E-425 VOL. 11
Public Disclosure Authorized People's Republic of China
World Bank Financed Jiangxi No.2 Highway Project
Suichuan County Connecting Road
Environmental Impact Assessment Report (Third Edition) Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized
Research Institute of Highway, MOC
Public Disclosure Authorized December 2000 People's Republic of China
World Bank Financed Jiangxi No.2 Highway Project
Suichuan County Connecting Road
Environmental Impact Assessment Report (Third Edition)
Research Institute of Highway,MOC
December 2000 Research Institute of Highway
Director Chen Guojing
Chief Engineer Liu shutao
Environment Protection Division
Division Head : Ye Huihai
Chief Engineer :Lizongyu
Examiner Ye Huihai
Project Team Leader :Yan Xiaolin Associate Research Fellow
(EIA Professional Competence Certificate. No. 0060 Beijing)
Project Team Member Shen yi, Associate Research Fellow (EIA Professional
Competence Certificate. No. 2116 );
Li xiyun, Senior Engineer(EIA Professional Competence
Certificate, No. 0909 Beijing);
Dong bochang, Engineer(EIA Professional Competence
Certificate, No. 08380):
Wang Fang, Engineer (EIA Profesional Competence
Certificate, No. 0098 Beijing):
Fan qingchun, Engineer (EIA Profesional Competence
Certificate, No. 0995 Beijing)
I Contents
Chapter 1 General Provisions ...... I 1.1 Foreword...... I1 1.2 AssessmentBasis ...... 1I 1.3 AssessmentScope, Duration and Criteria...... 3 1.4 Targets for EnvironmentalProtection ...... 5 1.5 AssessmentFactors and Method...... 6 1.6 AssessmentCategory and Key Points ...... 7 Chapter 2 Project Overview...... 8 2.1 Alignmentand Major ControllingPoints ...... 8 2.2 Scale of Construction,Technical Standards & Quantitiesof MainWorks ... 8 2.3 TrafficVolume Estimate ...... 9 2.4 General Outline of Project ...... 9 2.5 InvestmentEstimate and Financing...... 10 2.6 Time Arrangementfor the Project ...... 10
Chapter 3 Current Environmental Description & Assessment...... 11 3.1 Natural Environment...... 11 3.2 Social Environment...... 12 3.3 EcologicalEnvironment ...... 14 3.4 Acoustic Environment...... 16 3.5 AtmosphericEnvironment ...... 17
Chapter 4 Environment Impact Prediction & Assessment ...... 18 4.1 Social EnvironmentImpact Assessment...... 18 4.2 EcologicalEnvironmental Impact Prediction& Assessment . . 20 4.3 AcousticEnvironmental Impact Prediction& Assessment...... --. 22 4.4 Ambient Air Impact Prediction& Assessment...... 31.. 4.5 EnvironmentImpact of BuildingMaterials Quarries and Transport...... 34
Chapter 5 Environmental Mitigation Measures ...... 36 5.1 Design Stage ...... 36 5.2 ConstructionStage ...... 36 5.3 Operation Stage...... 38
[ Chapter 6 AlternativesAnalysis ...... 40 6.1 "Without the project" analysis ...... 40 6.2 Alignment selectionprocedure ...... 40 6.3 EnvironmentalBenefits of the Proposed Project...... 40
Chapter 7 EnvironmentalMonitoring and Management...... 41 7.1 EnvironmentalMonitoring ...... 41 7.2 EnvironmentalManagement Organizations...... 42 7.3 Budget Estimate for EnvironmentalMonitoring ...... 46 Chapter 8 Public Participation ...... 47 8.1 Survey Methodand Contents...... 47 8.2 Summary of the Survey ...... 47 8.3 InformationDisclosures and Feedback...... 49 8.4 Brief Summary...... 50 Chapter 9 AssessmentConclusions ...... 51 9.1 Social Environment...... I...... 1 9.2 EcologicalEnvironment (including soil erosion,water environment).. 1.I 9.3 Acoustic Environment...... 52 9.4 Ambient Air...... 53 9.5 Public Participation...... 53 9.6 EnvironmentalInvestment and ManagementPlan ...... I...... 54 9.7 ComprehensiveAssessment ...... 54
Annex I Overviewof the Assessment Unit and Staff Member Annex II Reference Annex III Public Participationand Questionnaires(group inquiry) Annex IV Environmentaland Resettlement Bulletin for the World Bank Financed Jiangxi No.2 Highway Project Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway Annex V List of Tables and Figures Annex VI List of relevant reports
11 Chapter 1 General Provisions
1.1 Foreword Suichuan linking road-a part of Jiangxi No. 2 highway financed by the World Bank loan is an important entry-exit passage connecting Suichuan county, Jinggangshan
City with Gan-Yue Expressway. The construction of it will play a very important role in realizing the hub function of Gan-Yue Expressway, improving local comprehensive transport network. It provides an important basic condition of opening to the outside
world for Suichuan countv.
According to the requirements and suggestions of the World Bank experts, we have made the Envirorunental Assessment Report for this linking road separately. The Research Institute of Highway (RIOH) under the MOC completed the EIA of
Suichuan Linking Road (Version 1) for Gan-Yue Expresswav Taihe-Ganzhou Section in June.2000. In accordance with the suggestions in the aide-memoire at the second preparatory mission by the World Bank environmental experts for Jiangxi NO.2 highway. the RIOH made modification and compiled this EIA report. In December 2000, the EIA team again modified this EIA report in accordance with the aide-memoireat the pre-evaluationmission of Gan-YueExpressway (Taihe-Ganzhou Section) of the WorldBank environmentalexperts.
1.2 Assessment Basis (1) People's Republic of China Law on Environmental Protection (26 Dec.. 1989):
(2) People's Republic of China Law on Water Pollution Control (I 5 Mav. 1996);
(3) People's Republic of China Law on Atmospheric Pollution control (29 Dec.,
1995)
(4) People's Republic of China Law on Environmental Noise Pollution Control (29
Oct.. 1996); (5) People's Republic of China Law on Water and Soil Conservation (29 June.1991)
I (6) People's Republicof China Law on Land Management(29 Aug.,1998) (7) Act of Environmental Protection and Management for Construction Projects [The State Council,C. 253] (18 Nov., 1998); (8) Announcementon Further Management of EnvironmentalImpacts Assessment of ConstructionProject Loaned From Intemational Financial Institution [(1993) No.324 Document on Environmental Supervision, issued by China National Environmental Protection Bureau etc.]; (9) World Bank Operation Handbook OP/BP/GP 4.01 Environmental Assessment, March 1999: (10) Technical Guiding Provisions for Environmental Impacts Assessment (HJ/T2.1-2.3-93,HT/T2.4-1995. HJ/T19-1997. issued by China National Environmental Protection Bureau); ( 11) Environmental Protection and Management Measures for Construction Projects of Communication(The Ministry of Communications.C.(90) 17); (12) Specificationsof EnvironmentalImpacts Assessmentfor ConstructionProjects of Highway (Tentative)[JTJO05-96, The Ministry of Communications]: (13) Act of EnvironmentalProtection for Jiangxi Provincial Construction Projects (29 April. 1995); (14) Program of Environmental Impacts Assessment for Taihe-Ganzhou Road Section of Gan-Yue Expressway (Highway Research Institute. The Ministry of Communications,March. 2000); (15) Reply to the Reviewing Opinions on Program of Environmental Impacts Assessment for Taihe-Ganzhou Road Section of Gan-Yue Expressway [(2000 No.58 Document on Environmental Supervision. issued by China National Environmental Protection Bureau. 14 April. 2000); (16) The Letter on Approval of Environmental Impacts Standard of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-Ganzhou Road Section) [(2000) No.14 Document on Ganzhou Environment and Development. Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection
2 Department]; (17) Feasibility Study Report for Suichuan LinkingRoad Works of Taihe-Ganzhou Road Section of Gan-Yue Expressway (Jiangxi Provincial Communications Design Institute, Feb., 2000). (18) Two-stage Preliminary Design of Gan-Yue Expressway (Suichuan Linking Road) by Jiangxi ProvinceCommunications Design Institute,May, 1999. (19) Two-stage Preliminary Design of Gan-Yue Expressway (Suichuan Linking Road) by Jiangxi ProvinceCommunications Design Institute,September,2000
1.3 Assessment Scope, Duration and Criteria 1.3.1 Assessment Scope The assessment scope is shown in Table 1-1. Table 1-1 AssessmentScope of EnvironmentalImpacts of the ProposedRoad
No. EnvironmentElements AssessmentScope
Area vwithin 200m from twNosides of the central line of the proposed I Acoustic Environment road and extending to 300m if there are sensitive locations as schools. hospitals
Area 0ithin 200mfrom two sides of the central line of the proposed 2 Atmospheric Environment road and extending to 300m if there are sensitive locations as schools. hospitals
Area within 200m from two sides of the central line of the proposed 3 WaterEnvironment road. and Nvater regime within 200m upstream and 200m dow nstream from the locationof road bridge across the river
Area within 200m from tv%osides of the central line of the proposed 4 EcologicalEnvironment road. eanh borrow.v6aste areas and quarries
5 Social En. ironment The project impacted areas
1.3.2 Assessment Time Horizon Construction: 2002.8-2004.8 Operation: 2004.2015and 2023
1.3.3 Assessment Standards According to the Letter on Approval of EnvironmentImpacts Standard of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-GanzhouSection) in Document [(2000) No.14 Ganzhou]. by Jiangxi Province Environmental Protection Bureau, the following criteria are used for the
3 assessment. (1) Water: The main river that Suichuan linking road passes through is Suichuan river. According to the status and function requirement of water, class III standard in GHZB1-1999 Ground Surface Water Quality Standard is used for the assessment of water quality, while Class I standard in GB5084-92 Farmland Irrigation Water Quality Standard is used for SS assessment,shown in Table 1-2. Table 1-2 StandardLimits for Water QualityAssessment mg/L(except pH)
Indicator pH CODc, Petrol-oil SS Remarks
Standardlimits for Class I standardin GB5084-92is used waterquality 6.5-8.5 -20 (0.05 S 150 for SSassessment. the rest will apply assessment classIll of GHZB1-1999 standard
(2) Acoustic: GB 12523-90 Construction WVorkSites Noise Limits Standard is used for the assessment of noise during the construction,in which Class IV standard is used for the dense residential quarters and first row of the buildings within the assessment scope of road sides; and Class I standard is used for the schools and hospital wards. shown in Table 1-3 and Table 1-4. Table 1-3 GB12523-90Standard of NoiseLimit for ConstructionWork Site (Unit: Leq (dB) Noiselimit Constructionphase Mlainsources of noisc Da! time Ni2ht time
Earth& stone%%ork Bulldozer.exca%ator. loader. etc. 75 55
Piling Variouspiling machines 85 Work prohibited
Structure Concretemixer. X ibrating spear. electric saw.etc. 70 55
Finishinz Crane.lifter. etc. 65 55
Table 1-4 NoiseCriteria for Urban Area (extracts) Leq:dB
Typeor SensitivePoints Daytime Nighttime
GB3096-93Class IV Standard 70 55
ClassI Standard 55 45
4 (3) Ambient air Construction: Class II standard in Environment Air Quality Standard is applied to
TSP assessment.
Operation: Class II Standard in GB3095-1996 Ambient Air Quality Standard is applied . Refer to Table 1-5 Table 1-5 GB3095-1996Ambient Air QualityStandard (extracts) (mg/ m3)
Pollutant TSP NitrogenOxides CarbonMonoxide
Daily Avera2e 0.30 0.10 4.00 Concentration Limit I -hour Average 0.15 10.00
1.4 Targets for Environmental Protection The impact factors on the ecological environment are land occupation. woodland vegetation damage, soil erosion, water quality pollution cause by bridge construction. The protective targets include: farmland. woodland, pond. high filling/cutting section
(KO+000-K2+750.K4+200-K4+750). earth borrowing area (K14+400-K14+680).
Meijiang river and canals. The impact factors on acoustic and ambient air include construction noise. secondary dust. Traffic noise and tail gas. The protective targets are presented in Table 1-6.
