E-425 VOL. 12
Public Disclosure Authorized People's Republic of China
World Bank Financed Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project
Wan'an Connecting Road
Environmental Impact Assessment Report
Public Disclosure Authorized (Third Edition) Public Disclosure Authorized
Research Institute of Highway, MOC
December 2000 Public Disclosure Authorized People's Republic of China
World Bank Financed Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project
Wan'an Connecting Road
Environmental Impact Assessment Report
(Third Edition)
Research Institute of Highway, MOC
December 2000 Research Institute of Highway
Director Chen Guojing
Chief Engineer Liu shutao
Environment Protection Division
Division Head : Ye Huihai
Chief Engineer : Li zongyu Examiner Ye Huihai Project Team Leader : Yan Xiaolin Associate Research Fellow
(EIA Professional Competence Certificate, No. 0060 Beijing) Project Team Member Shen yi, Associate Research Fellow (EIA Professional
Competence Certificate, No. 2116 );
Li xiyun, Senior Engineer(EIA Professional Competence
Certificate. No. 0909 Beijing);
Dong bochang, Engineer(EIA Professional Competence
Certificate, No. 08380); Wang Fang, Engineer (EIA Profesional Competence
Certificate, No. 0098 Beijing):
Fan qingchun, Engineer (EIA Profesional Competence
Certificate, No. 0995 Beijing)
Report editor: Li Xiyun Current statuesque monitoring Unit: Ji'an Prefecture Environmental Monitoring Station
i Contents
Foreword...... I Chapter I General Provisions ...... 2 1.1 PreparationBasis ...... 2 1.2 Assessment Scope and Time Horizon...... 3 1.3 AssessmentMethodology and Key Points...... 3 1.4 AssessmentStandard ...... 4 1.5 AssessmentClassification ...... 5 1.6 Major Environmental Protective Objectives...... 5 Chapter 2 Project Overview...... 6 2.1 GeographicLocation ...... 6 2.2 Road Alignment and Key ControllingPoints ...... 6 2.3 ConstructionSize, Major TechnicalIndicators and Work Quantities...... 6 2.4 Forecastingof Traffic Volume...... 7...... 7 2.5 InvestmentEstimation and Work Scheduling...... 7 Chapter 3 Description and Assessment of Current EnvironmentalConditions ...... 8 3.1 Natural Environment...... 8 3.2 Social Environment...... 9 3.3 EcologicalEnvironment ...... 10 3.4 Acoustic Environment...... 12 3.5 Ambient Air...... 13 Chapter 4 EnvironmentalImpact Predictionand Protective Measures ...... 15 4.1 Social EnvironmentalImpact Assessment...... 1 5 4.2 EcologicalEnvironmental Impact Assessment...... 17 4.3 Acoustic EnvironmentalImpact Assessment...... 20 4.4 Ambient Air Prediction and Assessment...... 25 4. 5 EnvironmentalImpact from Excavationand Transportationof RoadbuildingMaterials .... 2 8 4.6 MitigationMeasures for EnvironmentalImpacts ...... 29 Chapter 5 Alternative Proposals ...... 35 5.1 Alternative Analysis without the Proposed Project ...... 35 5.2 Introductionto the Alignment...... 35 5.3 Comparative Analysis of Alignment Altematives...... 36 Chapter 6 EnvironmnentalManagement and Monitoring Plan...... 37
ii 6.1 EnvironmentManagement Plan...... 37 6.2 EnvironmentalMonitoring Plan ...... 39 6.3 Cost Estimationfor Mitigation Measures...... 41 Chapter 7 Public Participation...... 42 7.1 Overviewof Public Participation...... 42 7.2 Family interview...... 42 7.3 Group interview...... 43 7.4 InformationRelease and Feedback ...... 44 7.5 Summaryof Public Participation ...... 44 Chapter 8 AssessmentConclusions ...... 45 8.1 Social Environment...... 45 8.2 EcologicalEnvironment ...... 45 8.3 Acoustic Environment...... 46 8.4 AmbientAir ...... 46 8.5 Public Participation...... 47 8.6 EnvironmentalProtection Investmentand ManagementPlan .. 47 8.7 ComprehensiveAssessment Conclusion...... 47
Annex I Overviewof the AssessmentUnit and Staff Member Annex 1I Reference Annex III Public Participationand Questionnaires(group interview) Annex IV Environmentaland Resettlement Bulletin for the World Bank Financed Jiangxi No.2 Highway Project Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway Annex V List of Tables and Figures Annex VI List of relevant reports
iii Foreword
Early 1994, Jiangxi Provincial Government made an important strategy of "constructing Nanchang-Zhangshu-Ji'an-Ganzhou-GanYueborder auto-highway".The implementationof this project will play a very important role in the opening to outside world of Jiangxi Province, in promotingthe investment environment,industry structure, as well as the improvement of people's living standard. The Gan-YueExpressway Taihe-Ganzhousection is a World Bank financed project to be constructed by the Jiangxi Province. The Wan'an connecting road is one of its connecting roads, and is the only passageway entering onto or exiting,the Gan-Yue Expressway. The implementation of this project will play a very important role in perfecting the road transportation network of Jiangxi Province, in promoting Ganzhou region's economic development and in taking full play of highwavs as transportation Pivot. In Dec.1999. the Jiangxi Provincial CommunicationsDepartment and the Jiangxi Provincial Expressway Administration entrusted the Ministry of Communications Highway Research Institute to undertake the environmental impact assessment for this project. In Dec.1999, with the assistance from the JPCDI. the local governments and the relevant departments,the MOC Highway Research Institute conductedseveral times of the site reconnaissance along the proposed highway area for the environmental conditions and the major environrnental protection targets and collection of related materials and data, based on these, the EIA team has prepared the TOR of environmental assessment for the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section (including connectingroads) According to the requirements of this meeting, the MOC Highway Research Institute has revised and supplementedthe first edition of the EIA report and completed its second edition in August, 2000. In December 2000, the EIA team again modified this EIA report in accordance with the aide-memoire at the pre-evaluation mission of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-GanzhouSection) of the World Bank environmentalexperts
I Chapter 1 GeneralProvisions
1.1 Preparation Basis (I) People 's Republic of China Law on Environmental Protection (Dec.26, 1989) (2) People 's Republic of China Law on Water and Soil Conservation(June 29,1991) (3) People 's Republic of China Law on Land Management (Aug.29, 1998) (4) People's Republic of China Law on Noise Pollution Control (Oct.29,1996) (5) People's Republic of China Law on Water Pollution Prevention (May.15,1996) (6) People's Republic of China Law on Air Pollution Prevention (Dec.29,1995) (7) People 's Republic of China Law on Solid Waster Pollution Prevention (Oct.30,1995) (8) People's Republic of China Law on Roads (July.3,1997) (9) Management Regulation on Environmental Protection for Construction Project (State Council document No.253, Nov. 18,1998) (10) Management Regulation on Environmental Protection for Transportation Construction Project (Ministry of Communications ordinance (90) No.17) (11) Notice on Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment Management for Construction Project Loaned by International Financial Institutions (National Environmental Protection Agency and other bodies document (1993) No.324) (12) World Bank Working Handbook OP/BP/GP4. 01 Environmental Assessment, March 1999 (13) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment (HJ/T2.1-2.3-93, HJ/T2.4-1995, HJ/T19-1997, NEPA) (14) Code of Environmental Impact Assessment for Road Construction Project (tentative) [JTJ 005-96, the Ministry of Communications] (15) Environmental Protection Regulations for Construction Project in Jiangxi Province (April 29.1995) (16) Letter of Commission on Environmental Impact Assessment for the Gan-Yue Expressuajy Taihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Highway Investment and Development Holding Co.. Ltd.. Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute. Dec. 1999) (17) Feasibility' Study Report for the Wan an Connecting road of the Gan-Yue Expresswa,vTaihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute Feb.2000) (18) Two stage Preliminary Design for the Wan'an Connecting Road of the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute May 2000)
2 (19) Two stage Preliminary Design for the Wan an Connecting Road of the Gan-Yue Expressway (Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute) Sept. 2000) (20) Letter of Confirming the Environmental Impact Assessment Standardfor the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section (Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection Agency [2000] 14)
1.2 Assessment Scope and Time Horizon 1.2.1 Assessment Scope According to the characteristicsof environmental impacts during the construction and operation stages, the assessment scope for ecology, water, noise and air is usually the area 200m from the two sides of the road center, and can be extended to 300m if there is important sensitive location. 1.2.2 Assessment Time Horizon The assessment duration (time horizon) will comprehensivelyconsider the design stage, construction stage and operation stage, and selects the year 2004, 2015 and 2023 representing the short-term.mid-term and long-term operation stage to make prediction and assessment accordingto the estimated traffic volume years in the FS report.
1.3 Assessment Methodology and Key Points 1.3.1 Assessment Methodology According to filed reconnaissance along the road, except for a few residences, schools and high-fill and deep-cut sections that are relatively highly sensitive in environment, other sections are rather similar in their environmental conditions. Therefore, the assessment will be conducted by the principle of combining points and locations and reflecting the whole road. 1.3.2 Assessment Key Points The construction of this project involves a lot of filling and cutting, building of bridges and culverts. which will exert a relatively big impact on local ecology (including water environment and water conservation). The traffic noise during operation stage will exert a relatively big impact on people's rest and schooling. So the key points are ecological impact assessment during construction stage and noise assessment during operationstage. The key points of this assessment are the ecological environmental impact assessment in the construction stage and the traffic noise impact assessment in the operation stage.
3 1.4 Assessment Standard According to the Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection Agency's Letter [2000] No.14 and the World Bank environmental experts' requirements,the applying standards for this project are: (1) Water environment: the water quality assessment for the Ganjiang river af the surface water along the road applies the class III criteria of the GHZBI-1999
standard 6.5-8.5 - 20 < 0.05 (• 150) GB5084-92
(2) Acoustic environment:GB12523-90
Table 1-2 GBI2523-90Noise Limitsin ConstructionSite Unit:Leq(dB) Noiselimit Constructionstage Mainnoise source day night Earthand stone works Bulldozer.excavator. loading vehicle 75 55 Piling Allkinds of piles 85 prohibited
Structure Concrete mixer. tamper. electric sa\. etc 70 55 installation CCrane. lifting machine 65 55
Table1-3 Acousic Envimnmenl Impact Aeent Sendard inOperaton Stage (Abstnct) UnitLeq(dB) Class or sensitive objective day Night GB3096-93 Class l 55 45 GB3096-93Class 4 70 55 (3) Ambient air environment: GB3095-1996
4 Table 1-4 Ambient Air Environmental Quality Assessment Standard (Abstract) Unit:mg/m3 PollutantName TSP NO, CO
GB3095-1996 Dail) average 0.30 0.10 4.00 Class II concentration limit Average per hour - 0.15 lOQO
1.5 Assessment Classification According to the World Bank's requirements on environmental classification, and because this project is a new one (including part of innovation on the old road), so E1A and EAP are required.
1.6 Major Environmental Protective Objectives The proposed road is aligned intentionally to divert from towns, but unavoidably it will impact some villages, waters and mountain bodies. According to field reconnaissance and survey, we identify the major environmental protection objectives along the road as shown in Table 1-5.
Table 1-5 List of Major EnvironmentalProtection Objectives
Environmental Environmental Factor Protection Objective Stake No. Impact factor
Agricultural crops ( rice. K4+800-K7+200. Land occupation. sugar cane ) K10+1I00-Kl 1+200. subgrade fill construction
Vegetation (sparse woods. K0+600-K3+700. K7-K9. Fill and cut. earth borrowing Ecological grasslands) KI I-K 13 and waste disposal High-fill and deep cut sections like Water and soil KO+620-KO+720. Fill and cut. earth borrowinp conservation K3+100-K3+250. and wvaste disposal K7+350--K7+420. K7+500-K7+620
Ganjiang river K9+340-KI1+140 Construction of bridge eviaoer foundation. pavement run- Others Canals. ponds and trrigation off in operation stage s! stem along the road
Acoustic, Sensitive locations such as Construction noise. flvine
social residences and schools See Table 3.4-1 dust. traffic noise. auto tail environment listed in Table 3.4-1 gas. etc
Note: data from the
5 Chapter 2 Project Overview
2.1 Geographic Location This Project is located in Wan'an county on the southern part of Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province. Its geographic location ranges from 260 38' to 26' 33' in north latitude and from 114° 38' to 14° 44' in east longitude. The Project's Geographic Location is shown in Fig. 2-1.
