reservation of the water pump equipment to avoid abnormal operating conditions.

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7.1.4 Solid Waste

The solid wastes of the construction mainly come from the dredged sediments, domestic garbage of the workers and the construction waste. 1. Dredged sediments (1) Analysis of pollution levels This project will carry out dredging with hydraulic way in the downstream of Cihu, which amounts to 77,000m3. This project will also carry out dredging with cofferdam method in its branches, which amounts to 95,000 m3. Comparing to the Class II of Soil environment quality standard (GB15618-1995), all monitored sediments reaches the standards, will lead no harm to the plants and environment. (2) Sediments management option Four sediments yards will be setup. According to the option comparison in chapter VI, the pollutants in dredged sediments meet the standards of landfill cover soil in ‘Urban sewage sludge disposal - Mixed landfill quality(CJ/T 249)’. The sediments will transport to the Xiangshan landfill siteto be used as the cover soil. (3) Requirements of setting up sediment yard and transportation: The environmental impact of sediment stockpiling include: the odor to the atmospheric environement, the supernatant from the sediment yard supernatent to the surface water, to the landscape viewing. In order to reduce the negative impacts: ① Sediment yard should be set outside the urban area, away from residential area, at least 30m away, so as to reduce the influences of odor on the sensitive sites of the surroundings; ② The sediment yard should be set up near the dredging area of the river channel, laying out along the river channel, which can avoid the long distance transportation. ③ The yard should use bare land, avoiding to occupying farmland; ④ According to the design documents, a 25m buffer distance in Cihu river downstream is the land acquisition area of the project. After construction, the original landscapes should be restored and the sediment yard should be planted. The yard should be set up within the blueline of land acquisition to avoid the extra land occupation. ⑤It is suggested to set dam around the sediments yard and landscape greening after construction is finished, to avoid surface drying and dust in windy day, and to recover the vegetation and ecosystem. ⑥ Set sedimentation tank, discharging supernatant in the sediment yard into Cihu river after sedimentation.

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⑦ The transportation vehicle should select tankers to avoid scattered and reeking. ⑧ The transportation route should be carefullt selected to avoid residential area. 2. Construction Waste The waste slag are mainly the construction waste from the demolition and reconstruction of the 5 pumping stations, where the estimated area of demolition is 1000 m2, the waste slag index from demolition area is 1350kg/m2, so the estimated construction waste is 1350t totally. The waste will be transported to the third construction waste disposal field, which located in the upstream basin of Cihu river, 12 km away from downstream. 3. Domestic Garbage in the Construction Area It is predicated the domestic garbage produced during the construction is 531t. It must be collected on the construction site and transported out for disposal by the sanitation department. Properly treated, it will not have any obvious adverseimpacts on the environment.

7.1.5 Ecological Environment

1. Impact on Terrestrial Ecosystem (1) Vegetation Based on site survey of the occupied area of the project, there is no rare endangered plant under special protection at state level. The vegetation forms along the rivers are mainly farmland, wood land, which are the common species of the local area.

The project construction will affect the vegetation along the project, among which channel widening, temporary soil storage area and operation road will do the most serious damages. Though the project is with large construction work, everywhere it passes through is cultivated early, therefore the artificial disturbance rate is high, and most areas are covered by agricultural vegetation, which is scattered averagely.

The new permanently occupied land of the project will remove the surface vegetation in the area, which could not be restored during the period of operation. But the project will adopt ecological embankment, landscaping in the area of occupied land, which could compensate for the original vegetation coverage rate to some extent. (2) Animals; Based on survey, the project is surrounded mainly by residential area, farmland and industry area. The major animals along the river are common species and no rare and endangered animals are found.

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in escape of the animals to other places. Meanwhile, since the foods are becoming richer by the settlement of the workers, the mice in the surrounding areas will increase and the density will also increase. During the implementation, both sides of the river are ecologically greened, restoring the original vegetation to great extent, which is favorable for the survival and reproduction of birds and small mammals in the bush.

To sum up, the project construction will not cause serious impacts on the survival and reproduction of the plants and animals around and will not change the animal and plant communities within the assessed area.

2. Impact on Aquatic Ecosystem The aim of dredging of the river channel is mainly to increase the sectional area of the canal for flooding discharge. Based on the actual situations of the river, the average dredging depth of the downstream of Cihu River is about 0.5m, and that of the branches is about 0.3m. Dredging of the river will destroy the living environment of the aquatic organism to great extent. A substantial part of the phytoplanktons will be removed and the survivals of the zooplanktons are threatened because of the destruction of their living environment, some even die. Most of the benthic species will be removed by the dredging of the sediments.

The phytoplanktons and zooplanktons in Cihu River and its branches are common species, which are mainly caused by the rich nutrition in the river and whose survival will threaten the improvement of the water quality. Therefore, through dredging the river channel, the zooplankton and phytoplankton could be removed, which could effectively ensure the improvement of the water quality of the rivers.

3. Influences on the Scenery The scenery types of the project evaluation area are farmland, forest land, rivers and unused land. In the process of construction, for the storage of materials and sediments, it is unavoidable to cause adverse impacts on the natural scenery along the river and destroy the harmony of the scenery; after construction, vegetation of the temporarily occupied land will be restored, among which the temporarily occupied farmland is restored to farmland, and the other lands are to be planted. Moreover, ecological embankment will be implemented along Cihu River and its branches, which could restore the original scenery to some extent and make the project in harmony with the surrounding terrain, landscapes and natural scenery.

4. Influence Analysis of Soil and Water Losses According to Anhui the Twelfth Program of Water and Soil Conservation, the main erosion type in Anhui province is water erosion, with the water and soil loss area of 18,800km2, and the average erosion modulus in hilly areas is 1,700t (km2.a) and that in plain area is 700t （km2.a）. Based on the partition of water and soil conservation, Ma’anshan Municipality is

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not included in the key prevention regions. It belongs to the type of Wanjiang plain area water and soil losses region, with the loss area of 81.2 km2. This project mainly includes the widening and dredging of the river channel, the reinforcement of the embankment and the construction of the pump station. The construction may destroy the soil and the original soil vegetation, causing the destruction or reduction of the functions of the original soil and water conservation facilities. The original strengthening ability and resistance to erosion would be reduced, which may result in new soil and water losses. During the project construction, if effective comprehensive prevention measures are not taken, not only the progress of works would be affected but also the erosion of the soils in the project areas would be aggravated, which may result in soil and water losses. Therefore, strict environmental protection measures should be taken to control soil and water losses effectively: (1) It is better to construct during dry seasons. (2) With the aim of restoring the original surface productivity, topsoil stripping must be removed before the project construction. The stripping thickness is 0.3m.Conduct land recvlamation at the end of construction and refills the temporarily stockpiled topsoil with 30cm thickness for vegetation recovery. (3)During construction, balance of earth work should be done well. The excavated earth is better to be used for flattening and refilling the construction site. (4) It is suggested to set dam around the sediments yard and landscape greening after construction finished, to avoid surface drying and dust in windy day, and to recover the vegetation and ecosystem. (5)The project construction should be carried out in stages. Mitigation measures should be taken for the exposed surface excavated, trying to minimize the exposing time and reducing the soil and water losses.

7.1.6 Social Environment

1. Influences on the Traffic along the river During construction, material transport vehicles will increase the traffic volume of the roads along the rivere, which is easy to cause traffic congestion and brings inconvenience to the passing vehicles; moreover, heavy vehicles may cause certain damages to the roads. Passing in and out of the construction vehicles and the occupation of the roads will inevitably cause traffic isolation, which will bring adverse influences to the residents along the river. Therefore, the contractors should strengthen management to minimize the influences on the local traffic along the river. (1) The proposed construction should be constructed section by section so as to reduce the influences on the traffic in the travel areas of the residents.

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(2) The construction machinery and routes of construction transportation vehicles should be under unified arrangement and related restriction rules should be issued to ensure the traffic of residents. (3) The access road for transportation should be reinforced before construction, or shortcut should be built to connect with the original road. Repair severe damages to the road during construction immediately, or give the reparations to local highway management department for the repairing of the road. 2. Analysis of the Influences of the Land Occupation This project doesn’t involve house demolition and relocation. The main impacts of are the acquisition of collectively-owned and national-owned land. The total land acquisition is 1788.89 mu. The land occupation will affect the residents’ life and the economic development. According to Measures for Land Expropriation Compensation and Resettlement in Ma’anshan Municipality, compensation will be made to the affected persons. 3. Analysis of the Influences on Cultural Relics Based on the survey and the opinion from Ma’anshan culture committee, no ground relic is discovered in the construction area. Strengthening the propaganda in the process of construction to improve workers’ consciousness of cultural relics protection. Construction unit and supervision units shall stop working immediately when any cultural relics are found and shall report this to cultural departments promptly, then resume the work after geting the permit from cultural department.