As the construction of this road is the up-grade on the existing old road, no great impact would occur from the point view of ecological environment.. The main impact on the surrounding residents, schools and living comes from construction noise and traffic noise as well as tail gas in operation phase. Therefore environmental protection targets in this project are the sensitive locations to noise and ambient air along the road. Table 1-6 Sensitive Locations to Noiseand Air along the Road Distancefrom Households No. Name Location Central Line of /Numberof EnvironmentalFeatures Road People Hongshan . 330 Enclosing wall around the school. I Central KO+600 60mat rightfrom students. 20 playground and open ground before the PrimarySchool the classroom teachers teachingbuilding 2 Huanggang K3+500 Left 50m 30 /120 Farmlandalong the oldroad T3irough the Paddyfield. vegetable plot and households 3 Dongtang K7+550 village.14m after 7/300 alongthe old road formingas a street remove 4 Jiangchexia K8+200 Through the village. 40160 Paddvftrid 20mafter remove 5 Shanjiaoxia K8+700 Left 20m 18/75 At the foot hillwith vegetableplot. paddy ______~~~~~~field 6 Zhanetang K 10+200 Left edge 80.20 e Householdsdistributing along the oldroad Zhangtan 30m nght of the 180 7 gPrimari K10+100 classroom. through students.6 Enclosing wall around the school. School School the platgroundplayground teachers ~~playgroundbeforethe teaching building 8 Meijian KI 1+350 lliroughthevillage. 60/240 Households distributinp along the old village 14maflter remove road.farmland 9 ShaoxiK1 2+200 Right80m 90/400 Householdsdistributing along the old 9 Shaoxi KI 2-'-200 Right80m 90/400 road,farmland 10 Catingxia K12+900 Right75m 34/128 | Canals.padd) field II Sheshane K13+900 Through the village. 40/160 Households distributing along the old 14mafer remove 1i road, farmiand 68 On the side of the old road. being old Sheang two-storev timber-strcture building Pma2 PrimaryK13+0school Left60m ~~~~~~~teachersstudentss3 ina~classroom is verticalto the road . a clinic
13 WanneiYangcu K16+SS0 niht 10 120/500 Paddy field. pond. counur road n ______Jsurrounding 14 Anxia K17+400 Leftedge 57/240 Smallroad. paddy field 15 Chitang K 17+700 Leftedge 80'320 Drn canal. pond. padd\ field. small ______quantities of resettlement 16 Zhangw-uli K18+150 Left 25m 60/240 Pond.paddy fields. small roads
17 Lubei K18+400 Right100 1 LueK_84010/160Rih10401 | Closefield. dr! to canalsnational highwax 105. paddy Yuezili 18 jilh K}19-fi700 Right30m 22/88 Smallroads. paddy field Ijianshang_I
19 Zijzhitouxia 20st Through the v-illage. 120/480 1Small road. padd\ field (Xitou) on 20m after remove
1.5 Assessment Factors and Method 1.5.1 Assessment Factors (1) Acoustic environment: equivalent acoustic level (A): LAeq; (2) Atmosphericenvironment: NON,CO. TSP.
1.5.2 Assessment Method In this report. the environment noise and atmospheric environment are assessed by
6 status monitoring and surveying statistic analysis, and predicted by analogic analysis and module computation. The analogic analysis is used for the prediction assessment at the construction stage, while the module computation is employed for the prediction assessment in the operation stage. According to the predictedresults, the range up to the standard is given and used as a basis for the developmentalactivity conducted by the planning / construction department. Meanwhile, the locations sensitive to noise / waste gas environment are predictedand assessed. The ecological environment, water, and soil-and-water loss are assessed by surveying combined with analogic analysis, while the social environmnent,living quality and public participationare assessed by surveying analvsis.
1.6 Assessment Category and Key Points This works is the expanding construction and rebuilding project. There are environmental sensitive locations as schools and residential areas along the road within the range of assessment. The building of bridge has a certain influence on water environment. but smaller influence on ecological environment and soil-and-water erosion. According to Technical Guiding Provisions for Environmental Impacts Assessment, it is required that the assessment of special subject is analyzed. in which ecological environment (including soil-and-water loss) is assessed to be Category 111, water environment and atmospheric environment be Category III respectively, and acoustic environment be Category11. According to features and pollution of this project, the assessment of acoustic environmental impacts is a key point in the assessment of this project.
7 Chapter 2 Project Overview
2.1 Alignment and Major ControllingPoints The proposed road starts from Suichuan interchange of the main road, via Daquan, Hongshan, Huanggang, Zhongping, Dongtang,Zhangtang, Meijiang, Shaoxi,Hongtaxia (Niutou Computer station), Yangcun, Anxia, Jihe, Shangmaocheng, Zhuzitouxia, Xizhuang and ends at Jinggangshan highway,with a total length of 20.596km. Basically, the proposed road runs along the old road and is built by Class II highwaystandard. The design speed is 80 km/h with 12.Omfor roadbed width.
2.2 Scale of Construction, Technical Standards & Quantities of Main Works According to the prediction of traffic volume. by reference to the regulations in JTJOO1-97 Technical Standard for Highway Engineering and JTJO11-96 Highway Alignment Design Specifications (The Ministry of Communications).the whole road is built by Class II highway standard with design speed of 80 km/h . and its main technical indicatorsand quantities of main works are shown in Table 2-1. Table 2-1 Quantities of Main Works/ Technical Indicators Item Name Unit Quantity Landform Plain. hill! land. Highwavclass Class 11 Calculated Running Speed Km/h 80 Running Lane Width m 9.0 Pavement wvidth m 12 Max longitudinal grade 3.889 Earth'%orkand Stone%%orkfor Roadbed lOOOm3 798.038 Land occupied .AlM 818.4 Removed Buildings m 25549.5 MliddleBridge m/place 236/4 Small Bridge m/place 153.015 Cul'.ert m/place 1568.17/82 Road pavement Asphalt-injectedpavement
Source: T\xo-stagepreliminar\ design of Gan-Yue Expresswa\ (Suichuan linkibng road). b\JPCDl.Sept..2000.
8 1S2-1 ri' eaOl)iitRi Figure 2-1 Geographicalposition of the proposedroad in Jiangxiprovince
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The predicted results are shown in Table 2-2. Table 2-2 Predictionof Traffic Volume Middle-sizedvehicles/ day Year 2004 2015 2023 Trend 2764 5365 6985 Indced 202 268 279 Total 2966 5633 7264 Source:FIS report of Gan-YueExpressway Taihe-Gangzhou (Suichuan linkibng road), byJPCDI, Feb.,2000. 2.4 GeneralOutline of Project 2.4.1 Roadbedand DrainagePrevention (I) Standardcross-section of roadbed The roadbed is 12m wide, and its cross-sectionconsists of 1.5m (earth shoulder) +9m (running lane)+1.5m(earth shoulder ). (2) Designedelevation of roadbed: elevation of central line of road surface. (3) Transverseslope: 2% (running lane) and 4% (earth shoulder). (4) Side slope of roadbed: Generally, the side slope of fill section is 1:1.5. When the height of fill section is morn than 8m. the grade locating at 8m from top to bottom is changed into 1:1.5 (top) and 1:1.75 (bottom). and a bermnof 1.5m wide is arranged at this location. The side slope of excavation is dependent on the geological condition. When the height of excavation is more than 8m. a platform locating at 8m from bottom to top is arranged. (5) Drainageof roadbed The trench drains along the road are combined with bridges and culverts into a perfect drainage system so that the stability of both roadbed and side slope is ensured. Refer to Figure 2-3 for the standard roadbed section profile. 2.4.2 Structureof Road Surface Accordingto the natural environment along the road, road materials, traffic volume and constructioncondition etc., the road is paved by asphalt injection 6cm thick. and the bedding is a structure of cemented sand and cobble whose layer is 20cm thick. The 9 bedding course is filled by unscreened crushed stone, with 32cm thickness. 2.4.3 Bridges and Culverts There are 4 middle-sized bridges and 5 small bridges, 82 culverts , averaging at 4 per kilometer. 2.4.4 Cross-RoadWorks The grade crossing is used for the intersection of this proposed road with other substandard roads. 43 intersections at grade are arranged along the road, in which 2 intersect at grade with Class II highway and 3 insects at Class IV highway. The methods of grade crossing are to pave the corner lane or divergent turning lane. 2.4.5 Land occupied The land acquisition (land lease) for this project amounts to 818.4mu, in which 548.7 mu paddy 5 mu dry land, 179.7mu wood land, 3.5mu pond. 7.7mu wild land, 67.2mu house property, 6.6mu plain land. 71.25mu lease land. 2.5 Investment Estimate and Financing The funding of Suichuan linking road will be solved by bank loan combined with the provincial self-financing. The total investment in this section amounts to 98.373143 million Yuan with an average cost of 4.775395 million per kilometer 2.6 Time Arrangementfor the Project The preparatory work started in 1999. the construction will be started in August. 2002 and completed for operation in August. 2004. 10 Chapter 3 Current Environmental Description & Assessment 3.1 Natural Environment (1) Geographicbriefing The Suichuan linking road starts from Suichuan interchange of the main road and ends at Jinggangshan highway, with a total length of 20.598km. Coming to Dongtang, this road rises and falls with a ground elevation of 90-170m, the difference of elevation is 40-80m relatively, and the hilly bodies appear to be long ridge-like mound. From Dongtang to destination. there are Suichuan river and its valley plain, where the elevation of ground is 90-120m. This area is flat, wide and I ow-lying. (2) Meteorologyand Climate Suichuan county is located in subtropical monsoon climate which is characterized by distinct four seasons with mild temperature. abundant rainfall. full of sunshine, long winter and summer, short Spring and Autumn.. The annual average temperature in the road areais 18.6°C; January is the coldest month, averaging 6.9'C; July is the hottest month. averaging 29.5 C. The annual average rainfall is 1421.2mm. The region is featured with seasonal wind, west and northwest ground wind dominated, only south and southwest wind dominating the months fro May to July. (3) Hydrology According to site survey and regional geological data analysis. the underground water in the region, mainly, is fissure water in red rock stratum and pore water in Quaternary friable rock stratum. (4) Geologyand Earthquake According to the data and site surrey. this section of road has a large-area intermittent uplifting activity. The different activity of fault and fault block is not obvious. and the activity of earthquake is less than VI Richter scale. II 3.2 Social Environment 3.2.1 Status of Social economyin project impact region (1) Overview Suichuan county is situated at the eastern foot of southern section of Luoxiao Mountain, close to the southwestern border of Jiangxi province, in the south of Ji'an district. And it is located at 25° 58' -26° 42' Nand 113° 56' ,1140 45' E,with a total area of 3144.17 square kilometer. The east of this county adjoins Wanran couty, its south borders Nankang county and Shangyou county. its west is adjacent to Guidong county of Hunan province, its northwest adjoins Jinggangshan city and its north approaches Taihe couty. In 1998, the total population in Suichuan was 507,000 people, and GDP was 1.135.78 million Yuan (RMB). in which farmers per capita earned 1468 Yuan, the gross value of industrial output was 243.27million Yuan and the gross value of agricultural output 752970000 Yuan. (2) Developmental situation of national economy 01 Gross national economy In 1998. GDP in Suichuan was 1136.0 million Yuan. Based on the calculation according to comparable prices, GDP was 4.04 times higher than 1990 and increased 5.0% higher than 1997. And GDP per capita was up to 2240 Yuan. i.e. 4.2% higher than 1997. Main economic indicators in 1985-1998 are shown in Table 3-I. 02 Industry Since the reformation and opening, the industrial economy in Suichuan has grown very quickly: First, the speed of industrial economic development accelerates the expansion of production scale. In 1998. the gross value of industrial output was up to 243.2 million Yuan (based on prices in that year): second. the sorts of industrial production have been more complete. The local industrial system consisting of state / town / individual industry has been established preliminarily in Suichuan county. where the managerial mechanism has been suited to the law of market economy, with a better economic benefit. 12 Table 3-1 Main Social Economic Indicators in Suichuan PopulationPopulation GDPl00GDP(100 1stI5 2nd InduInustry (lOOmrilion3rd Indust GPGDP per IncomeExpensein Living of FannersIncomeperNet Years bv YearEnd million Industy(100 (100nmillion Capita Expens capir (10000) Yuan) millionYuan) Yuan) Y((Yuan) (ToYuResidents (Yuan) 1985 43.66 1.63 1.12 0.26 0.25 376 870 336 1986 44.44 1.62 1.04 0.31 0.27 367 1035 331 1987 45.14 1.73 1.10 0.33 0.30 386 1035 358 1988 46.37 1.95 1.19 0.42 0.33 426 1263 439 1989 47.17 2.29 1.48 0.43 0.38 490. 