China World Bank

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VOL. 12

People's Republic of China World Bank Financed Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project Wan'an Connecting Road

Environmental Impact Assessment Report (Third Edition)

Public Disclosure Authorized

Public Disclosure Authorized

Public Disclosure Authorized

E-425

Research Institute of Highway, MOC December 2000

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 Project Team Leader

Ye Huihai

: 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

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Contents Foreword............................................................

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Chapter I GeneralProvisions........................................................... 1.1 PreparationBasis ...........................................................

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1.2 AssessmentScope and Time Horizon............................................................ 3 1.3 AssessmentMethodologyand Key Points........................................................... 3 1.4 AssessmentStandard...........................................................

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1.5 AssessmentClassification............................................................

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1.6 Major Environmental ProtectiveObjectives........................................................5 Chapter 2 Project Overview............................................................ 6 2.1 GeographicLocation............................................................

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2.2 Road Alignment and Key ControllingPoints......................................................6 2.3 ConstructionSize, Major TechnicalIndicatorsand Work Quantities..................6 2.4 Forecastingof Traffic Volume........................ 7...................................7 2.5 InvestmentEstimation and Work Scheduling......................................................7 Chapter 3 Descriptionand Assessmentof CurrentEnvironmentalConditions...............8 3.1 Natural Environment............................................................ 8 3.2 Social Environment............................................................ 9 3.3 EcologicalEnvironment........................................................... 10 3.4 AcousticEnvironment...........................................................

12 3.5 Ambient Air............................................................ 13 Chapter 4 EnvironmentalImpact Predictionand ProtectiveMeasures............ .............. 15 4.1 Social EnvironmentalImpact Assessment.........................................................15 4.2 EcologicalEnvironmentalImpact Assessment..................................................17 4.3 AcousticEnvironmentalImpact Assessment.................................. ................20 4.4 Ambient Air Prediction and Assessment..........................................................25 4. 5 EnvironmentalImpactfrom ExcavationandTransportationof RoadbuildingMaterials.... 2 8

4.6 MitigationMeasures for EnvironmentalImpacts..............................................29 Chapter 5 AlternativeProposals........................................................... 35 5.1 AlternativeAnalysis without the Proposed Project........................ ................... 35 5.2 Introductionto the Alignment........................................................... 35 5.3 ComparativeAnalysis of Alignment Altematives.............................................36 Chapter 6 EnvironmnentalManagementand MonitoringPlan........................................37

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6.1 EnvironmentManagementPlan................................................

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6.2 EnvironmentalMonitoringPlan ................................................

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6.3 Cost Estimationfor Mitigation Measures......................................

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Chapter 7 PublicParticipation.................................................

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7.1 Overviewof Public Participation................................................

42

7.2 Family interview................................................

42

7.3 Groupinterview................................................

43

7.4 InformationRelease and Feedback

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7.5 Summaryof Public Participation

Chapter 8 AssessmentConclusions................................................

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8.1 SocialEnvironment................................................ 8.2 EcologicalEnvironment................................................

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8.3 AcousticEnvironment......... ........... ............................ 8.4 AmbientAir................................................ 8.5 PublicParticipation........ ............ ............................ 8.6 EnvironmentalProtection Investmentand ManagementPlan .. 8.7 ComprehensiveAssessmentConclusion.................... ............................

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Annex I Annex 1I Annex III Annex IV

Overviewof the AssessmentUnit and Staff Member Reference PublicParticipationand Questionnaires(group interview) Environmentaland ResettlementBulletinfor 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

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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 JiangxiProvince, in promotingthe investmentenvironment,industry structure, as well as the improvementof people's living standard. The Gan-YueExpresswayTaihe-Ganzhousection is a WorldBank 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 CommunicationsDepartmentand the Jiangxi Provincial Expressway Administration entrusted the Ministry of Communications Highway Research Institute to undertake the environmental impactassessment for this project. In Dec.1999, with the assistancefrom the JPCDI. the local governments and the relevant departments,the MOC HighwayResearch 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 reportand 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 WorldBank environmentalexperts

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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)

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(19) Two stage Preliminary Design for the Wan an Connecting Road of the

Gan-Yue Expressway (Jiangxi Provincial Transportation Design Institute) 2000)

Sept.

(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 Scopeand Time Horizon 1.2.1Assessment 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 sensitivelocation. 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-termand long-term operation stage to make prediction and assessment accordingto the estimated traffic volumeyears 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 reflectingthe 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.

