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E951 Volume 2 _M L .........._7 Public Disclosure Authorized .1 ~ W|: ' -r-_ .4X - -o Public Disclosure Authorized Ghana Water Sector Restructuring Project Environmental Assessment and Management Plan Part 2: Environmental Management Plan Public Disclosure Authorized April 2004 Draft final report 9P2503 Public Disclosure Authorized g AY & ACONSULT UNITED W ..ad E-n --.wImetlCnl ROYAL HASKONING FILE COPY 00 ROYAL HASKONING HASKONING NEDERLAND BV WATER Barbarossastraat 35 P.O. Box 151 Nijmegen 6500 AD The Netherlands +31 (0)24 328 42 84 Telephone 0031(0)243231603 Fax [email protected] E-mail www.royalhaskoning.com Internet Arnhem 09122561 CoC Document title Ghana Water Sector Restructuring Project Environmental Assessment and Management Plan Document short title Ghana WSRP EAMP Status Draft final report Date April 2004 Project name Environmental, Resettlement and Dam Safety Study for Ghana WSRP Project number 9P2503 Reference RH/Nijm/RO2/PS/MUHB Author(s) Peter Scheren/Martine Leman/Henk Blok - Royal Haskoning Seth A. Larmie - AY&A Consult Limited Client Ghana Water Company Ltd. Drafted by Peter Scheren Checked by Martine Leman Date/initials check ...................... ...................... Approved by Henk Blok Date/initials approval ...................... ...................... KOYAL HASKONING ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS EAMP Environmental Assessment and Management Plan EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EMP Environmental Management Plan EMS Environmental Management System EPA Environmental Protection Agency ESR Environmental Scoping Report GOG Government of Ghana GWCL Ghana Water Company Ltd. h.h. Household HSES Health, Safety, Environment(al) and Social HSES-MP Health, Safety, Environment and Social Management Plan IDA International Development Association PMU Project Management Unit ROW Right of Way RPE Regional Project Engineer SE Supervising Engineer VRA Volta River Authority WRC Water Resources Commission WSRP Water Sector Restructuring Project Ghana WSRP EAMP 9P2503 Draft final report i April 2004 000 ROYAL HASKONING CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS Page 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 SUMMARY OF IMPACTS 2 3 MITIGATION MEASURES 7 3.1 Dredging activities and dredge spoil dump site at Brimsu 7 3.2 Location of proposed boreholes 9 3.3 Alignment of pipelines 10 3.4 Decommissioning of pipelines 10 4 MONITORING AND REPORTING 11 4.1 Contractor performance monitoring 11 4.1.1 HSES Management Plan 11 4.1.2 Environmental Supervising Engineer (ESE) 12 4.1.3 HSES reporting 13 4.2 Monitoring of the effectiveness of mitigation measures 14 5 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 15 5.1 Stakeholders 15 5.2 Roles and Responsibilities 15 5.3 Institutional capacity and training of GWCL 17 5.3.1 Resettlement training and capacity building 17 A training workshop on Resettlement is to be organized as part of this assignment 17 5.3.2 General environmental training 18 5.3.3 Specific HSES training 18 5.3.4 Training of contractors personnel 19 6 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE 20 7 COST ESTIMATES 21 Appendix 1 Overview of project components Appendix 2 Definition of key terms used in the EMP Appendix 3 Overview of potential environmental and social impacts per project component Appendix 4 Overview of mitigation measures per activity group and phase of the project Appendix 5 Format for HSES reporting in progress reports Appendix 6 Sample format for incident notification and reporting Ghana WSRP EAMP 9P2503 Draft final report ii April 2004 1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~01 ROYAL HAIKONING INTRODUCTION This Environmental Management Plan (EMP) was prepared within the context of the First Year Investment Plan (FYIP)of the Water Sector Restructuring Project (WSRP) in Ghana, and forms Part 2 of the Environmental Impact Assessment and Management Plan (EAMP) for these works. The EMP is based upon the results of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as presented in Part 1 of the EAMP. The principle purpose of the EMP is to present a set of mitigation, monitoring, and institutional measures to be taken during planning and design, construction, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning of the first year civil works of the WSRP. The objective of these measures is to eliminate adverse environmental and social impacts, offset them, or reduce them to acceptable levels. The plan includes practical actions needed to implement these measures, which may largely be readily incorporated into: (a) construction specifications and drawings for inclusion in tender documents; and (b) operation and maintenance manuals. The Environmental Management Plan (EMP) presents the following topics: * Summary of imoacts: The predicted adverse environmental and social