1427 482 1990 47.72 2.81 1.76 0.45 0.60 591 1576 490 1991 48.22 3.34 2.05 0.50 0.80 697 1700 589 1992 48.52 3.74 2.13 0.63 0.98 772 1948 659 1993 48.81 4.49 2.37 1.02 1.10 923 2178 691 1994 49.15 6.89 3.30 2.20 1.39 1408 3227 1023 1995 49.47 7.51 3.73 1.75 2.03 1524 3386 1351 1996 49.95 8.89 4.08 2.20 2.62 1781 4094 1678 1997 50.3 10.82 4.53 2.82 3.46 2150 4124 1467 1998 50.7 11.36 4.53 3.18 3.65 2240 4961 1468 Sources:(1) Truly Great Men Competingon Red Land (Edited by JiangxiProvincial Statistic Department) andJiangxi Provincial Statistic Yearbook (1997,1998,1999) (2) GDP is basedon pricesin thoseyears. ( Agriculture Suichuan is characterized by favorable natural conditions. fertile land. abundant produces and favorable conditions for agricultural production. In 1998. the gross value of agricultural output was 753 million Yuan (based on prices in that year). The town enterprises are new enterprises suddenly coming to the fore and have become a main of rural economy. The output of main farm produces has been grown constantly. in which grain and tea were 186.200t and 5,0t respectively. a) Tourism There are many historical relics and scenic spots in this county. In ancient times. there were "Eight Landscapes in Spring Town" and many famous mountains and beautiful waters, wonderful peaks and grotesque stones. ancient trees. temples and ancient buildings etc. Meanwhile. Suichuan has been to be an old revolutionary base area. with many revolutionary ruins and cultural relics, where a lot of historical sites enjoy high reputation in China. 13 3.2.2 Review of current regional highway network (1) Existent highways There are 7 arterial highways in total in Suichuan county. 10 highways maintained by the local highway management stations led by Suichuan County Communications Department, with a total length of 156.78km. Suichuan Section of National Highway 105 is 50.14km long. Suichuan-Guidongprovincial highway is 103.3km, in which a section of this highway in the county border is 80.3kmn.Hengfeng-Jinggangshan provincial highway is 57.87km, in which a section in Suichuan county to Fenshuit ao is 18.3krm.In addition, there are such arterial highways as Yutian-Xinjiangkouhighway (50.8km). Shui-Huanghighway, Sui_Bi highwayand Dao-Xian countyhighway. (2) Water transport Suichuan river is the most importantcourse in this county and has a long history of navigation. After 1980, trucks and tractors were increased quickly, thus the highway transport has been increasing busy so that the goods source of water transport has run short. In addition, the course has been silted up, so it is difficult to find any boats / ships in Suichuan river in recent years. 3.3 Ecological Environment 3.3.1 Survey of animals and plants The recovery of forest in Suichuan county is 67.5%. For the most part. the land along this proposed road is cultivated and planted. And only a few of bush wood or natural grassland exist. The bush wood consists of masson pine and azalea etc. On the natural grassland grows the grass family and pteridophyte. The cultivation and vegetation are crops on farmland, and only a few of woods. economic forest, fruit trees. greening forest and scenic forest etc. Basically. the farmland vegetation is crops or industrial crop. for examples: paddy rice.,cotton and sugarcane etc.: the woods are pine, China fir and bamboo etc.; the economic forest includes tea-oil tree. tung tree and tea tree etc: the fruit trees are tangerine, peach. plum and orange etc; the greening forest and scenic forest consist of Chinese parasol and willow etc. 14 The project region is characterized by various vegetation kinds and higher vegetating recovery. However, under the influence of natural and artificial factors, the natural broadleaftrees have been reduced, and the artificial coniferous trees have been increased. For the most part, there are the charcoal-made forest taking masson pine as main, and the economic forest taking kumquat and tea-oil tree as main, distributing along the proposed road, without any special protectedplants. The area passed by the proposed road is a region where population is highly concentrated, the farning activity is intensified. and most of animals are the species suiting for dwelling of farmland and residential area, for examples: mouse species and sparrow-likebird species. No rare wildlife has been found in the assessmentscope. 3.3.2 Soil type The soil in Suichuan county is divided into 9 classes (paddy soil. fluviatile loam, purple soil. red earth, yellow brown earth etc) and 14 subclasses. The paddy soil is 461000mu. which takes up 9.78% of total area of soil in Suichuan county and is the main farming soil; the fluviatile loam is 8200mu (0.17% of total soil area): the purple soil is 112600mu (2.4% of total soil area); the red earth is 3 15200mu (66.84% of total soil area); the yellow brown earth is 131500mu (2.97% of total soil area). 3.3.3 Survey of land and crops resources According to the statistic data in 1999, the arable land in Suichuan county is 27634 hectares. in which paddy field is 24737 hectares and dry farmland is 2897 hectares. i.e. 1.5m per capita. In this region, land is valuable and farmland is more precious. The climate in the project area is temperate and the water temperature is suitable to grow paddy rice. beans. cotton. sugarcane. tea-oil tree. sesame and tobacco etc. 3.3.4 Survey and assessment of water environment Suichuan linking road will pass across Suichuan river and its tributary. Suichuan river is one of 4 major tributaries of Ji'an section (trunk stream of Ganjiang trunk river). whose catchment area is 3045 square kilometer. main river is 162kmlong and annual average flow is 2894 million mi. Accordingto the survey. the local people take underground water as drinking water. 15 No water source taken as drinking water has been found in the assessment scope. 3.3.5 Soil and Water Erosion According to the survey, the soil and water loss in Suichuan county is light, as shown in Table 3-2. And the soil erosion degree standardis shown in Table 3-3. Table 3-2 Soil and Water Loss in Suichuan County Soil erosion Light Middie High Extreme Serious Other Total category(kin 2) Lgt Mdl Hih High Soilerosion area 32.52 18.89 7.92 3.47 6.95 395.33 465.28 Datasource: Soil ErosionRemote Sense Survey Report of Ji'angxi Provinceby Ji'angxi ProvincialWater & Soil ConversationStation. 1997 Table 3-3 Soil Erosion Category Standard Category Slight light Middle High Extremne Serious I______I______I______high AverageErosion <200.500100 200.500. 2500-5000 500-80 8000-15000 > 5000 Modulus(t/km * a) 0 1000-2500 200 Datasource: EIA Specificationsof HighwvayConstruction Project (trial) 3.4 Acoustic Environment Ji'an District Environment Monitoring Station did the monitoring work whose results are shown in Table 3-4. Table 3-4 Results of Environment NoiseMonitoring Monitoring . NoiseLevel (dB) Locations Lo | L5o L,, L,q a HongshanCentral Primary Day 50.4 43.0 37.5 46.4 4.9 School(KO+600) Night 44.1 39.1 35.1 40.9 3.4 ZhangtangPrimary School Day 55.3 46.5 41.4 51.5 5.4 (K 10+100) Night 42.4 40.4 39.1 40.9 1.3 Dan 57.4 45.1 40.6 53.0 7.0 3 MeijiangVillage (KI 1+350) Night 45.0 41.8 39.8 43.2 2.4 ShaoxiPrimars School Day 42.0 41.0 40.0 41.2 0.83 (K12+200) Night 43.0 42.0 41.0 41.9 0.73 Shangxitou Da! 51.1 49.1 47.5 49.5 1.4 I I(K20+00)Night 43.8 41.4 40.1 42.2 1.7 Datasource: The monitoring report b% ii anPrefecture Monitoring Stations. April .2000 The monitored results have shown that day and night noise levels at residential points are 49.5-53dB daytime and 42.2-43.2dB night time respectively. which conform to Class I standard While day and night noise levels at school points are 41.2-51.5dB and 40.9-41.9dB respectively. which conform to Class I standard. This shows a good 16 acoustic environment, and the requirement of all sensitive locations for the acoustic environmentalfunction can be satisfied. 3.5 Atmospheric Environment The monitoring point of Suichuan linking road was arranged at Shaoxi Primary School. The sampling analysis methods were based on the stipulations of National EnvironmentalProtection Bureau. The monitored results are shown in Table 3-5. Table3-5 MonitoredData of CurrentAmbient Air Monitoring 1-hourAverage Value DailyAverage Value Max.bmes TotalDaily Point Concentration Excess Concentration Excess Exceedance (AMrmge Limit(mg/m3) Rate(%) Limit(mgm3) Ratem(%) Primaro NO, 0.001-0.009 0 0.003-0.006 0 0 0.004 Schooi TSP - 0.233-0.264 0 0 0.246 (K 12+200) _ _ _ _ _ I_ _ Data source:The monitoringreport by Ji'an PrefectureMonitoring Stations,April,2000 Table 3-5 has shown that 1-hour and daily concentration limits of NOx are 0.001-0.009 mg/m3 and 0.003-0.006 mg/m3 respectively.and daily concentration limit of TSP is 0.233-0.264 mg/mr . all of them are lower than that of the National Air Quality Class II Standard. 17 Chapter 4 Environment Impact Prediction & Assessment 4.1 Social EnvironmentImpact Assessment 4.1.1 Social developmentand living quality After the construction of the proposed road is completed, the standard of road will be heightened considerably, the condition of road is improved greatly, the traffic capacity is remarkably increased, and the transportability can be greatly improved. This construction will provide a necessary provision for eliminating a traffic congestion, reducing a traffic accident, promoting the quick exchange of commodities and information between regions, improving the investment environment in this region and further extending business by solicit investors to reinvigorate the economy. With the improvement of communications condition after constructing this road. the regional construction and development along the road can be promoted, and the industrial structure and its layout in this region will tend to be more rationalized. The industrial enterprises are gradually turned from large and middle cities to outskirts, so as to make commerce, catering trade, tourist trade. building industry, transport service. processing industry and breeding etc in the impact region develop quickly. With their gradual rise and development, more chances of social employment will be provided for people. and it produces higher economic / social benefit. After the proposed road is put into operation. the economy in this region will be developed quickly and the economic prosperity is promoted also. The development of economy will improve the people's living environment and the residential living level. 4.1.2 Impacts on infrastructure facilities During the construction phase. 129 wire poles and 8040m telecommunication wires will be relocated. which has a certain impact on family lighting. and electric supply for communication / town or village industry. Therefore, the protection and removal work of the public service should be coordinated with the departments concerned before construction start. Before removing, the electric power and communication lines should 18 be properly rebuilt to supply power for the surrounding residential area and village enterprises to ensure their living not impacted.. 4.1.3 Land acquisition,removal and resettlement (I) Analysisof impacts on land acquisition The farmland is 1.5m per capita in the region along the proposed road, thus the arable land is very valuable. 818.4mu land is to be purchased and 71.25mu land is leased for this project. The land occupation will have a certain impact on the agricultural and forest production in this region along the proposed road. Due to the social and economic benefit produced from the completionof this road construction,the value of occupied land will change. Meanwhile. with the completionof the road project, a new industrial zone will appear and the farmnlandis turned to a non-agriculturalland. As viewed from economy, the value of land rises. In order to protect the valuable farmland resource, it is suggested that the land management department should strengthen the scrutinyand control of land use for all construction. (2) removal and resettlement For this road construction. 25549.5m2 of removal buildings with a concrete-brick structure of 12785.7m 2 . cob brick structure of 12763.8m 2 will be removed. The removal and resettlement are related to people's immediate interests. Therefore, it is required that the construction departmentsmust do well the removal and resettlement work. By use of "Resettlement Action Plan" . the compensationmethods for land acquisition and the compensation sum for buildings removal are formulated. The construction departments should be supported greatly by the local governmental departments to do well the resettlement work. on the basis of following the whole interests of this road construction. 4.1.4 Impacts on traffic safety and convenience The proposed road is to be Class II highway.The road is open. so it provides a good traffic environment for the surrounding residents. It should be noted that there are 3 schools on the sides of this road in the assessment scope. in this case. it is possible that the students must pass through this road. Therefore, it is required that the road 19 construction departmentsshould consider to set up the notice board " LOW SPEED" or overpass bridge at the locations where the students often appear, in order to avoid any traffic accidents. 4.2 Ecological EnvironmentalImpact Prediction& Assessment 4.2.1 Impact of road-occupiedland on pattern of land utilization The land acquisition for Suichuan linking road amounts to 818.4mu (548.7mu of paddy field). The occupation of farmland, especially paddy field, will give prominence to the contradictionof " more population, less land " in the project region, and increase a pressure on the rest farmland.The occupied land will have a short-term influence on the income of farmers in the project region. In particular. it has a greater impact on the land contractors in the local region. The land adjustment by the village-level ,overnment or a new industry developed by use of land compensation expenditure can reduce this unfavorableimpact. In addition, the urbanizationeffect produced by opening this highway often makes a vast of good-quality farmlandon the sides of this highway be a nonagriculturalland. so the farming production and land utilization will suffer. to a certain extent. its impact. At the construction stage, the temporary land use has a certain unfavorable impact on the local agriculturalproduction also. However, the temporaryland use. relatively,is lesser. and these land can be gradually returned to their original function by clearing and cultivating after the completion of works. After the completion of highway. the land which is not utilized is more easily to be developed. due to the traffic convenience. In addition. the construction of highway will promote the economic development in the whole region. and provides. to the full, the traffic and infrastructurefacilities needed by the farm produces production and the processing industry development. Meanwhile. it offers increasingly an opportunity to employment for the local people also. In this way, the local rural economy will be promoted to the deeper development, and the value of land resource. in the form of utilization, can be converted. 