E-380 VOL. 1 Public Disclosure Authorized Consolidated Environment Assessment for the Huai River Water Pollution Control Project Anhui Component Public Disclosure Authorized (Final) August 2000 Public Disclosure Authorized Hefei Design Institute, Ministry of Coal Industry with assistance from Mott MacDonald/ERM Public Disclosure Authorized EASUR AUG2 4 2000 REEIE I-luaiRiver Water PollutionControl Project EnvironmentalAssessment Report Anhui Province Table of Contents EXECUTIVESUMMARY I INTRODUCTION........... 1-1 1.1 Huai River Water Pollution Control Project (HRWPCP) Background ........................... ............ 1-1 1.2 Description of the Study Area .................................................. 1-7 1.3 Policy, Legal and Administrative Framework ..................................... 1-20 1.4 Scope and Standards of Environmental Assessment ..................................... 1-22 1.5 The Need for the Project ..................................... 1-25 1.6 Assessment Objectives, Criteria, Parameters ..................................... 1-25 1.7 World Bank EA Preparation Requirements ..................................... 1-25 1.8 EA Participants ..................................... 1-26 1.9 EA Organisation ..................................... 1-27 2 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT .. .................................. 2-1 2.1 Overview of Huai River ............................................ 2-1 2.2 HRWPCP Project Components ............................................ 2-1 2.3 Project Formulation and Development ............................................ 2-3 2.4 Details of Anhui Huai River HRWPCP Component Projects ......................... ................... 2-5 2.5 Cost Estimates for Proposed Projects .......................... 2-11 2.6 Implementation Schedule .......................... 2-13 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT (PROVINCIAL OVERVIEW) .. 3-1 3.1 Physical Environment ..................................................................... 3-1 3.2 Biological Environment ..................................................................... 3-9 3.3 Socio-cultural Environment ..................................................................... 3-9 3.4 Areas of Special Designation ............... ............................. ....................... 3-10 4 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND PROBLEMS ............................................................. 4-1 4.1 Water and Environmental Institutional Arrangements ................................................................ 4-1 4.2 Attainment of Goals, Standards, Regulations ..................................................................... 4-6 4.3 River Systems..................................................................... 4-15 5 DETERMINATION OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT .............. 5-1 5.1 Typical Impacts of Water Pollution Control Projects .............................................. 5-1 5.2 Positive Impacts of the Specific HRWPCP Components ...................... ........................ 5-4 5.3 Potential Short Term Construction Impacts .............................................. 5-13 5.4 Potential Operational Phase Impacts .............................................. 5-18 5.5 Potential Project Risks ..................... , , 5-29 5.6 Cumulative HRWPCP Impacts ..................... 5-31 6 ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES TO THE PROPOSED PROJECT . .............................................6-1 6.1 Introduction ..................................................... 6-1 6.2 Alternatives Reviewed in Project Development ..................................................... 6-1 6.3 No Project Alternatives ..................................................... 6-8 7 MITIGATION AND MONITORING MANAGEMENT PLANS .................................................... 7-1 7.1 Mitigation and Monitoring of the Implementation of Mitigation .............................................. 7-1 7.2 Institutional Responsibilities .............................................. 7-7 7.3 Equipment and Training Requirements .............................................. 7-10 7.4 Impacts and Costs of Plan .............................................. 7-10 7.5 Long-term Monitoring of the Performance of HRWPCP .............................................. 7-11 7.6 Annual Environmental Quality Report ........................... , 7-13 8 PUBLIC PROCESS AND EA PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ............. .............................. 8-1 8.1 Meetings with Public Officials in Developing Project and EA ............................................. 8-1 8.2 Survey of Public Officials and Citizens in Project Area ......................................... ,................ 