2.2 Road Alignment and Key Controlling Points The proposed connecting road starts from Gaopo town of Wan'an County where it connects the National Highway 105, and ends at HuangnanVillage, Baijiazhen,Wan'an County to link the Wan'an -Taiheroad. The road runs through Gaopo, Shaokou and Baijia. The major controlling points are Wan'an Interchange and Wan'an Bridge on the Gan River. Fig.2-2 is the aligmnent diagram for this project.
2.3 Construction Size, MajorTechnical Indicators and Work Quantities The major technical indicators and its works volume are listed in Table2-1. Fig.2-3 is the standard cross-sectionalprofile of subgrade. Table2-1 Major Technical And Economic Indicators and Work Quantities No Item Unit Quantity IlV] Highwa%class Il 2 Designrunning speed Km/h 80 3 Totallength km 13.86 4 Occupiedland mui 649.6 5 Earthi/stonev.orks for subgrade m 614464 6 Drainageprotection \%orks for subgrade m 39164.56 7 Bituminousconcrete pavement lOOOm- 117.846 8 Subgradew-idth m 12.0 9 Bridgedesign load Auto-20.trailer-100 10 Net %sidth of bridgepavement m Net-I0 _I Hugebridge M/place 795.69/1 12 Largeor middle-sizedbridge M/place 13 Small-sizedbridge M/place 110.08/4 14 Culhert M/place 1020.15/45 Note: data from the
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Table2-2 Forecastingof TrafficVolume Unit: vehicle/day(medium-sized truck) Year 2004 2010 2015 2023 Total 1586 2463 3408 6657 Note:data fromthe 2.5 InvestmentEstimation and Work Scheduling 2.5.1 InvestmentEstimation The fund needed for this Project comes from domestic bank loans and locally self-raised fund. The investment of the project totals 102.480873 million yuan, averaging at 7.394 millionyuan per kilometer. 2.5.2 Work Scheduling The project intends to start in August 2002, to be completed for operation in August 2004, totaling 24 months. Wa'an extreme large bridge intends to start constructionin August 2001 and be completedin August 2004, totaling 36 months. 7 Chapter 3 Description and Assessment of Current Environmental Conditions 3.1 Natural Environment 3.1.1 Landform and Relief Starting from the origin to Shaokou , the land rises and the terrain goes up and down with an elevation of 80-150m and a relative altitude difference of 40-60m. The hilly terrain takes an elongate or oval shape. Then the alignment comes to the Gan River valley from Shaokou to Baijia with an elevation of 60-72m, where the relief is flattened and widened and the land lowered. From Baijia onward until the destination, the hilly land is similar to the section from the startingpoint to Shaokou . 3.1.2 Hydrographicand Meteorology As the alignmentgoes across the Ganjiang River, the water level along the road is controlled by that of the Ganjiang river. Floods and maximum water level usuallv occur in May and June lasting a period of 5-15 days. Wan an County is located in subtropical low hilly climate which is characterizedby mild weather, plentiful rainfall, sufficient sunshine,longer summer and winter. shorter spring and fall, obvious distinction of seasons and short frost season The annual average temperature is 18.60C-19.2'C.. In a year, January is the coldest. with an average monthly temperature of 6.7'C-7.90 C: while July is the hottest with an average monthly temperature of 29.60C-29.80C. The project is about 500 km away from the coastline. The climate in this area is of oceanic type characterized by plentiful rainfall-an average annual rainfall of 1381 1443mm. The influence of monsoon results in the concentration of rainy season in April-June. 3.1.3 Geological Conditions The alignment is situated along the South China fold system dominantly affected and controlled by the Ganjiang River fault. The rock strata stretches to the north and east. No large faultedjoint is found. the geological structure is not very developed. The undergroundwater in the region is crevice water of red stratum and pore water from ravelly ground of the Quatemary period. The strata layers along the line are simple in structure and no unfavorable geological phenomenahave been found. This area is featured with large-scale intermittent rising movement. No explicit differentiation can be found in the fracture and block movement. Earthquake 8 occurrence rate is low. According to Maps of China's Regional Divisions of Earthquake Rupture (Jianxi Part,1990), the rupture along the alignment of this project is below IV magnitude. 3.2 Social Environment 3.2.1 Impact Areas and Their Divisions According to the natural administrative zoning, the layout of the existing transportation network and degrees of the project's impact on the various regions, the influenced region has been subdivided into two types: one directly influenced region and two indirectly influencedregions, of which Wan'an County belongs to the former while Taihe and XingguoCounties belong to the latter. 3.2.2 Major EconomicIndicators of the InfluencedRegions The total populationof Wan an County amountedto 278,000 in 1998. Its GNP was 778,000,000 yuan. The farmnersnet annual average personal income was 1966 yuan per person. The gross output value was 369,060,000yuan(value of that year.) for industry, and 677,070,000 yuan (value of that year.) for agriculture 3.2.3 Regional Features The connecting road is one of the arterial highways of Wan'an County, running from east to west. Wan'an County is situated in subtropicalzone, covering an area of 2046.43squarekilometers. It borders Xingguo Countyin the east, and Gan and Nankang Counties in the south and Suichuan County in the west and Taihe County in the north. The county is rich in hydro resources. with over 2000 square kilometers of rain runoff area. The Wan'an Hydropoweris the first trapezoidalconstruction on the mainstreamof the Ganjiang River. The Wan'an power station has an installed capacity of 400.000kw, generating 1.06 billion kilowatts/ha year ranking the largest in Jiangxi Province as well as a backbone power station in Jiangxi Province. It is committedwith the major task of systematic frequency modulation and phase modulation, playing a vital role in improving the system's economic and technical conditions.Wan'an County has fertile land, abundant economic resources, such as cereal crops, beans, oil crop and ramine as well as cash crops. The County has raised a variety of livestock. fowl and fish. It has also bred such fine varieties as Wan an pigs. glassy red Cyprinus carpio. Fruit trees. medical herbs and wild plants are well known far and wide. Just to name a few, we have Baoshan dates, Mianjinpaper and so on. Wan an has beautiful mountains and waters. and thus many scenic spots. The well-known Huangkong Beach and magnificent Wan'an Dam of the HydraulicPower Station have great charms. Wan an is also one of the revolutionary bases with glorious traditions. 9 3.2.4 Transportation No railway goes by Wan'an County and highway transportation plays very important role. Road related with is project in the influenced region is the Wan'an-Taihe Highway which has a total length of 36km, starting from Wan'an County to pass Baijia, Yaotou,and Tongjin to reach YangcunVillage, Taihe County. In addition, two sections of National Highway 105 go through Wan'an County for 30.5km. There are five Provincial Highways. 3.3 Ecological Environment 3.3.1 Animal and Plant Life Statistics shows that the coverage of Wan'an County's forest goes up to 67.5 percent. Along the line is mostly planted vegetation, few bushes or natural grass. The bushes are mainly gulfpine, azalea, etc. The natural green coverage is mainly of gramineous type with some ferns. The cultivated plants are primarily farm plants including some timber trees, fruit trees and artificial forestation for protection and scenery. Plants on the farmland are mainly oil-tea camellia,tung oil tree and tea groves. Fruit trees are mainly orange, peach, plum, navel orange trees. etc. Chinese parasol and poplar trees are used for protective forestationand scenery. Wan'an County has within its territory such trees as firs. gulfpine, pinus clliottii, camphore. oil-tea camellia. tung oil. Rare and precious trees include trifoliate fir. Bretschneidera sinensis (a small niche is found around the Tianshan Lake of Luyuan woodland), gingko (scantily distributedaround Mianjinand BoyanVillages) which are tens of kilometers away from the proposed highway. Since farmers around here have long conducted heavy farming activities along the line, animals are mainly species that have got accustomed with this. In most farming areas, small animals that eat cereal crops are rats. sparrows or finches, with very few wood inhabiting animals. It has been investigated that within the assessment scope. no wildlife sources that have been listed as national rare endangered species. and nor there is natural preservation zones. 3.3.2 Soil and Land Use Soil in this part is somewhat acid. and land is mainly loess with brown or gray earth from place to place. The hilly locations are mostly red soil. In the farmland we find coarse alluvial soil. In Wan'an County soil falls into seven types: paddy soil, moisture soil. meadow soil. purple soil, red loam, yellow earth and upland meadow. They can be further divided into eleven sub-types. in which paddy soil is Wan'an County's main mold 10 covering an area of 514,193.75mu, 17.29 percent of the total soil, with 20,500 mu of moisture soil occupying 0.69 percent of the total, 4271mu of meadow soil 0.14 percent, 290,500 mu of purple soil 9.77 percent, 2,132,500 mu of red loam 71.74 percent 10,100mu of yellow earth 0.34 percent. It has been calculated that Wan'an County has now 3,069,600muof land in total, out of which 296,200 mu of paddy field, 2.,900 mu of dry land, 43,800 mu of orchard, 1,300mu of tea garden, 1,930,700mu of woods. 3.3.3 Resourcesof Crops The district along the proposed project has a mild climate and favorablewater and heat conditions.Agricultural products includerice, various kinds of beans as main crops and cotton, sugar cane, sesame and tobaccoas cash crops. 3.3.4 Water EnvironmentAssessment (1) Status Quo The project areas along the line are located around the water system of the Ganjiang River. The main runoff flow comes from rainfall, whose season runs from April to June. Therefore seasonal changes in the volume of river water vary greatly. The Ganjiang River that eventually pours itself into the Poyang Lake also covers a large area, Navigation of this river has been planned to be a Class III navigable ship-pass without anv navigation requirement for other rivers. Preliminary investigations show that within the assessment scope, there is no centralized drinking water intake in rivers. therefore, people get their drinking water from underground. (2) Monitoring and Assessment of Water Quality The section of river for water quality monitoring has been chosen at The Ganjiang River Bridge. The Ji'an Monitoring Station carried out the above monitoring and the result of the work was provided in Table,-I presented in April. 2000. Table3-1 Water Quality Monitoring Results and Assessment Monitored Timeof sample PH value Suspended Petroleum COD section collection lsubstance SS 12/4/2000 r 7.21 56.0 _ 5.99 %Vanan 13/4/2000 7.17 444 _ 12.77 Ganjiang Ri%erBridge Average 7.19 50.2 _ 9.38 siteK9-640 Qualified 100% 100% 100°.4 I00% percentage Assessmentstandard limit 6.5-8.5 S 1I0S 0.05 <20 Datafrom the monitoringreport submitted by theJi'an PrefectureMonitoring Station. April.2000. Note: indicatesthe unnoticed; *refersto whereno SSlimit setin GHZBI-1999, applythe GB5084-92 Water Quality Standardlfor Irrigation of Farnland Class I Standard. 11 Table3-lindicates that monitored results at the Ganjiang River are within the limits, and each water quality indicator is 100 percent satisfactory, which shows that the water quality is nice and can satisfv requirements concerned. 3.3.5 Soil Erosion It has been shown that soil erosion at Wan'an County is above the average of the Province. The Wan'an County's soil erosion is shown in Table3 -2. Table3-2 Wan'an County'sSoil Erosion Soil erosion level Slight Mild Moderate Intense Very intense Severe Total Totaraofsded bad 223.80 24.96 20.19 33.54 2.51 1.96 306.96 (ltOMi) Average erosion <20 500, 200, 500, module (t/km2 a) 1000 1000-2500 2500-5000 5000-8000 8000-15000 >15000 Data: RemoteCensoring Survey Report of Jiangxi ProvinceSoil Erosion.Jiangxi ProvincialWater Conservancy Office. 1997 3.4 Acoustic Environment 3.4.1 Acoustic Environment The Project region is covered mostly by hilly land. rural fields where the environment is relatively quiet. No large-size stationary noise pollution sources have been found. Noise source comes from National Highway 105 and vehicles on the country road. On the present roads and intersections. noise can exert some adverse impact as part of the residences are being urbanized. In villages. the major noise comes from residents living noise, animal and fowl call. The sensitive locations such as residences, schools etc. for the recommended proposal for the proposed road are listed in Table' 3. (Note: on the two side Gaopo-Huangnan as a reference direction) Table3-3 Statisticsof MajorSensitive Locations Io Sitename Mileage Distncefrom Size Environmentalfeatures he center I t Xiaketang K4+200 Rieht 120m 16 families.80 Hill. closeto the ne%%and old roads - ~~~~people Hly ls oten~ n l od 2 Yuanbei K4+850 Left edge 1lfamilies.70 Hill%. at the intersectionof the ne%% people andold roads%% ith a pond Rightedge- l4families.70 Hills. closeto the newsand old roads. Tianbei K5+300 40m people wsithoil-tea camellia Wanan Count% 4 Schooi(WanxanK5+800 Right80m Desolatebuildings Mostlh 120m a" a%from road Gongda) 5 Xiajianpo K6+600 Ri.ht 60m 10families.50 Residinpat thefoot of hills. a roadto people the old road 6 Qiangbei K9+150 Left 110m 10families.45 Farmlandon the w%estbank of the people GanjiangRiver 12 No Site name Mileage Ditancefrom Size Environmentalfeatures Liujia On the east bank of the Ganjiang 7 Bjun) KlO+150 Right edge 20 fapilies.100 River, clustered living on plain (Baijiacun) people land.fill height 6m 8 Yangjiapo KI1+950 Right 180m 4 families 21 Hills ______people 9 Huangnan K13+300 Right 140m 20 famnilies,95 Clusteredhouses, flat landform HuangnanK13+300 Right 140m people Note: data from the < Preliminary Design for the Wan'an Connecting Road>. Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute (Sept. 1999). 3.4.2 Current Condition Monitoring and Assessment Two sensitive locations: Yuanbei and Liujia (Baijia) were selected to conduct the acoustic monitoring with the monitored results listed in Table3 -4. Table 3-4 Current Acoustic Environment Monitoring Points and the Results Site MonitoringPoint Period of Noise (dB) time L 50 LL0 . ros%. ofFirst houses Daytime 53 8 48.0 N uanbei K4+85 irtr%oo oue 43.7 51.1 close to the road Nighttime 46 0 42.7 40.5 43.8 Liujia (Baijia) First rowvhouses Daytime 43.0 43.0 42.0 42.6 K 10+150 close to the road Nighttime 41.0 40.0 40.0 40.4 Data from the monitoringreport submitted by the Ji-an Prefecture MonitoringStation. April. 2000. The monitored data show that the noise Leq value of villages along the road is 42.6dB-I-51.IdB(daytime) and 40.4dB-43.8dB(nighttime), satisfying class I criteria and close to class zero criteria, demonstrating the fact that the aligning districts have favorable current acoustic environment, satisfactorily meeting the requirements of sensitive locations for acoustic environment. 3.5 Ambient Air 3.5.1 Current Condition Investigation The proposed road mostly goes through countryside. villages and fields where the ambient air remains natural. Along the line, no large-size stationary pollution sources have been found. The present ambient air pollution comes from flying dust. automobiles' emission and carbon monoxide (CO) produced from people's working and living. as well as total suspended particles(TSP). The pollutants discharged are small in quantity. hence the current ambient air is of fine quality. 13 3.5.2 Current Condition Monitoringand Assessment This assessment conducted ambient air monitoring at Liujia(Baijia), with the monitored results listed in Table 3-5. Table 3-5 MonitoredResults for Ambient Air Houriv average value Daily average value Max Total daily Monitoin item excessiv average point Concentration Excessive Concentration Excessive eties value limit(mg/m) rate(%) limit(mg/m3 ) rate(%) times value Liujia NOx 0.006-0.018 0 0.008-0.012 0 0 0.010 (Baijia) TSP - - 0.108-0.126 0 0 0.114 Data from the monitoringreport submitted by the Ji'an Prefecture Monitoring Station, August,2000. From Table 3-5, it shows that the daily average NOx and TSP concentrations are lower than national Class II standard, not above the limits. NOx has a relatively large environmentaltolerance. 14 Chapter 4 Environmental Impact Prediction and Protective Measures 4.1 Social EnvironmentalImpact Assessment 4.1.1 Impact on CommunityDevelopment After the completionof this Project, technicalstandards will go up remarkably and the road conditions will be improved so that transportationcapacity will also rise up noticeably. Constructionof this project will greatly strengthen the relations of the two sides of Wan'an on the Ganjiang River. The traffictension on the Wuyun Bridge will be mitigated, so that exchanges of commodities and information between regions will be quickened. As a result, the investment environment of the covered region will be improved so that necessaryconditions to attract investorscan be further created. With the improvementof transportation conditions,commerce, food and beverage industry, tourism. architecture, transportation, manufacturing and fish breeding and poultry raising will develop rapidly, offering more opportunitiesof employment for the society, resulting in greater profits in economicand social aspects. 4.1.2 Impact on Infrastructure The construction of the Project will not damage the current water conservancy facilities, during the construction period, however, lighting, transmitting and communication wiring shall have to be removed. This will bring adverse impact to thousands of households and township enterprises in terms of lighting and communication. Hence. an overall surveillance has to be done for electricity and communication facilities before contacting relevant departments to protect while removing these public facilities. Before the removal. provisional electric and communication wiring has to be set up so as to ensure that life of the residences and enterprises will not suffer much impact. 4.1.3 Removal and Resettlement It has been calculated that removal work involved in this project will cover 7068.6 square meters of various kinds of buildings. Refer to Table 4 -I for details. The relocated power and telecommunicationlines come to 59500m of. The resettlement will be undertaken by the principle of local resettlement, overall interest. coordinated arrangement. full consultation. suitable settlement and no problem unsettled. Families to be removed should be identified one by one and reasonably compensated for according to the standards issued by local government. Government should arrange for house building so as not to impact removed family's living standard IS and reduce the adverse impact of resettlement to the minimum extent. Table4-1 Estimated Removal of Buildings Brick- tile brick-concrete ClaN-brick-tile Toilet. TB Brickwall Concretegrain houseof (m2) house(i 2) house (i 2) pigpen(m2) (m) ground (m2) 4617.5 1300.4 1150.7 8 12 20 290.00 380.00 Note: data from the < Preliminary6 esign for the WanmanConnecting Road>. Jiangxi Provincial Transportation DesignInstitute (Sept. 2000). The construction unit of the project shall make arrangement prior to the start of construction. Corresponding coordinating units should be set up in towns, village govemments at Wan'an county directly concerned with land acquisition, removal and resettlementto finalize and study policies on land acquisition,removal and resettlement. For details, refer to the land acquisition, removal and resettlement action plan of this project (RAP). 4.1.4 Land Resource Value Analysis Statistics show that the proposed road occupies 603.6mu of land. For details, refer to Table4-2. Table4-2 Estimationof Land Occupancyand Proportion Landacquired (mu) Type1 Qt'. Padda Drv Barrenhills Wood Cash Reoodseser% House | Grain field land and land land pond base eround Percentaee 230.8 2.78 11.11 311.27 18.84 13.97 9.76 11.81 A 0.46 1817 3.12 j2.30 160 1.96 Note: data from the < PreliminaryDesign for the Wanan ConnectingRoad>. Jiangxi Pro' incial TransportationDesign Institute (Sept. 1999). The land occupied by the project is pernanent; thus the land taken will lose its original productivity. This will inevitably exert some impacts on the aligning region's agriculture and forestry. Nevertheless, due to the great benefit brought about by this project. the land taken will.undergo a special transmission in terms of value. Moreover. this project is to breed new industries along the line after its completion. so the pattern of utilizing land will also undergo great changes in that non-agriculturaluse of land by industry and transportation will increase in proportion. To avoid too much loss in the precious tillage resources. we suggest that land management departments reinforce their function in sanctioning and controllingland use along the road. 4.1.5 Analysis of Convenience of the Residents To construct Wan an Bridge on the Ganjiang River has been an urgent desire of the people in Wan'an County for many years. When the bridge is completed, the distance between Shaokou and Baijia will be greatly shortened so that people in these two places 16 can set up more direct relations and also benefit those who will go to do business or to visit friendsor relatives. 4.1.6 Impact on People's Living Quality When the proposed Project has been put into operation, economy will develop rapidly and living environment will be improved greatly, therefore, people will enjoy higher standardsof living. 4.2 EcologicalEnvironmental Impact Assessment 4.2.1 Impact on the Pattern of Land Utilization Connectingroad in Wan'an takes 649.6mu of land, 42.95 percent of farmland and 49.91 percent of woodland. For actual types of land taken, refer to Table 4-2. Taking a lot of farmland, especially paddy field, will sharpen the contradiction between the small amount of land and a big population, and the pressure on the rest of the farrnland can also be increased. The proposed road will exert impact on the short-term income of the farmers along the line, especially to the land contractors.This unfavorable situation can be mitigatedthrough local governrmentby readjustingthe use of land, or develop new industry using the compensation money. In addition, the running of the highway will often urbanize the two parts of land along the road. And farnland will be used for non-agriculturalpurposes, which also exert adverse impact on agriculturalproduction and land utilization. Temporary use of local land can also bring about negative impact to the farmers. Comparativelyspeaking. however, temporaryuse of land , often with small size, can be reclaimedto its original function by cleaningand treating properly. After the completion of the road, the transportation infrastructure can be improved and the unutilized land is easy to develop. Also the construction of the road will promote agricultural production and processing and the whole region's economy. creating employment opportunities to the local people and fostering the deep development of the local agriculturaleconomy, and transforming the forn of land use. Accordingly, construction of this project and its later operation exerts only limited impact on the pattern of local land use and agriculturalecology. 4.2.2 Impact on Plants and Animals along the Road (I ) During the construction, the excavation and filling of earth will cause a series of damage to the wild plants. trees, fruits, and flowers within the scope of acquired land and in places to dispose earth. They will be cut, eradicatedor buried., which will spoil the look of plants aroundscores of meters beside the road. Besides. the vehicles cross the fields with flying dust about which can cover the crops with dirt preventing the pollination of flowers and the yielding of fruit. Reduction of production 17 can be foreseen. Most part of the green coverage is artificially planted trees or crops. The proposed road will take 573.1mu of paddy field, dry land and woodland, bringing about a big economic loss. However, no long-run destructiveimpact can occur since no primitive forest or endangeredspecies can be found nearby. (2) The construction can exert impact on animals, too. As the construction and equipment will to some extent change the environment,the animals will find it difficult to live quietly. The construction noise will disturb the wildlife. The cutting of trees, bushes. flying dust on the working site, poisonous gases on the construction site as well as pollution will cause animals to emigrate. In any case, the construction will not alter the environrnentso much as to drive all of the animals away. Some of them can still live on in this part of the land. Therefore, this project only exerts mild impact on most of the animals here. 4.2.3 Water EnvironmentalImpact Assessment (1) ConstructionPeriod Impact According to the introductionof the "PreliminaryDesign". in buildingthe Ganjiang River Bridge, boring and cast-in-place piling will be used. In the early stage of construction, boring work for the proposed Ganjiang River Bridge constructionwill stir part of the river and make the water muddy with increased silt or suspended object, influencing the water quality. The construction machinery will usually powered by electricity, so that no leaking. dropping of mineral oil can occur except that the lubrication oil used by some part of the machinescan be washed into the river by rain, which will not cause significant impact on the water quality. The most potential pollutant caused by foundation construction into the water body is the vast volume of slag produced from boring, which, if discharged carelessly.will block the downstream river and pollute the water quality. Therefore, the slag must be stored and protected in accordance with the MOC rules and regulations in a place designated by environmental and hydro departments. Waste debris from the prefabrication site for concretecomponents include sand and gravel. cement, concrete dregs and polluted water containing mortar. The construction camps have such wastes as dregs from boilers in the construction camp. garbage. sewage and manure from the construction personnel. The above-mentioned waste materials polluted water source. The pavement of subgrade and material transportation bring about flying dust that will be flown into the Ganjiang River by wind. which increases the water's turbidity. Calculations show that the Wan an Ganjiang River Bridge has a length of 795.69m whose constructioncalls for about 250,000 workdays, with about 410 workers on the work-site everyday. The construction site tums off polluted water from living at about 30t/d. Therefore. it is necessary to pile up solid 18 waste, and the muddy water shall have to be moved to designated places and treated with appropriate measures. But all in all, the impact of the construction period is temporary and mild. (2) Analysis of Operation Period Impact (X)According to estimation, the Ganjiang River Bridge of Wan'an has a radial runoff flow on the road surface at 28988m3/a. In rainy season, the pollutants brought by the run-off are mainly suspended material and a tiny amount of petroleum products which is often the case at early period of rainy days. As for the Ganjiang River, the flow and speed are both stable having relatively great diluting capacity. Down the stream and within the assessment scope, no proper place is available for fetching drinking water. Therefore, we may think that the radial runoff flow on the bridge does not exert much impact on the water quality. i Impact of the ProposedRoad on Current AgriculturalIrrigation Pattern The area along the proposed road has formed in itself a perfect water conservation and irrigation system, providing the farmland with favorable irrigation conditions. Where the road meets water channels, small bridges or culverts are built, so it will not damage the agriculturalirrigation pattern. In the recommendedprogram, 45 culverts are to be built, averaging 3.247 culverts per kilometer, and 4 bridges totaling Il .OOm. 4.2.4 Impact of Soil Erosionand