20 4.2.2 Impacts of highway constructionon animals and plants in project region Because a part of highway is arranged in the farmland and forestland, the vegetation will be damaged in the process of construction. After the completion of highway,these damaged lands will be reclaimed and replanted in time. The animal species in the assessment region, for the most part, are livestock, poultry and a few of general wild animals, that they can grow in a poor environment and have a stronger suitability for the artificial impact. The constructionof highway will not make their dwelling environmentchange more and interrupttheir nornal living, so they can sustain in the project region. 4.2.3 Impacts of soil-borrowingfield and dump on ecological environment It is necessary to borrow 210266m3 soil for this highway without any waste. The central borrowing areas located at left of K14+400-K 14+680with a length of 250m and 150 in width, averaging 6m in height. It occupies woodland area of 56.25 mu with borrowing volume 230,000m3.The borrowing areas are basically in line with the policy and requirement as they located in hilly areas. As viewed from the protection of ecological environment, it is required to level and reclaim the land damaged by earth borrowing. 4.2.4 Impacts on water environment The road overpasses the Suichuan sub- branch and some small rivers and canals. no large water intakes. The sewage from the workers life-area and pavement runoff in operation may impact the water qualitv of the farmnlandssurrounding, but no big impact on the water quality of Suichuan river. 4.2.5 Impact on agriculturalirrigation pattern Suichuan linking road is innovation on the old road. 4 middle bridges. 5 small bridges and 82culverts (averaging at 4 per kilometer) are to be built. The existing agricultural irrigation pattern will be maintained basically, without any unfavorable impacts. 21 4.3 Acoustic EnvironmentalImpact Prediction& Assessment 4.3.1 Analysis of noise impact during construction The main noise sources during road construction are such construction machinery as hauling vehicles, road making machines and road-mixer etc. According to the analogy of the assessment materials, the main machine noise attenuate with distance as shown in Table 4-1. Table 4-1 Noise Value of the Main Construction Machines Machinery Distancefrom Construction Machinery (m) Description 5 10 20 40 50 60 80 100 150 Loader 90 84 78 72 70 68.5 66 64 61.6 Grader 90 84 78 72 70 68.5 66 64 61.6 Roller 86 80 74 68 66 64.5 62 60 56.5 Excavator 84 78 72 66 64 62.5 60 58 54.5 Paver 85 79 73 67 65 63.6 61 59 55.6 Mixer 87 81 75 69 67 65.5 63 61 57.5 Bulldozer 86 80 74 68 66 64.5 62 [ 60 56.5 Data source:EIA of Gan-Vue Expressway(Taihe-Ganzhou section), August,2000 We can see from the above Table: ) The general construction noise caused by hauling vehicles and road making machinery etc has a quite big impart on the people in the area close to the construction site (within 50m);but little impact on those 100m beyond. So the construction noise has a greater interruption impact on schools and residential area within 50m from the central line of the highway. Therefore. the construction department should pay attention to rational arrangement of working time. avoiding class time and nighttime. { According to GB12523-90 INoise Limit at Construction Site, Higher noise produced by construction machinery does great harm to operators. With an increase of operator's working time, their impairments especially hearing impairment will take place. in which some impairment are unable to cure. According to the related information. it has been proved that the deafness caused by noise is related not only to noise level but also to noise exposure time. In addition, the noise harm can make human fall variously ill. Obviously. this kind of noise has a greater impact on operators and the surrounding residents. 22 4.3.2 Prediction and assessment of traffic noise impact during operation (1) Model for trafficnoise prediction The related model in EnvironmentImpacts AssessmentSpecifications for Highway Construction Project is used for this prediction, i.e.: (LAcq)iL=L,,i +10 Ig NT ALdIi. + ALlv/g,iudmiIal+ ALd .face 13 in which LX,i averageradiating sound level of Type i vehicle,dB(A) N,-day / night averagetraffic volume of Type i vehicle, vehicle / hour V; averagespeed of Type i vehicle, km/h T-(LAeq) predictingtime. 1 hour A LdiS-running noise of Type i vehicle (attenuationof day/night spacing at r from noise equivalentdriving line).dB A Lvert.gracorrection of traffic noise caused by road vertical grade. dB A Lrd.face correctionof traffic noise caused by road surface, dB The total value of day "night noise at the predictedpoint is calculated by: (L4c, )n =o10lg[1] 00 1(1J)1+ 1 l'O) + I00 lt-e,)- AL, - AL, (dB) in which (L_eq)trat- value of day / night traffic noise at predicted point. dB(A) A LI correctionof traffic noise caused by road curved line of limited long road section A L2 correction of traffic noise caused by barrier between road and predicted point (2) Determinationof some parameters in model According to this model. it is shown that the traffic noise during operation is dependent on traffic volume. vehicle type ratio, running speed. vehicle sound power. road vertical grade and road face roughness etc. c( Traffic volume 23 All of predicted annual traffic volume are shown in Table 2-1, and the factor for day time (16 hours) is 84.8%. (©) Vehicle type ratio The ratio of small / middle/ large vehicles is 74.8%, 15.3% and 9.9% respectively. (©)Running speed According to Environment Impacts Assessment Specifications for Highway Construction Project, the running speed is calculated by: Small Vehicle V=237XN-0 1602 0 Middle Vehicle V=212X N-° 1747 Large Vehicle V=(212 X N-01' 747) X 80% in which V calculated running speed N hour traffic volume. corrected by: i) When the designed running speed is less than 120 kmlh; the running speed calculated by the model is decreased in proportion. 2) When the traffic volume of small vehicle is less than 50% of total traffic volume, its average running speed is decreased in proportion of 30%, if every 100 vehicle runs is reduced. 3) The model above is suitable for dav time, and the calculated value discounted by 20% is used as night average running speed. ) Single vehicle noise emission source intensity(Lwu1) The average radiating sound level (Lu.l) for all types of vehicles is calculated by: Large Vehicle: Lu.i=77.2+0.l8VL Middle Vehicle: Lu m=62.6+0.32Vm Small Vehicle: Lv,s=59.3+0.23 Vs in which L.M.S-means large (L) / middle (M) / small (S) type vehicle V-average running speed of vehicle. kmih 24 ( Spacing attenuation ( A Ldi,) 1) The day / night spacing (di) of Type i vehicle is calculated by: di = 1000 x Vi (m) in which Ni day/night average traffic volume per hour of Type i vehicle, vehicle/hour V, average traffic volume per hour of Type i vehicle, km/h 2) Distance of predicted point from noise equivalent driving line (r2) r,=D \. * D,. in which DN distance of predicted point from near lane, m DF distance of predicted point from far lane,m 3) Calculation of A Ldis When r•dj/2, A Ldi, =K, X K2X 201g(r/7.5) When r>di/2. A Ld1, =20KI[K2 X lg(O.5dj/7)+Ig ]r/O.5' in which di- spacing of Type i vehicle. di=lOOOV,/N1: r -- distance of predicted point from noise equivalent driving line. r= D *D, where DN and DF are the distance of predicted point from near (N) and far (F) lane respectively; K1 constant of land surface condition between predicted point and highway (1.0 for soil surface): K2- constant related to spacing. shown in Table 4-2 Table 4-2 Constants Related to Vehicle Spacing Di(m) 20 25 30 40 50 60 70 80 100 140 | 160 250 300 K 0.17 0.5 0.617 0.716078 0.806 0.833 0.84 0.855 0.88 0.885 0.89 0.908 25 AALvert.gra Large Vehicle A Lver,gra=98 X f Middle Vehicle A Lvert.gra=73 X D Small Vehicle A Lvert=gra50 X 0 in which: S means the vertical grade of highway, calculated by 0 =3% in this prediction. (2) Correctionof traffic noise caused by road surface (A Lrd.lace) The asphalt paving is used for this road making, and the noise value of A Lrd.faceis taken as 0 dB (®)Correction of traffic noise caused by road curved line or limited long road section (A LI) AL,=-lOlg(0/180° ) in which 0 included angle (degree) of sight at predicted point toward the two ends of road (about 150° taken in this prediction) ( Correction of traffic noise caused by barrier between road and predicted point (A L2) A L,= A L2,o.ds+ A L2 buidings+ A L2s,s z 1) AL2 0oods implies the equivalent noise level (A) attenuation caused by woods barrier. When the depth of woods is 30m. A L2_ood,=50 dB; when the depth of woods is 60m, A L2,,ods,=0 dB. The maximal correction is 10 dB. 2) A L2buildingsmeans the equivalent noise level (A) attenuation caused by buildings barrier. When the first row of buildings occupies 70%-90% of area between predicted point and road central-line, A L2buildin2s=5dB; When increase a row of buildings, A L2bUildingsvalue increases 1.5dB,whose maximal value is lOdB. 3) A L2SS.z denotes the equivalent noise level (A) attenuation measured in the 26 predicted point located in the sound shadow zone on the two sides of high embankment or low through cut. The sound contrast zone and the sound shadow zone of high embankment / low through cut are shown in Fig 4-1 and Fig 4-2 respectively. SoundShadow Zone 0 D Fig 4-1 Sound contrast zone and sound Fig 4-2 Sound contrast zone and sound shadow zone of high embankment shadow zone of low through cut If D • H + (h, - h) d then the predicted point is located in the sound contrast H zone-an-A2S.SZ 4 ifH+(h, -- h2) d. then the predicted point is located in the zone. and A L2s.sz =°: if (H )d.tethprdceponislaednte H sound contrast zone. and the value of A L 2 s.S.z is dependent on the difference of sound interval ( 6 ). The noise attenuation is derived from Fresnel curve. (3) Predictedresults and assessment of traffic noise parameter-taken values The predicated results of traffic noise of Suichuan linking road are shown in Table 4-3. According to Class IV standard in GB3096-93(i.e. 70dB in dav time. 55dB in night time), the distance that the traffic noise on the two sides of road conforms to the standard is shown in Table 4-4 which shoes: ©0 Noise in day time during operation does not exceed the standard value. 02 The conformity distance of noise at night time in early and middle operation phase is 20m. and 30m in the long-run operation phase. (I Because this road section is to be the reformation of old road, and some residential areas are distributed along the roadsides to make the current highway be 27 street, the traffic noise along the linking road will have a more directive impact on these residences. Table 4-3 Predicted Results of Traffic Noise Along Linking Road During Operation PredictedResuls of Traffic Noise at Various Horizontal Distance Road Operation Duration BeyondRoad Shoulder (dB) Section Year mlOm20m 30m 40m 60m 80m loom 120m MSOm 200m day time 61.2 57.9 56.1 54.4 51.8 49.5 48.2 46.7 44.9 42.5 nighttnme 55.9 52.6 50.7 49.1 46.5 44.2 42.9 41.4 39.5 37.1 Suichuan davtime 63.2 59.9 58.1 56.4 53.8 51.6 50.3 48.8 47.0 44.6 Linking 2015 - -- - Road nighttime 58.0 54.7 52.8 51.2 48.6 46.3 45.0 43.5 41.6 39.2 2023 davtirne 63.7 60.4 58.6 57.0 54.4 52.1 50.9 49.4 47.6 45.2 nighttime 58.6 55.2 53.4 51.8 49.1 46.8 45.5 44.0 42.2 39.8 Table 44 AttenuatingDistance (Traffic Noise Along SuichuanRoad up to ClassIV Standard) Unit:m . DistanceApproaching to DistanceApproaching to DistanceApproaching to RoadSection Standardin 2004 Standardin 2015 Standardin 2023 Day time Night time Day time Nighttime Daytime Night time Suichuan Wbole no <10 no <20 no 20 LinklingRoad line exceedance exceedance ewceedance 4.3.3 Prediction and Assessmentof EnvironmentalNoise At SensitiveLocations The road section located and its corresponding ground surface covering conditions, road structure. embankment / trench height, Limited long sound source of highwav. landform / relief and other factors should be considered to correct the prediction of environment noise at sensitive location. i.e. the predicted values of traffic noise are superimposed onto the corresponding background value of acoustic environment. The superimposition formula is: L,t(I I:Nm.§rd r IoOI g (IO + I 0 ,, Lo¢". According to individual acoustic environmental standard. the formula above is used to calculate the environmentalnoise and its excess at each sensitive location. The calculated results are shown in Table 4-5. As shown in Table 4-5. (1) the environmental in day / night time at all residences in the first period of operation does not exceed the standard value: (2) the noise in dav time in the middle period of operation does not exceed either: Noise exceedance in night time include six locations: Dongtang, Zhanftang, Meijiang.Sheshang. Chitang. 