7.2 Regional Cumulative Impact Analysis

1. Management Present Situation of Cihu River Basin In 2008, Government of Ma’anshan Municipality raised the ecological environment comprehensive renovation construction of Cihu River Basin , and issue the document “the People's Government of Ma’anshan Municipality’s Notice Related to Issuing Cihu River Basin Ecological Environment Comprehensive Renovation Plan”(MZ[2008] No. 48 document) Comprehensive renovation plan suggests to carry out the following eight projects for the comprehensive improvement of the ecological environment of this river basin for the next three years: (chemical enterprise renovation; mining & mineral processing enterprise renovation; acidic water seepage control; dump leachate treatment facilities reconstruction; sewage concentrated treatment; river regulation; soil and water conservation and ecological restoration; greening and landscape engineering)See Table 7-12 for renovation project implementation progress

Table 7-12: Progress Table for the Ecological Environment Comprehensive Improvement Construction of Cihu River Basin

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Project Project Serial No. Main content name process

1. Renovation of Dongsheng Chemical within a definite time. Instruct this enterprise to reach wastewater discharge standards and meet the following requirements within three months of renovation period: collect and dispose initial rainwater and separate it from wastewater; improve the management of Already accident emergency lagoon; formulate accident emergency completed plan; improve drainage facility and standardize drain outlet Chemical and set up signs. Those who fail to pass the acceptance enterprise inspection of environmental protection departments shall be 1 renovation shut down by law. project 2 Donghai Chemical, Wensheng Chemical and Yujiang Chemical will be shut down for renovation. Get wastewater discharge up to standard within a definite time and try to meet the following requirements: separate rainwater from Already wastewater; renovate drainage facilities, standardize drain completed outlet and set up signs. Those who fail to pass the acceptance inspection of environmental protection departments shall be shut down by law. 1 Cramp down on illegal mining & mineral processing and shut down the mining & mineral processing enterprises not meeting the requirements for safety, environmental protection, Already mineral resources and ecological greening. Any mining & completed mineral processing enterprises discharging pollutants into Cihu Mining & River shall be shut down for renovation immediately. mineral 2. Formulate integration program for small mineral processing 2 processing Already enterprise and construction option for concentrated tailing enterprise completed pond renovation 3 Strengthen the management of spoibank and ban the Already contracts for selling soil of spoibank completed 4 Investigate the overload of mine-car by law and forbid Already raising any dusts so that they may get into Cihu River as a completed form of pollutants. 1. Xianshan tailings pond acid leachate treatment project. Set an upright intercepting flood ditch around the pond to intercept Acid the water catchment from the surrounding mountains and Already leachate discharge water effectively from reservoir through level completed 3 treatment drainage hole to sewage plant for treatment at the foot of the project dam to ensure the standard water discharge. 2. Xiangshan tailings pond acid leachate treatment project Already Set treatment facility at the food of the dam to treat the completed

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intercepted acidic water and eliminate acid water pollution.

3 Acid water control project at spoibank of Nanshan Mine. Already Intercept, collect and dispose spoibank acid water to eliminate completed acid water pollution Refuse dump leachate Reconstruct treatment facility for household garbage dump Already 4 treatment leachate by new standards to achieve a stable and standard completed facilities discharge of leachate. reconstructi on project 1. Build eastern sewage treatment plant (55,000 ton per day) Sewage and supporting network engineering, as well as several small treatment sewage treatment facilities according to local conditions. plant has been Collect and dispose domestic sewage from Xiangshan Town built and and Nanshan Mine and sewage produced by New Eastern sewer network District and Huashan Business Tourism Park to weaken is under pollution burden and achieve standard discharge. construction. Sewage Sewage concentrated 2 Sewage treatment plant (50,000 ton per day) and supporting 5 treatment treatment network projects in Cihu Development Zone. Concentrate and plant has been project dispose industrial and domestic sewage from Cihu built and Development Zone and its surrounding areas to weaken sewer network pollution load and discharge it into Cihu waterlock through is under pipe after it reach standards. construction. 3 Build Cihu upstream surface water primary treatment plant Already Conduct primary treatment of upstream catchment of Cihu completed River to weaken the impacts of soil erosion on the river 1.Dredging project Dredge the whole section of 11.81km long from Donghuan Road up to Xiang sulfur mine tunnel and Already renovate the destroyed revetment and add pulp masonry completed retaining wall or revetment. Widen cross-river bridges by River design section to lock and blockade water. 6 regulation 2.Watercourse management control Reinforce the embankment project of the 13km river section from Donghuan Road down to river Under mouth, consolidate and reconstruct Watergate, widen and construction rebuild the embankment in water lock and blockade section, tear down and reconstruct water blockade bridge.

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1. Water and soil conservation plan Restore ecology and gradually improve regional ecological environment by setting flood intercepting trench, retaining wall and grit chamber to block sand and solidify soil and planting trees and grass to improve soil erosion resistance ability and reduce water loss Already and soil erosion, after the excavation of slope and land completed Water & soil formation of the wasted mining plants and slag and soil dumps conservation within an area of 25 hectares including Mount Lali and its and surrounding area upstream Cihu River, sides of Diantang ditch 7 ecological and mining area on north side of 313 provincial road. restoration 2. Ecological restoration projects Afforest Xianshan tailings Already project pond and Xiang sulfur mine subsidence area, reduce water loss completed and soil erosion and gradually restore its ecological function. 3. Land reclamation project in Nanshan mining area Finished land reclamation plan of Nanshan mining area and annual Already work plan in 2008; fully started Nanshan mining area land completed reclamation in 2009; basically finished Nanshan mining area land reclamation in 2010. 1 Complete Cihu River overall planning and landscape Already construction planning completed Greening 2 Compile and submit for approval land use planning along and 8 Cihu River Improve Cihu River landscape and provide citizens landscape Already with leisure venues by planning and building garden landscape projects completed along embankment and river and river parks for leisure and sightseeing.

2 Cumulative Impact Analysis

Cihu River basin ecological environment restoration projects have mostly completed so far. After completion, it will produce favorable effects on flood control and drainage, and regional environment on the whole with water quality improved and landscape beautified. (1) The project will strengthen its ability to resist against flood by improving flood control and drainage system for the whole downtown area and promote sustainable development by reducing human, material and property loss caused by it (2) The huge investment of the projects is helpful to boost economic growth of along areas. Project construction helps to transfer large groups of surplus labor and increase job opportunities for local areas. Furthermore, it will provide local residents with the opportunity to develop tertiary industry including catering trade and service industry (3) Watercourse restoration will improve Cihu River water quality and provide pure and pleasant hydrophilic environment for local development and future life. All in all, the project not only improves flood-control and drainage system of the whole downtown area and strengthens safety of the whole Ma’anshan Municipality, also boosts

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positive effect on the economic growth of the city and guarantees social and economic sustainable development of the regions along the construction sites.

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Chapter VIII Environmental Management and Monitoring Plans

To protect environment quality of proposed project area and ensure effective control and mititgation to various adverse environmental impacts of the project, it is necessary to conduct strict and scientific environmental management and monitoring to the whole process of the project.

8.1 Environmental Protection Plan

8.1.1 The overall goal of environmental management

The mitigation measures designed during the impact assessment should be incorporated in the relevant bidding document and contracts, so as to ensure the effective implementation of these measures in the design, construction and opereation stages. 8.1.2 Environmental management institutions

Institutions of environmental management showed in Fig. 8-1 and table 8-1. Table 8-1 Institutions of environmental management

Type Name Duty

Responsible for project implementation and management. Appoint full-time environmental staff. Responsible for the project environmental protection work in planning, design and implementation stages; Determine the working procedures to meet the domestic and the world bank’s requirements of environmental assessment and Municipality environmental management; project office Responsible for supervising the implementation of the environmental management plan; Ensure environmental reduction measures are included in the bidding documents and contract; Management Responsible for the implementation of Component 4, See detailed institutions in chapter ‘8.1.3 Duties and personnel allocation of the environmental management system agencies’ Responsible for the implementation of Component 1 and 2; Appoint full-time environmental protection specialist, for Ma’anshan environmental protection acceptance after project completion, for Caishi River & daily environmental supervision and management during project Cihu River construction period, make the environmental adverse effect Comprehensive reduced to minimal or acceptable level; Development Implement all the necessary project funds of environmental Co. Ltd. protection work, collected and archive the relevant documents, See detailed in chapter ‘8.1.3 Duties and personnel allocation of

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the environmental management system agencies’.

