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Appendix 4.1 Construction Environmental Management Plan Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay plc Appendix 4.1 Construction Environmental Management Plan Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Appendix 4.1 Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay plc The Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Project Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay plc Contents PART A: GENERAL ISSUES ........................................................................................................................ 1 1.0 The Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Project .......................................................................... 1 2.0 Construction and site management ............................................................................... 2 3.0 The purpose and aims of the CEMP ............................................................................... 2 4.0 Compliance with legislation, standards and guidance ................................................... 3 5.0 Public information and complaints ................................................................................ 3 6.0 Hours of working ............................................................................................................ 5 7.0 Site arrangements .......................................................................................................... 6 PART B: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES - GENERAL ....................................................................................... 10 1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 10 2.0 Environmental Liaison Officer ........................................................................................ 10 3.0 Key environmental issues, procedures and mitigation .................................................. 11 PART C: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES - SPECIFIC ......................................................................................... 12 1.0 Coastal processes, sediment transport and contamination .......................................... 12 2.0 Marine water quality ...................................................................................................... 13 3.0 Intertidal and subtidal benthic ecology ......................................................................... 14 4.0 Recreational and commercial fisheries .......................................................................... 15 5.0 Marine mammals ........................................................................................................... 17 6.0 Coastal birds ................................................................................................................... 18 7.0 Terrestrial ecology .......................................................................................................... 19 8.0 Navigation ...................................................................................................................... 22 9.0 Onshore transport .......................................................................................................... 23 10.0 Air quality ....................................................................................................................... 24 11.0 Hydrology and flood risk ................................................................................................ 25 12.0 Land quality .................................................................................................................... 28 13.0 Noise and vibration ........................................................................................................ 29 14.0 Marine archaeology ....................................................................................................... 30 15.0 Terrestrial archaeology .................................................................................................. 31 Appendix 1 Project Aspects Register (Template) Appendix 2 Construction Travel Management Plan CMSD-377 rev. 2 Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay plc PART A: GENERAL ISSUES 1.0 The Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Project 1.0.0.1 Tidal Lagoon (Swansea Bay) plc (TLSB) proposes to construct a new tidal-powered generating station, with a nominal rated capacity of 240MW, on land in Swansea Bay and adjacent to Swansea Docks, between the dredged channels of the Rivers Tawe and Neath (the Project). The Project involves the construction of a c. 9.5km long u-shaped seawall impounding an area of some 11.5km² of seabed and foreshore to create a Lagoon. The water impounded in the Lagoon provides the head - or build-up - of water needed to store kinetic energy that can be turned into electric power. Electricity will be generated as water flows through the bi-directional turbines when the Lagoon fills and empties after a holding period to create the head required. The electricity generated will be fed into the National Electricity Transmission System (NETS) at an existing substation in Baglan Bay via an underground cable. 1.0.0.2 The Project comprises three main elements: Offshore works • Dredging and construction of the seawalls • Construction of a temporary cofferdam • Concrete works for turbine and sluice gate housing • Installation turbines and sluice gates and associated M&E works • Offshore Building including visitor centre and O&M • Concrete crest and public realm works • Widening of River Neath channel and replacement of training wall • Works to Swansea Port channel • Water Quality enhancement works • Temporary rock storage areas • Environmental enhancement measures • Water shuttle pontoon Onshore works • Temporary construction support sites and storage areas • Decontamination/land remediation works • Material handling facilities • Western Landfall Building with parking area and slipway • Eastern landfall works (adjacent to SSSI and university) • Public realm works • Access infrastructure • Environmental enhancement measures Cable connection to the NETS • Lay cables in western seawall • Lay cables along port road and through SSSI • River Neath crossing (existing ducts or directional drill) • Lay cables through industrial area to existing substation • Connection at substation CMSD-377 rev. 2 Page 1 of 59 Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay plc 1.0.0.3 This document has been prepared for and on behalf of TLSB in relation to the construction of the Project. It forms part of the suite of application documents supporting an application by TLSB to the Secretary of State for Climate Change for authority to construct operate and maintain the Project (the Application). It is an important and relevant consideration in the determination of the Application and will be secured by a requirement attached to the development consent order (DCO) sought by TLSB pursuant to the Application. 1.0.0.4 The Project site (or Application site) for the purposes of the CEMP is defined as shown on the land and works plans relating to construction of the Project and where physical works are carried out. 2.0 Construction and site management 2.0.0.1 Construction activities relating to the Project will be the ultimate responsibility of TLSB's Construction Project Manager (CPM). The CPM will ensure that construction is managed and monitored appropriately in terms of H&S, quality, design and programme. The CPM will be supported by a firm of consultants specialising in engineering (including maritime engineering), procurement and construction, acting as Construction Manager (CM). The CM will manage all construction interfaces and ensure that construction of the Project is implemented by the various contractors in accordance with approved standards, design and procedures, etc. and will monitor, inspect and conduct surveillance of construction activities at the Project site. The CM will manage and coordinate with the various contractors' construction managers, supervisors, engineering staff and any local consultants. 2.0.0.2 The CM and his construction management team of discipline engineers, H&S manager, quality manager, etc. will be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that the various construction contractors act in accordance with the requirements of this CEMP. 3.0 The purpose and aims of the CEMP 3.0.0.1 The purpose of this CEMP is to define the measures required to mitigate and monitor the construction of the Project so as to protect the environment. The CEMP covers legislative requirements and compliance with regulatory and best practice requirements. It also provides for mitigation measures set out in the Environmental Statement (ES) which accompanies the Application. The provision of the CEMP will be incorporated into the contract(s) for construction of the Project, and will be required to be adhered to as a requirement of the DCO. TLSB and its contractors implementing the Project will be required to comply fully with the terms of the CEMP. 3.0.0.2 The CEMP sets out provisions for the management, mitigation and monitoring of environmental effects during construction of the Project. It also outlines provisions for auditing, reporting and action to be taken to rectify any breach(es) to the CEMP during the course of construction of the Project. 3.0.0.3 Some of the environmental topics addressed within the CEMP are developed to a greater degree of detail than others. This is because the mitigation in some areas will require final, detailed approval once the construction methodologies to be adopted by CMSD-377 rev. 2 Page 2 of 59 Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay plc TLSB are known. However, in all cases the mitigation is specified at a sufficient level of detail to allow environmental effects of the Project
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