28 Zhuzitouxia ( Xitou) with max. exceedanceof 0.3 dB; (3) the noise in day time in the long-run operation phase does not exceedeither; as to noise exceedancein night time, in addition to the above six locations in the middle, there are 3 more as Jiangchexia, Shanjiaoxia and Zhangliwu with exceedance of 0.4-2.4dB; (4) Zhangtang primary school exceeds by 3.8dB at nighttime in early operation phase; (5)ln middle operation phase, Hongshan central primary school and Sheshang primary schools exceed by 0.4dB, Zhangtang primary school exceeds by 5.5dB; (6) In long-runoperation phase, Hongshan central school primary and Sheshang primary schools exceed by 0.6dB, Zhangtangprimary school exceeds by 5.9dB. From the above exceedance,traffic noise impact on the residentialquarters is not big, but Zhangtang primary school is quite impacted on the normal teaching. As the 3 schools are of small size where there are no boarding students, no assessmentat night has been done. 29 Table 4-5 Noise prediction and exceedance at sensitive points along Suichuan Linking Road No. Locations Mileage Distance Noise Noise Prediction (dB) Noise Exceedance(dB) Standard(dB) 2003 2010 2020 2003 2010 2020 Hongshan Central KO+600 day 55 53.7 55.4 55.6 - 0.4 0.6 1 Prmr colRight 60m - I __- Primar.vSchool night 45 48.4 50.1 50.6 3.4 5. 5.6 K3+500 . day 70 55.9 56.8 58.0 - 2 Huanggang Right SOm - -. __ night 55 49.9 51.2 54.2 - 3 Dongtang K7+550 14m after day 70 59.2 60.2 62.3 - remove night 55 54.1 55.1 57.3 - 0.1 2.3 4 Jiangchexia K8+200 20m after da) 70 58.1 59.7 61.8 remove night 55 53.6 54.6 56.8 - 1.8 5 Shanjiaoxia K8+700 Left 20m day 70 58.1 69.7 61.8 - - night 55 53.6 54.6 56.8 - 1.8 day 70 59.2 60.2 62.3 - - 6 Zhangtang K 10+200 Left edge _ - night 55 54.1 55.1 57.3 - 0.1 2.3 7 Zhangtang Primarx dav 55 58.8 60.5 60.9 3.8 5.5 5.9 SchoolSchol KIO+ I00 Right. 30m- night 45 52.9 54.9 55.4- 7.9- 9.9- 10.4- Through.14 da, 70 60.3 61.0 62.8 - - 8 Pvleijiang Village K11+350 m after . _ - remove night 55 54.3 55 3 57.4 - 0.3 2.4 dav 70 53.9 55 0 55.3 - - - 9 Shaoxi K12+200 Right 80m - - night 55 47 1 48.6 49.0 - da\ 70 54 1 55.2 55.5 - 10 Catingxia K12+900 Right 75 I - night 55 47.3 48.8 49.2 - Through.14 dav 70 59.2 60.2 62.3 - 11 Sheshane K 13+600 m after - remove night 55 54 1 55.1 57.3 - 0.1 2.3 12 Sheshang Primar K Left 60m day 55 53.7 55 4 55.6 - 0.4 0.6 12 ~~~~~~~~~K13+550- - ______School Night 45 48 5 50.2 50.7 3.5 5.2 5.7 da\ 70 53.2 54 1 54.4 - - - 13 \anneiYangcun K16+900 Right lOOm night 55 46.1 47.3 47.7 - - - Da\ 70 52.5 53.7 54.0 - - 14 Anxia K17+400 Right 90m - - Night 55 46.3 47.7 48.1 - da; 70 59.2 60.2 62.3 - I 5 Citan- Kf17-700 Left edge _ night 55 54.1 55.1 57.3 - 01 2.3 daw 70 57.6 58.4 60.4 - - - 16 Zhang.uli K18+150 Left2i . - - night 55 52.2 53.2 55.4 - 0.4 da\ 70 53.2 54.1 54.4 - 17 Lubei K18+400 Ripht lOOnm - . - night 55 46.1 47.3 47.7 - day 70 56.2 57.2 59.3 - 18 Yuzilijianshanp K19-700 Right 30m _- - Night 55 51.1 52.1 54.3 - K20+100-19 Zultu;a 20mafer Day 70 59.6 60.4 62.4 - 19 Zhuzitouxia -20------af destination remos Night 55 54.2 55.2 57.4 - 02 2.4 Note: -- ' implies no excess 30 4.4 Ambient Air Impact Prediction& Assessment 4.4.1 Ambient Air Impact Prediction& Assessment During Construction According to the preliminary design, the linking road will be constructed simultaneouslywith the main line, the asphalt and stabilizingearth-mixing plants can be shared at one place, therefore not much impact on the surroundingplace of the linking road. However, the hauling of mixing materials will exert dust pollution. During construction, hauling and loading/unloadingof materials for road making bring TSP pollution to the road area. According to the results from site monitoring of dusting caused by the similar site vehicle hauling, it has been shown that TSP concentration at 150m from roadsides exceeds Class 1I standard, which shows that dusting caused by transport produces a higher pollution to the district along the road construction. 4.4.2 Ambient Air ImpactPrediction & AssessmentDuring Operation (1) MeteorologicalAnalysis of Pollution Statistic data showsthat yearly prevailing wind is ENE wind whose frequency is 12% in Suichuan county. shown in Table 4-6. The annual frequency of static wind is 23%. The annual wind velocity in Suichuan county is 1.9 m/s. Due to low wind velocity, the condition of gas dispersion is poorer relatively. The atmosphere stability along the line is dominated by D category flowed by E-F category. (2) Calculation of Auto Tail Gas Pollutant Discharge Source Intensity The gas-state pollutant discharging source intensity is calculated by the following formula: Q, -,4, *E,, .3600-' ,=, in which Q,- Class j gas-state pollutant discharging source intensitv. mg/s * m A, hour traffic volume of Type i vehicle in the predicting year. vehicle/h E,, single vehicle discharging factor [the recommendedvalue in Environment Impacts Assessment Specifications for Highway Construction Project (tentative)] of class j discharge of Type i vehicle in the predicting year under condition of vehicle running on the special highway. mg - vehicle/m. 31 Table 4-6 Wind Direction Frequency / Average Wind Velocity / Pollution Coefficient In Suichuan County (1997-1999) Spring Summer Autumn Winter WholeYear LcStWindLocatio ~averag1OUtDp 'VM Wind P dUirectvoWind g dutloWnWind averagPDllti dhel Wind v rapouIo dbvcfio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~direjaveraog ecopolcloutioa its dfetowind n wind n wind n wind n n ind n n velocitycef velocitycevfe n velocity efle n veildot,ocity eDeffiCi fcy(%1 (nibs) nt ftiein vmly nt fi)equen(ris) nt bun (m/s) nt quen vs) nt ICy(%) Cy(%) Cy(%NO _ cy(% Cy(%) N 4 1.7 2.3 2 1.9 1.0 6 2.1 2.9 3 2.3 1.3 3 1.9 1.6 NNE I_ 2-4 4.6 5 2.0 2.5 9 2.8 3.2 13 2.5 2 10 2.6 3.8 NE 10 2.7 3.7 4 1.9 2.1 _I 2.7 4.1 15 2.3 6.5 II# 2.5 4.4 ENE 12 3.0 4.0 5 1.9 2.6 12 2.6 4.6 23 2 7 8.5 12* 2.7 4.4 E 5 2.0 2.5 3 2.7 1 1 6 1.8 3.3 5 2.2 2.3 5 1.9 2.6 ESE 3 1.8 2.9 2 2.4 0.8 2 1.2 1.7 2 1.5 2.3 3 1.8 1.7 SE 3 1.9 1.6 4 2.2 1.8 1 0.9 1.1 I 1.2 1.3 2 1.9 1.0 SSE 4 3.4 1.2 12 2.6 4.6 1 1.2 0.8 I 1.9 0.5 4 2.6 1.5 S 4 3.0 1.3 6 2.7 2.2 0 0.8 0 0 1.8 0 3 2.4 1.2 SSW 4 3.1 1.3 7 2.8 2.5 1 1.3 0.8 1 4.4 0.2 3 3.1 1.0 SW 5 2.9 17 II 2.7 4.1 3 1.2 2.5 2 1.7 1.2 5 2.4 2.1 WSW 9 1.4 6.4 10 1.9 5.3 9 1.1 8.2 7 [.2 5.8 9 1.4 6.4 W 4 1.2 3.3 6 1.5 4.0 7 1.0 7.0 2 1.1 1.8 5 12 4.2 WNW 1 0.8 1.2 3 1.4 2.1 1 0.8 1.2 0 08 0 I 13 08 NW I 1 11 0.9 1 1.3 0.8 1 0.9 111 0 08 0 1 1.2 08 |NN\I| 2 1.3 1.5 I 1.5 0.7 I 1.0 1.0 |I 7 06 _ 15 0' IC 19 165 1306 4 23 Data source: Basedon the normal meteorological data providedby State Nleteorology Center The forrnula for peak hour source intensity: Qr(; = Qt A(; in which: A(; is the coefficientof traffic hours. whose vxalue is taken to be 6.2%. The formula for averagedaily source intensity: Qr., = Q, A,I/R in which A, - coefficient of traffic volume in day time. wxhosevalue is taken to be 84.8%. R hours in day time. whose value is taken to be 16. (3) Diffusion Model for Environmental Air Pollutant (D When included angle of wind direction at line source is 0 < 9 <90°, the 32 diffusionmodel is: CPR= ui S exp -(-() 2eXp[ - ) +expi(z+hj]|i u w,- : 2L y2c.2a in which CPR-pollutant concentration at predicted point R, caused by Section AB of road line source, mg/m3 . U average wind velocity at high location of effective discharge source of predictedroad section, m/s. Q, Classj gas-state pollutantdischarge source intensity,mg/vehicle - m ac,, horizontal transversal wind direction and vertical diffusion parameter, m. Z predicted point to height of ground surface. m. h-height of effective dischargesource, m. A,B start and end of line source (2) When wind direction is perpendicular to line source (0 = 900), the diffusion model is as follows: 2Q, h2 -, AS= U -exp - _____ 03 When wind direction is parallel to line source, the diffusion model is as follows: _( I AQ, r [y2+(z2e2)][+ ( )2 J e =r /a, in which r- equivalent distance from microelementto predicted point. m. e parameter ratio of regular diffusion Because the atmospheric stability in the region is dominated by Class D which. therefore is used for calculation in this assessment. As for calculation, the diffusion parameter must be taken value according to Appendix B in HJ/T2.3-93 Technical 33 Guiding Provisions for EnvironmentalImpacts Assessment: The value of wind velocity is taken to be 1.9 m/s. The average height of earth filling and the width of roadbed for Suichuan linking road are 2.Omand 12.Omrespectively. (4) Predictionof Vehicle Tail Gas ConcentrationDiffusing to Roadsides The prediction of NQz. and CO concentrationdiffusion for Suichuanlinking road is shown in Table 4-7. Due to small traffic volume of Suichuan linking road and low running speed , the discharge of NO,, is less and the tail gas concentrationat 16m from the pavementconforms to the standard. Based on the prediction, CO in vehicle tail gas is very small.. CO concentration is less than 10% of that stated in Class II standard of environmentalair quality, so little impact on atmospherealong the road. Considering the small increase of pollution source, it can conduce that the NO. and CO pollution have light impact on sensitive locations on the roadsides with no exceedance. Table4-7 VehicleTail Gas Diffuision Prediction (Stability D) During Operation Unit:mg/mr 3 Road Operation Traffic DistanceFrom Roadsides (m) Section Stage Condition 10 40 100 200 Peak 0.012-0.020 0.007-0.014 0.004-0.008 0.002-0.002 2004 dailyaverage 0.009-0.015 0.006-0.010 0.003-0.006 0 002-0.002 Nitroge Peak 0.022-0.036 0.013-0.025 0 007-U.014 0.004-0.004 n1 2015 Oxides dailx average 0.016-0.027 0.010-0.019 0.005-O0I(I 0.003-0.003 Peak 0.028-0.047 0.017-0.032 0 009-0.018 0 005-0.005 2023 dail%average 0.021-0.035 0.013-0.024 0 007-0.013 0.004-0.004 Peak 0.098-0.162 0.060-0.112 0.031-0.061 0.017-0.017 2004 daily average 0.073-0.121 0.045-0.083 0.023-0.046 0.013-0.013 Carbon Peak 0.188-0.311 0.115-0.214 0.060-0 11 0.033-0.033t Oxide 2015 daily averaze 0.140-0.232 0.086-0.160 0.045-0.087 0.025-0.02S 2023 Peak 0.243-0.401 0.148-0.276 0.077-0.151 0.042-0.043 daily a\erage 0.181-0.299 0.111-0.206 U057-0.113 0 032-0.032 4.5 Environment Impact of Building Materials Quarries and Transport 4.5.1 Excavation of building materials and transport means The main quarries and transport of Suichuanlinking road are as follows: (1) Wangjiaping stone quarry: located at Nanxi township of Taihe county, the stone 34 hard and abound is used as pavement materials. There are tow transport means, one is transport to Suichuaninterchange(origin of the linking road) bv Gan-Yue expressway: another is to transportto the destination by the national highway 105. (2) Weishaba quarry: located at Zhuxiafengchang of Suichuan Bizhou township, abound in hard tungsten stone with a storage of over 60,000 m3 . The stones can be transported to the origin of the linking road by the country road, totaling 14km. (3) Banei quarry: located at up-stream Suichuanjiang river in Baneicun of Quanjiang town, abound in sand gravels which is used for base course, bottom base course and structures for bridges and culverts. It is convenient for transport. A hauling road of 200m will lead to the linking road. (4) Cement . asphalt and steel: the cement is from Wan'an Cement Plant, asphalt will be importedand the steel comes from Xinyu Iron & Steel Plant. All these materials can be transportedto the construction site by national highway 105. 4.5.2 Environmental Impact of the Materials Transport (I) The above materials transport can all be transported to the constructionsite by national highway 105 and country roads except that of sand. gravels which need building a 200m hauling road. This will certainly increase the traffic crowding and the likelihood of accidents.giving inconvenienceto the people along the line. (2) The new construction of hauling road and quarry excavation will bring some damage to the landform and vegetation. The interrupted soil structure will reduce the anti-erosion ability.thus causing soil erosion. (3) The stone excavation adopts blasting which produce noise and vibration. The hauling of the materials will exert noise pollution on the sensitive locations at the roadsides. (4) The transport brings to secondary dust pollution, including road dust and spillover. particularly.in dry season when the pollution is more serious. 35 Chapter 5 Environmental Mitigation Measures 5.1 Design Stage (1) In alignment design of the road, it tries to occupy less farming land, avoiding poor geological sections and cultural/ historical sites. (2) When designing bridges, culverts, drainage ditches, they take into consideration flood discharge capacity of river, and not destroying local irrigation system and preventing pavement runoff. From entering into river and canals. (3) Selection of quarries, earth borrowing and waste areas are far away from residences, schools or other sensitive locations. (4) Planting works design has been done simultaneously with that of the main works. (5) Subgrade drainage and protection works have designed. such as intercepting ditch. side ditch, berm, retaining wall. etc.. which not only stabilizing the road bed but also preventing from soil erosion. (6) The project has established Suichuan Countv Resettlement Office. 