Environmental Protection Bureau of Responsible for the implementation of Component 3 Ma’anshan municipality

Send environmental experts; Supervise and inspect the implementation of the environmental The World protection practice, See detailed in chapter ‘8.1.3 Duties and Bank personnel allocation of the environmental management system agencies’. Supervision Supervise and inspect whether the project procedures meet China's institutions Environmental environmental management requirements, and whether the Protection pollution prevention and control measures meet the needs of Bureau of environmental protection in China. See detailed in chapter ‘8.1.3 Ma’anshan Duties and personnel allocation of the environmental management municipality system agencies’. Appoint site environment engineers, Carry out the environmental protection and water and soil conservation content in the contract, Meet the environmental protection requirements of the World Implementation Civil works Bank and the local administrative department of environmental institutions contractors protection, Preparation and submission environmental report during construction period monthly, See detailed in chapter ‘8.1.3 Duties and personnel allocation of the environmental management system agencies’. Prepare the EIA report, See detailed in chapter ‘8.1.3 Duties and EIA consultant personnel allocation of the environmental management system agencies’. Prepare feasible study report and construction design option, and to ensure that the measures in environmental management plan Consulting Design applied in the feasible study report and construction design option. services institute See detailed in chapter ‘8.1.3 Duties and personnel allocation of institutions the environmental management system agencies’. Supervision and management the daily environmental Environmental management of the contractors, See detailed in chapter ‘8.1.3 supervisor Duties and personnel allocation of the environmental management system agencies’. Responsible for the environmental monitoring during the project Environmental Monitoring construction period and operation period, See detailed in chapter monitoring institutions ‘8.1.3 Duties and personnel allocation of the environmental agency management system agencies’.

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8.1.3 Duties and personnel allocation for the environmental managemen

The integrated environmental management system comprises project management institution, regulatory institution, implementation institution, consulting service institution, monitoring institution. All institutions have different duties. The Leading Group Office for Ma’anshan Cihu River Project under World Bank Loan is leading the management of the projects, ensure the local and World Bank’s requirements are fulfilled. The implementation unit is Ma’anshan Caishi River & Cihu River Comprehensive Development Co. Ltd. see detailed in table 8-2.

Table 8-2 Duties and personnel allocation of the environmental management system agencies

Name Type Person Duties

1. Sent inspection group to conduct special Supervision inspection on project implementation every World Bank 1 institutions year 2. Inspect implementation of the EMP Environmental 1. Supervise this project in accordance with the Protection process, including: approvement of project Supervision Bureau of 1 environmental impact assessment report, institutions Ma’anshan Environmental monitoring and supervision and municipality management during contruction and operation Municipality Management 2 1. Supervise the implementation of EMP, ensure

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project office institutions EMP measures are included in the bidding documents and contract, organize trainings 2. Coordinate the implementation of local and world bank’s requirements of environmental managemnt 3. Submit the related report to the world bank every half year 4. Check the environmental management work 5. Coordinate with other departments on major environmental problems 6. Entrust external environment expert group for the environmental monitoring 1. Supervise the implementation of the project environment management rules and regulations 2. Supervises and coordinates the engineering supervision (Qualification, responsibilities, management) 3. Organize study or the relevant investigation Ma’anshan 4. Record the complaints during the construction Caishi River & and operation process, public the feedbacks, Cihu River Management 1 solve problems of public appealed Comprehensive institutions 5. Review environmental supervision report Development 6. Submit reports or forms every quarter to the Co. Ltd. Bank 7. Sign the Site check list of construction units and supervision units reported, checked and documented. 8. Accept environmental work inspection (including the World Bank’s inspection) 1. Conduct field surey and assess the EIA consulting EIA consulting environmental impacts, Several unit institutions 2. Prepare the EMP and provide consulting service 1. Supervisor hired by the project office, supervise the implementation of the water and soil loss control, garbage, exhaust gas and noise control measures, Consulting Environmental 2. Regularly fill in the environmental management service 1-2 supervision checklist of ECOPs; institutions 3. Propose solution to the environmental problem raised in the construction period 4. Submit reports or forms every week to the project office

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1. Accept the environmental supervision and inspection from Engineering Project Supervisor, World Bank and Environmental Protection Bureau, 2. Establish a feedback mechanism to conduct correction in 3 days after informed, (ten days if Implementation Contractors Several coordination with management institutions is institutions needed) 3. Finish the construction site checklist with Environemntal Supervisor, and submit to the project office. 4. Report to the Environmental Supervisor every week. Environmental 1. Conduct environmental monitoring during Monitoring monitoring 1-2 project construction and operation periods, institutions agency according to the monitoring plan

8.2 Environmental Code of Practices

Environmental Code of Practices covers design, construction and operation periods. The ECOPs include the Generic ECOPs during construction and operation period, and site-specific environmental mitigation measures during construction period (related to the sensitive points).

8.2.1 Generic ECOPs The generic ECOPs during construction and operation period showed in table 8-3

Table 8-3 Generic ECOPs during construction and operation period

Implementation Supervison Items PMitigation Measures units units Balance the earthwork, do not setup extra spoil ground Design Design Municipality The sediment yard should be set up within the period consulting unit project office blueline of land acquisition to avoid the exact land occupation. Construction period Preparation Confirm land occupatation and Relevant Ma’anshan period formalities Caishi River & Materials that are easy to produce dust shall be contractors Cihu River Atmospheric humidified or shielded with tarpaulin from wind Comprehensive environment in temporary storage. Development

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Co. LTD,, Environmental Watering over dust points and roads 4-5 times at Protection regular time every day. Bureau of Strengthen the management of transport Ma’anshan vehicles; in the process of transportation, the municipality materials should be sealed with tarpaulin. Earthwork should stop in the windy days of greater than Level 4 winds

Use commercial concrete

Machines and vehicles should be chosen according to the National health protection standard, to guarantee the tail gas and smoke to meet emission standards.。 The constructors could use the civil infrastructure in the nearby villages Ma’anshan Apply advance equipments to control strictly Caishi River & leakage of the construction machinery. Cihu River Use of cotton, wood chip, oil absorption to Comprehensive absorb the machinery leakage. Development Surface water Establish equipment maintenance, maintenance contractors Co. LTD,, environment records, conduct regular maintenance according Environmental to the operation of equipment; Protection Repair construction machinery only in nearby Bureau of private workshop, only consider the Ma’anshan replacement of mechanical parts on construction municipality site Strictly control of construction time to avoid the construction between (22:00～06:00), otherwise permit for construction in night must be applied Ma’anshan and approved and the pulic should agree Caishi River & Sludge pump should be at least 60m away from Cihu River the residential areas. Comprehensive Temporary barrier should be set for the Development Acoustic sensitivity points within 40m from the site contractors Co. LTD,, environment Fixed strong noise source should be equipped Environmental with sound insulation cover or placed in indoor Protection for operation Bureau of Construction unit should only choose the Ma’anshan construction machinery and transport vehicles municipality which meet the relevant national standards, try choosing low noise construction machinery

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Strengthen the maintenance of all construction equipment, in order to fundamentally reduces the noise and vibration The construction solid waste should be Ma’anshan transported to the third construction waste Caishi River & disposal field of Ma’anshan in time Cihu River Domestic solid waste should be stockpiled on Comprehensive the construction site and transported out for Development Solid waste disposal by the sanitation department. contractors Co. LTD,, Environmental Protection Solid waste and spoil storage sites should be Bureau of established far away from the river. Ma’anshan municipality Dredging workst should not be conducted in summer; meanwhile, the boundary of the Ma’anshan sediments storage yard should be controlled. Caishi River & And the distance from the yard to the residential Cihu River buildings should be more than 30m Comprehensive The transportation vehicle should be sealed to Development Sediments avoid scattered and reeking. The transportation contractors Co. LTD,, line should be away from residential area. Environmental Landscaping with vegetation after construction Protection is finished Bureau of Set sedimentation tank and discharge Ma’anshan supernatant from the sediment storage site into municipality Cihu river after sedimentation

It is better to construct during dry seasons.

With the aim of restoring the original surface productivity, topsoil layer must be removed and Ma’anshan stockpiled before the project construction. The Caishi River & stripping thickness is 0.3m.Conduct land Cihu River reclamation at the end of construction and refills Comprehensive the topsoil with 30cm thickness for vegetation Development Water and recovery.。 contractors Co. LTD,, soil loss Retained with woven bag around temporary Environmental sediments stockpiling site along the river, to Protection avoid the soil loss to runoff. Bureau of Use cement to harden the construction field. Ma’anshan The project construction should be carried out municipality in stages and batches. Mitigation measures should be taken for the exposed surface excavated, trying to minimize the exposure time

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and reduce the soil and water losses.