Assessment Accordingto forecasting.this project goes through areas of two types of soil erosion in terms of erosion intensity: one is inexplicit erosion and the other is with mild erosion, with the latter being the majority. When adopting the model the Soil Protection Bureau of the U.S. Department of American Agriculture, we know that during the constructionperiod. soil erosion has an intensity of 6.67 times that of before the construction (the actual calculating process omitted). For erosion intensitvrefer to Table4-3. Obviously, entering the construction period. the eroded section of a slight extent will reach the state of moderate erosion while the mild eroded area will reach the state of intensive erosion. Table4-3 Erosion Intensity Estimation during Construction Currenterosion Currenterosion Sectionlength Constructionperiod Constructionperiod level index (tSkm'- a) (km) erosionmodule (t/km: - a) erosionlevel Slight <500 12.10 3335 Moderate Mild 500-2500 1.76 3335-16675 Intense-seervintense As many cuttingsand fillingsalong the whole road, excavation and filling are set at 2m for the average height. then the increased area at the side slope will amount to 0.183krm2 , with the annual soil erosion amount of 610.3-917.1 t. Obviously,during 19 the construction period the soil erosion can be more intensified,especially in the filling and excavation of subgrade and in the earth borrowing and waste areas, the increased soil erosion can not be neglected. As a matter of fact, the erosion volume for the above sections will be lower than this estimated value; the reasons are: a. during the first year of construction, the excavation and filling of the side slope will not reach the estimatedarea; b. protection of side slope and drainage work will be carried out simultaneously(the drainage and protection works for this project totals 39164.56m3 ); c. Recoveringvegetation in slope by forestationwill reduce the soil erosion volume This project involves a larger cut works than fill works, so there is some waste earth. Three waste areas are designed with an earth/stone works volume of 92020 m3. and a land occupied of 24.5 mu. In addition, a borrowing site will occupy a land area of 8.0 mu with a scheduled volume of 20,000m3. Protection and planting works are designed for the waste and borrowing areas so to prevent soil erosion. 4.3 Acoustic EnvironmentalImpact Assessment 4.3.1 Construction Stage Along the Wan'an connecting road, noise largely comes from constructionmachines and hauling vehicles. Noise impact varies with the progress of the construction and the extent to which construction equipment has been put to use. Besides, impact degree depends on the distance between the construction machines on constructionsite and the sensitive locations such as villages or schools. Generally speaking. construction noise such as that from hauling vehicles, or road-building machines exert relatively small impact to environment over lOOmaway; but big impact on people within 50m of the construction site. Particularly at night, the construction noise will influence people rest and sleep. Large-size machinery also makes loud noise to disturb workers and residents in the nearby. In this regard, it is necessary to arrange the construction time rationally, such as to avoid the school time, nighttime of residents' rest, in case of impossibility to avoid. temporary mitigation measures shall be adopted. 4.3.2 Traffic Noise Impact EstimationDuring The Operation Period This prediction observes relevant mode in EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Code for Highway Construction, i.e. (L, )i =L.i + l 0 g( IV ) ALdi s - LLver.y .L -13 where: L,.i- -Type i vehicle average radiation acoustic grade, dB: 20 N1 -- Type i vehicle average daytime or nighttime traffic volumeper hour; vehicle/h; V i -- Type i vehicle average running speed, km/h; T--Prediction time for (LAeq), here, lh; A Ldistane-it is the driving noise of type i vehicles attenuated by the forecastingpoint with an equivalentdriving distance of r at day or night, dB; A L longi--Traffic noise correction caused by highway longitudinal grade, dB; A Lsur--Traffic noise correction caused by highway surface, dB. The total noise value at the estimation point in daytime or nighttime is calculated accordingto the following: (LAeq)==lolg[io I('leq,_+100 I(Leq), +0e ]-AL -AL, (dB) where (LAeq ) -- traffic noise value at estimation point in daytime or nighttime dB; A LI- -traffic noise correctionby road curve or limited length; A L2 - -traffic noise correction by barrier between the road and the estimation point. Parameterscalculations are as follows: (1) Trafficvolume Traffic volume for prediction year refer to Table2-3 , daytime (1 6h) ratio the same as the highwaymainline. (2) Compositionof vehicle types The composition of different types of vehicles (absolute number) are: small vehicles occupies 45.4 percent, middle vehicles 28.7 percent, large vehicles 25.8 percent. (3) Speed According to Environmental Impact Assessment Code for Highway Construction,speed is regulated as follows: 602 small vehicles : V=237XN-° 1 1 4 7 middlevehicles : V=212XN-° 7 large vehicles : V=as 80 percent of middle vehicles where: V--calculated speed; N--traffic volume per hour, modified by the following: (©)When designed vehicle speed is smaller than 120km/h, the calculationwill be reduced proportionately; © When volume of small vehicles is smaller than 50 percent of the traffic volume. 21 the reduction is of 30 percent for every reduction of I 0Ovehicle; (5) The above is valid for daytime, so is it for nighttime average vehicle speed when deducted by 20 percent. (4) Single VehicleNoise Emission Source Intensity (L, .l) Average radiating acoustic grades for different types of vehicles, Ll., are calculated with the following: large vehicles : Lw.L=72 .2+0. 18VL middle vehicles LW,M=62.6+0.32Vm small vehicles Lw.s=59.3+0.23Vs in which: La M. S--standing for large, middle or small vehicles Vi- -average running speed, km/h. (5) distance attenuation A L distance @To calculate the space headway di between vehiclesof type i. di = lOOOx[ (m) Ni in which: N 1- -type i vehicle daytime or nighttimetraffic volume per hour, vehicle/h; V i -- type i vehicle traffic volume per hour, km/h: (© Distance (r2) between the estimation point and noise equivalent vehicle running line. r,= D where: DN - - the distance(m) from the estimation point to the near lane; DF -- the distance(m)from the estimation point to the efar lane ( Calculationof A L distance When r, < /2 R, ALAi4i K I K, .20lg 7' (dB) 7.5 When r,)' /2 RfI A j =20K, [K, lIg 7.d+ Ig ] (dB) Where: K, - -the constant for the ground status from the estimationpoint to the road is set as 1.0; K2 -- constant related to the space headway between vehicles(d1), and for the value refer to Table4-4. Table4-4 ConstantsRelated to VehicleSpacing [di 7 207 5 30 40 50 60 70 80 10O 140 160 250 300 K2 j7j 5 0.61 0.71 0.78 0.80 0.83 04 085 088 .88 8I9 090 Data: SpecificationsConcerning EIA for HighwayConstruction Project (Trial) 22 (6) Traffic noise correction A L longi caused by the longitudinalgrade largevehicles: Llon2g=98X 3 (dB) middle vehicles L longi= 73 x f (dB) small vehicles L longi = 50 X g (dB ) where: 0 - -the highway's longitudinalgrade ( %, in calculation,the average longitudinalgrade is set as 2% . (7) Traffic noise correction A Lpavementthat occurs on the surface of the road, this highway uses asphalt concrete for surface material, A Lpavemen,tis set at 0 (dB ). (8) Traffic noise correctionA LI caused the road curve or limited length of section ( 180 ) where: 0-- angle between the estimation point and the two ends of the road. (9) Traffic noise correction A L2 caused by barriers between the road and the estimation point A L 2 = A L2.ood + A L2building + A L2sound ©1A L2%vood the attenuationof equivalent Class A sound caused by wood barriers. When depth of the wood is 30m, A L2wood= SdB: when depth of the wood is 60m, A L2,,,d= 10dB; with the maximumcorrection as lOdB. ©) A L buildingthe attenuation of equivalent Class A sound caused by building barriers. When the first row of buildings occupies 70%-90%of the area between the estimationpoint and the center line of the road, A L2 building =5SdB; with one more row of buildings increased, the value of A L2buildingsincreases 1.5dB; the maximum value of A L2buildings is I OdB. © A L2soundis equivalent Class A sound attenuation caused by high embankment or low cut at the two sides of acousticshadow region of the estimationpoint 4.3.3 Estimated Results of Traffic Noise and Assessment The estimated traffic noise results of the project are listed in Table4 - 5. According to GB3096-93Class IV standard ( i.e. for the daytime 70dB, and for the nighttime 55dB ), the compliant distances for traffic noise on the road sides refer to Table4-6, from which, we can see; According to GB3096-93 Class IV standard (i.e. daytime 70dB. nighttime 55dB), daytime noise on the two sides of the road during the operationperiod is still within the standard limit; while at nighttime,noise excessive distance limit is I Om at the early operation period. and with the growing of traffic volume, the distance grows up to 30m until the late operation period. Since. this project has to do with innovation of some 23 old road sections, some residences (for incidence, in Yuanbei or Tianbei)aredistributed along the two sides of the road, and the highway is becoming a street, so the traffic noise exerts direct impact on the residential quarters. Table 4-5 Estimated Traffec Noise Results during Operation Period Operation Time Estimated value of traffic noise at different distance beyond the shoulder ,dB stage peimeod_____ (year) period lDm 20m 30m 40m 60m 8Dm |10m 12Dm 150m 200m Daytime 61.0 57.7 55.8 54.2 51 6 49.3 47.9 46.4 44.6 42.2 2004 nighttime 55.8 52.4 50.6 48.9 46.3 44.0 42.7 41.2 39.3 36.9 daytime 62.6 59.3 57.5 55.8 53.2 50 9 49.6 48.1 46.3 43.8 2015 niehttime 57.5 54.1 52.3 50.7 48 0 45.7 44.4 42.9 41.0 38.6 daytime 64.7 61.4 59.6 58.0 55.4 53.1 51.8 50.3 48.5 46.1 2023 nighttime 59.7 56.4 54.5 52.9 50.3 48 0 46 7 45 2 43 3 40 9 Table4-6 AnuatentDationDiswWhenTrafikNoiseCompliesWhlh CbssV Standad Unit:m 2004 standard compliantdistance 2015 standard compliantdistance distance Daytime : nighttime daytime nighttime Daytime Nighttime Not excessive <20 Not excessive <.20 Not excessive 20-30 4.3.4 Sensitive Locations Acoustic Estimation and Assessment According to features of acoustic environment around sensitive locations, we add the noise value and the noise background value. the formula is: LAeqenvironmental _tc 1 Olg( 100.1 Laeqtraffic + 1001 Laeqbackground The noise and excess at sensitive locations are listed in Table4-7. From it. we can see: (I) The traffic noise at all residences and Tianxi high school are not excessive during the operation stage. (2) The nighttime traffic noise is excessive at 2 sensitive locations during the initial operation stage by 1.1-2.2dB for residence. There will be 4 sensitive locations with different exceedance by 2.7dB-4.8dB in long-run operation phase. In which. Tianxi high school has larger noise excess at night. however it is a deserted school without teaching, so no impact. 24 Table 4-7 Traffic Noise Estimation and Excess Statistics at Sensitive Locations Unit: dB distance Noise Traffic noise noise excess value No Location name Mileage from estimatedvalue center Standard 2004 2015 2023 2004 2015 2023 Right daytime 70 52.6 53.1 54.0 - - - I Xiake-tang K4+200 - 120m nighttime 55 45.9 46.7 47.9 - - - daytime 70 59.9 62.1 63.3 - - - 2 Yuanbei K4+850 left 20m- - - - - nighttime 55 54.5 56.1 58.2 - 1.1 3.2 3 Tiae Rightl daytime 70 61.5 62.9 64.9 - - - edge-40m nighttime 55 56.1 57.7 59.8 1.1 2.7 4.8 Wanan Tianxz Middle daytime 55 53.5 54.4 55.5 - - 4 School K5+800 Right 80 - - (WananGongdai nighttime 45 47.2 48.2 49.8 2.2 3.2 4.8 daytime 70 54.9 55.9 57.4 - - - 5 Xiajianpo K6+600 Right 60 - nighttime 55 48.8 50.1 51.9 - - - dartime 70 52.8 54.1 54.5 - - - 6 Qianebei K9+ i50 L eft 110 I nighttime 55 46.3 47.1 48.5 - - - davtime 70 59.1 60.6 62.7 - - - 7 Liujia(Baijia) K10+ 100 Right - - _ nighttime 55 53.9 55.5 57.7 - 0.5 2.7 davtime 70 45.2 46.8 49.0 - _ 8 Yang-iiapo K I 1+ 950 Right 180 nighttime 55 39.9 1.6 43.9 - _ daytime 70 47.9 49.2 51.0 - _ 9 Huang-nan j K13+ 300 Right 130 t 5 4 4 l l } } _ | ~~~~~~~~~nighttime55 43.8 44.0 46 4 _ Note: i-" indicating no exceedance 4.4 Ambient Air Prediction and Assessment 4.4.1 Impact Analysis of Ambient Air in the Construction Stage Ambient air pollution during the construction period comes mainly from the secondary flving dust produced from mixing of stabilized soil. construction machines and road-building machines. Therefore, the assessment elements during the construction period are TSP. (1) Pollution generated by stabilized soil mixing For the construction of this project. plant mixing is adopted. Using the available field monitored data by the Highway Research Institute of the Ministry Of Transportation at Bazhou Plant of Tianjin-Baoding Highway in August, 1998, the TSP content at 50m leeward of the mixing plant is L.367mg/m3, higher than Standard II. At IOOm away, its concentration is 0.619mg/m3. From the analogic analysis. we know that so far as we set the mixing plant at over lOQm leeward of the sensitive locations, this 25 project can meet the standard. Moreover,this project is located in subtropical monsoon humid climate, and the moisture is greater in the ambient air around the mixing plant. So the TSP concentration is smaller in comparison with that of Tianjin-Baoding Highway in Hebei Province, consequently, the corresponding distance to reach the standard can be smaller, too. (2) TSP GeneratedBy Constructionand Hauling Vehicles During the construction period, the transportation of construction materials, as well as loading and unloading, will bring TSP pollution. Based on monitored results from the flying dust of similar auto transportation site, the TSP content at 150m from the roadside is higher than Standard II, revealing the fact that transportation brings about flying dust that pollutesthe nearby area severely. 