5.2 Construction Stage (1) Occupied land should be planned and used in a proper way. temporary land occupation size should be as small as possible, the occupied duration should be reduced and the occupied land should be reclaimed promptly. (2) waste is prohibited to be discharged into water body so as to prevent water pollution. riverbed compression and blocking. (3) The hauling vehicles shall not run on farmland and woodland. (4) Water and soil conservation measures in construction phase are as follows: O the earth-stone works shall avoid July- the storm season; © Ladd platform construction method will be adopted so as to prohibit random excavation on the slope; 36 (M) Reduce the damage to the vegetation and plant on time so as to restore vegetation in the work site; ( In cut road section, a platform for heaping soil and broken rock should be set up outside the side ditch and interceptingditch shall be set on the slope of the cut. ®) Set aside the original surface soil if the borrowing area in woodland and reclaim back after the completionof the construction. (5) If large-size, residence exists within 1OOmfrom the construction site, high-noise machinery shall be stopped from 22:00 to 6:00. The larger-size residences are Dongtang (K7+000), Zhangtang (KlO+050), Meijiang towenship (Kl 1+100), Shaoxi (Ki2+±300).Wanneiyangcun (Ki7+000), Zhuzitouxia (K20+600). (6)At the time of day construction,it is necessary to take the temporary shielding measures on the construction site within 150m where there are schools (Hongshan Central Primary School, ZhangtangPrimary School, Sheshangprimary school), so as to prevent the construction noise from impacting on the teaching. Meanwhile. the noise-monitored points are arranged at the sensitive locations on the sides of constructionsite. (7) The hauling road should be far away from schools. hospitals and residents concentration area. and can not pass through the locations sensitive to acoustic environrment.If there is no way to avoid. temporary measures shall be taken or some economic compensation through consultationwith the local residents.Meanwhile. noise monitoring shall be carried out for hauling road at Nanxi township in Taihe county, necessarymeasures shall be taken in accordance with the monitoringresults. (8) To protect the health of construction workers. shift-working system is recommendedso that workers exposed to high noise have time to restore their hearing. (9) The construction sites and quarries shall be sprinkled frequently or covered .The contractors shall take sealed covering measures to prevent spillover when hauling easily-flying materials. Meanwhile monitoring points shall be set up for supervision to prevent TSP exceeding the standard. The bulk materials bank shall be 200m away from the sensitive places as schools and residential quarters. 37 (10) In dry season or without raining for a long time, the contractors are required to spray water on temporary roads. In addition,the monitored point close to the temporary construction road is arranged to make a random examination. Once any problems occur, they should be solved in time. (11) During construction, the Cultural Relics Law should be forcefully publicized. Shouldany relics be found during construction,work shouldbe stopped and report immediately to local relics authority for identification. Construction may not continue until the authority handle with it. (12) During construction, traffic management should be enhanced. Effective measures shouldbe taken to prevent accidents. (13) The solid waste and living sewage shouldbe cleared and properlydisposed. (14) Constructionworkers should be educated not to damage wildlife, not to cut trees at will. (15) Complaint telephone number for environmental complains should be conspicuously marked at the construction camp. For complaint problems. the local environmental department shall be contacted and such problem should be handled within 48 hours. The above measures shall be implemented by contractors and specified in bidding documents 5.3 OperationStage (1) Plantingworks will be completed simultaneouslvwith the main works. strength the road maintenanceand planting works to prevent water and soil erosion. (2) Water quality monitoring will be carried out in Meijiang river and supplementarymeasures shall be taken in accordance with the monitorresults. (3) The acoustic environment monitored will be carried out at Dongtang. Zhangtang. Meijiang village. Wannei.Yangcun. Zhuzitouxia (Xitou) and Hongshan central primary school: ambient air monitoring will be carried out in Meijiang town. then based on the monitored results, the proper environmental protection measures 38 should be taken. (4) Sound barrier (take into considerationthe fence wall of the school) will be built at Zhangtang primary school to alleviate the noise impact.The sound barrier is of 150m in length, 2.5m in height at a cost of 180,000yuan. (5) At the road sections where schools stand, "LOW SPEED" sign board or overpass bridge shouldbe set up to protect the safety . (6) It is suggested that planning authority would not consider new residences within 50m from the roadside, neither schools and hospitalsor other buildings sensitive to acoustic environmentwithin 100m from the roadside. 39 Chapter 6 Alternatives Analysis 6.1 "Without the project" analysis The traffic infrastructure of Suichuan County is rather backward without any railways. The transport depends mainly on highways that are in low class, low speed and poor road condition,causing traffic jam and frequent traffic accidents. On the roadsides, there are many large-size village, township, schools, some road sections are already becoming street. It will result in social, economic loss or even serious environmental issues if there is no new constructionof highway. For example: vehicles are bumping on the poor roads with high homing. In addition, due to slow speed, the increased tail gas worsensthe air pollution. Traffic safety is another problem. In sum, if no changes on the existing road, problems concerningsocial. economic and environmentalrespect are becomingoutstanding. 6.2 Alignment selection procedure The design unit carried out the feasibility study in June. 1998. draw up the alignment on the 1/10.000 map and made site reconnaissance. They also consulted widely with the local government and relevant departments in respect of the draft alignment and bridge location. A detailed survey has been done for the regional social & economical development.traffic trend. municipal/countyprogram. road condition and take into consideration the tourism. Land occupation. resettlement and environmental pollution. Based on this. the proposed road will be on the improvement and expansion of the existing old road. 6.3 Environmental Benefits of the Proposed Project As the proposed road will be on the improvement and expansionof the existing old road. it is beneficial to agricultural ecological environment from the viewpoint of farmland occupation. Land in this area is precious with so many people. it's very important to reduce the farmland occupation, in particular. the permanent land occupation. The road construction. though brings traffic noise impact on some residents. but release more residents and schools as Shaoxicun, Shaoxiprimary school from noise, tail gas and secondary dust impact on the old roads. So. it gains the public support on the line. 40 Chapter 7 EnvironmentalMonitoring and Management 7.1 EnvironmentalMonitoring 7.1.1 Objective and Philosophy Based on the environmentalimpacts listed in the EIA and the mitigation measures in this EAP, an environrmentalmonitoring plan has been worked out as to provide accurate environmental informnationof this project, to check the effectiveness of the mitigation measures and take correcting action when necessarv. 7.1.2 Monitoring targetsand items According to the environmentalimpact forecastand assessment results, the items to be monitored in the operation period are TSP, bitumen smoke, construction noise and water quality. In the operation phase are traffic noise, ambient air and water environment. 7.1.3 EnvironmentalMonitoring Plan According to the predicted results, the following monitoring plan is developed as shown in Table 7-1, Table7-2and Table 7-3. Table 7-1 Ambient Air Monitoring Plan Stage NMonitoring Monitoring Monitoring Sampling ExecutiveUnitinCh Supervisory I e __ Site Item Frequency Time Departmentn i arge partent unpaved Constructi constructionroad. Once/wteek.or Once/momine on phase andresidential area ad hoc once!aftcmoon Supervision nearthe excess road JAFMI__JA_AEMS CltvEPB JPHCHA IMP Operation Nleijiangtownship Once'year I -2 day.24hour JANICB phase (K l 1+350) (winter) running *JPHCHA-JiangxiProvincial High-Class Highwas Administration JAEMS-Ji an EnvironmentalMonitoring Station JAM'ICB-Ji'anMvtunicipal Communications Bureau JANIEPB-Ji'an NiunicipalEnvironmental Protection Bureau 41 Table 7-2 Noise Monitoring Plan Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring Time Sampling Executive Unitin Supervisor Stage Site items Frequency horizon Time charge Departmen ______Dep mrananent_ _ Nanxi township in Taihe Construction oithin 10Cmrrhere there Construction Once/week. t da Twice per Supervision stage a r o noise or ad hoc . da\ engineer _ are residencesor sensitive location as schools Supervision Dongtang(K7+550) corp.. AMEP zhangtang(K10+200. T%ice/daN. JPHCHA JAMEPB Mei~jiang(KI 1+350). once JAMCB Operauion WanneiYangcun(Ki16+900. Ambient 4 timesi da"time 10 00-11 00- JMEMS stage Zhuzitou-xia noise year . 22:00 23:00 (Xitou)(K20+100). once Hongshan central school nighttime 11KO-600) JPHCHA-Jiangxi Pro%incial High-ClassHighw a Administration JAEMS-Ji'an Environmental Monitoring Station JlAMCB-Jian Municipal CommunicationsBureau .IAIEPB- Ji'an NlunicipalEn\ ironmentalProtection Bureau Table 7-3 Water Monitoring Plan Stage Monitoring Nlonitorin Monitoring Monitoring Executive Unitin Charge Supervison Site Section Items frequency Department Department I00m once /cdavfor 2 Consructi upstream davs running in 200m . Supervision on phase Mezjian pH. CODcr. drn and mean corp A Waterseason. JAEMS cop. JAMEPB bridge stream SS. petroleum JPHCHA (K] 3t240) JAMCB Operation 50m down 4 times/vear phase stream 7.2 EnvironmentalManagement Organizations 7.2.1 Environmental Management Organization Jiangxi Provincial CommunicationsDepartment is responsible for the organization of the environmental management for the proposed road and Jiangxi Provincial High-Class Highway Administration (JPHCHA) is in charge of the specific implementation of the environmental management work.. The organizations of the environmental management in the construction and the operation period are shown in Figure 7-1 and Figure 71-2 respectively. The Planning Division of Jiangxi Provincial Communications Department is 42 responsible for the environmental protection work in this sector in the province, including forrnulation of environmental protection measures and rules, the provincial environmental protection plan and supervision of the implementation of the environmental protection plan. The World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD, Jiangxi Provincial High-Class Highway Administration (3 persons) and Suichuan County Traffic Administration (3-6 persons with one environmental expert) are the executive organization of this project. The main responsibilities are to deal with the environmental issues in construction and operation phase, such as environmental management and resettlement in construction and operation, checking the enforcement of environmental terms stated in the contract. assisting the environmental engineer in signing monitoring contract with local EMS, checking the implementation of monitoring plane and reporting to higher authority. Planning Division, JPCD (3 persons) Jiangxi Province High-Class Highway Administration Project Office and Suichuan County Communication Bureau (3 - 6persons) DesignI ] Environmental Contractor Provincial Protection pro) Environmental Supervision ( person) Monitoring Engineer(]) Center En%ironmentalMonitorin2 SEation (EMS) | Ji'an EMS Figure 7-1 Environmentalmanagement organization in constructionperiod 43 Planing Division.JPCD (3 persons) Jiangxi ProvinceHigh-Class Highway Administration EnvironmentalProtection Division of JiangxiProvincial High-grade HighwayAdministration. (3 persons) SuichuanCounty Environmentalstaff of Communications SuichuanManagement Administration(I person) Agency(I person) Figure 7-2 Environment Organization Chart in Operation Phase 7.2.2 Environmental Management Plan An environmental management plan has been worked out for the purpose of the prompt handling of the environmental issues for this project. refer to Table 7-4 44 Table 7-4 Environmental Management Plan for Proposed Project Potential negative impact Mitigationmeasures action | chargea 1. Planning & design period 1. Reduced flood dischargecapacity 1. Thoughtful design Design unit WBLPO 2.Removing and resettlement for the 2.formulate and implement the proper Suichuan Ji-an Municipal project land acquisition resettlement plan & compensationspolicy County Govemment 3. Loss of land resource 3. Minimum farm land occupation Resettlement SuichuanCounty 4. Soil erosion to the area belovkthe 4. With enough proper outlets of the drainage Office Government subgrade caused by the cutoff trench to avoid small waterfall.wvith stone and Design unit or weep drain cement finishing for wateroutlet area Design unit 5. Pollution from pavement run-off 5. Not directly discharged into waterbody or Design unit irrigation system 11.Construction period .1. Increase of river deposits caused b) 1. Protect the sensitive surface with fiber newvroad cutting and constructionas cover and plants as soon as possiblee wNellas the wastes 2. Dust. noise and air pollution at work . Sprinkle water regularlk on temporary site and excess road road . mitigation measuresshall be adopted for the sensitive locations on the road sides 3. Underground cultural relics and ad hock monitoringis necessary discovered during construction 3. Stop construction if there is cultural relics discovered and inform the competent 4. Terrain surface broken at the authority cutting/filling and quarry sites 4. Proper treatment of the damaged ground by design to make in harmony u ith the 5. Disturb to the utility facilities terrain and environment WBLPO (pow%er!telecommunication) 5. Sign an agreement with the utility agenc%. Ji'an Municipal notification goes before relocation to Contractors Gosemment 6. Impact on existing road traffic minimize the impact Suichuan County 6. Strengthen traffic managementat possible Government 7. Sev%age and solid wastes at traffic conflict places construction sites 7. Proper toilet and dustbins. enhance 8. Possible disease among the local env ironmental management people and wsorkers 8. Periodic health check. handle it properl. 