Remedial Environmental Social Impact Statement for the Katembula
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OCTOBER 2018 MINISTRY OF WATER DEVELOPMENT SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Remedial Environmental Social Impact Statement for the Katembula Dam under the Water Resources Development Programme ENVIRONMENTAL AND SO CIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT ( ADDENDUM TO THE ALR EADY APPROVED EPB BY ZEMA) ADDRESS COWI Zambia Limited Plot 45/5b Reedbuck Road, Off Kabulonga Road P.O.Box 34528 Lusaka Zambia TEL +260 211 26 53 78 +260 977 74 03 47 +260 977 74 03 50 FAX +260 211 26 53 80 EMAIL [email protected] OCTOBER 2018 WWW cowi.com MINISTRY OF WATER DEVELOPMENT SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Remedial Environmental Impact Statement for the Katembula Dam under the Water Resources Development Programme ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (ADDENDUM TO THE ALREADY APPROVED EPB BY ZEMA) PROJECT NO. DOCUMENT NO. 3037.03 1 VERSION DATE OF ISSUE DESCRIPTION PREPARED CHECKED APPROVED 0.1 October 2018 Report Pilila Chongo Litumelo Mate Derek Mwape Litumelo Mate 7 EIS CONTENTS LIST OF ACRONYMS 9 1 Background 10 1.1 Purpose of the Report 11 2 Policy and Legal Framework 11 2.1 National and Policy and Legislation Framework 12 2.2 International Policies, Standards and Guidelines 13 2.3 Institutional Context for Project Implementation 14 3 Study Approach 14 3.1 Baseline Studies and Consultation Activities 15 3.2 Impact Identification 15 3.3 Study experts 16 4 Project Site and Scope of Work 16 5 Environment and Social Conditions 20 5.1 Social Economic Environment 20 5.2 Biophysical Environment 20 6 Environmental and Social Impacts 28 7 Environmental and Social Management Plan 33 8 Stakeholder Engagement 51 9 Demobilisation and Restoration of the Dam Sites 51 10 Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans 59 10.1 Hazards 59 10.2 General Roles and Responsibilities in an 60 Emergency Planning Response Situation 60 10.3 Local Emergency Authorities 61 10.4 Five Step Emergency Determination 62 10.5 EPRP Maintenance 68 Appendices 69 Appendix A Institutional Roles 69 Appendix B Attendance sheets and Meeting Notes 76 8 EIS LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Dam site 17 Figure 2: A typical soil profile at Katembula dam, taken from one of the borrow pits. 22 Figure 3 First Storey on Lower part of Transect 24 Figure 4 First Storey on Middle part of Transect 25 Figure 5 Second Storey of the Transect 25 Figure 6 The Northwestern Fringe of the Dam 25 Figure 7 Imisenga and A local boy fishing in the dam 26 Figure 8 Upward shifting of the Dambo and slowly drying non-water loving trees; a factor of economic development at the expense of ecological preservation 29 Figure 9 Affected trees 29 Figure 10: A Cooking Pavilion and a Kimberly bricks and iron sheet roofed structure proposed to be left for the Local Dam Committee by the Contractor (Source; Site supervisor) 52 Figure 11: Iron sheet structures structure proposed to be demolished by the Contractor 52 Figure 12 Pit latrines to be decommissioned 53 Figure 13: One of the A heaps of spoil/overburden material which is supposed to be used to back-fill the borrow pits 54 Figure 14: Stock-piled trees at one of the properly rehabilitated borrow pits at Katembula Dam 54 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Main features of the dam 18 Table 2: Fish Species 26 Table 3: Birds in the Project Area 26 Table 4: Snakes and Reptiles of the Project Area 27 Table 5: Mammals of the Project Area 28 Table 6: Insect species of the Project Area 28 Table 7: Katembula Dam ESMP 35 Table 8 Proposed demobilisation and restoration Activities 49 9 EIS LIST OF ACRONYMS AfDB African Development Bank ARAP Abbreviated Resettlement Action Plan CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species CWUA Community Water User Association DC District Commissioner DERP District Emergency Response Plan DWO District Water Officer DWRD Department of Water Resources Development EMA Environmental Management Act EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EPB Environmental Project Brief EPRP Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan ESS Environmental and Social Safeguards ESIA Environmental and Social Impact Assessment EIS Environmental Impact Statement ESMF Environmental and Social Management Framework ESMP Environmental and Social Management Plan FAO Food Agricultural Organisation IFC International Finance Corporation MWDSEP Ministry of Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection NWASCO National Water Supply and Sanitation Council PAPs Project Affected Persons PPE Personal Protective Equipment PS Performance Standard PWO Provincial Water Officer RAP Resettlement Action Plan RPF Resettlement Policy Framework USD United States of America WARMA Water Resources Management Authority WRDP Water Resources Development