4.4.2 Ambient Air Impact EstimationDuring OperationStage (1) Calculationof DischargingSource Intensity of Auto Tail Gas Pollutant. The calculation formula of gaseous pollutants is Qj=Aj .EUj3600' . =t of which: Q1 -type j pollutant dischargingintensity mg/s - m; A-traffic volume/ hour of type i vehicles in the forecastingyear. vehicles/h; E-i-under a motorway condition, the discharging element of type j pollutant of type i vehicles( use the recommended figure in Environmental Impact Assessment Code for Road Construction(tentative)).mg a vehicle/m. The peak hour source intensitycalculation formula is: QLG = QL.AG of which: AG is the traffic hour factor, set to be 6.2%. The dailv average source intensitycalculation formula is: QLr QL AR of which: A, is the daytime traffic volume factor. same as the main line. R is the hour number in a day. set to be 16. The driving speeds of vehicles refer to the (Environmental Impact Assessment Code for Road Construction(tentative))) (2) Ambient Air PollutionDispersion Model QWhen the angle between wind direction and the source is ° < 0 <90C, the dispersion mode is: 26 CR= Qr l exp - IQ.J]exp [ I(z-h) 1+exp[-I z+hj:]dl U 2ir,u a: 2u -2u of which: CPR-pollutant concentration produced by the road line source AB section to forecastingpoint R, mg/m3. U - average wind speed at the effective discharging source height of forecasting road section, mIs; Oj -discharging source intensityof gaseous type j Pollutantmg/ vehicle * m; crytJ: -horizontal wind directionand vertical dispersionparameter, m; Z - height from the forecastingpoint to the ground, m; h - effective height of dischargingsource, m; A.B - origin and destinationof line source. Z When the wind directionis vertical to the line source(Q=90°C). the mode is: =(2>2, [exp C,.ertical = UC P 20-2 ( When the wind direction is parallellto the line source(Q=0°C).the mode is: Cp (a27 Uc (r) r = [y2 + (Z2 /e2)]2 e =:c/zI 1 of which: r - equivalent distance from the microelementto the measurementpoint. m; e - customary dispersionparameter ratio The project region mainly has an atmospheric stabilitv of D. In calculation. the dispersion parameters are to be set in accordance with the ((TechnicalGuidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment)) HJ/T2.3-93 Appendix B. The wind speed is set to be 2.6mI/s subgrade width 12.0m.and average earth-filling height 2.0m. (3) Forecasting of Auto Tail Gas ConcentrationDispersion along the Road. The NOx and CO dischargingrconcentration of the project in each forecastingyear are listed in Table 4-8. From it. it can be inferred that with the growth of traffic volume. the NOx and CO concentration emitted vehicles will also increase.Compared with class 2 air quality standard, the NOx and CO concentration under stability D do not exceed their corresponding criterion. (4) Standard Compliance for Auto Tail Gas (1) From Table 4-8, we can see that as this project has s small traffic volume and 27 low driving speed, the NOx and CO discharging volume from auto tail gas is relatively small. Also along the road there is no large-sized fixed pollution source, there is only few amount of CO produced by local people's living with a low backgroundvalue, so, after the road is put into operation, the NOx and CO concentration atl6m beyond the road center will be compliant with standard. (®)Analysis of Impact on SensitiveLocations Within the assessment scope, there will be 8 sensitive locations. According to forecasting, the NOx and CO concentrations at 16m from the road center can meet standard. So, the NOx and CO concentrations of all the sensitive locations along the road will meet Class 2 standard without excess. Table4-8 AutoTalGasDBpein Esimtionduing0petionStage(DStabity)Unit: mginv Pollutants Operati Traffic Distancefrom roadside (m) onstage 10 40 100 200 Rushhour 0.006-0.009 0.003-0.006 0.002-0.003 0.001-0.001 2004 Dai1x average 0.004-0.007 0.002-0.004 0.001-0002 0.001-0.001 Rush hour 0.008-0.012 0.004-0.008 0.002-0.004 0.001-0.001 NOx 2015 Dail! average 0.006-0.009 0.003-0.006 0.002-0.003 0.001-0.001 Rushhour 0.019-0.028 0.010-0.018 0.005-0.010 0.003-0.003 2023 Dailyaverage 0.014-0.021 0.007-0.014 0.004-0.007 0.002-0.002 Rushhour 0.023-0.035 0.013-0.023 0.006-0.012 0.003-0.003 2004 Daily average 0.017-0.026 0.009-0.017 0.005-0.009 0.003-0.003 Rushhour 0.044-0.066 0.023-0.043 0.012-0.023 0.006-0.006 CO 2005 Daily aserage 0.033-0.049 0.071-0.032 0.009-0.017 0.005-0.005 Rushhour 0.132-0.199 0.071-0.130 0.035-0.069 0.019-0.019 2023 Daily average 0.098-0.148 0.053-0.097 0.026-0.051 0.014-0.014 4.5 Environmental Impact from Excavation and Transportation of Roadbuilding Materials 4.5.1 Distribution of Road building Materials There are 2 stone quarries in the region along the road, one in Wangjiaping of Nanxi. Taihe countv, the other in Guzhong of Gaopo. Wan an county. Stones there are regular in nature. high in strength. easy to exploit. rich in reserve and convenient to deliver, they are ideal for pavement and subgrade protection works and bridges and culverts. Wan an Shaokou sand quarry is located in the beach lkm upstream Ganjiang river at Shaokou village. where the sand and gravel are very good with huge reserve. The material yard is located nearby the Wan an Gridge at Ganjiang river, transportation is very convenient. 28 4.5.2 Impact on Existing Road Transportation The sand and gravel required by this project can be transported to the construction site from the Ganjiang river, the stones can be hauled to the site from the above two quarries through Baigao road and construction road. Cement, timber, steel and bitumen will be transported by the National Highway 105. Transportation of road building materials may sharpen the pressure on the existing road, leading to traffic jams and affecting traffic safety and people's travel. So traffic management over existing roads must be enhanced. 4.5.3 Ecological Damage Stone is mainly cut by explosion. Stone excavationand construction of new excess roads (for example, a new excess road lkm long needs to be built at Wangjiapingquarry) may cause some impact on local ecology. But such impact is temporaryand slight. 4.5.4 Impact on Air and Acoustic Environment Excavation of stone will produce noise and shock, its transportation can reduce the acoustic environment along the hauling roads, impacting the people's living and schooling. Road flying dust caused by excavationand transportationwill reduce the air quality along the roads. 4.6 Mitigation Measuresfor EnvironmentalImpacts 4.6.1 Designing Stage (1) ReasonableAlignment In selecting the alignment, the designers, environmental assessment unit and the project owner have consulted and discussed the aligning on the premise of reasonable alignment and low cost, have fully considered various environmental factors such as protection of farmland, school and residence. flood prevention. flood discharging. removal volume, urban development. and also have extensively solicited opinions from Wan'an county governments, concerned departments and people from everv circle. Based on these, the current alignment is formed. (2) EcologicalRecovery Planting works were designed synchronically with the main works. Plant species were optimized during design stage so to restore and compensate for the vegetation. (3) Water and Soil Conservation Drainage and protection works were designed for subgrade. including intercepting ditch, side ditch. retaining wall and slope, which can not only stabilize the subgrade.but also prevent soil erosion. (4) Water Pollutionand Flood Prevention ( The whole project will set up one huge bridge. 4 small bridges and 45 culverts, 29 which can meet flood prevention and irrigation requirements, and people/vehicles' travelling requirements. (© Canals and ponds that are occupied or separated by the subgrade have been re-built or newly built. (5) Noise and Air Pollution T To prevent noise and air pollution, the stabilizing earth mixing sites, earth borrowing and waste sites are located 300m beyond sensitive locations. Material hauling routes are reasonably designedto divert far away from residences so as to avoid dust pollution. ( As required by the environmentalassessment results, noise monitoring will be conducted at sensitive locations with excessive noise to decide what mitigation measures to be taken accordingto the monitored results. This has been included in the design documents. (6) Resettlement During the design stage. we have always emphasized the principle of diversion from towns and villages, minimum removal and land occupation.and have established the resettlement office, and formulated the RAP., and hired the Jiangxi Normal University Institute of City and Populationas an independentsupervisor. Details refer to the RAP. (7) Public Participation On road alignment(includingbridge). environmentalprotection, resettlement of this project, we have consulted with local governments, concerned departments, non-governmental organizations.village committees. collectives and even individuals for their comments so as to gain support from the public. (8) Transportation Risk for Hazardous Substances A closed and complete drainage system is designed to lead the bridge pavement runoff in to the subgrade drainage ditch so as to prevent spillover of hazardous substances into the river. On the bridge entrance and exit, a warning board of "Caution'(yellow) and a speed limit board (red) of 60km for dangerous cargo will be set up to remind drivers to pay attention to safety and to control speed. 4.6.2 Construction Stage (1) Protection of EcologicalResources 0 To enhance environmental protection education to workers so as to protect natural resources and not to kill wildlife, cut trees during constructionstage. Slags shall be handled in accordance with design requirement. 02 Sewage and garbage from construction camp shall be collectively treated or 30 made into family fertilizer. (©)Construction vehicles should run on temporary excess roads, can not run in agriculturalfields and woodlands. ) Contractors should take measuresto shorten the temporary land occupation time. and reclaim the land or planted timely after construction. ®)Waste earth must be handled in strict accordance with design requirements. and the environmentof waste sites shall be well protected. a Quarry contractor must adhere to the safety regulations on outdoor explosion to avoid explosion time in rush hours, must protect workers' safety and provide labor protectionto them according to related rules. (2) Water Conservation ( Earth and stone works will not be constructedin the rainy month of July. (© To reduce damage on surrounding vegetation as much as possible, to plant timely and to restore the vegetation within the constructionsite and road area. ( High-fill and deep-cut sections will be protected by retaining wall, facing wall, mortar pitching. (0 To enhance management and formulate excavation plan so to prevent soil erosion in the quarry, side slopes will be planted with grass according to design requirements,the waste areas will be planted or reclaimed. (3) Water Pollution (I Waste oil of hauling vehicles and constructionmachines and solid waste with oil dirties should be collectively treated. (©)Construction camp shall build septic tank and garbage pit, which should be cleared timely. Construction materials shall be stored in places with rainfall prevention measures. (M)Boring slag produced from bridge construction shall be delivered to a place designated by the construction, environmentand water department. Specialperson shall be sent to supervise its delivery and treatment. (4) Noise Pollution O When large clustered residences exist nearby the road or construction site. stron-noise machines are not allowed to operate at night. (© If clustered residences exist 50m within the excess road, then material hauling is prohibited at night. In daytime. if materials are hauled near schools and residences. then mobile sound barriers will be used to protect them. ®)The stone hauling rout shall be reasonably selected so as to avoid clustered residences and schools as far as possible. (a) Construction excess roads should be far away from hospitals, schools and 31 residences, and should not cross acousticallysensitive locations. 05 Low-noise construction machines shall be used as many as possible, strong-noise construction machines shall be equipped with temporary noise reduction measures. ( Material yard and mixing site shall be located 200m beyond sensitive locations. ( Workers' work time shall be controlled according to labor hygiene standard, machine operators shall be provided by earplugs and helmets. ) Transportation management over road building materials should be enhanced. Contractors must formulate material transportationplan, well maintain vehicles so as to minimize the noise level of the vehicles. Noise monitoring point will be set up in Xiaketang. If material hauling does make the acoustic environment (including stone quarry) along the National Highway 105 and other roads deteriorating, supervisory engineer is required to enhance noise monitoring,or the route may be changed, or some economic compensationcan be made to local residents. (5) Air Pollution () Stabilizing earth mixing plant shall be located 300m leeward sensitive locations such as residence. school and hospital. The mixing equipment shall be equipped with good sealing. shock and dust-reducingdevices. Attention shall be paid to the health of operators. (® Vehicles hauling road-buildingmaterials shall be covered to reduce spillover. ( Hauling roads and construction sites, especially the stabilizing earth mixing plant, shall be water sprayed and cleaned timely to prevent secondary flying dust. (A In filling the subgrade. necessary water spray shall be taken on the hauling road and the construction site. Contractors also must spray water frequently after tamping to prevent from dust flying. 05 Contractors must enhance managementover bulky materials, which should not be naked-stored and shall be stored more than 200m away from sensitive locations such as schools, villages. (6) Cultural Relics Protection During construction, if underground relics are found, the excavation should stop immediately, and the supervising engineer shall protect the site. and relics authority should be notifiedto handle it. (7) Public Participation Environmental complaint telephone number should be clearly written on the construction site. On receiving such complaint, the project owner along with the contractor shall contact the local environmental department and solve the problem within 48 hours. 