Enlarging the environmental propaganda, improve the environmental protection Ma’anshan consciousness of the management and Caishi River & construction person. Discarding domestic waste Cihu River without control is banned. Comprehensive Landscape Development impact contractors Co. LTD,, Strictly define the area of operation control Environmental Protection After the completion of the project, garbage Bureau of should be cleared in time in the construction Ma’anshan site. Leveling the ground, try to restore original municipality landform and vegetation, If physical cultural relics are found during Ma’anshan construction, (including ancient sites and Caishi River & ancient tombs), construction should be Cihu River suspended immediately. The construction site Cultural Comprehensive should be closed and protected under the contractors relics Development supervision of the engineering supervisor and Co. LTD,,, City report to local cultural departments. Without the culture permit from the cultural department the committee construction should not be resumed. Reasonablly arrange the project construction schedule, to shorten the temporary land occupitation. Construction should be scheduled on the basis of section by section to reduce the impact on local residents’ travleling. Ma’anshan Arrange the vehicle route to ensure that local Caishi River & residents travel unimpeded Cihu River Before the start of the construction, access roads Comprehensive Construction should be reinforced and reconstructed, or Development traffic service road connecting with the original road contractors Co. LTD,, management shold be built. Serious damage of the road shall Environmental be promptly repaired or pay compensation to Protection the local road management departments. Bureau of Transportation of construction materials during Ma’anshan night should be banned, where there are municipality residents within 50m from the roads. Construction transport vehicles should avoid local road traffic peak time. Construction vehicles should be stipulated in the driveway of the road, it is strictly prohibited

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Set up warning marks Equipped the constructors with safety helmets, Ma’anshan belts, suits and shoes etc. Caishi River & Apply low noise equipment, automation Construction Cihu River technology, to reduce the mechanical noise. contractors safety Comprehensive Provide earplugs to the workers. Development During the high temperature, cooling equipment Co. LTD,, or materials should be provided in site and the rest schedule should be carefully arranged. At the entrance of the construction site, a bulletin should be set up indicating the project information and content, schedule, and the contact people and hotline; Ma’anshan Environmental professionals will be designated Caishi River & to respond to the public concerns on Cihu River environmental impacts;. Comprehensive Where construction at night is necessary, the Development Public relevant procedure should be followed and Co. LTD,, anticipaion public announcement should be made to the Environmental adjacent residents which indicates the timing of Protection the construction and the permit issued by local Bureau of EPB; Ma’anshan The public concerns or questions raised by local municipality people should be recorded and responded immediately. All the information of the question and response should be kept file and subject to the review of the supervision institution. Operation period Ma’anshan Caishi River & Pumps with low noise should be selected in the Pump station Cihu River pumping stations and the base for the pumps Contractors noise Comprehensive should be cushioned. Development Co. LTD,,

8.2.2 Site-specific environmental mitigation measure

The mitigaiton measures to the sensitive points during construction period showed in table 8-4.

Table 8-4Site-specific mitigation measures

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total price Protection and Unit price Implement Issue Amount (10 Supervison units Slowdown Measures （yuan） units thousan yuan) Setup temporary fences at Anhui industial university 300 230 6.9 with height of 1.8m, length of 230m Setup temporary fences Ma’anshan at Fenzhuang village Caishi River & 300 50 1.5 Xiaxi group with height Cihu River of 1.8m, length of 50 m Comprehensive Setup temporary fences Development at Shuguang No.1 Engineering Noise Co. LTD,, village and Cihu 300 220 6.6 contractors community, with height Environmental of 1.8m, length of 220m Protection Setup temporary fences Bureau of at Tangchalou 300 320 9.6 Ma’anshan village,height of 1.8m, municipality length of 320m Setup temporary fences at Shiqiao village, height 300 50 1.5 of 1.8m, length of 50m

8.3 Environmental Monitoring Plan

8.3.1 Formulate objectives and principles

Environmental monitoring shall be carried out promptly on the basis of the environmental impact prediction results to keep track of the potential new problems and the various degrees of impact the project may have on environment and provide foundation for implementation time and option of environmental protection measures by promptly adjusting action plan on the basis of monitoring results.

8.3.2 Environment monitoring agency

Monitoring can be entrusted to Ma’anshan municipal environmental monitoring station Construction unit shall sign monitoring agreement related to construction period with monitoring station before construction and sign monitoring agreement related to running period before the delivery for use of the project.

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achieve the project demonstrates the effectiveness of the project in addition to carry out its regulatory functions by the environmental protection department intends to designate a person responsible for environmental management at all levels of the project management office, the establishment including the oversight bodiesimplementing agencies and advisory services in the environmental management system. See Table 8-3 for specific information.

Table 8-5 Environmental monitoring plan during construction period and running period

Monitori ng cost Monitori Monitori Monitorin Daily Regular Environme Monitoring Executive (RMB Period ng ng g time and monitoring supervision ntal factor indicators standards Ten content location frequency unit unit thousan d Yuan) Once each Class II 5 year standard Construct Sensitiv during for ion raised TSP e points 0.10 constructi Ambient dust along on peak Air Quality Municipal the line period Standard environmen Atmospher Once tal monitor ic within station or environme Sedimen usage Class II qualified nt t yard period of 4 Emission monitor

Odour H2S, NH3 Xiangsh sediment standards 0.32 units an yards for odor Landfill Sediment pollutants Environmenta Construction drying site l protection period in landfill bureau One constructi on peak Noise time each 5 Class II of from year and Acoustic Sensitiv Environme constructi monitorin environme Leq e points ntal quality 0.10 on g its nt along standard machiner operation the line for Noise in y once at both daytime and night.

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Supernata Class II of nt from Sedimen Wastewater Wastewate settling ts Once per SS integrated 0.4 r tanks of settling week Discharge sediments tanks Standard yards Sediment Same s quality location One time, Qualified in the with the Ambient one Environme section to surface Soil Sediments1 Total metal columnar 1.0 ntal be water Quality sample Monitoring dredged monitori Standard each time Institute in Cihu ng River points Auto monitori Class V of Surface ng Surface water COD ， Surface station Once per Water quality in NH3-N，TP， 200 water financed month Environme Cihu pH, SS，DO under ntal River the Standard project Monitorin g its Ma’anshan operation Environme once each ntal year Class III of Monitoring Draining during Industrial Center 1m out Acoustic pump draining enterprise Operation of pump environme station Leq pump Field 0.10 period station nt running station Environme field noise operation ntal Noise period and standard once at both daytime and night

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Note: 1. prior to the dredging works in Cihu River, the contractor should engage an independent qualified institute to sample and test the sediments in accordance with relevant domestic requirements. In case that if the sediments are found to be hazardous materials, they should be handled on site with relevant hazardous waste management regulations and requirements in Chin and EHS, and sent to the secured facility for proper disposal. Based on the information available,

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there is only one hazardous waste disposal center in Shenyang capable of disposing of hazardous soil/sediments in such large quantity. So if the sediments are found to be hazardous, they will sent to Shenyang Hazardous Waste Disposal Center.

8.4 EMP training program

8.4.1 Training purpose

The purpose of the EMP training is to guarantee the successful operation of the environmental management, to make the associate staff to be familiar with the content and procedure of the environmental management, to build ability of environmental management and to ensure the effectively implement of all environmental protection measures. The main objects of environment ability construction are environmental managers and environmental superviser.

The training objects also include constructors and workers. Before the construction, all the construction units and management units are requireed and forced to attend the environmental, health and safety training.

8.4.2 Training objects

Training objects：Project office, implementation untis of each project compenent, all environmental supervisers, represents of environemental monitoring units, contractors.

8.4.3 Training content

1. The understanding and application of the World Bank environmental policy and the domestic environmental protection laws and regulations, environmental standards;

2. Environmental management pattern and the environmental loan agreement terms in the World Bank loan project;

3. EMP of the project;

4. The duties and relationships of environmental management, environmental supervision personnel, environmental monitoring staff and contractors;

5. the preparation of environmental management implementation report, environmental supervision work report, environmental monitoring report, the contractor’s diary, monthly report, interim report and annual reports.

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8.4.4 Training plans

The major negative environemental impacts will come from the contruction, the relative

environmental protection staff should be trained, to enhance the level of environmental

management.see detailed in table 8-6. Table 8-6 Capacity building and training plans Budget Trainging Topic Contents Times Day/time Persons/time (ten objects thousands) Project office, ① Environmental Water protection laws and 1 0.5 4 Resources regulations Bureau of ② Environmental Ma’anshan policy and planning 1 0.5 4 Environmental municipality, protection Ma’anshan 0.45 laws,regulations Caishi River & and policy Cihu River Comprehensive ③ EMP 1 0.5 4 Development Co. LTD., contractors ①Environmental protection duties 1 0.5 4 during project construction period Project office, ② main task of Water environmental Resources protection during 1 0.5 4 Bureau of project construction Ma’anshan period municipality, Implementation ③ main contents of Ma’anshan 0.9 of EMP environmental Caishi River & protection during 1 0.5 4 Cihu River project construction Comprehensive period Development ④Reports in EMP 1 0.5 4 Co. LTD., ⑤Improvement or contractors 1 0.5 4 fixed of EMP ⑥Monitoring method, data 1 0.5 4 collection method

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Budget Trainging Topic Contents Times Day/time Persons/time (ten objects thousands)

Total 1.35

8.5 Environmental Supervision & Management Plan (ESMP)

8.5.1 Environmental supervision organization during the construction period

Environmental supervision during the construction period means the environmental protecting efforts to be implemented during the construction period. Environmental supervision work during the construction period must be undertaken by certified construction supervision organization, which has to have special environmental supervision engineer taking charge of environmental management and supervision during the construction period.