9. Germ (mosquito) temporary breeding place such as dead pond 9.Necessarv action shall be taken to a%oid 10. Impact on the land produce caused breeding place by large earth borrow%ing 10.Centralized banking of surface soil. le%el the ground after construction as soon as possible and reclaim the surface soil. minimize the time of temporary land occupation Ill. Operationperiod 1. Air and noise pollution produced by I. Noise barrier & other measures. vehicleoperation enforcementof vehicle technical conditionto reduce air pollution. enhance public transportation and traffic management 2. Continuous soil erosion 2. Careful maintenance'planting increase JPHCHA JPHCHA protection works JAMCBa JAMCB 3. Pollution from pa%ementrun-off 3. Run-off not directlh discharged into farm SCCB SCCB land irrigation s stemw\%aterbody 4. Roadside in disorder 4. Proside treatment facilities. formulate regulations to prohibit trom throwing %%astes *JPHCHA-JiangxiProvincial Hieh-Class Highway Administration WBLPO-theWorld Bank Loan Project Office JALMCB-Ji an MlunicipalCommunications Bureau SCCB- SuichuanCounty CommunicationsBureau 45 7.3 Budget Estimate for EnvironmentalMonitoring The environmentalprotection investment estimate is shown in Table 7-5. The total cost is 725,600 Yuan, accountingfor 0.74 percent of the total. Table7-5 EnvironmentalProtection Investment Estimate No Items Contents Quantity Unit Cost (10T000Xuan) I Planting Planting of earth 56.25 mu 4,000vuan/mu 22.5 Monitoring TSP. construction 2 during noise. water 2 years 30,000yuan/year 6.0 construction quality_ Environmental Water spraying. 3 protection cost wastes and 3 vears 50.000yuan/vear 15.0 during sewage treatment, . construction vehicle cover Noise. ambient Monitoriniz air. water qualitv 4 Monitonno air. water quality 3 years 20.000vuanivear 6.0 during operation 5 Speed limit sign Make sign board 6 places 1.000 uan/place 0.6 at school place Sound barrier 6 building during Zhangtangschool 150m 1.200%uan/m 18.0 operation phase Technicaltraining 7 Training Cost for environmental 2 man/time 5000 uan man 1.0 management personnel 8 Contingenc% 3.46 Total 72.56 46 Chapter 8 Public Participation 8.1 Survey Method and Contents In December 1999 and April 2000, the environmental assessment department, under the assistance of the employer, design department and relevant departments, made the public participation surveying on Suichuan linking road in way of visiting and meeting, which includes individual interview (household), formn filling and discussion meeting (group). The main individual interviewers are those residents who are to be impacted by land acquisition. resettlement. The purpose is to understanding their family condition. their attitude to the highway construction. awareness of state policies concerned. potential unfavorable impacts on their living, what opinions and suggestions they have. etc. Group Interview undertakes the form of group discussion attended by department leaders, ordinary staff member. Township director and ordinary peasants. There are two topics for group interview: one is the favorable impact of the highw-ay construction to the local social and economic development; the other is negative impact of the highwaN construction and its mitigation measures. 8.2 Summarv of the Survev 8.2.1 Individual interview The results are presented in Table 8-1. The people interviewed are 80. of whom. 20 have high school education. taking up 25 percent; 35 have middle school education. accounting for 44 percent. 25 have primary school education, accounting for 31 percent: 2 females accounting for 2.5 percent. The annual income of the 80 persons range between 5000-6000 yuan. which mainly depends on farming. breeding and work outside. 47 Table 8-1 Summary of the statistics of the public participation survey No. Questions Optional answers Percentage Remarks Yes 98.8% Do you support the construction of the No 2.5% highway? No idea 0 No answer 0 State 100%O Who wvillbe benefited from the Collectives 92.5%0/ highway? Private person 91.3% m hoie No answer 0 Some of the farmlands are going to be No 95.0% 3 occupied and some householdsto be Yes 2.5% resettled, do vou have an, comments No idea 2.5% on the land occupation? No answer 0 Yes 8.8%/0 Do you know the compensationpolicy Know a little 23.8% 4 for land acquisitionand resettlement? Do not kno's 71.3% No answer 40o% Yes 35.0% Yes. but Do you folloN%the land acquisition and conditionally 63.8% resettlement arrangement? No No answer 1.2% Noise 88.8% Which is the most serious impact on Vehicle emission 1.30% you Dusts 58.80% more than one 6 arisinp from the high%sa% choice construction' Other 0 No answer 0 Planting 93.8% Soundbarrier 8.8% 7 Suggestions for mitigation measures? Away from village 1.3% choice Other 1 3% No answer 0 8.2.2 Group interview Group interview was arranged two times which one was held in Hongshan Central Primary School and Zhangtangcun of Meijiang township in Suichuan county. totaling 20 persons, shown in Annex 3. All the attendants believe that the highway construction will improve the transport condition. boom the economy. spur on the tertiary industry. It has gained the public support as it's beneficial to both the state and people. Meanwhile. they also express their concerns about the land acquisition. resettlement, economic compensation. construction 48 interruption. noise impact on school teaching in both constructionand operation, traffic security of the students due to the increases speed . etc. Therefore they put forward the following requirements: (1) Make public the compensation standard for land acquisition and deliver the compensation fee directly to the hands of the householdsto be removed. Reassign the farmland, make resettlement and residential building base promptly which shall not below the former living standard . (2) Take into consideration the security measures for students, such as "speed limit" sign and change the direction of school entrance. (3) The negative impacts as dust. tail gas and traffic noise shall be mitigated by planting and buildingof sound barrier. (4) During the design and construction of road. it is suggested to keep close contact with the local to well arrange the locations of culverts. bridges and underpasses and try use the local surplus labor as much as possibleduring construction. 8.3 Information Disclosuresand Feedback (1) Television, broadcasting. newspaper and bulletin should be used to release information to the public regarding the significance. alignment, resettlement and environmental protectionfor this project. The Owner hasreleased related circular concerning the environmentaland resettlement in NanchangEvening dated Oct.9. Jingangshan DadlY dated Oct IO(Refer to AnnexIV) (2) All the environmentaldocuments such as the EIA and EAP will be exposed to the public. The Owner has put all environmental documents in Suichuan County Reference room. The address and complaint telephone number were published in the newspaper. In this case. the public can have access to related information not through governrmental organizations. (3) The Owner will set up EP complaint telephone in SuichuanCounty Resettlement Office. a full-time person gathering and recording the public's complaint on environmental protection. Upon receiving the complaints. the Owner will come to the 49 site to solve it along with Suichuan County envir-onmentalprotection department within 48 hours. 8.4 Brief Summary The construction/ design departments pay high attentionto the public opinionsand give full considerationto their opinions in the road design. As for the possible environmental problems caused by this project, the environmental assessment department and the design department have presented the corresponding measures as planting and diversions etc. More suggestions are as follows: (DAt the design and construction stages of the proposed road, the departments concerned should make contact with the local govermnents along the road. and adopt their rational and feasibleopinions in time. (2) Promulgate by median of broadcast, TV, libraries, cultural center the state policies related to resettlement and compensation,provide the free consulting placefor environmentalprotection documents and complaint telephone (a) The governmentsalong the road should handle affairs according to the national policies. do well the surveving on land acquisition / removal families. designate the building land and hand out the acquisition / removal fee to the removal families in time. so as to ensure their living standard not to lower. 40 The environmentalprotection measures provided by the EIA should be put in place one by one so as to minimize the impacts of road construction on environment. 50 Chapter 9 Assessment Conclusions 9.1 Social Environment (I) The construction of proposed road will promote economic development, and tourist resource development in Ji'an prefecture and Suichuan county; improve the local investment environment; give impetus to the structural adjustment and development of three major industries. (2) The operation of proposed road will alleviate the pressure of the original highway, improve traffic environmentand decrease traffic accidents. (3) Inevitably, the construction of proposed road will occupy some land and farming land, but its impact is little on the whole. By means of land adjustment and allocation as well as conversion of land use value, impacts caused by land occupation on agriculturaleconomy, can be reduced. (4) It is necessary to do well removal and resettlement. And the policies of removal and resettlementstipulated by the local governmentmust be carried out conscientiously. As this road is not a closed one. it has little impact on their living convenience of residents along the road. (5) The Owner shall enhance the promulgation of cultural relics. protection measures should be take promptly in case there are underground cultural relics discovered in construction. 9.2 Ecological Environment (includingsoil erosion, water environment) (1) The status of ecological environmentin the assessment scope of the proposed road is good. Land occupied by the road is about 818.4 mu. whose types are paddy field. dry farming land. pond. woodland and wild land etc. The road constructionwill make agricultural economy suffer a certain loss. but cannot have obvious impact on the distributingpattern of land and vegetation. (2) The proposed road is an improvementon the old road. Therefore.the impact on the landform caused by works as roadbed cutting and earth/stone filling is relatively small. 51 (3) According to the survey, there are no wild animals sanctuary, neither distribution of rare and endangered animals and plants in the districts along the proposed road. The main impacts of this constructionon vegetation are the woodland, fruit trees, flower, grass, bush and crops within the land acquisition area during construction. Meanwhile, agricultural produce will also suffer from artificial felling, uprooting. burying and treading. These impactsabove can be mitigated by planting. (4) At the road construction stage and in the first year of road operation, the excavated slope along the road will produce a certain amount of soil and water loss. However, as this road is rebuilt on the old road. the design, construction. completion and acceptance of protective works will keep pace with the main works, so actual soil and water loss is very small. In addition, the road planting will make partial slope restore its vegetation and reduce its soil and water loss. (5) At the bridge construction and operation stages. the impact on water body is smaller. (6) The impact of the proposed road on the surrounding channels. ponds and agricultural irrigation system etc is not great either. 9.3 Acoustic Environment (1) The general construction noise caused by hauling vehicles and road making machinery etc has a quite big impart on the people in the area close to the construction site and excess road (within 50m);but little impact on those lOOm beyond. So the construction noise has a greater interruption impact on schools and residential area within 50m from the central line of the highway.Therefore. the constructiondepartment should pay attention to rational arrangement of working time. avoiding class time and nighttime. (2) In the middle operation phase. noise exceedance at nighttime include six locations: Dongtang. Zhangtang. Meijiang. Sheshang. Chitang. Zhuzitouxia (Xitou) with max. exceedance of 0.3 dB: as to noise exceedance at nighttime in the long-run operation phase. in addition to the above six locations in the middle. there are 3 more as Jiangchexia, Shanjiaoxia and Zhangliwu with max. exceedance of 2.3-2.4dB, but not much. (3) Hongshan central primary school and Sheshang primary schools 60m away 52 from the road will exceed by 0.4-0.6dB in daytime in the middle and long-run operation. Zhangtang primary school close to the road exceeds by 3.8-5.9dB in the operation phase. The EIA recommendsthe building of sound barrier of 150m in length and 2.5m in height. (4) Noise monitoringwill be carried out for those locations with no exceedancebut close to the proposed highway, where there are large residential quarters and schools and correspondingmeasures will be taken in accordancewith the monitoring results. 9.4 Ambient Air (1) The monitored and surveyed results have shown that NO\ and TSP pollution along the proposed road is light, and NO, has much leeway for environmentalcapacity. The most places passed by this road are countryside fields where environmentalair quality keeps up the natural level. no large -size stationarypollution source and current environmental air quality is good. (2) As the asphalt-meltingand lime-earthmixing plants are located at the main line, the main environment pollution during the construction are TSP. Spray water and clean the construction road in time. The hauling vehicles should be covered. The material store should be far away from residences and be covered. And the roadbed is timely watered during filling to reduce the unfavorableimpact to certain extent. (3) According the prediction. NO, concentration at 16m from the central line of Suichuan linking road conforms to Class II standardvalue. (4) CO concentrationat 16m from the central line of Suichuan linking road satisfies Class II standard limitingvalue also. (5) NOx monitoring will be carried out for Meijiang Township in the middle and long-run operation phase and corresponding measures will be taken in accordance with the monitoring results. 