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Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project – Additional Financing Environmental Monitoring Report Project No. 34418-023 Semestral Report (January- June 2021) July 2021 Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project – Additional Financing Prepared by Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) for the Asian Development Bank. This semi-annual 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. GOVERNMNET OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH Ministry of Water Resources Bangladesh Water Development Board SEMI-ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT [Period January-June 2021] FOR Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project- Additional Financing [ADB Loan No. 3302 (SF) & GON Grant No. 0441 (EF) Joint venture of The Netherlands Bangladesh Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................................. 1 List of Table .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................. 3 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.1 Background .................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.2 Sub-project areas ........................................................................................................................................ 5 1.3 Environmental Category as per ADB Safeguard Policy Statement 2009 ..................................................... 8 1.4 Environmental Category of each subproject as per National Laws and Regulations .................................. 8 1.5 Project Safeguard Team .............................................................................................................................. 8 1.6 Reporting Period ......................................................................................................................................... 8 1.7 Brief description of subprojects .................................................................................................................. 8 1.7.1 Phase-1 subproject areas of Narail and Chenchuri Beel ............................................................................. 8 1.7.2 Rehabilitation of water infrastructure and WMO development for Additional Financing ....................... 10 1.7.3 IWM/Feasibility studies ............................................................................................................................. 20 1.8 Monitoring Requirements ......................................................................................................................... 20 1.9 Changes in project scope ........................................................................................................................... 20 2. Compliance with National Statutory Environmental requirement ........................................................... 20 3. Compliance with Environmental Loan Covenants ..................................................................................... 21 4. Compliance with Environmental Management Plan ................................................................................. 23 4.1 Environmental Monitoring based on EMP ................................................................................................ 23 4.1.1 River/Khal Re-excavation Guideline .......................................................................................................... 32 4.1.2 Removal of trees by Forest Department ................................................................................................... 32 4.2 Major Environmental Activities During the period January-June, 2021 .................................................... 33 4.2.1 Environmental Field Level Monitoring, Training and motivation .............................................................. 33 4.2.2 Intensive care on protection from COVID-19 ............................................................................................ 34 4.2.3 Preparation of Semi-annual Environmental Monitoring Report ............................................................... 34 4.2.4 Establishing Fish Sanctuary in South-West Area Integrated Water Resource Planning and Management Project-Additional Finance (SAIWRPMP-AF) ............................................................................................. 34 4.2.5 Testing of HTWs for Arsenic Contamination ............................................................................................. 36 6. Approach and Methodology for Environmental Monitoring of the Project ............................................. 39 7. Monitoring of Environmental Impacts on Project Surroundings (Water Quality, air Quality and Noise Level) ......................................................................................................................................................... 39 8. Summary of Key Issues and Remedial Actions .......................................................................................... 39 9. Consultation and Complaints .................................................................................................................... 39 10. Implementation of Recommendation of EIA/EMP .................................................................................... 40 11. Monitoring for EMP and COVID-19 Issues ................................................................................................. 40 11.1 Monitoring of EMP .................................................................................................................................... 40 11.2 Latest Improvement of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Quality .................................................... 51 11.3 Updated Project Strategy Against COVID-19 H&S Guidelines ................................................................... 52 APPENDIX A ...................................................................................................................................................... 55 APPENDIX-B ...................................................................................................................................................... 60 APPENDIX-C ...................................................................................................................................................... 66 APPENDIX-D ...................................................................................................................................................... 67 APPENDIX-E ...................................................................................................................................................... 75 APPENDIX-F ...................................................................................................................................................... 78 Semi-Annual Environmental Monitoring Report, January-June 2021 1 BWDB: Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project - Additional Financing List of Table Table 1: Environmental Safeguard personnel in SAIWRPMP-AF .......................................................... 8 Table 2: Compliance with environmental loan covenants of ADB ........................................................ 21 Table 3: Compliance with Environmental Loan Covenants related to ADB comments on semi-annual EMR, January-June, 2021 ...................................................................................................... 21 Table 4: Overview of Environmental Monitoring Observations ............................................................. 23 Table 5: Information on clearance/removal of trees by the Forest Department ................................... 32 Table 6: Environmental Training and Capacity Building Activities (during the reporting period) .......... 33 Table 7: Environmental Staff training (Cumulative upto June, 2021) ................................................... 34 Table 8: WMO Training (Cumulative upto June, 2021) ........................................................................ 34 Table 9: Testing of Arsenic contamination of water of Hand Tube wells .............................................. 37 Table 10: Testing of Arsenic contamination of water of Hand Tube wells ............................................ 38 Table 11: Information regarding DTW in SAIWRPMP-AF (Up to 30.06.2021) in brief ......................... 38 Table 12: Public Complaints Registered in SAIWRPMP-AF ................................................................ 39 Table 13: Contractor’s Drive against Outbreak of COVID-19 ..............................................................
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