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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<Surface Water quality Standard>(of which the SS indicator applies the class I criteria of the GB5084-92<Water Qualityfor Agricultural Irrigation>)(see Tablel-1). Tablel-I AppliedStandardLimits for WaterEnvironmentAssessment Unit: mg/L(exceptpHvalue)

Item

pH

CODcr Petroleum

SS

GHZBI-l standard limits

Remark * SS appliesclass I criteriaof the

6.5-8.5

- 20

< 0.05

(• 150)

GB5084-92<Water Qualityfor AgriculturalIrrigation>

(2) Acoustic environment:GB12523-90 (see

Table 1.2) will be applied in construction stage. In operation stage, for clustered residential quarters within the assessment scope along the road, the acoustic environmental assessment will apply the GB 3096-93
Environment>Class 4 for the first row of buildings most close to the road. For schools and hospitals,class I standardof GB3096-93will be applied (see Table 1-3). Table 1-2 GBI2523-90Noise Limitsin ConstructionSite Unit:Leq(dB) Construction stage

Noiselimit

Mainnoisesource day

night 55

Earthandstoneworks

Bulldozer. excavator. loadingvehicle

75

Piling

Allkindsofpiles

85

Structure

Concrete mixer. tamper. electric sa\. etc

70

55

installation

Crane.liftingmachine C

65

55

Table1-3AcousicEnvimnmenlImpactAeent

prohibited

Sendard inOperatonStage (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
Environment>Class 2 standardwill be applied (see Table 1-4)

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Table 1-4 Ambient Air Environmental Quality AssessmentStandard (Abstract)

Unit:mg/m3

PollutantName GB3095-1996 Class II concentrationlimit

TSP

NO,

CO

0.30

0.10 0.15

4.00 lOQO

Dail) average Average per hour

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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 Factor

Ecological

Environmental Protection Objective

Stake No.

Impact factor

Agricultural crops sugar cane )

( rice.

K4+800-K7+200. K10+1I00-Kl 1+200.

Land occupation. subgrade fill construction

Vegetation grasslands)

woods.

K0+600-K3+700. KI I-K 13

Fill and cut. earth and waste disposal

borrowing

Fill and cut. earth and wvaste disposal

borrowinp

(sparse

K7-K9.

Water and soil conservation

High-fill and deep cut sections like KO+620-KO+720. K3+100-K3+250. K7+350--K7+420. K7+500-K7+620

Ganjiang

K9+340-KI1+140

Construction foundation.

Canals. ponds and trrigation s! stem along the road

off in operation

stage

Construction

noise.

river

eviaoer Others

Acoustic,

Sensitive

social

residences

environment

listed in Table 3.4-1

locations and

such as schools

Note: data from the
See Table 3.4-1

dust.

traffic

of pavement

noise.

bridge run-

flvine auto

tail

gas. etc Design

for the Wan'an

5

Connecting

Road>.

Jiangxi

Provincial

Chapter 2 Project Overview 2.1 GeographicLocation 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 GeographicLocationis shown in Fig. 2-1. 2.2 Road Alignmentand KeyControlling Points The proposed connectingroad 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 Indicatorsand 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 No

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Major Technical And Economic Indicators and Work Quantities Item

Unit

Highwa% class

Quantity

Il

2

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Km/h

80

3

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km

13.86

4

Occupiedland

mui

649.6

5

Earthi/stone v.orksfor subgrade

m

614464

6

Drainageprotection\%orksfor subgrade

m

39164.56

7

Bituminousconcretepavement

8

Subgrade w-idth

9

Bridgedesignload

10

Net %s idth of bridgepavement

m

_I

Hugebridge

M/place

12

Largeor middle-sized bridge

M/place

13

Small-sized bridge

M/place

110.08/4

14

Culhert

M/place

1020.15/45

lOOOmm

117.846 12.0 Auto-20.trailer-100 Net-I0 795.69/1

Note: data from the . Jiangxi Provincial TransportationDesignInstitute(Sept.2000).

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2.4 Forecastingof Traffic Volume Forecastingof traffic volume of this projectsshown in Table2-2. Table2-2

Forecastingof TrafficVolume

Year

2004

2010

Total

1586

2463

Unit: vehicle/day(medium-sizedtruck) 2015 2023 3408

6657

Note:data fromthe ,Feb.2000.