The environmental supervision unit is responsible for establishing an Environmental Supervision Team (EST) to implement specific supervision and management.

The Environmental Supervision Team needs to initiate the specific environmental supervision plan, in accordance with Environmental Impact Report hereto in terms of content of environmental supervision, meanwhile, conforming to the practical situation, and afterwards, Environmental Supervision Team should submit such environmental supervision plan to the related environmental authority and the construction unit. 8.5.2 Guideline of environmental supervision

Any unit performing environmental supervision shall practice under the guideline of legal principle, integrity and reasonability. In order to establish and identify the core-principle of environmental supervision p, as a Third Party, the obligation of environmental supervision unit & property owner and the authority must be strictly separated, and environmental supervision unit shall firmly stick to the principle of serving the property owner and the authority. It is especially important to maintain and confirm the inter-relationships among the property owner, the construction unit, the Engineering Supervision& Management Unit, the environmental supervision unit, the environmental monitoring unit, and the related authorities, for the purpose of creating favorable condition for the ESM works. The environmental supervision unit shall, according to the characteristics of the engineering hereto, establish a supervision and management rule that is regular and suitable for the practical condition, in order to standardize the engineering hereof. 8.5.3 Environmental supervision scope

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The construction area and the project direct-influencing area include the construction site, walkway of the permanent and temporary work and the existed local roads involved with large number of transportation. Content of environmental supervision: comprehensive ecological protection, planting, pollution control, public environment, etc. 2. Scopes of Project Include all the areas polluted by the construction sites, construction roads and the construction sites above mentioned. 3 Periods of environmental supervision The environmental supervision of the construction project comprises three main periods, which namely are preparing period, construction period, and delivery, acceptance, and defect liability period.

8.5.4 Work pattern of environmental supervision

Environmental supervision must be dynamically managed according to the project progress. Environmental supervision of the project is based on regular inspection, at large, and necessary environmental monitoring as supplement in order to promptly adjust the environmental supervision strength. Major pollutant construction procedure shall be supervised and managed throughout the entire construction in order to make sure all the contractors have fulfilled their obligation in accordance with the related environmental protection law, administrative regulations and conditions and terms as stated in the Contract.

The environmental supervisor is required to learn the content, in the Environment Impact Report, concerned of the said engineering

8.5.5 Specific working procedure of environmental supervision

An Environmental Supervising Unit, who strictly complies with the conditions and terms as stated in the Contract and the relative laws and administrative regulations, is a economically independent third party standing alone with regard to the property owner and the contractor. Such Environmental Supervising Unit’s obligation is implementing every work under the guideline of justice and independence, that is, it shall secure the legal rights and interests of both the property owner and the contractor. Meanwhile, as a environmental supervision Unit is a important component of environmental supervision, it is closely related to ESM and stand alone and boast differences to some extent. The specific environmental supervision procedure is as follows: 1. Review whether the environmental protection measures devised in preliminary design drawing of project has been implemented in line with the approved environmental protection measures in environmental impact statement；

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2. Assist the construction unit to organize the environmental protection training for staff in construction, design and management； 3. Verification of the Tender Document and the terms of Engineering Contract involved with environmental protection. 4 Presentation of environmental-protection advice and suggestion concerning with construction organization plan, technical plan, and construction progress plan, on-site verification of construction equipment, etc. 5 Supervise the measures of reducing the influence generated thereby to the ecological environment, the water, the atmosphere and the acoustic environment and the construction quality of the environmental protection engineering, and conduct stage acceptance and signature in accordance with the relative standards. 6 Conduct regular patrol and supervision on a daily basis; and systematically record environmental influence, practical effect, and construction quality of the environmental protection engineering. 7 As for any environmental problem found in the inspection, Record and give oral notification or form memorandum and demand the contractor to make a rectification within a deadline. 8 Supervise the main polluting source in the site of construction area; if necessary, advice the property owner on employing specialist and qualified monitoring unit to implement environmental implementation; and appropriately deal with existing environmental problem according to the monitoring result. As for major environmental problem, which is required the contractor to deal within a deadline, issue the Rectification Notice for Environmental Problems after negotiation with the owner 9 Promptly reflect to the Leading Team of environmental supervision on the concerned problem of environmental protection design and emerging construction problems, and present solution advice. 10. Take responsibility for drafting the environmental supervision work plan and summary 8.5.6 Environmental supervision organization and work system.

In order to make the environmental management work conduct smoothly, the engineering environmental supervision is included into the engineering supervision system. The construction unit shall entrust a unit with engineering qualification and has been trained for environmental protection operation to undertake the engineering environmental supervision.

The main work content of the environmental supervision mainly includes: work record, worker environment training, report, correspondence, regular meeting, award & punishment and filing of environmental supervision,.

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8.5.7 Environmental supervision plan

1. Construction preparation stage Examine the environmental mitigation measures specified in the Construction Contract, verify the concerned environmental protection measures of the construction organization plan, verify, optimize and review the construction area with the contractors, design unit, engineering supervision unit, and the PMO. See Table 8-7 for environmental supervision plan.

Table 8-7 Environmental supervision emphasis during the construction preparation period

Construction Supervision Supervision emphasis Means Activities methods Compile environment

supervision plan

Review the terms on Document environmental protection in the review Construction Contract

Check the sensitive objects near Inspection Field recording the construction site.

Review the environmental measures of the construction Document

Construction bidding organization plan made by the review contractor.

Verification of the environmental managiement Document

plan during the construction review period made by the contractor.

Verification of the construction plan and the related Document environmental protection plan review during the application of the sections.

2. Construction stage The environmental supervision during the construction shall be implemented based on the progress of the civil works, which mainly include river dredgeing, dam reinforcement, pumping station construction, etc. See Table 8-8 for Supervision Plan

Table 8-8 Main environmental supervision content during the Construction Period

Environmental Supervision Main environmental Main environmental Solutions of

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factor object supervision content supervision forms excessive pollutants or violation. Reinforce management and Notice the maintenance of the undergoing unit Water Construction construction machines, Patrolling and inspecting the and the environment sites discharge supernatent of temporary land occupancy. construction unit sediment yard into Cihu for remedial river after sedimentation. measure. ① Transporting vehicles need to transport materials with all the materials sealed; the unloading site needs to ①Transportation Conduct air quality Notification of be prepared with and stocking of monitoring and inspect all remedies to the dust-control measure, and Ambient air building the construction areas and undergoing unit such sites need to be materials; the temporary land and the watered on a regular basis. ②Sediment yard occupancy. construction unit. ②There shall be no more than 30m distance between the Sediment yard and residential area ①Construction ① Appropriately arrange Notify the Conduct acoustic and construction Time Plan undergoing unit environment monitoring and Acoustic transportation ②Using low-noise and the inspect all the construction environment Road equipment construction unit areas and the temporary land ②Construction ③ Setup fences around for remedial occupancy. area sensitivity points measure. Inspect the construction site Noticing the ①Reduce the influence of during the construction undergoing unit Major the construction on Social period, and learn the local and the construction transportation to the local environment inhabitants’ feelings who construction unit sites city, for example, by live about the construction for remedial avoiding the rush hour. sites. measure. Identify the location of temporarily-occupied areas which should be patrolled Notify for Ecological Temporary land Ecological restoration of during the construction time, remedies to the environment occupation temporarily-occupied areas and an inspection of the contractor and the restoration shall be construction unit. guaranteed when construction is finished

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maintenance of the construction site and temporarily-occupied areas in the defects liability period are among the main tasks during this period.

8.5.8 Document compilation of environmental supervision

1. General plan compilation of environmental protection supervision General plan of environmental protection supervision refers to that when an environmental protection supervision unit accepting a business entrustment , it shall develop a plan on the environmental protection supervision of the project according to the Contract, environment assessment requirements, construction plan and the actual conditions of construction , to identify the range, content, methods and goals of the work of environmental protection supervision. 2. Implementing rules compilation of environmental protection supervision Based on the general plan of environmental protection supervision, the implementing rules of environmental protection supervision are interpreted as the executable documents made by professional environmental protection supervision engineers from the project environmental protection supervision institution for the purpose of the compilation of single construction. Implementing rules shall be made according to the actual conditions of the construction and environment assessment requirements. 3. General report compilation of environmental supervision When environmental supervision work ends, the environmental supervision organization shall make a prompt summery and deliver the construction unit a general report, which mainly includes the implementation summary of the commission supervision Contract, evaluation of supervision tasks and goals implementation.

