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Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridors 3 and 5 Enhancement Project Environmental Monitoring Report Project No.: 46543-002 July-December 2018 May 2019 Tajikistan: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridors 3 and 5 Enhancement Project Prepared by: SMEC International (Pty) Ltd, Australia for the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Asian Development Bank. This environmental monitoring report 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. 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. CAREC Corridors 3 and 5 Enhancement Project: Contract for Engineering, Works Supervision and Project Management Services Grant 0356-TAJ _____________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................. 6 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 7 1.1. Preamble ................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2 Headline Information ............................................................................................................... 7 2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES ............................................................. 9 2.1 Project Description .................................................................................................................. 9 2.2 Project Contracts and Management ....................................................................................... 11 2.3 Project Activities During Current Reporting Period ................................................................. 15 2.3.1. Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Vose-Khovaling road (86.7 km) ............................ 15 2.3.2. Enhancement of Sayron-Karamyk road (89 km) ............................................................. 15 2.3.3. Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Kangurt to Baljuvon to intersection of Vose- Khovaling Road (42+500km). ................................................................................................... 15 2.4. Description of Any Changes to Project Design .................................................................. 22 2.5. Description of Any Changes to Agreed Construction methods .............................................. 27 3. ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARD ACTIVITIES .......................................................................... 28 3.1. General Description of Environmental Safeguard Activities .................................................. 28 3.2. Site Inspections .................................................................................................................... 28 3.3. Issues Tracking (Based on Non-Conformance Notices) ........................................................ 33 4. RESULTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING ...................................................................... 37 4.1 Overview of Monitoring Conducted During Current Period ..................................................... 37 4.1.1. Noise and Air ................................................................................................................. 38 4.1.2. Water quality .................................................................................................................. 39 4.1.3. Dust ............................................................................................................................... 42 4.1.4. Flora and fauna .............................................................................................................. 43 4.1.5. Monitoring of Other Environmental Issues ...................................................................... 43 4.2 Trends ................................................................................................................................... 46 4.3 Summary of Monitoring Outcomes......................................................................................... 46 4.4 Material Resources Utilization ............................................................................................... 47 4.4.1 Current Period ................................................................................................................. 47 4.4.2 Cumulative resource Utilization ....................................................................................... 50 4.5 Waste Management .............................................................................................................. 51 4.5.1 Current Period ................................................................................................................. 51 4.5.2 Cumulative Waste Generation ........................................................................................ 51 4.6 Health and Safety .................................................................................................................. 52 4.7. Grievance Redress mechanisms functioning ........................................................................ 53 5. FUNCTIONING OF THE SSEMP ................................................................................................ 54 5.1. The environmental management system (EMS), site-specific environmental management plan (SSEMP), and work plans .................................................................................................... 54 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Semi-annual Environmental Monitoring Report, July-December, 2018 Page 2 of 84 CAREC Corridors 3 and 5 Enhancement Project: Contract for Engineering, Works Supervision and Project Management Services Grant 0356-TAJ _____________________________________________________________________ 5.2. Corrective Action plan ........................................................................................................... 55 6. GOOD PRACTICE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR IMPROVEMENT ............................................... 56 CONCLUSIONS .............................................................................................................................. 58 APPENDIX- A: PHOTOS ................................................................................................................ 60 APPENDIX- B: AIR QUALITY SURVEY .......................................................................................... 67 APPENDIX- C: NOISE LEVEL SURVEY ......................................................................................... 70 APPENDIX- D: WATER QUALITY SURVEY ................................................................................... 71 APPENDIX-E: MINUTES OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION ................................................................ 76 APPENDIX-F: LETTERS / NCN TO CONTRACTOR ...................................................................... 78 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................... 84 FIGURES Figure 1: Vose to Khovaling Road, 87.8 km ...................................................................................... 9 Figure 2: Sayron-Karamyk Road (Red Color) 89km ........................................................................ 10 Figure 3: Figure 3: Location of project road sections Vose-Khovaling (Yellow color) and Sayron- Karamyk (Red Color) ...................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 4: Map of the Kangurt –Baljuvan – Khovaling Road Project ................................................. 11 Figure 5: Project Organization Chart ............................................................................................... 14 Figure 6: Plan of Bridge No.5 .......................................................................................................... 23 Figure 7: Cross-section of Bridge No.5 ........................................................................................... 24 Figure 8: Plan of Bridge No 6 .......................................................................................................... 25 Figure 9: Cross-section of Bridge No.6 ........................................................................................... 26 Figure 10: Location of Noise and Air quality sampling points ........................................................... 38 Figure 11: Location of water quality sampling stations .................................................................... 41 Figure 12: Location of water quality sampling points ....................................................................... 42 Figure 13: Location of water quality sampling points ....................................................................... 42 PHOTOS Photo 1: Watering as part of dust prevention is applied by Contractor - October 2018 .................... 43 Photo 2: Asphalt Scrap temporarily dumped outside ROW of road, (Cloudy weather) 08.12.2018 .. 52 TABLES Table 1: Main organizations involved for Environmental Safeguards
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