32 The above measures to be taken during constructionstage have been defined in the contracts signed with the contractors 4.6.3 Operation Stage (1) Ecological Restorationand Water Conservation (i Key structures such as bridges are to be built in unanimous planning with the highway construction in terms of scenery coordination and beautification of environment. (0) Culverts should be timely cleared to make the irrigation system smooth, they can be cleared along with the canals. ( To further completethe planting works accordingto the road engineering design. The planting is to scientificallyform a cubic pattern combinedby grass, flowers, bushes and arbor trees. The planting on the side slope during late construction period is especially important in that the planting can stabilize subgradeslope, reduce soil erosion. reduce pavement runoff. Maintenance over road protection and planting works should be enhanced so as to prevent soil erosion. (2) Traffic Noise Controlling C) To enhance management over public security. road transportation and road maintenance. to forbid noise -excessive vehicles runningon the road. X Forecasting shows that the residences such as Yuanbei.Tianbei and Liujia will be greatly impacted by noise. Therefore. sound barrier will be built for Tianbei (150mx2.5m ). Monitoring is to be carried at Yuanbei and Liujia in operation phase, according to the results to decide whether to take measures. The Tianxi high school (Wan'an gongda) is a deserted school without teaching activity, so measures are not necessary at present. (© Planning departments are suggested not to plan residences 50m within the roadside, and not to plan schools and hospitals lOOmwithin the roadside which are demanding with the acoustic environmentalquality. (3) Control of AmbientAir Pollution 0 To reinforce transportationmanagement over trucks hauling bulk cargo such as coal, cement. sand and stone materials, and simply packed chemical fertilizer,pesticide. Canvas coverage is needed in the above cases and the trucks are subject to sample checking at the entrance of the highway. (2) Ambient air monitoringplan will be implementedto decide the supplementary EP measures accordingto the monitored results. (4) Transportationof HazardousSubstances The Wan'an Transportation Bureau will enhance management over hazardous 33 substance transportation, and will enforce the related laws and regulations.The "Three Licenses"(driver license, escort, and permit) system will be applied for the dangerous cargo trucks for management and declaration.Under bad weather, such trucks are not allowed to go through the Ganjiang Bridge. After implementation of the above measures, the adverse impacts on this project can be reduced to an acceptablelevel. 34 Chapter 5 Alternative Proposals 5.1 AlternativeAnalysis without the Proposed Project At present, there are two major roads to cross the Ganjiang river within Wan'an count: one is the road from Qilangshanto Wan'an, a bituminous pavementroad, which starts from Qilangshan of Suichun county, runs by Xigang, Fengtan of Wan'an, and ends at Wan'an county city after crossing the Wuyun bridge at Ganjiangriver; the other is the road from Baijia to Gaopo, which links the national highway 105 to the west, Wan-Tairoad to the east, and goes a river by ferry at Shaokou, it is a sand road of low grade. The Shaokou ferry can not run constantlyin a year due to limits in water level and facility, with long time of no service. So, most of the traffic moves throughthe Ganjiang river bridge at Wuyun, causing an overburden and traffic jams to the bridge, also making the region suffering from heavy traffic noise, dust pollution and traffic accidents. It has been very unhelpful to the exchangeof commodities and informationalong the river and to the increase of people's living standard, as well as to the local economic development. A coonecting road of the Taihe-GanzhouHgighway, the Wan an ConnectingRoad is the only way to connect the Gan-Yue Expressway in the Wan'an territory. So the construction of this road is verv urgent for developing the Wan an's economy and for alleviating the traffic pressure on the Ganjiang river bridge at Wuyun. meanwhile its constructioncan improve the environmentalong the old roads. 5.2 Introductionto the Alignment The alignment starts at the intersectionof Gaopo Town of Wan'an County and the National Highway 105, runs along Tianxi, Shaokou, and Baijia, ends at Huangnan Village to link the Wan'an-Taihe road. The alignment goes basically side by side with Baijia-Gaoporoad, crossing the Ganjiang River at Shaokou. Hence, we have designed two alternative programs for the location of the bridge on the basis of the riverbed for bridge piers and the connection lines on the two ends. We have also prepared two corresponding alignments for the two programs. The two programs share the mileage of KO+000- K6+860. while from K6+860to the destination is for making comparisons.In comparison of the two alignments (bridge location), Program I has a length of 7.27km, while Program [I 7.00km. 35 5.3 Comparative Analysis of Alignment Alternatives The comparison of the two alignment programs is focused on the location of the Wan'an huge bridge over the Ganjiang River. ( I ) With Program 1, about 60m upstream the bridge, there is a high-voltage (11O,OOOv) transmission line going in parallel with the alignment, which exerts certain impact on the constructionand operation. Program 11goes about 400m up the river than Program I, far away from high-voltage transmissionline and village residences, so it is favorable to the village programming and development, however, there are more buildings to be removed at south-east bank. (2) Bridge site in Program II has a mileage shorter than Program I, with better operation benefit. (3 ) Program I will take up a land of 305.4mu. while Program II 292.5mu, a more land occupationof 12.9mu. (4) Local government and people prefer ProgramII. (5) Program I will remove building of 3064.25m2 . while Program II 4987 mi2 . a less removal of 1922.75m 2- (6) Within the assessment scope for the two Programs. the number and size of villages are rather similar. Because connecting road has a relatively small traffic volume, so impacts from traffic noise and auto emissionare not great. To sum up. Program II is better in terms of engineering, but in terms of environment and society, the two Programs are almost the same, all with little unfavorable impacts that can be mitigated to an acceptabledegree. After consulting with the design. environmentand resettlement people. we recommend the Program II. 36 Chapter 6 Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan 6.1 EnvironmentManagement Plan 6.1.1 Executing Organizations Jiangxii Provincial Communications Department is responsible for the organization of the environmental management plan of this proposed project; while Jiangxi Provincial High-Class Highway Administration is responsible for the actual implementation of the plan. The environmental management organizations during construction and operation stage are diagrammed in Fig. 6-1 and Fig. 6-2. PlaningSection of Jiangxi ProvincialCommunication Department(3 persons) _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I JiangxiProvincial High-Class Highway Administration ProjectOffice, Wan an count TransportationBureau (3-6) Design Environment Contractor's Jiangxi Provincial staff protection environmental Environmental supervision person (I person) Monitoring Center engineer(l person) Ji'an Municipal Environmental Monitoring Station Fig. 6-1 Environmental Management Organization in Construction Stage Planing Division of Jiangxi Provincial Communication Department (6 persons) I Jiangxi Provincial High-Class Highway Administration Environmental Protection Division of Jiangxi Provincial High-Class Highway Bureau (3 Wan an County Environmental staff of Wan an Transportation Bureau (1) Management Agency (1) Fig. 6-2 Environmental Management Organization in Operation Stage 37 The Planning Division of Jiangxi Provincial Communications Department is responsible for formulating environmentalmanagement methods and guidelines for this province^s transportation industry, responsible for organizing and developing environmental protection plan for the province's transportation and responsible for supervisingtheir implementation. The World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD established a leadership team for coordination of engineering, environmentalprotection and resettlementon May 5, 2000, which is composed by enviromental protection group and resettlement group and staffed with 3-6 persons (of whom one is environmental specialist). The team, along with the Wan'an county transportationbureau, will be specificallyresponsible for the environmental management, removal and resettlement of this project during its construction and operation stages, such as to finalize environmentalprotection clauses in contracts, to coordinate with the environmental supervisino engineers, to sign contracts with local environmentalmonitoring stations on environmentalmonitoring, to inspect the implementation of environmental monitoring plan. and to report the implementationand monitoringresults to higher bodies. During the construction stage of this project. it is required to set up engineering supervision stations to be responsible for the supervision of each bid section. Each station will be staffed with one environmental protection supervisory engineer who is responsible for supervising the implementation of environmentalprotection measures specified in the EAP and bid documents and responsible for monitoringthe noise during construction. After completion, this projectwill be handled to the Wan'an CountyTransportation Bureau to manage, which will be staffed with one professional person who is responsible for all environmentalprotection within their respectixesections 6.1.2 Supervising Organizations The environmental protection of this project is subject to the supervision from the environmental protection bureaus in Jiangxi province. Ji'an prefecture, and Wan'an county. 6.1.3 EnvironmentalManagement Plan The environmental managementplan for this proposed project is listed in Table 6.1. 6.1.4 Training of EnvironmentalProtection Personnel Training of environmentalprotection supervisory engineers will be done 2 months before the beginning of the project. The training content includes national EP policies. regulations and standards, as well as this project's major environmental concerns and the EP supervising engineer's duties. etc. The training is planned to be conducted in Nanchang citv. This project intends to send persons to participate in the EP training for 38 the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section. Table 6.1-1 EnvironmentalManagement Plan for the Project Potentialnegative impact Mitigationmeasures Organizationfor Organizationsin action charge* 1. Planning & design stage Designunit I. Reducedflood dischargecapacirv 'an'an counts 2.Removal and compulsorv I Thoughtful design Resettlement resettlement for the project land 2.Formulate and implement a proper resettlement plan & office WBLPO acquisition compensationspolicy a r 3 Loss of land resource 3 Minimum farmiand occupation Design Unit Jiaanprefecture and 4 Damageto the landscape 4. Careful design in harmonywith landscape Wan'an county 5 Erosion on soil locser than 5 restorethe occupied irrigation facilities and set up culverts Design unit govemments subgrade caused b! cutoff trench 6 Don't directly dischargepavement runoff into water bodyor or veep drain irrigation system Design unit 6 Pollution from pavementrun-off Design unit II. Constructionstage I Increase of riser depositscaused by erosion in constructionsite. nesv I Protect the sensitivesurface %sithfiber cover and plants as road cutting and constructionas v%ellsoon as possible as the wvastes 2. collect reclaimed lubricant andas-oid accidental spillover by 2 Pollution from oil/machine proper operation oil/fuel/paint on soil and water 3 Install air pollution controldevice in a suitable place coming from constructionmachines 4 Spras water periodicallk on temporar\ roads. install muffler 3 Ambient air pollution caused by in equipment and maintain it stabilizing eanh mi\inn plani 5. Stop construction if there is cultural relics discovered and 4 Dust. noise and air pollution in infonmthe competentauthormti construction site 6 Proper treatment of the damanederound in harmono vwith 5 Underground cultural relics the terrain and environment WBLPO discovered during construction 7 Sign an agreementwith the uttlitt agency.replacement goes Contractors aI an Municrpal 6 Terrain surtace broken at the before relocation to minimize the impact Godemmen t cutting/ifilling and quarry sites 8 Strengthentraffic managementat possible traffic conflict Goverment 7 Disturbanceto the utihti facilities places (po%ser/telecommunicationl 9 Proper toilet and dustbins. enhance environmental 8 Impacton existing road traffic management 9 Bad seskageficiltix and solid 10 Periodic health check.handle it properly %sastesat constructionstes It Necessar- action shall be taikento present virus breeding 10 Possibledisease outbreak among place the local peopleand %%orkers 12 Collectivel% store topsoil level the ground after II Temporarx eenn Imosquito) construction as soon as possible and reclaim the topsoil. breeding place suchas deadpond minimize the time oftemporarx land occupation 12 Impact on the land caused be large earth/stonevsorks III. Operation stage I Noise and air monitoring be madeat sensitwxelocations v%ith I Vehicle emissionand traffic noise possible excessduring operation.and measuresmay be taken 2 Continuous soil erosion according to the results JPHCHA IPHCHA 3 Pollution from pauxmentrun-ofi 2 Careful maintenancelplanting/add protection works Ji an Miunicipal an iCiA 4 disorderh litters along the 3 Run-off not directlx dischargedinto farmland irrigation and WanIan Jaan Muncopal roadside ss stemrwaterbody count% and Wan an county ; accident risk produced from 4 Provide treatment facilt,. formulate lasis to forbidding transportation transportation increasing traffic %olume and littering bureaus bureaus spilloxer ol' hazardousj Formulateand enforcean emergencyhandling plan set up substancesiunjuryor death necessarmorganization and managementprocedures to prevent damagefrom emergence h. BLPO- the %\orld Bank Loan Project Oftice oftJPCD JPHCHA-Jiang\i Provincial Hlegh-ClassHighv%ax Administration 6.2 Environmental Monitoring Plan The noise monitoring during the construction stage will be conducted by the supervising engineer. the other environrnental monitoring for this project is entrusted by the owner to the Ji'an Prefecture Environmental Monitoring Station to implement in 39 accordance with the monitoring plans (Table 6-2-- Table 6-4). Results of each monitoring will be submitted by the monitor to the entrustor who will report to higher authorities. Table 6-2 AmbientAir MonitoringPlan Stage Monitoring MonutoringMonitoring Sampling Implementing Responsible Supervisorm place item firquency time organization Organization organization Residences and schools near unpaved Once per Construction construction TSP random morning and Supervising phase road and sampling afternoon in Ji'an ompanJi'an stabilizing construction Municipal IPHCHA Municipal earth mixing Environmental Ji an Environmental plant Monitoring Municipal Protection 1-2 days. Station Munspal Bureau Operation each with 24 Brau phase ( NOx once/year hours Bureau (K104-150) ~(winter)continuous monitoring WBLPO-the World Bank Loan Project office of JPCD JPHCHA-JiangxiProvincial High-ClassHighway Administration Table 6-3 Ambient Noise MonitoringPlan stage Monitoring M onitoringr inMonitonng Sampltn Exeuting Reonsible Supervisory Iplace L v x fiWuenc-%ddurMaon time oriu on apnizton oanuon Hauling road Xiaketang (K4+200) Construction Construction site whereAmbient Once/ twice per Supervision there are One day dav during phase residence noise month construet Engineer Superxising (village) or compan J'an sensitive WBLPO ' location JPHCHA Municipal schools) Ji'an Environmental within 100m Municipal rotecuon Transportation Bureau Yuanbei Two Bureau (K4850) times a 10:00- Ji'an Municipal Operation Tianbei Ambient 4 times! day in 11:00 En%ironmental phase (K5+300) noise vear the day 22:00- Monitoring Liujia and at 23:00 Station (Ki O- 150) night 40 Table 6-4 Water Environmental Monitoring Plan Monitoring Monitorng Monitoring Monitoring Implementing Reponsible Supervising tage_____place cross-section item fIrequency organization organimalon organrzation Sampleat loom lowwater upstreamnthe seasonor Construction bridge, average Supervising Wan'an 200m seastina Jia company.Wi'an Bndgesit the bridge PH,COD,=, twon of Municipal WBLPO Municipal at he tSS. Enviuonmental .P .A Environmental Ganjiang petroleun oncelday MoritDring Ji'an Protection river Station Transportation Bureau 50m TFourBureau Operation domnstream t Bureaa the bridge 6.3 Cost Estimationfor MitigationMeasures The environmental protection investment is estimated to be 854.700 RMB yuan, accounting for 0.83 percent of the total investment, refer to Table 6-5 for details. Table 6-5 Environmental Protection Investment Estimate Amount No Item Contents Quantitr Unitprice (10.000 v;yan) I Planting Planting on the 3 earth wasteareas 4 places 50.000 20.0 and one borrowing site yvuan/km Waterspray, living garbage disposal. Environmental tarpaulin-coveringof 10.000 2 protection cost during hauline vehicles. slag disposal. mud 36 months 10.000 36.0 construction stage delivery and a treatment l 3 Sound barrier Tianbei(K5+300) 1S0m 1.000 15.0 Iyuan/m Construction. noise. TSP. %sater 3 '20.000 6.0 4 Enironmental quality yuan/year monitoring Operation: noise, air. wvaterquality 3 years 10.000 3.0 viuan/vear 5 Warnine board Reminddrivers of safety 4 ;.n0e 0.4 iuian/each Participatein the training 5.000 6 EP traininp forticipate Enpresswai 2man,time yu;an/man 1.0 _ ~~~forGan-Yue Expresswa! timetm 7 Contingenc! 5'o of the aboNe 4.07 Total 85.47 41 Chapter 7 Public Participation 7.1 Overview of Public Participation As an important construction project in Jiangxi province, the proposed Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway will play vital role in the social and economic development of Jiangxi province and even the country. The Wan'an connecting road, a road to connect the proposed highway, will be the only route to join the Gan-Yue Expressway in Wan'an territory. The completion of this road will be very important to improve the road transportation network in Jiangxi province, to promote Wan an county economy and to exploit highway's function as transportation hub. The preliminary work for this project has attracted wide attention from the society. From December, 1999 to April 2000, the environmental assessment organization, under the help from the design unit, has conducted public participation investigation for the Wan an connecting road. The purpose was to know the living standards of the residents along the alignment, to obtain the basic public attitude about the proposed highway and their opinions on measures to be taken to mitigate impact of the construction. The public participation includes two forms: family interview and group interview. 7.2 Family interview The familv interview was mainly concerned with those families that may be involved in land acquisition. resettlement and traffic noise impact. A total of 49 families were inquired which are located in Shaokou village, Tianxi village of Shaokou town. and Baijia village of Baijia town at the Wan'an county. The contents of the family interview are to comprehend the basic production conditions and living standard, and more importantly. to solicit each familv-s opinion to the road construction and to know if they understand related national policies on land acquisition. resettlement and compensation. as well as to solicit each family's suggestion and requirement to the environmental impact and mitigation measures. The results of family interview are summarized in Table 7-1. From Table 7-1. we can see that farmers along the road are in favor of or understand the construction of the Wan'an connecting road, and most of them obey the nation s requirement for road construction, and also are aware of the possible environmental impacts caused by highway construction. especially the traffic noise. 42 Table7-1 Results of Statistics in Public Participation No SurveyingContent Attitude Percentage Remark Yes 98% l Agree to buildthe road? No 2 % Don't know Blankl Nation 100% 2 To whom the roadconstruction is Collective beneficial Individual Blank , Yes 67.3% To build the road.some land needs No 3 to be acquired. some houses removed.do you agree? Don't knos 12.2% blank 20.59% Yes Do vou kno%Nabout compensation A little 59.2% 4 polic\. for land acquisition. removaland resettlement' No 40.8%, Blank Yes 91.9% .Are "ou obedient to land Yes.but conditionall\. 6.1% acquisition. removal and resettlement No Blank 2° Noise 71.4% Auto tail gas Somehas chosen 6 What environmentpollution , -il Dust 48.9% morethan one exert a large impact on you? Others choice. Blankl Road planting 55.1%/o Soundbarrier 2.0%Soehshsn What measuresdo \ou sueeest to . 2. Some has chosen 7 g i Far a%%avfrom villages more than one m_tip-ateimpact9 .Others choice. Blank 46.9`o 7.3 Group interview The group interview was conducted in the more densely populated Baijia village along the Wan'an connecting road. The details refer to Annex III. From the meeting memorandum, we can see that: (I )The public supports the construction of the Wan'an connecting road. especially construction of the Ganjiang river bridge is a long-cherished dream of them. which can solve the difficultv of travel crossing the river. (2) The construction of the highway can promote local economy. (3)The major adverse environmental problems caused by the construction are: occupation of farmland. some impact on agriculture. noise and dust pollution. 43 (4) They suggest that in the design and constructionof the road, culverts, bridges an passageways shall be well designed and constructedand the compensation money shall be prompt and in full amount. 7.4 Information Releaseand Feedback (1) Television, broadcasting, newspapers and bulletins will be used to release information about the project's significance, alignment, resettlement and environment. The World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD released the environmental and resettlement bulletin on Nanchang Daily dated Oct.9, 2000 and Jingangshan Daily dated Oct. 10.2000respectively (Refer to Annex IV). (2) The environmentaldocuments such as the EIA and EAP will be disclosed to the public. The owner of the project has stored the environmentaldocuments on the Wan'an county reference room and Wan'an Resettlement Office, and to disclose the storing place in JiangangshanDaily, in this case, the public can have direct access to the related informationwithout going to the government. (3) The owner of the project will install a telephone for environmental complaint in the Wan'an county resettlement office, a special person will gather and record the public complaint on environrnental protection caused by the road construction. On receiving such complaint. the owner along with the contractor will contact the local environmental protectiondepartment and handle it within 48 hours. 7.5 Summary of Public Participation The design unit and the owner have paid great emphasis on public opinions and have taken into considerationin alignment design, such as to adopt Program II (public requirements) for the Wan an connecting road. As for the environment problems resulted from the Project. the environment assessment unit and design unit have put forward correspondingenvironment protection measures, such as enhanced management over bridge construction site and noise pollution. 44 Chapter 8 Assessment Conclusions 8.1 Social Environment (I) The construction of Wan'an connecting road will improve the transportation infrastructure network in Jiangxi Province and will also play an enormous role in economic development of Wan'an County and in fully displaying the function of Highway as transportation hub. (2) This Project will greatly alleviate the pressure on current highways and add a new passageway on the Ganjiang River, hence greatly facilitating the communications of the two sides. (3) Construction of this road will inevitably take up some land and farm field. On the whole, however, the impact is not too serious. By readjusting the utilization of land. the impact on agricultural economy can be lessened. (4) Removal and resettlement must be well conducted and local govermnent's compensation policies on resettlement must be seriously enforced. 8.2 Ecological Environment (1) Within the assessment scope of the proposed road, ecological environment is fine. The construction will take up 649.6mu of land, an average of 46.9 nml per km, including paddy fields, dry lands, ponds, woodlands and barren lands. Construction of the road will bring about certain loss to agricultural economy. but its impact on land. vegetation pattern will not be big. (2) Construction of the proposed road involve subgrade construction, cutting and filling of earth and stonework. which will alter the region's terrain and topology. Nevertheless. through taking protective measures at stages of design, construction and operation. damages to the vegetation, utilization of land and variation in farm field can be minimized. (3) It has been investigated that along the proposed highway there is no rare and precious and endangered wildlife protection areas, and no endangered species.. (4) During Wan'an bridge on the Ganjiang River construction period and operation period, as long as measures are taken to collectivelN deal with such problems as disposal of waste debris. slag, garbage, sewage from living of the construction personnel, impact on the water quality of the Ganjiang River will be reduced. During the operation period, impact of pavement runoff on quality of water body of the 45 Ganjiang River is insignificant. (5) During the construction period and early operation period, excavation and filling at the slope will worsen soil erosion. Estimation shows that during construction period, if no protective measures were taken, soil erosion would reach 610.3-917.1 tons/year. However, because the protection works and the main works will be designed and constructed. and even completed at the same time, the actual soil erosion will be far less in quantity than the estimated value. In addition, measuresfor planting the highway will rehabilitate part of the vegetation on the slope and consequently reduce the quantity of soil erosion of the slope. 8.3 Acoustic Environment (1) During construction period, acoustic impact mainly results from construction machines and hauling vehicles, so the construction site must be far away from residences and schools. If this is unavoidable. construction time schedule should be rearranged. (2) According to estimation in operation period, traffic noise in daytime never exceeds Class IV standards. while at the nighttime noise will exceed the standard by a distance of 30m in the year 2023. There are 4 sensitive locations along the alignment. which will exceed the acoustic standard with the maximum of 4.8dB bevond the limit. Measures shall be taken accordingto the monitored results. 8.4 Ambient Air (I) Field reconnaissance and survey show that region along the alignment is slightly polluted by NOx and TSP. while the NOx has a relatively large tolerance. The road mainly goes through farmland.fields and outdoor environment.so the air remains in the natural quality. besides. no large size and stationary pollution sources have been found. The ambient air is of fine quality. (2) During the construction period TSP pollution is the main problem. If the stabilized soil mixing plant adopts plant mixing method, the mixing site is far away from sensitive locations. attention to paid to labor protection for the workers. the construction road and hauling road are water sprayed and cleaned. transportation vehicles are covered by tarpaulin. the stock ground is far away from residences and covered, water is spraved in filling subgrade. then the adverse impact can be controlled. (3) After completion of the construction, automobile emission pollution can be a problem to the environment. Accordingto estimation and analysis. the whole alignment is under Class D stability. Emission concentrationof CO and NOx from automobile tail gas is low and within its corresponding standard limits. NOx and CO concentration at 46 sensitive locationsis in accord with Class 11standards. 