Project ZEMA Zambia Environmental Management Agency 10 EIS 1 Background Despite Zambia’s significant arable land and water resources, and favourable climatic conditions that provide potential for expansion of agriculture, livestock and industrial sector, the country faces challenges in improving citizenry livelihoods with 60% of the population living below the poverty line. One of the challenges is the country’s vulnerability and constraints related to water availability and accessibility. Whilst water demand from different sectors increases, water availability is limited by hydrological variability worsened by floods and droughts, seasonal water shortages, and lack of infrastructure placing serious constraints on economic development. In order to address the challenges of water deficits particularly in the rural areas the Government of the Republic of Zambia received World Bank financing to support the Zambia Water Resources Development Project (WRDP). This programme is a response to the central features of the Government’s vision and strategy as described in the National Water Policy, its Vision 2030, the Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Efficiency Implementation Plan (2005- 2030) and the National Development Plan (2013-15). The Project development objective is to support the implementation of an integrated framework for water resources management that promotes infrastructure development in support of economic growth, poverty reduction and climate resilience. The WRDP project has three components as follows: Component A whose objective is to enhance capacity at the national and regional level to address the challenges of water resources management in Zambia; Component B whose objective is to address the infrastructure deficit. This aims at providing support to development and rehabilitation of small-scale water resources infrastructure throughout the country; Component C’s objective is to strengthen the institutional capacity for water resources management and development. Component B, which is the focus of this report, has been under implementation since 2016. The DWRD personnel were fully engaged in identifying dam sites, designing and supervising construction of 12 dams in 6 provinces namely Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, and North Western, Southern, and Western provinces. In addition to the engineering tasks, the department conducted additional Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies and developed Environmental Project Briefs (EPB’s), which were subsequently approved by ZEMA in 2017. The world bank required that a compliance audit be conducted and any remedial actions be defined and supplementary Environmental and Social Studies (ESS) be prepared. A consortium of consultants was contracted to conduct a review of the technical/engineering, environmental, and social aspects of 10 dams out of the 12. These dams are at different stages of completion. The Consultant observed some omissions in the environmental assessment and accompanying Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs) for the dams with FSL larger than 25ha. Based on the screening and guidance from ZEMA then, EPBs were prepared by DWRD. During project implementation it was noted that the inundated area triggered schedule two of ZEMA EIA regulations requiring that an ESIA be developed. Therefore, this is Katembula Dam’s remedial Environmental 11 EIS Impact Statement (ESIA) with additional environmental and social baseline information and impacts to supplement the already approved Environmental Project Briefs (EPBs) by ZEMA. 1.1 Purpose of the Report The main objective of this report is to provide additional environmental and social baseline information and the environmental and social management measures for Katembula Dam. Katembula Dam has an inundation area greater than 25ha at 43.5ha, in line with schedule 2 of ZEMA EIA regulations requiring a full ESIA. Therefore, the resulting report is an addendum of the initial EPB. This was done in order to ensure sufficient compliance with the World Bank requirements. The report contains a section on the policy and legal framework that can be triggered and complied with by the project implementers. Furthermore, an elaborated emergency preparedness response plan has been included. The purpose of the plan is to help reduce the risk of injury and minimize property damage during an unusual or emergency event at the dam. It will ensure that the community are aware of the steps to follow in an event of a major dam failure. The scoping/ stakeholder engagement meeting notes have been included and they also informed the baseline information and ESMP. The report therefore consists of eight sections arranged as illustrated in the layout below. Section 1 - Background and Purpose of the report Section 2 - Policy and legal framework Section 3 - Project sites and scope of works Section 4 - Environment