8-2 8.3 EA Publication and Review ................................................ _....._. ................... 8-4 August2000 HuaiRiver Water Pollution Control Project EnvironmentalAssessment Report AnhuiProvince 8.4 Summary of Public Input........................... 8-5 9 SUMMARYAND CONCLUSIONS............................ 9-1 9.1 General Conclusions..................................... 9-1 9.2 Existing EnvironmentalConditions, Huai River Basin.......... ........................... 9-1 9.3 Positive Impacts ..................................... 9-1 9.4 PotentialNegative Impacts and Mitigation..................................... 9-3 9.5 Total Water PollutantsRemoved ..................................... 9-6 9.6 ResettlementPlan ...................................... 9-9 9.7 EnvironmentalManagement and MonitoringPlan ..................................... 9-9 9.8 HDI Suggestions..................................... 9-9 9.9 Conclusionsand Recommendations...................................... 9-10 List of Tables Table ES-4: Estimated CODReductions for HRWPCPWwTWs . 12 Table ES-5: Estimated COD Reductions for HRWPCPand Bi-LateralProjects in the Future. 12 Table 1.1:Polluted Water Type Categorizationin Huai Basin . 1-3 Table 1.2: PollutionTrend in Huai River Basin. 1-4 Table 1.3: Changesin PollutionLoads in Henan and Anhui . 1-4 Table 1.4:Environmental Background Problems, China (1994) . 1-6 Table 1.5: Characteristicsof Anhui Surface Waters, Huai River Basin. 1-11 Table 1.6:Anhui Project Cities, ReceivingWaters of WastewaterEffluent . 1-12 Table 1.7:Distance from the Outfall of WwTWto CorrespondingSection . 1-12 Table 1.8:Number of CurrentSeptic Tanks in Anhui ProvinceHRWPCP Cities . 1-19 Table 1.9:Population and WastewaterProjections;. 1-20 Table 1.10:Summary of the HDI EA Classification. 1-23 TableI.1I1: EA Scope . 1-24 Table 1.12:EA StandardsSummary . 1-24 Table 1.13:Applicability of World Bank SafeguardPolicy Documentsto this EA . 1-26 Table 1.14:Hefei Design Institute EA Staff. 1-27 Table 2.1: HRWPCP- Anhui Project Components. 2-1 Table 2.2: Overall MunicipalWwTW Needs in Basin. 2-3 Table 2.3: World Bank Water ResourcesManagement Principles and Issues . 2-4 Table 2.4: Summary of ProposedAnhui HRWPCPComponents . 2-6 Table 2.5: Cost Estimates for HRWPCPWastewater Schemes . 2-12 Table 2.6: HRWPCPImplementation Programme . 2-14 Table3.1: MeteorologicalSummary, HRWPCP Project Cities. 3-4 Table 3.2: HydrologicParameters of HRWPCPProject Area . 3-6 Table 4.1: National Water and EnvironmentalLaws Importantto HRWPCP. 4-1 Table 4.2: Sections/Objectivesof Total DischargeAmount ControlProgram for Rivers in Anhui. 4-3 Table 4.3: EnvironmentalQuality Standardfor Surface Water GHZB-1 1999, issued 20 July 1999, effective 01 Jan2000 .. 4-4 Table 4.4: Standardsof SpecificIndices in Lakes and Reservoirs. 4-5 Table 4.5: Standardsof SpecificIndices in Class I, II and III SurfaceWaters . 4-5 Table 4.6: IndustrialWastewater Effluent Data . 4-10 Table 4.7: Industry Categoriesand PollutionLoads in Huai River Basin. 4-11 Table 4.8: Industriesin Each AdministrativeDistrict in Huai River Basin. 4-12 Table 4.9: Paper Industryand PollutionLoads in Huai RiverBasin . 4-13 Table 4.10: Major Brewing and Food Industriesin Huai River Basin. 4-13 Table 4.1 1: EPB, Bozhou - Guo River Water Quality Monitoring. 4-15 Table 4.12: Huaibei River HydrologicalData . 4-16 Table 4.13: EPB, Huaibei - Sui River Water Quality Monitoring. 4-16 ii August2000 Huai River Water PollutionControl Project EnvironmentalAssessment Report Anhui Province Table 4.14: Guoyang -Water flow (m3/s) in Guo (zero flow due to closing of gates) .............................. 4-17 Table 4.15: EPB, Guoyang - Water Quality (mg/1) of Guo River ....................... ..................................... 4-17 Table 4.16: EPB, Suzhou - Water quality (mg/I) of the Huihe River, downstream of Qixian Sluice ....... 4-18 Table 4.17: EPB, Suzhou - Water quality (mg/I) of the Tuo River, lower reaches near Luling ................ 4-18 Table 4.18: EPB, Suzhou - Water quality (mg/I) ofthe Tuo River, upper reaches near Qilijing .............. 4-18 Table 4.19: EPB, Suzhou - Water quality (mg/I) of the Bian River, lower reaches near Sixian ............... 4-19 Table 4.20: Suzhou - Water quality (mg/l) of the Bian River, upper reaches near Qilijing ......... .............4-19 Table 4.21 EPB, Fuyang - Water Quality (mg/I) of Quan River, upstream ................ .............................4-19 Table 4.22: EPB, Fuyang - Water Quality (mg/I) of Ying River ............................................................... 4-20 Table 4.23 EPB, Bengbu, Water Quality Data, Huai River .................................................................... 4-20 Table 4.24: EPB, Huainan - Water Quality (mg/l) of the Huai River ......................... ..............................4-22