8.5.9 Environmental supervision archives management

Environmental supervision archives shall include relevant documents and data of environmental supervision. 1. Documents of environmental supervision mainly include plan, implementing rules, general report, etc of environmental supervision. 2. Environmental supervision data mainly include: ① Daily work log: Mainly recording the work of environmental supervision, and the measures environmental supervision members take and their implementation when unexpected situation happens; ②Monthly environmental supervision report: Summarizing and documenting the work of environmental supervision during the month and record the work content and the measures environmental supervision members take and their implementation when unexpected situation happens; ③Correspondences between the environmental supervision unit and the property owner

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and other documents on construction unit and other relevant materials. Archives management of the environment supervision shall formulate relevant management systems and assign the specified staff to be responsible for the gathering, classification, sorting and filing of various environmental supervision data, which are significant to the acceptance and management of the project environment protection.

8.6 Public complaints and feedback mechanism

8.6.1 Public complaints mechanism

Public complaints mechanism of the immigrants should be established, besides the official ones, in order to make the problems rasied during compilation and implementation of the project can be effectively solved, and to gurantee the implementation of land acquisition and project construction. The public complaints mechanism should be as following:

Stage 1 If any rights violations happened during the land acqusition, the immigrants could report to local management departments, or to the municipality petition offices directly.

The petition office should record the complaints and negociate with local management departments and petitioners for solutions in 2 weeks.

Stage 2 If the petitioners are not satisfied with the solutions come out in stage 1, the petitioners could lodge a complaint to the Leading Group Office for Ma’anshan Cihu River

Project under World Bank Loan, after the solution decision of stage 1 was made. The project office should response in 2 weeks.

Stage 3 If the petitioners do not satisfied with the solutions come out in stage 2, after the solution decision of stage 2 was made, the petitioners could lodge a complaint to the administrative departments, according to the ‘Administrative Procedure Law of the Peoples

Republic of China’. Ask for arbitration.

Stage 4 If the petitioners still do not satisfied on the arbitration, they could prosecute to the Civil court, according to the Civil Procedural Law.

The immigrants could complain about all aspects including the compasation standard, during the immigration resettlement.

The Public complaints mechanism will be inform to the immigrants through meentings and other effective ways, including the media.

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No charge on the petitioners, all cost paid by the contingencies.

8.6.2 Public feedback mechanism

Establish a pulic feedback mechanism, The EIA units and construction units should respond to the environmental complaint and rectification notice immediately, and public the solutions.

Problems should be solved in 3 days (10 days if coordination with management institutions is needed)

The feedback mechanism divided into 2 stages:

Stage 1: The construction unit and the EIA unit should conduct meetings and questionnaires to collect residents’s opinions. The public could purpose suggestions and opnions through meetings, questionnaires, letters, phonecalls, fax, emails. Also written opinion to the administrative department of environmental protection is available. The construction unit, the EIA unit and the administrative department of environmental protection should backup and document the original files.

Stage 2: The public could purpose suggestions and opnions through letters, phonecalls, fax, emails, petition office and Environmental Protection Bureau of Ma’anshan municipality to the construction unit, during the project construction and operation period;

According to the public opinions, based on the environmental monitoring reports and supervision reports, modifications and improvement should be made in the EMP.

If major deviations are found, or the modification of project will raise extra massive negative environmental impacts or extra influened people, the project office should consult the EIA cousulting units and the EIA group founded by World Bank, to conduct extra EIA. If necessary, extra public consulting is needed as well. The modified EMP shold be copied to the construction units and contractors to inform them the modified contents.

8.7 Report mechanism of Environmental management plan

8.7.1 Reorganize and save of Monitoring data

Implement based on the ‘Environmental monitoring technical specifications’ and ‘Soil and water conservation monitoring procedures’. 4 copies of original monitoring data and files

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should be submitted to the administrative department of environmental protection as backup and to the designing units as a information feedback.

8.7.2 Information exchange

Necessary information exchange was required among the different departments and duties by the environmental management, meanwhile to the external (relative units and public). Internal information exchange could be conducted by meetings and briefs, at least once a month of the meeting. All information exchanged should be recorded and filed. External information exchange could be held annually or once half year, which also should be recorded and filed.

8.7.3 Recording

For the effective operation of environmental management, the organization should establish a comprehensive recording system, include following aspects of recording: (1)Laws and regulations； (2)license； (3)Environmental factors and the relevant environmental impact； (4）training； (5）Examination, check and maintenance activities (6）Monitoring data (7）problem in Environmental management and environmental protection work (8) Corrective and preventive measures effectiveness； (9）Related party information； In addition, necessary control should be done on above all kinds of records, including: Records identification, collection, cataloging, filing, storage, management, maintenance, query, retention time, disposal and so on. 8.7.4 Reports

The project office, environement supervision units should record and report to the relevant departments in time, of the progress of the project, management plan (EMP) implementation, environmental quality monitoring results, etc in the project implementation process, including: (1) Records of the execution of the EMP and the Monitoring data should be submitted to the project office as weekly report and monthly report, by the environmental supervision engineer. (2) Quarterly project progress report, including the progress of EMP, should be prepared by the Ma’anshan Caishi River & Cihu River Comprehensive Development Co. LTD., and

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submitted to the project office and the Environmental Protection Bureau of Ma’anshan municipality. (3) The monitoring report should submitted to the project office and environmental supervision engineer in time as long as it been prepared. (4) Project progress report prepared by the project office (such as monthly report, quarterly report and yearly report) should be included the progress of EMP and effects, especially the monitoring results. (5) Environmental supervision engineer and the project office should report to the local administrative department of environmental protection, even the higher administrative department, when violation in environment happens. (6) Annual implementation report of EMP should be hand into the world bank before the March 31st of the next year. Annual implementation report of EMP should include: a The implementation of the training plan； b Project progress, c Implementation of environmental protection measures, environmental monitoring and results, d Whether there is any public complaint, if there is any complaint, records the main content, solutions and public satisfaction, e The implementation plan of EMP next year.

8.8 Investment Estimation of Environment Protection

The total cost of environmental management is 69.7 thousand yuan, see table 8-9. Table 8-9 Estimation of Environmental Management Cost

Environmental Environmental Training Sum total Item monitoring supervision (Thousand yuan) (Thousand yuan) (Thousand yuan) (Thousand yuan) The World Bank-financed Ma'anshan Cihu 6.2 50 13.5 69.7 River Basin Improvement Project

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Chapter IX Public consultation and information disclosure

In accordance with relevant regulations of Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China as well as Provisional Measures for Public consultation in Environmental Impact Assessment & (H.F. No. 2006[28]), and related requirements of Safeguard Policies of the World Bank, the affected people shall be consulted on the project impacts and mitigation measures during environmental impact assessment, so as to adopt effective mitigation measures during the project to reduce impact on local environment and take consideration and make certain compensation for the interests of the potentially impacted public.

9.1 Purpose and Significance of Public Consultation

Public consultation refers to that project developers shall consult local residents’ opinions and suggestions on the construction, based on relevant laws and regulations of environment protection, so as to: 1. Sticking to principle of people foremost in environment impact assessment; protecting the legal environmental interests of the public. 2. Acquiring overall understanding of the environmental background information of the construction site and promptly discovering potential environmental problems to increase scientific level and pertinence of the environment impact assessment. 3. By means of public consultation, putting forward or improving economical, effective and practical measures to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts on society. 4. Making comprehensive consideration of construction-related impacts on each aspect and relieving possible social conflicts triggered by adverse environmental impacts. 5. Strengthening the democratic and scientific level of governmental decision making procedure at all levels. In the meantime, public consultation in environmental impact assessment will enhance its validity and people’s awareness of environmental protection. It will also help to perfect the system of environmental impact assessment and do favor for the realization of sustainable development of the regional economy.

9.2 Methodology and Organizations of Public Consultation

According to note of issuing Provisional Measures for Public Consultation in Environmental Impact (H.F. 2006 No.28) by former State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) as well as the requirements of the World Bank, this public consultation has followed the stated procedures in two ways which are questionnaire and public meeting.

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Through these activities of public consultation, project developers will consult and consider opinions, suggestions and requirements of the general public, especially those who are directly impacted by the planned construction, answer their questions and explain the measures for environmental improvements.

Environmental Impact Assessment of Public consultation hereto will be organized by the: environmental assessment institution: China Agricultural University (CAU)

9.3 Specific Public Consultation Activities

1. Questionnaire of Public consultation (1) Ways of Survey Project developer and environment assessment unit interviewed the residents, teachers and students living along the construction and hand out 105 pieces of questionnaires, after the completion of EIA outline and draft repectively. The questionnaire focused on residents’ concerns about the local environment and their understanding about the project, the site selection and the construction and the environement impacts and mitigation measures. The respondents are mainly officials, workers, teachers, students and farmers. See Table 9-1 for details.