8.5 Public Participation (1) The owner of the project has fully adopted the public opinions in the design such as to take the Program II alignment. (2) For the possible environmentalproblems caused by the project, after consulting with the design, resettlement and environmental units and after soliciting the public opinions, we have proposed corresponding measures such as to enhance management over bridge constructionsite and noise pollution. (3) Television.broadcasting and newspapers will be used to release informationto the public and easy access to environmentaldocuments and complaint telephonewill be provided to them. (4) To cooperatewith environmentaldepartment to handle complaint timely. 8.6 EnvironmentalProtection Investmentand ManagementPlan (I) This project involves an investment for environmental protection of 854.700 yZuan,accounting for 0.83% of the total investment. (2) The owner has set up resettlement office and design/resettlement/environment coordination team, which are responsible for the environrnental protection and resettlement for the project. (3) A detailed EAP has been formulated to finalize the environmental mitigation measures and to implement the monitoringplan. 8.7 ComprehensiveAssessment Conclusion The alignment of this Project (including bridges) is basically reasonable in terms of environment protection. The development, construction and operation will greatly improve conditions of local transportation, residents' production and living standard. This will undoubtedly promote national economy. In the meantime some adverse impacts will be exerted on the ecological environment, people's living and school teaching. however.as long as measures suggestedin this report are put into action, the adverse impact can be effectively controlled. which is also acceptable to the environment. Therefore. this assessment concludes that the construction of the proposed road is feasible. 47 Annex I Overview of the Assessment Unit and Staff Member Research Institute Of Highway (RIOH) is the largest and comprehensive national highway research , experiment and technical development base under the direct leadership of the MOC, holding class A Certificatesfor EIA issued by NEPA. Environmental Engineering Office of RIH is mainly engaged in environrment impact assessment (EIA) of highway and independent bridges;environment engineering design, planting design and basic environmental research concerning construction and communications. It now owns 20 specialists in the fields of highway engineering, automobile engineering, environment engineering, chemical analysis, garden planting, biochemical engineering.,of whom. 10 persons have high-levelprofessional titles and 6 have middle-level professional titles. Up to the present, we have carried out EIA for about 100 freeways and independent bridges, taken charge of the compiling of Environmental Impact Assessment Specifications for Highway Construction Projects promulgated by the MOC. Having good theoretic fundamentals and hands-on experience. the EnvironmentalEngineering Office also has the EIA working experience for the projects financed by the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank. In addition to this. it undertook the environmental design of freeway sound barrier. sewage treatment, planting and constructionwork. The following is an outline of the assessmentpersonnel for this project: Shen Yi. male, born in 1962. graduated from Huatong Institute of Water Conservancy and ElectricPower. He is associate research fellow and the depute director of Environmental Engineering Office.. in charge of the coordination with the Owner and design unit in this project Yan Xiaolin, male, born in 1969. M.S. graduated from Research Institute of Environmental Science of Beijing Normal University.He is an associate research fellow. in charge of the EIA (the main line) compiling and the acoustic assessment in this project Li Xiyun. female, born in 1941. graduated from Fudan University, senior engineer. in charge of the EAP compilingand the ambient assessmentin this project Wano fang. female, born in 1957. graduated from Electronic engineering.. assistant engineer. in charge of the social environment assessmentin this project Dong Bochang, male. born in 1974. M.S graduated from Environmental Engineering of Jilin University. assistant research fellow. in charge of ecological environment and soil erosion assessment in this project Fan Qinchun. female. born in 1974. graduated from Beijing Industrial University. engineer. in charge of the water environrnentassessment in this project 48 Annex II Reference (I) WorldBank OperationalManual OP/BP/GP4.01, March, 1999 (2) "EIA TechniqueGuidelines" [HJ/T2.1-2.3-93, HJ/T2.4-1995,HJ/TI9- 1997,NEPA]; (3) "SpecificationsConcerning EIA for HighwayConstruction Project"(Trial) [JTJO05 - 96, MOC]; (4) Li Zhongkai,Meteorological Principles of Air Pollutionand Its Application,Meteorology Press. 1985. (5) Ren Wentong,Traffic Noise and Control,Remen Communication Press,1985. (6) Yearbookof Jiangxi Province(1999), Jiangxi Provincial Statistics Bureau (7) Yearbookof Ji'an Prefecture (1999),ji'an PrefectureStatistics Bureau (8) Natural Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Zone of Ji'an Prefecture,edited by Ji'an PrefecturePlanning Commission, Ji'an PrefectureAgricultural Zoning Commission. June 1997 (9) Remote CensoringSurvey Report of Jiangxi Province Soil Erosion, Jiangxi ProvincialWater ConservancyOffice, NanjingSoil Research Institute of China Academyof Science, 1997 (10) Atlas of JiangzxiProvince, Jiangxi Provincial MappingBureau, March. 1998 (I 1) EIA of Linxiang-ChangshaFreewayof Beijing-ZhuhaiNational Trunck Highway (Highway IV). RIH of MOC, April 1999. (12) FeasibilityStudy Report for Wan an ConnectingRoad of Gan-YueExpressway (Taihe-Ganzhou Section),Jiangxi ProvincialCommunications Design Institute (JPCDI).Feb. 2000 (13)Two-stage Preliminary Design for Wan'an connecting road of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-GanzhouSection). Jiangxi Provincial Communications Design Institute (JPCDI). May 1999. (14)Two-stage Preliminary Design for Wan an connecting road of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-GanzhouSection). Jiangxi Provincial Communications Design Institute (JPCDI).Sept. 2000.. 49 Annex HI Publicparticipation and Questionnaire (GroupInterview) Survey 1. The positive effect of the proposed road on the local economy and society. .Topic 2. The possible negative impacts of the road, and mitigation measures Nation Job Name Sex Age ality Occupation Title Education Address Huang Middle Yili Male 40 Han Farmer Prima, n YinGke Mr le 3 5 Han Farmerschool Baijia, Wan'an Xiao M Primary Group 3# Zhexiang Male 4_ Han Farmer school Baijia. Wan'an Liu Middle Group 5# Rongqi Male 45 Han Farmer school Baijia. Wan'an lndividu _ al file Liu Male 25 Han Farmer Middle XiaomingMalean Far school Baijia.Wan'an Zhong Middle Beihua 46 Han Driver scoMalel Baijia. Wan 'an - Middle Liu Quan Male 22 Han Driver Middl Baijia. Wan an ______~~~schoolBa i . W n n Peng Primarv Xinming Male 29 Han Farmer Baijia. Wan'an ______inm _ ing___ I______school Ba i . W n n Records of the interview: 1. Understand that the construction of the proposed road will be benefit to the state. collectives, individuals, they support the project 2. Proper resettlement and compensation shall be shall be available after the land acquisition; promulgation of compensation policies is necessary. 3. Environmental impact produced by traffic noise. tail gas and dust, which shall be mitigated by taking measures as planting. 4. The construction of Wan'an connecting road will play an important role in the local economic development. favorable to the convenience of the public. Representative (Signature): GuoYingke Surveyor or Recorder(Signature):Wang Yong Place: Baijia village Date: April 12,2000 50 Annex IV: The People' s Republic of China Environmentaland ResettlementBulletin for the Jiangxi No.2 HighwayProject For the environmentand resettlement informationof the Jiangxi No.2 Highway Project to be inquired by the public, increasing the openness of the work, the TGEPCO has placed the following complete reports respectivelyin the resettlement offices and libraries of Nanchang city, Ji' an city, Ganzhou City, Taihe county, Suichuan county, Wan' an county,Nankang city, Zhanggongdistrict in Sep.10, 2000. (1) Resettlement Action Planfor the Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProjectfinanced by the World Bank Tanhe-GanzhouExpressway Project Construction Office (TGEPCO); (2) Environmental Action Plan for the Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProject financed by the World Bank. Tanhe-Ganzhou Expressway Project ConstructionOffice (TGEPCO); (3) EnvironmentalAction Planfor the Ganzhou ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project (Taihe-Ganzhou Highway) financed by the World Bank, TGEPCO; (4) Environmental Action Planfor the Suichuan ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Road Project(Taihe-Gan:houHighway) financed by'the WorldBank, TGEPCO; () Environmental Action Planfor the Wan ' an C'onnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project(Taihe-Gan:hou Highway) financed by the World Bank TGEPCO, Dec.2000 The above reports will be modified according to the suggestion of World Bank delegation and public, and then be placed in the above resettlement office and libraries. Tanhe-GanzhouExpressway Project Construction Office(TGEPCO) Sep.22, 2000 5' Annex V List of Tables and Figures Table I -I Applied Standard Limits for Water Environment Assessment Table 1-2 GB12523-90 Noise Limits in Construction Site Table 1-3 Acoustic Environmental Impact Assessment Standard in Operation Stage Table 1-4 Ambient Air Environmental Quality Assessment Standard Table 1-5 List of Major Environmental Protection Objectives Table2-1 Major Technical & Economic Indicators and Work Quantities Table2-2 Forecasting of Traffic Volume Table3- I Water Quality Monitoring Results and Assessment Table3-2 Wan'an County's Soil Erosion Table3-3 Statistics of Major Sensitive Locations Table3-4 Current Acoustic Environment Monitoring Points and the Results Table 3-5 Monitored Results for Ambient Air Table 4-1 Buildings to be Removed Table 4-2 Estimation of Land Occupancy and Proportion Table 4-3 Erosion Intensity Estimation during Construction Table 4-4 Constants Related to the Vehicle Spacing Table 4-5 Estimated Traffic Noise during Operation Period Table 4-6 Attenuation Distance When Traffic Noise Complies With Class IV Standard Table 4-7 Traffic Noise Forecast and Exceedance Statistics Table 4-8 Auto Tail Gas Dispersion Estimation during Operation Stage (D Stability) Fig. 6.1 Environmental Management Organization in Construction Stage Fig. 6.2 Environmental Management Organization in Operation Stage Table 6-1 Environmental Management Plan for the Project Table 6-2 Ambient Air Monitoring Plan Table 6-3 Ambient Noise Monitoring Plan Table 6-4 Water Environmental Monitoring Plan Table 6-5 Environmental Protection Investment Estimate Table7-1 Results of Statistics in Public Participation 52 Annex VI List of RelevantReports (1) EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Reportfor the Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project financed by the World Bank, Research Institute of Highway of MOC , December, 2000 (2) EnvironmentalAction Plan for the Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProjectfinanced by the World Bank, World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD, Dec.2000 (3) EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Reportfor the Ganzhou City ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project (Taihe-Ganzhou Highway) financed by the World Bank, Research Institute of Highway of MOC a Dec.2000 (4) EnvironmentalAction Planfor the GanzhouCity ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project (Taihe-GanzhouExpressway) financed by the WorldBank, World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD, Dec..2000 (5) Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the Suichuan County Connecting Road of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project(Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway) financed by the World Bank, Research Institute of Highway of MOC , Dec.2000 (6) Environmental Action Plan for the Suichuan County Connecting Road of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway ProjectfTaihe-Ganzhou Expressway) financed by the World Bank, World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD. Dec.2000 (7) Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the Wan an County Connecting Road of the Jiangri No. 2 Highway Projec t(Taihe-GanzhoouExpressway) financed by the World Bank. Research Institute of Highway of MOC . Dec.2000 (8) Environmental Action Plan for the Wan an County Connecting Road of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project(Taihe-Ganzho u Highway) financed by the World Bank W'orld Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD. Dec.2000 (9) Environmental Assessment summary fbr the Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway. Connecting Roads and its binding projects of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project financed by the World Bank, Research Institute of Highway of MOC , Dec.2000 (1 0)Resettlement Action Plan for the Taihe-Ganzhou Expresswsay of the Jiang-xi No. 2 High vvav Project financed by the World Bank Resettlement Office of Taihe-Gan:hou Expressway Project Office. 2000 ( I1)Cultural Relics Survey Report for the Taihe-Ganzhou Expressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project financed byvthe I{orkl Bank.Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics Archeology Institute. Dec.2000. 53