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43405-025: Urban Services Improvement Investment Program Draft Initial Environmental Examination October 2013 GEO: Urban Services Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 3 (Improvement of Ureki Water Supply System Sub-project) Prepared by United Water Supply Company of Georgia LLC of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure for the Asian Development Bank. This initial environmental examination is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. htrp:I I | 92.I 68. 0. 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FirstDeputy Minister t,7a/417TengizShergelashvili Draft Initial Environmental Examination October 2013 GEO: Urban Services Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 3 (Improvement of Ureki Water Supply System Sub-project) Prepared by United Water Supply Company of Georgia LLC of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure for the Asian Development Bank This initial environmental examination is a document of the borrower. The views ex- pressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Man- agement, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank CA - Cross section area CC - Civil Contractor DC - Design Consultant EA - Executing Agency EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment EIP - Environmental Impact Permit EMP - Environmental Management Plan GoG - Government of Georgia GRC - Grievance Redress Mechanism IA - Implementing Agency IEE - Initial Environmental Examination IP - Investment Program IPMO - Investment Program Management Office kg - Kilogram km - Kilometre lpcd - Litres per Capita per Day M - Metre MFF-IP - Multitranche Financing Facility Investment Program mg/l - milligram per litre mm - Millimetre MoRDI - Ministry of Regional Development & Infrastructure PS - Pumping Station RCC - Reinforced Cement Concrete uPVC - Un-plasticized Poly vinyl Chloride UWSCG - United Water Supply Company of Georgia WS Water Supply WWTP - Waste Water treatment Plant i Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 I. POLICY, LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK 5 A. ADB Policy 5 B. Georgian Law 6 II. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT 11 A. Type of the Project 11 B. Need of the Project 11 C. Location 13 D. Implementation Schedule 14 E. Sub Project Components 14 F. Construction Activities 16 G. Operation of Improved Water Supply System 17 III. DESCRIPTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT (BASELINE DATA) 17 A. Physical Resources 17 B. Ecological Resources 25 C. Socio-Cultural Resources 27 IV. ANTICIPATED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES 30 A. Summary of Activities and Anticipated Impacts 30 B. Air Quality 31 C. Water Quality 32 D. Soils Quality and Topsoil Management 33 E. Biological Environment 34 F. Traffic 35 G. Hazardous Construction Wastes 36 H. Other Wastes from Construction Activities 36 I. Impacts on Archaeological Sites 37 J. Socio-Cultural Resources 38 K. Vibration 39 L. Construction Camps 40 M. Construction Related Impacts at the Quarrying Sites 41 N. Cumulative Impacts 41 V. ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES 41 VI. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION, AND PARTICIPATION 44 VII. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM 45 VIII. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN 47 A. Institutional Arrangements 47 B. Performance Indicators 49 C. Monitoring 58 IX. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 62 A. Recommendation 62 B. Conclusion 63 ii APPENDIX 1. Minutes of Meeting of Public Hearing on 16 July 2013 2. Chance Find Report Form 3. Overview distribution system 4. Baseline water quality raw water well field Laituri List of Tables Table 1: Water Demand Development 12 Table 2: Proposed Subproject & Components Water Supply System and Waste Water System 14 Table 3: Pipe lengths and diameters 15 Table 4: Ambient air temperature pattern, °C 17 Table 5: Soil temperature pattern, °C 18 Table 6: Precipitation, mm 18 Table 7: Relative air humidity, % 19 Table 8: Recommended baseline pollution levels by population quantities 19 Table 9: Number of flash floods by season 21 Table 10: Percentage of total runoff 21 Table 11: Guria and Ozurgeti population quantities 27 Table 12: Population and Tourists, 2012 28 Table 13: Environmental management cost table 49 Table 14: Environmental performance indicators 51 Table 15: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures 52 Table 16: Environmental Monitoring Plan for general construction activities in Ureki 59 List of Maps Map 1: Location of Ureki 13 Map 2: River Network in Western Georgia 22 Map 3: Hydro-geological zones of Georgia 23 Map 4: Seismic Zones of Georgia 24 Map 5: Bio-geographic regions of Georgia 26 Map 6: Central Kolkheti Wetlands (State of the Environment 1995) 27 Map 7: Monitoring location for groundwater: any well in well field Laituri 62 List of Figures Fig. 1 Transmission main (red line) from Laituri well field to Ureki 14 Fig. 2 Average annual air and soil temperatures 18 Fig. 3 Simplified Water Supply Flow Scheme – Option 1 42 Fig. 4 Simplified Water Supply Flow Scheme – Option 2 43 Fig. 5 Simplified Water Supply Flow Scheme – Option 3 43 Fig. 6 Grievance Redress Mechanism 46 iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. It is proposed to improve the water supply in Ureki and Shekvetili under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded Urban Services Improvement Investment Program, which is under preparation stage. This Investment Program, implemented in seven towns, including Ureki, will develop the water and sanitation services, which will improve quality of life and optimize the social and economic development. Ministry of Regional Development and Infra- structure (MoRDI) is the Executing Agency (EA) and United Water Supply Company of Georgia (UWSCG) is the Implementing Agency (IA) of this Program. This subproject will be implemented from 2014 to 2017. Since the subproject is unlikely to have significant adverse impacts, it is classified as environment Category B, and accordingly an Initial Environmental Examination has been conducted. This is a summary of the IEE Report. 2. Ureki - Shekvetili is located at the Black Sea and lies some 360 km to the west from the capital city of Tbilisi. It is designed to meet the projected demand of 2040. This will be achieved by: (i) construction of a water supply system, which is subject of this IEE, (ii) con- struction of a new sewer system; and (iii) construction of a new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). 3. Ureki and Shekvetili are surrounded by agriculturally used land. Animal husbandry for meat and milk products, as well as farming exists within the project area and its vicinity. Po- tato and corn are the important crops in the area. Industrial activities in Ureki and Shekvetili are of only minor importance. The project area shall be further developed as tourism resorts. Number of tourists in the Borough Ureki during one year on average equals to 50,000 per- sons. Ureki is equipped with 80 hotel-recreation and retreat centres for the tourists and fami- ly hotels of the private sector. The number of tourists in Shekvetili accounts for approximate- ly 2,000 persons. Currently Shekvetili has hotel-recreation and retreat centres and family hotels as well. Further investments are planned in the future. 4. Ureki and Shekvetili do not have a centralized water supply system. Population main- ly takes water from wells in their yards. The water does not have drinking water quality as it is partly brackish due to its small distance to the Black Sea and it is polluted from the septic tanks located in the direct vicinity of the wells. For this reason, the implementation of a com- plete water piping centralized system is required for the further functioning of the resorts. 5. Water supply project measures consist of construction of a new well field along river Natanebi approximately 2 km to the north of the village Laituri, construction of a major transmission main (length 14 km) from Laituri well field to pumping station at Ureki and addi- tional smaller transmission mains within the water supply area of Ureki and Shekvetili. Addi- tional water supply facilities are the pumping station at Ureki and 2 reservoirs. 6. Location of above described water supply facilities is within the village areas and vi- cinity of Ureki and Shekvetili. The well field is located along the River Natanebi, approxi- mately 2 km to the north of the village Laituri. It is connected to the pumping station in Ureki by means of a transmission main, exhibiting a length of 14 km and a DN 600 Diameter. 7. Most of the predicted impacts are associated with the construction process.
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