E2450 V4 Liuzhou Environment Management Project II Public Disclosure Authorized Restructured Project Environmental Impact Report Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Project Implementation Unit: Liuzhou Municipal Wastewater Treatment Co., Ltd. Prepared by: Liuzhou LiuHuan Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. Certificate No.: GHPZYZ No. 2912 Drafted in: September 2014 Public Disclosure Authorized ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS LZEMP II Liuzhou Environment Management Project II WWTP Wastewater Treatment Plant LZSDC Liuzhou Sludge Disposal Center TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 BACKGROUND ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FINAL REPORT ............................................... 2 1.3 SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, ASSESSMENT PERIOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GOALS ................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FACTORS AND ASSESSMENT FACTORS ............................................ 9 1.5 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND REGULATIONS DOCUMENTS ................................................. 10 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION .......................................................................................................... 16 2.1 PROJECT NAME .................................................................................................................. 16 2.2 PLANT (FIELD) SITE AND LAND ACQUISITION AND OCCUPATION OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT .. 16 2.3 PROJECT CONSTRUCTION PLAN .......................................................................................... 17 2.4 WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT............................................................................. 21 2.5 PROJECT INVESTMENT ESTIMATION .................................................................................... 22 2.6 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ....................................................................................... 22 3 REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE AROUND THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ...... 24 3.1 OVERVIEW OF NATURAL ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT ........................................................... 24 3.2 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT ....................................................................................................... 26 3.3 CURRENT POLLUTANT DISCHARGE OF WWTPS ................................................................... 27 3.4 SURVEY AND EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STATUS ........................................ 33 3.5 DELINEATION OF DRINKING WATER SOURCE PROTECTION AREAS IN LIUZHOU ........................ 40 3.7 OVERVIEW OF POLLUTION SOURCES AROUND THE PROJECT ................................................. 41 4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT ............................................................................ 43 4.1 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS DURING CONSTRUCTION PHASES ................................. 43 4.1.4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS OF SOLID WASTES DURING CONSTRUCTION PERIOD ..... 50 4.2 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS DURING OPERATION ..................................................... 52 4.3 ANALYSIS ON SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ................................................................... 71 4.4 ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT .................................................................................. 71 4.4.1 ENVIRONMENTAL RISK IDENTIFICATION ............................................................................ 71 4.4.2 RISK ACCIDENT ANALYSIS ............................................................................................... 72 4.4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT ............................................................................... 73 4.4.4 ACCIDENT PREVENTION MEASURES AND COUNTERMEASURES ........................................... 73 4.5 CLEANER PRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 74 5 ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS ........................................................................... 77 5.1 PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES OF COMPARISON AND SELECTION ANALYSIS ............................ 77 5.2 ZERO PROGRAM ANALYSIS ................................................................................................. 77 5.3 COMPARISON AND SELECTION ANALYSIS ON WWTP PROGRAM .......................................... 78 6 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ............................................. 83 6.1 PURPOSE, METHOD AND SCOPE .......................................................................................... 83 6.2 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ................................................................................................ 83 6.3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND SURVEY .................................................................................. 87 TABLE 6.6 SURVEY OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION .................................................................... 94 TABLE 6.8 STATISTICAL TABLE FOR CONTENT OF SURVEY AND SURVEY RESULTS RELATING TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ................................................................................... 97 7 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN ............................................................................ 100 7.1 PURPOSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN .......................................................... 100 7.2 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ................................ 100 7.3 MEASURES FOR PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS ................... 103 7.4 INVESTMENT ESTIMATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION MEASURES ...................... 104 7.5 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PLAN ......................................................................... 105 7.6 REPORTING SYSTEM OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN ........................................ 107 7.7 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM ....................................................... 109 8 CONCLUSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ....................................................... 110 LZEMP II - Restructured Project 1 Overview 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Development strategy of the government and project sources Liuzhou, as an ancient city with two thousand one hundred years of history, was the premise for the prefecture, county and government in the history, and was approved by the State Council in 1977 as a tourist open city. Liuzhou city, is located at the central north of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and in the middle reaches of Liujiang River; its geographical location is east longitude 108° 50' to 109° 44', and north latitude 23° 54' to 24° 50'. Liuzhou’s administrative jurisdiction areas include four districts (Chengzhong District, Yufeng District, Liunan District and Libei District), Liudong New District and six counties (Liujiang County, Liucheng County, Sanjiang County, Rongan County, Rongshui County and Luzhai County), with a total an area of 18,707 square kilometers. Liuzhou, an important industrial city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has always been a hub of agricultural and sideline products and industrial products in Guangxi, and is the main channel of people flow and trade flow with relatively developed industry and business in South Central China and Southwest region of China. Hunan-Guangxi, Hunan-Guizhou and Zhicheng rail lines intersect herein; waterway can reach Guangzhou, people here can fly to Guangzhou and Chengdu and the highways extend in all directions. Since the reform and opening up, Liuzhou city’s economic and social and urban construction has being rapidly developed, the urban functions are gradually improved, the adjustment of industrial structure is accelerated, high-tech industries are rapidly developing, and certain results in the upgrading of traditional industries has been achieved. With economic development and the expansion of the city, wastewater quantity of urban areas in Liuzhou is growing, and with continuous improvement in the wastewater collection pipe network within the scope of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), the quantity of wastewater into Liuzhou Longquanshan WWTP and Sewage Baisha WWTP will rapidly increase, and will exceed the size of the existing design, so that the existing treatment capacity cannot meet the needs of urban construction and development, which will lead to a lot of untreated wastewater directly into Liujiang River, thus seriously affecting the industrial and agricultural development, and especially posing a threat to the safety of drinking water sources. Rapid development of the city and a declining water quality of the environment have become increasingly prominent, which has caused great attention of the autonomous region and municipal government. The Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the regional government issued a decision on comprehensively promoting the construction of urban wastewater and domestic garbage disposal facilities (GF [2008] No. 18) and issued the notification of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on comprehensively promoting the construction of urban wastewater and domestic garbage disposal facilities (GZF [2008] No. 26), to comprehensively promote the construction of the region's urban wastewater and domestic garbage disposal facilities. 1 LZEMP II - Restructured