impacts for which mitigation is required are identified and briefly summarised. * Mitigation measures: Feasible and cost effective measures to reduce potentially significant adverse environmental and social impacts to acceptable levels are defined. * Monitorina measures: Activities to monitor the effectiveness of the defined mitigation measures are defined. These monitoring activities will allow for any additional remedial measures to be undertaken if mitigation measures are inadequate or the impacts have been underestimated within the EIA report, in particular where the results are not in compliance with the obtained permits, national standards and World Bank Group requirements and guidelines. * Institutional measures: Responsibilities for mitigation and monitoring will be clearly defined as well as arrangements for co-ordination between the various actors responsible for mitigation. Furthermore, training and capacity building requirements are presented. * Implementation schedule: The timing, frequency, and duration of mitigation measures are specified in an implementation schedule. * Costs estimates and sources of funds: For initial investment and recurring expenses for implementing of measures contained in the EMP, cost estimates are presented, in order to allow for integration into the total project costs. An overview of important terms used in this EMP is presented in Appendix 2. Ghana WSRP EAMP 9P2503 Draft final report 1 April 2004 ROYAL HAIKONING 2 SUMMARY OF IMPACTS Based on the results of the EIA, this section summarizes the potential environmental and social impacts of the project, for which mitigation measures need to be put in place. An overview of potential environmental and social impacts of the various project components is presented in Appendix 3. Impacts are grouped into four categories, under the following headings: . Impacts related to pioeline construction, operation and maintenance and decommissioning'; * Impacts related to dredging operations in Brimsu reservoir and disposal, as well the operational consequences thereof 2; . Impacts related to borehole construction, operation and maintenance and decommissioning; * Impacts related to VRA power line extensions, operation and maintenance and decommissioning. Impacts have been categorized into three classes: * Minor impact: where an effect will be experienced, but the impact magnitude is sufficiently small and well within accepted standards, and/or the receptor is of low sensitivity/value. * Moderate impact: will be within accepted limits and standards. Moderate impacts may cover a broad range, from a threshold below which the impact is minor, up to a level that might be just short of breaching an established (legal) limit. * Maior impact: is one where an accepted limit or standard may be exceeded or large magnitude impacts occur to highly valued/sensitive resource/receptors. The criteria used for analyzing the potential levels of impact of the various aspects of the project activities are presented in chapter 5 of the EIA. Within the urban development in which most project activities take place the potential impacts of construction, maintenance and decommissioning works in terms of common impacts such as air and noise pollution, visual amenities, and in, most cases, flora and fauna and are considered to be minor. There are, however, a number of aspects of the project which have a potential for moderate to major impact levels. 2 Including tank rehabilitation and booster station construction. 2Decommissioning is not an aspect with respect to the dredging operations. Ghana WSRP EAMP 9P2503 Draft final report 2 April 2004 ROYAL HASKONING Potentially major impacts that have been identified are: Soil erosion The construction of the water distribution network (pipelines) requires the clearance of sites from vegetation, as well as the execution of excavation works. Inappropriate construction practices and soil protection measures may induce or accelerate erosion, leading to soil instability and landslides in hilly areas. Although the majority of works takes place along existing roads, it may be anticipated that the clearing of vegetation in the ROW will lead to temporary increase in soil erosion, until re-vegetation has occurred. The risks of increased soil erosion are particularly prevalent in the hilly communities of the Ashanti Region particularly in Obuasi and also in the Volta Region. Safety of the Constructions sites, in particular excavated trenches and pits, public transportation and, movement of heavy equipment and obstructions of roads may cause safety problems to the public. The risks of such is particularly important in the case of construction works near frequented public buildings such as the schools in Kumasi South and West, Obuasi, Mampong, Cape Coast, Tamale and Ho. Furthermore, the dredge spoil disposal site at

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