9.5 Public Participation (1) Make public the policies and compensationstandard for land acquisition and resettlement, deliver the compensation fee directly to the hands of the householdsto be removed. Reassign the farmland. make resettlement and residential building base promptly which shall not below the former living standard. 53 Annex I Overview of the Assessment Unit and Staff Member Research Institute Of Highway (RIOH) is the largest and comprehensive national highway research , experiment and technical development base under the direct leadershipof the MOC, holding class A Certificatesfor EIA issued by NEPA. Environmental Engineering Office of RIH is mainly engaged in environment impact assessment (EIA) of highway and independent bridges;environment engineering design, planting design and basic environmental research concerning construction and communications. It now owns 20 specialists in the fields of highway engineering, automobile engineering, environment engineering, chemical analysis, garden planting, biochemical engineering.,of whom. 10 persons have high-levelprofessional titles and 6 have middle-level professional titles. Up to the present, we have carried out EIA for about 100 freeways and independent bridges, taken charge of the compiling of Environmental Impact Assessment Specifications for Highway Construction Projects promulgated by the MOC. Having good theoretic fundamentals and hands-on experience, the EnvironmentalEngineering Office also has the EIA working experience for the projects financed bv the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank. In addition to this, it undertook the environmental design of freewaysound barrier, sewage treatment, planting and constructionwork. The following is an outline of the assessmentpersonnel for this project: Shen Yi. male, born in 1962. graduated from Huatong Institute of Water Conservancv and Electric Power. He is associate research felloxwand the depute director of Environmental Engineering Office., in charge of the coordination with the Owner and design unit in this project Yan Xiaolin, male. born in 1969, M.S. graduated from Research Institute of EnvironmentalScience of Beijing Normal University.He is an associate research fellow. in charge of the EIA (the main line) compiling and the acoustic assessment in this project Li Xiyun. female, born in 1941, graduated from Fudan University, senior engineer. in charge of the EAP compiling and the ambient assessmentin this project Wang fang. female, born in 1957. graduated from Electronicengineering., assistant engineer, in charge of the social environment assessmentin this project Dong Bochang. male. born in 1974. M.S araduated from Environrmental Engineering of Jilin Universitv. assistant research fellox. in charge of ecological environmentand soil erosion assessment in this project Fan Qinchun. female. born in 1974. graduated from Beijing Industrial University, engineer. in charge of the water environment assessment in this project 55 Annex II Reference (1) World BankOperational Manual OP /BP/GP4.01, March, 1999 (2) "EIA TechniqueGuidelines" [HJ/T2.1-2.3-93. HJ/T2.4-1995.HJFT19 - 1997,NEPA]; (3) "Specifications Concerning EIA for Highway Construction Project"(Trial) [JTJO05 - 96, MOC]; (4) Li Zhongkai, Meteorological Principles of Air Pollution and Its Application, MeteorologyPress. 1985. (5) Ren Wentong, Traffic Noise and Control. Remen CommunicationPress,1985. (6) Yearbookof Jiangxi Province (1999), Jiangxi Provincial StatisticsBureau (7) Remote Censoring Survey Report of Jiangxi Province Soil Erosion, Jiangxi Provincial Water Conservancy Office, Nanjing Soil Research Institute of China Academy of Science, 1997 (8) Atlas of Jiangzxi Province, Jiangxi Provincial Mapping Bureau, March, 1998 (9) EIA of Linxiang-Changsha Freeway of Beijing-Zhuhai National Trunck Highway (Highway IV), RIH of MOC. April 1999. (10)Feasibility Study Report of Suichuang Linking Road of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-Ganzhou Section), Jiangxi Provincial Communications Design Institute (JPCDI). Feb. 2000 (11)Two-stagePreliminary Design of SuichuangLinking Road of Gan-YueExpressway (Taihe-Ganzhou Section). Jiangxi Provincial Communications Design Institute (JPCDI), Sept. 2000 56 Annex III: Public Participation and Questionnaire Survev Topic I . The positive effect of the expressway on the local economy and society 2. The possible negative effects of the expressway. and mitigation measures Name Sex Age Nationality Occupation Job Title Education Address Zhang Male 52 lndividua Futian Han Teacher Chief in Normal Group 5# of I file _ teaching office school Hongshan cun Xiao Male 48 Zeng Han Teacher Deputy Normal Group 4# masterhead school Dapingcun Xiao Male 42 Xiaopi Han Teacher Chief in Normal Litoucun ng teaching school Lian2% Male 49 uan Han Teacher Chief in Normal Lianggangcun teaching school Oume Fema 44 n le Han 1 eacher Chief in Normal Bizhoucun teaching school Records of the intervie%s: The proposed expressk%av shall be convenient for the entrance of xehicles onto road. There will be some impact produced b% traffic noise and dust. "xhich can be mitigated bs far distance. change the direction of school gate. in this regard. hope to provide some economic compensation for school adjustment. The rest impact are wvithinacceptable level. Representative (Signature): Surveyor or Recorder(Signature): Date: 57 Public Participation and Questionnaire Survey t. The positive effect of the expressway on the local economy and society. Topic 2. The possible negativeeffects of the expressway. and mitigationmeasures Name Sex Age Nationality Occupation JobTitle Education Address Guo Ji Male 38 Han Farmer High school Zhangtangcun Meijiang Individual Guo Male 39 Han Farmer Viliage Highl school Zhangtangcun file Wenbang secretary Meijiang Guo Male 36 Han Self High school Zhangtangcun Fuzai operation Meijiang business Guo Male 62 Han Farmer Polvtechnic Zhangtangcun Zhonglia school Meijiang ng _ _ _ _ _ Guo Male 52 Han Farmer Village Normal Zhangtangcun Dewan chief school Meijiang Guo Male 33 Han Farmer Middle Zhangtangcun Wenti school Meijiang Guo Male 19 Han Farmer Middle Zhangtangcun Decai school Mei jiang Guo Male 32 Han Farmer Middle Zhangtangcun Shichun school Meijiang Guo Maie 27 Han Farmer Middle Zhangtangcun Yahong school Meijiang Guo Male 26 Han Farmer Middle Zhangtangcun Guoshen school Meijiang g Guo Male 42 Han Farmer Middle Zhangtangcun Wenqi school Meij iang Guo Malae 44 Han Farmer Primar) Zhangtangcun Xiaohai school Meijiang Guo Male 46 Han Farmer Primary Zhangtangcun Tousheng school Meijiang Guo Male 65 Han Farmer Primary Zhangtangcun Wenqi I_ I I school Meijiang Guo Male 44 Han Farmer Primar) Zhangtangcun Mingshao school Meijiang Records of the interview I. Make the land compensation policy and standard known to the public. 2. Guard wall shall be necessar%if the proposedexpressway pass by the school. 3. Security measures shall be available to guarantee the entrance-exit of the students 4. Drainage ditch shall be set up on both sides of the expressw-ay. 5. Tr! to make use of the old road as much as possibleso to reduce the occupation of land. 6. Hope the road far a%a\ from the %illaee 7. Wish the aowernmentto construct high%%a)s as quick as possible to help people get ride of'pox ertn 8. Compensationfee for land acquisition and resettlementshould be gi\ven to the farmersin full amount Representative (Signature): Surveyoror Recorder(Signature): Date: 58 Annex IV: The People' s Republicof China Environmentaland ResettlementBulletin for the Jiangxi No.2 HighwayProject For the environment and resettlement informationof the Jiangxi No.2 Highway Project to be inquired by the public, increasing the openness of the work, the TGEPCO has placed the following complete reports respectively in the resettlement offices and libraries of Nanchang city, Ji' an city, Ganzhou City, Taihe county, Suichuan county, Wan' an county,Nankang city, Zhanggongdistrict in Sep.10, 2000. (1) Resettlement Action Plan for the Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProject financed by the World Bank Tanhe-Ganzhou Expressway Project ConstructionOffice (TGEPCO); (2) Environmental Action Plan for the Taihe-Gan:hou Expressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProject financed by the World Bank, Tanhe-Ganzhou Expressway Project Construction Office (TGEPCO); (3) Environmental Action Plan for the Ganzhou Connecting Road of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project (Taihe-Ganzhou Highwsay) financed by the World Bank, TGEPCO; (4) Environmental Action Plan for the Suichuan Connecting Road of the Jiangxi No. 2 Road Project(Taihe-Ganzhou Highway) financed by the World Bank, TGEPCO; (5) Environmental Action Plan for the Wan, an C'onnecting Road of the Jiangri No. 2 Highway Project(Taihe-Ganzhou Highway) financed by the World Bank. TGEPCO,Dec.2000 The above reports will be modified according to the suggestion of World Bank delegation and public, and then be placed in the above resettlement office and libraries. Tanhe-GanzhouExpressway Project ConstructionOffice (TGEPCO) Sep.22, 2000 59 Annex V: List of Tables and Figures Table 1-1 Assessment Scope of EnvironrnentalImpacts of the ProposedRoad Table 1-2 Standard Limits for Water Quality Assessment Table 1-2 Standard Limits for WaterQuality Assessment Table 1-4 Noise Criteria for Urban Area (extracts) Table 1-5 GB3095-1996Ambient Air Quality Standard (extracts) Table 1-6 SensitiveLocations to Noise and Air along the Road Figure 2-1 Geogrphic Position of the Alignment Figure 2-2 Map of AlignmentStrike Figure 2-3 Section profile of Standard Roadbed Table 2-1 Quantities of Main Works/Technical Indicators Table 2-2 Prediction of Traffic Volume Table 3-1 Main Social Economic Indicatorsin Suichuan Table 3-2 Soil and Water Loss in SuichuanCounty Table 3-3 Soil Erosion Category Standard Table 3-4 Results of EnvironmentNoise Monitoring Table 3-5 Monitored Data of Current Ambient Air Table 4-1 Noise Value of the Main ConstructionMachines Table 4-2 Constants Related to Spacing Table 4-3 Predicted Results of Traffic Noise Along Linking Road During Operation Table4-4 AttenuatingDistance (Traffic Noise Along Suichuan Road up to ClassIV Standard) Table 4-5 Noise prediction and exceedance at sensitive points along Suichuan Linking Road Table 4-6 Wind Direction Frequency/ Average Wind Velocity/ Pollution Coefficient In Suichuan County Table4-7 VehicleTail Gas Diffusion Prediction (Stability D) DuringOpemation Table 7-1 Ambient Air MonitoringPlan Table 7-2 Noise Monitoring Plan Table 7-3 Water MonitoringPlan Figure 7-1 Environmental management organization in constructionperiod Figure 7-2 Environment OrganizationChart in Operation Phase Table 7-4 Environmental ManagementPlan for Proposed Project Table 7-5 Environmental Protection Investment Estimate Table 8-1 Summarv of the statisticsof the public participation survey 60 Annex V 1: List of RelevantReports (1) EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Reportfor the Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project financed by the World Bank, Research Institute of Highway of MOC , December, 2000 (2) EnvironmentalAction Plan for the Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProjectfinanced by the World Bank, World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD, Dec.2000 (3) EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Reportfor the Ganzhou City ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project(Taihe-GanzhouHighway) financed by the World Bank, Research Institute of Highway of MOC . Dec.2000 (4) EnvironmentalAction Plan for the GanzhouCity ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProject (Taihe-GanzhouExpressway) financed by the WorldBank, World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD, Dec..2000 (5) EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Reportfor the Suichuan County ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project(Taihe-GanzhouExpressway) financed by the World Bank Research Institute of Highway of MOC . Dec.2000 (6) EnvironmentalAction Plan for the Suichuan County Connecting Road of the Jiangxi Nvo.2 Highway Project(Taihe-GanzhowExpressway) financed by the World Bank, World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD. Dec.2000 (7) EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Reportfor the Wan 'an County Connecting Road of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Projec t(Taihe-GanzhouExpressway) financed by the World1Bank, Research Institute of Highwayof MOC . Dec.2000 (8) Environmental Action Plan for the Wan'an County Connecting Road of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwvayProject(Taihe-Ganzhou Highway) financed by the PVorldBank World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD. Dec.2000 (9) Environnental Assessment summary for the Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway, Connecting Roads and its binding projects of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwtayProject financed by the World Bank, Research Institute of Highway of MOC . Dec.2000 ( 0) ResettlementAction Plan for the Taihe-Gan:houExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highivay Project financed by the World Bank, Resettlement Office of Taihe-Gan:houExpressway Project Office, 2000 (I I) Cultural Relics Survey Report forthe Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project financed by the World Bank.Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics .4rcheologyInstitute, Dec.2000 61