Figure 9-1 Site visit photos Table 9-1 Public consultation Questionnaire

Name： Gender： Age： Nationality： Occupation：□leaders □ Company employees □ Teacher □ Basic individual operator □farmer informatio Education background：□ College and above □ high school and above □ n of the junior middle school □ primary school and below informant Home address： Work unit： Telephone：

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1. Project Name: Ma’anshan Municipality Cihu River Water Environment Improvement Project 2 Overview of Project The project consists of three main parts: (1) managing project of Cihu River : improve and manage the upstream and downstream of Cihu River with a total length of 13.0km, mostly including ecological protection of river banks, afforestation, dredging and building streets on levee crown; managing project of the tributaries : manage 25 tributaries in midstream including dredging, obstacles clear-out, ecological bank protection and afforestation; construction of draining pumping station: demolish and reconstruct 5 draining pumping stations in the downstream. The implementation of the project can recover Cihu River area drainage, improve the embankments quality and reduce the risk of urban water logging. The potential environmental impact of the project are mainly the noise during the construction stage, solid wastes, dusts, sediment impact on the surrounding environment and the impacts on ecological environment, etc. In accordance with relevant laws and regulations, the citizens have the right to express their own views and suggestions on the environmental protection issues. Now, your views are to be solicited regarding the possible impact of the implementation of the project on the environment along the river.

Please answer the following questions. For the suitable items, please mark√ in the □, and multiple choice is available if necessary.

Project and problems with the current situation Years of your living in this place: 1 □ within 10 years □ within 20 years □ within 30 years □ more than 30 years Your relations with the project: 2 □ Residents with land occupied □ Residents living near the project □ others Your opinions of the major existing environmental problems in your place: 3 □ air pollution □ water pollution □ noise pollution □ ecological destroy Your understanding of water environment treatment project of Cihu River basin area of 4 Ma’anshan Municipality. □ yes □ know little □ No Whether the project is favorable to local economic development in your opinion： 5 □ yes □no □ not to know Your concerns over the project 6 □ project content □ project efficiency □ land compensation policy □ environmental impacts Major environmental impacts during construction period in your opinion： 7 □ water □ noise □ air □ solid waste □ ecological environment your altitude toward the project： 8 □ support □ not concern □ not support

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your suggestions and requests on the project： 9

(2)Results and Analysis of the Questionnaire A total of 105 questionnaires are issued and 105 questionnaires are returned. The return rate is 100%. Those surveyed include staff representatives of various occupations, ages, a variety of education background. Questionnaires are mainly issued to the people affected by the project, and the participants are representative of the affected people. The statistics of surveyed public are shown in Table 9-2, and the survey results are shown in Table 9-3. Table 9-2 Statistics of surveyed public conditions Survey items Number Proportion（%） Female 65 61.9 Gender Male 40 38.1 Between 20~29 29 27.6 Between 30~39 18 17.1 Age Between 40~49 31 29.5 Between 50~59 16 15.2 above 60 11 10.5 Leaders 18 17.1 Company employee 55 52.4 Survey type Teacher 10 9.5 Individual operator 3 2.9 Farmer 14 13.3 Student 5 4.8 College education and above 46 43.8 Education High school and above 36 34.3 background Junior middle school 19 18.1 Primary education and below 4 3.8

Table 9-3 Statistics of surveyed public conditions Questions Numbers(person) Proportion（%） Within 10years 34 32.4 1.Years of living in this Within 20 years 12 11.4 place Within 30 years 24 22.9 More than 30 years 35 33.3 Residents with land occupied 7 6.7 2. Your relations with the Residents living near the project 68 64.8 project

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Others 30 28.6 Air pollution 26 20.3 3. Your opinions of the Water pollution 54 42.2 major environmental Noise pollution 11 8.6 problems Ecological destroy 37 28.9 4. Your understanding of Yes 65 61.9 water environment Know little 37 35.2 management project of Cihu River basin area of 3 2.9 Ma’anshan Municipality. No 5.Whether the project is Yes 101 96.2 favorable to local No 1 1.0 economic development in 3 2.9 your opinion Not to know Project content 11 9.1 6. your concerns over the Project efficiency 32 26.4 project Land compensation policy 4 3.3 Environmental impacts 74 61.2 Water 32 23.7 7. Major environmental Noise 37 27.4 impacts during Air 12 8.9 construction period in your Solid waste 17 12.6 opinion Ecological environment 37 27.4 Support 104 99.0 8. Your attitude toward the Not concern 1 1.0 project Not support 0 0.0

The conclusion from Table 9-2, 9-3 is: (1) Most of the participants have been living in the area for more than 20 years. (2)Most of the participants are residents living near the project. (3)The respondents who are concerned about local water environment issues account for 42.2%, ecological environment issues 28.9%, the air 20.3%, and the noise 8.6%. (4)61.9% of the participants know the construction of this project, whereas 38.1% do not know. Site visits were adopted in this public survey, and the construction of the project was introduced to local residents during the process. It has been familiar to all the respondents after public consultation. (5) 96.2 % of the participants think that the project is beneficial to the development of the local economy. (6) What the participants care about the project is order, the environmental consequence, the project benefit, the project contents and the policy of compensation for the occupied land.

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(7) The participants think that during the period of construction, the influences are in such order: influences on eco-environment, noise, water, solid wastes and air. (8) 99.0 percent of the participants support the project and only 1.0 percent shows their indifference but no disapprovals. 2. Public meeting Two rounds of public consuktation were conducted in line with domestic and the Wrold Bank’s requirements. After the completion of EIA outline and draft, the environment assessment department held a public meeting respectively in nearby districts and villages mainly to discuss and introduce the project information and potential impacts. See Table 9-4 about the public meeting, and see Picture 9-2 and 9-3 about relevant pictures Table 9-4 The detail information about the symposium Holding time Organizational Place of the meeting Main contents Participants: unit The first The environment Directors of public assessment International Meeting room in the meeting department will Huacheng, International introduce the origin Dongcheng Garden Huacheng information of the Community and Community project and the resident significance of representatives China August 2012 constructing the Caicun Village Caicun Village Agricultural project and the Committee cadres Committee University influences on the and villagers environment during construction Committee cadres of Meeting room of process. And the Cihu community and Cihu community representatives will coastal residents declare their opinions.

The second The environment Directors of public Meeting room in the assessment International meeting International department will Huacheng, Huacheng introduce the Community and Community content of the resident China October project and the representatives Agricultural 2012 conclusion of EIA Directors of University Meeting room in the and the Wanjiayiyuan Wanjiayiyuan environmental Community and Community protection planning resident to apply. And the representatives Meeting room in the representatives will Directors of

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Dongcheng garden declare their Dongcheng Garden Community opinions. Community and resident representatives The findings indicate that the residents think the influences brought by the project construction cannot last long so it can be accepted, and it is commonly acknowledged that the Cihu River environment and city scenery will be improved obviously when the project is finished. During the public consultation, local residents concerned the impacts on human health of the sediments usage on farmland and landscaping. The local residents do not agree with the option of utilization of sediments on farm and landscaping. And the risks to health and environment are low and the techniques are reliable of option of using the sediments as cover soil in landfill.in the public’s opinions. And the EA team and the design institute agreed to make detailed analysis of the impacts for the option that will use the sediments in landfill as cover soil. This option has also agreed by the management of the Xiangshan Landfill.

The public opinion will be taken fully in the construction period, to implement environmental supervision and environmental monitoring, to ensure the reduction of environmental impacts.

9.4 Information Disclosure

Two times of information disclosure were conducted for this project. The project information and the draft EIA report are available on the new papers, government Bulletin board and public website. The draft EIA report is also available in the local library.

The first information disclosre was conducted when the environment assessment outline of the project is finished. The information was published on the official website of Ma’anshan Development and Reform Committee (http://fgw.mas.gov.cn/), official website of Cihu High-tech Industry Development Zone (http://www.chkfq.gov.cn/) and official website of Huashan Government (www.mashsq.gov.cn) to absorb more ideas and input for this project from the public.

The second information disclosure was conducted after the EIA draft is finished. The information was published on the official website of Ma’anshan Development and Reform Committee and the Ma’anshan daily newspaper on Oct.13 2012. The draft EA documents are also available in the city library. See detailed in Figure 9-4 to 9-7.

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Official website of Ma’anshan Municipal Development and Reform Committee

The website of Cihu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone

Official website of Huashan Government

Figure 9-4 The first Information Disclosure

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Official website of the People’s Goverment of Ma’anshan

Official website of Ma’anshan Municipal Development and Reform Committee

Figure 9-5 The second Information Disclosure

Figure 9-6 The second Information Disclosure on newspaper

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Figure 9-7 The second Information Disclosure in library

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Appendix

I.Methods of Evaluation

1. Single factor index

This method is mainly used to assess the present environment quality

（1）The formula of standard factor index:

Ci Pi = Coi

In the formula: Pi--i is index of standard factors

Ci--I is index of density of standard factors, mg/L

Coi--i is standard of factor quality, mg/L

(2) The formula of pH value:

SpH,i=（7.0-pHi）/（7.0-pHsmin）（ pHi≤7.0）

SpH,i=（pHi-7.0）/（pHsminx-7.0）（ pHi＞7.0）

In this formula: SpH,i-- i is standard PH index of monitoring sites

pHi --i is pH of tested water from monitoring sites

pHsmin --is the lower limit of standard index

pHsminx—is the upper limit of standard index

II. Introduction of the Standard Index in the Report.

1. Ambient Air

Follow the Class II standard of Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996) and the

amendment in 2000 in Table 1

Table 1 Catalogue of Air Quality Standards

Environmental Obtain Item Class 2 Unit Standard resource factor time

Annual Environment Air Quality 0.06 The air average Standards 3 SO2 mg/m atmosphere (GB3095-1996）and Daily 0.15 amendment in 2000 average

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Per hour 0.5 average

Annual 0.1

PM10 average

Daily 0.15 average

Annual 0.08

average

NO2 Daily 0.12 average

Per hour 0.24 average

Annual 0.2

TSP average

Daily 0.3 average

2. Surface Water

Yangtze River in Ma’anshan performs Standard Type III in the Surface Water

Environmental Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). Cihu River performs Standard Type V.

They are shown in Table 2

Table 2 List of surface water environmental quality standards

Environmen Item Type III Type V Unit Standard resource tal factor pH value 6～9 -- Standards for Surface Surface Dissolved ≥5 ≥2 water Environmental water oxygen mg/L Quality environment Permanganat ≤6 ≤15 （GB3838-2002） e index

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COD ≤20 ≤40 BOD ≤4 ≤10 Ammonia ≤1.0 ≤2.0 nitrogen Total ≤0.2 ≤0.4 phosphorus Total ≤1.0 ≤2.0 nitrogen Volatile ≤0.005 ≤0.01 phenol Cyanide ≤0.2 ≤0.2 Arsenic ≤0.05 ≤0.1 Hexavalent ≤0.05 ≤0.1 chromium Fluoride ≤1.0 ≤1.5 Sulfide ≤0.2 ≤0.5 Copper ≤1.0 ≤1.0 Quicksilver ≤0.0001 ≤0.001 Selenium ≤0.01 ≤0.02 Lead ≤0.05 ≤0.1 Zinc ≤1.0 ≤2.0 Cadmium ≤0.005 ≤0.01 Petroleum ≤0.05 ≤1.0 Anionic ≤0.2 ≤0.3 surfactant Fecal coliform ≤10000 ≤40000 Sulfide

3. Groundwater

Perform standards Type III in the Groundwater Quality Standard (GB/T14848-93). See Table 3.

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Table 3 List of groundwater environmental quality standard Environmental Item Type 3 Unit Standard resource factor pH 6.5～8.5 -- Total hardness ≤450 Total dissolved ≤1000 solids Chloride ≤250 Permanganate ≤3.0 index Ammonia ≤0.2 nitrogen Nitrate ≤20 Fluoride ≤1.0 Arsenic ≤0.05 Hexavalent Groundwater ≤0.05 The Groundwater Quality chromium environment mg/L Standard (GB/T14848-93) Sulfate ion ≤250 Iron ≤0.3 Manganese ≤0.1 Copper ≤1.0 Zinc ≤1.0 Volatile phenol ≤0.002 Nitrite ≤0.02 Cyanide ≤0.05 Quicksilver ≤0.001 Selenium ≤0.01 Cadmium ≤0.01 Lead ≤0.05

4. Acoustic Environment

The traffic trunk line on both sides should carry out type 4 standard of The Standards for Acoustic Environmental Quality (GB3096-2008). Cihu industry area should carry out Type III standard and other areas carry out Type II standard

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Table 4 List of standards for acoustic environmental quality

Environmen Type Item Type II Type 4a Type 4b Unit Standard resource tal factor III

Daytime 60 65 70 70 The Standards for Acoustic dB（A） Acoustic Environmental environment Night 50 55 55 60 Quality (GB3096-2008)

5. Edatope

The standard of the dredged sediment refers to The Soil Environmental Quality Standard (GB15618-1995).See Table 5. Table 5 Soil Environmental Quality Standard Unit: mg/kg

Level Class I Class II Class III Physical <6.5 6.5~7.5 ＞7.5 Soil pH ＞6.5 setting Cadmium 0.20 0.30 0.30 0.60 1.0 ≤ Quicksilver 0.15 0.30 0.50 1.0 1.5 ≤ Arsenic paddy field 15 30 25 20 30 ≤ Dry land 15 40 30 25 40 ≤ Copper farmland etc 35 50 100 100 400 ≤ Orchard ≤ ---- 150 200 200 400 Lead ≤ 35 250 300 350 500 Chrome paddy field 90 250 300 350 400 ≤ Dry land 90 150 200 250 300 ≤ Hexachlorocyclohexan 0.05 0.50 1.0 e ≤ DDT ≤ 0.05 0.50 1.0

（1）the soil was divided into three categories, according to its applications:

Class I may apply in the Nature reserve (except the one with high heavy metal soil backgroud ), drinking water sources, tea garden, rangeland and other soil protection area, which the soil contents are as the same as the natural background.

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Class Ⅱ may apply on the common farmland, vegetable land, tea garden, orchard, rangeland, which will lead no harm to the plant species and environment.

Class Ⅲ may apply to the forest or some land where the soil has high contamination capacity, and the farmland near the mine (except the vegetable land), which will also lead no harm to the plant species and environment.

（2）Classification standards

Class I is the limit to preserve the natural ecosystem and natural soil background.

Class II is the limit to secure the agricultural production and human health.

Class III is the limit to guarantee the normal growthof plant and foresty production.

III Introduction of Pollutant Control Standard in the Report

1. Waste Gas

Non-organized emission monitoring concentration limit of The Atmospheric Pollutant Comprehensive Discharge Standard (GB16297-1996) is applied, see Table 6. Table 6 List of the standards for the discharge of atmospheric pollutants

Concentration limit of

Category Item non-organized discharge Unit Standard resource

monitoring

Integrated Air Pollutant Exhaust Particles 1.0 mg/m3 Discharge gas Standard(GB16297-1996)

Odour pollutant standard implements the secondary standard of national Odour Pollutant Discharge Standard (GB14554-93), see Table 7. Table 7 Odour pollutants factory bound standard Unit: dB (A)

Serial No. Control project Unit Class 2

1 Odour Non-dimensional 20

2. Noises

In the construction period, Construction Field Emission of Environmental Noise Within Factory Bound (GB12523-2011) is adopted, as shown in Table 8.

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Table 8 Construction Field Emission Of Environmental Noise Within Factory

Bound Unit: dB (A)

Daytime Night

70 55

Pump station’s noise standard adopts type3 standard in Industrial Enterprise Emission of Environmental Noise Within Factory Bound (GB12348-2008), see Table 9. Table 9 Construction Field Emission Of Environmental Noise Within Factory

Bound Unit: dB (A)

aytime Night

65 55

3. Sediment The engineering dredging sediment adopts the soil environment quality standard for the evaluation, and also uses the agricultural sediment pollutant control standards (Table 10) for dredging sediment disposal and emissions control. Table 10 The pollutant control standard of agricultural sediment (mg/kg dewatered

sediment)

Maximum permissible oxygen content concentration

Item In the acid soil In neutral and alkaline soil

(pH<6.5) (pH≥6.5)

Cadmium and its compound 5 20 (counted by Cd)

Quicksilver and its compound 5 15 (counted by Hg)

Lead and its compound (counted 300 1000 by Pb)

Chromium and its compound 600 1000 (counted by Cr)

Arsenic and its compound (counted 75 75 by As)

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Copper and its compound (counted 250 500 by Cu)

IV The analysis method of sediment 1、Monitoring points According to the survey, there were only three drainage outlets in the downstream of Cihu river. In order to know the sediment quality of Cihu river, 3 monitoring points were set up of the up, middle and down stream respectively(same as the surface water monitoring) 2、Sampling method The sampling method was gained from the ‘Water and wastewaters monitoring and analysis method. The 0-50cm sediments was sampled and sealed into plastic sample box, then numbered and delivered to the libratory. 3、Analysis method Dehydrate the sediments with natural air drying way, divided into small samples with the coning and quatering method, and analyze the relative indicators, see detailed in table 11. Table 11 analysis method of sediment Items Method According to Atomic fluorescence method, Mercury GB/T 22105.1-2008 As soil mercury Atomic fluorescence method, Arsenic GB/T 22105.2-2008 As soil arsenic Acid digestion method; USEPA 3050B:1996； Copper, lead, cadmium Inductively coupled plasma USEPA 6010C:2007 emission spectrum method Diphenyl carbonyl two USEPA 3060A:1996 Hexavalent chromium hydrazine spectrophotometry US EPA 7196A:1992

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