2.5 InvestmentEstimationand 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, totaling36 months.

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Chapter 3 Description and Assessment of Current Environmental Conditions 3.1 Natural Environment 3.1.1 Landformand 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 GanjiangRiver, the water level along the road is controlled by that of the Ganjiang river. Floodsand maximumwater level usuallvoccur 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 distinctionof seasonsand short frost season The annual average temperature is 18.60 C-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 geologicalstructureis not very developed. The undergroundwater in the region is crevice water of red stratum and pore water from ravelly groundof 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

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occurrence rate is low. According to Maps of China's Regional Divisions of Earthquake Rupture(JianxiPart,1990), the rupture alongthe alignment of this project is below IV magnitude. 3.2 Social Environment 3.2.1 Impact Areas and TheirDivisions 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 XingguoCountiesbelong to the latter. 3.2.2 Major EconomicIndicatorsof the InfluencedRegions The total populationof Wan an County amountedto 278,000 in 1998. Its GNP was 778,000,000yuan. The farmners net annual average personalincome was 1966yuan per person. The gross outputvalue was 369,060,000yuan(value of that year.) for industry, and 677,070,000yuan (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 bordersXingguo Countyin the east, and Gan and Nankang Counties in the south and SuichuanCounty 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 trapezoidalconstructionon 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 largestin 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 economicresources, 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 plantsare 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 revolutionarybases with glorious traditions.

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3.2.4 Transportation No railway goes by Wan'an County and highway transportation plays very importantrole. Road related with is project in the influencedregionis the Wan'an-Taihe Highwaywhich 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 poplartrees are used for protectiveforestationand 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. Bretschneiderasinensis (a small niche is found around the Tianshan Lake of Luyuan woodland), gingko (scantily distributedaround Mianjinand BoyanVillages) which are tens of kilometersaway from the proposed highway. Since farmers around here have long conducted heavy farming activities along the line, animals are mainly species that have got accustomedwith this. In most farming areas, small animals that eat cereal crops are rats. sparrows or finches, with very few wood inhabitinganimals. 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 somewhatacid. 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

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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 meadowsoil 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.Agriculturalproducts 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 watersystem of the Ganjiang River. The main runoff flow comesfrom 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 plannedto be a Class III navigableship-passwithout anv navigationrequirementfor 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 Monitored

section

Timeof sample

PH value

Suspended

7.21

56.0

_

5.99

13/4/2000

7.17

444

_

12.77

Average

7.19

50.2

_

9.38

Qualified

100%

100%

collection lsubstance 12/4/2000

%Vanan Ganjiang Ri%erBridge siteK9-640

Water Quality Monitoring Results and Assessment

r

SS

Petroleum

100°.4

COD

I00%

percentage

Assessment standardlimit

6.5-8.5

S

1I0S

0.05

<20

Datafrom the monitoringreportsubmittedby theJi'an PrefectureMonitoringStation.April.2000. Note: indicatesthe unnoticed; *refersto whereno SSlimit setin GHZBI-1999, applythe GB5084-92 Water Quality Standardlfor Irrigation of Farnland Class I Standard.

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Table3-lindicates that monitored results at the Ganjiang River are within the limits, and each water quality indicator is 100percent satisfactory, which shows that the water quality is nice and can satisfv requirementsconcerned. 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 (ltOMi)

223.80

24.96

20.19

33.54

2.51

1.96

306.96

2500-5000

5000-8000

8000-15000

>15000

Average erosion <20 500, module (t/km2 a) 1000

200, 500, 1000-2500

Data: RemoteCensoringSurveyReportof Jiangxi ProvinceSoil Erosion.Jiangxi ProvincialWaterConservancy 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)

Io Sitename I

t

Xiaketang

Table3-3

Statisticsof MajorSensitiveLocations

Mileage Distncefrom

Size

K4+200

Rieht 120m

16families.80

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~~~~people Hly

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Environmental features

hecenter

Yuanbei

K4+850

Left edge

1lfamilies.70 people

Hill%.at the intersectionof the ne%% andold roads%% ith a pond

Tianbei

K5+300

Rightedge40m

l4families.70 people

Hills. closeto the news andold roads. wsithoil-teacamellia

Schooi(WanxanK5+800 Gongda)

Right80m

Desolate buildings

WananCount% 4

Mostlh 120m a" a%fromroad

5

Xiajianpo

K6+600

Ri.ht 60m

10families.50 people

Residinpat thefoot of hills. a roadto the old road

6

Qiangbei

K9+150

Left 110m

10families.45 people

Farmlandon the w%est bankof the GanjiangRiver

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No

Site name

Mileage

Ditance from

Size

7

Liujia Bjun) (Baijiacun)

KlO+150

Right edge

20 fapilies.100 people

8

Yangjiapo __

_

9

_

_

_

KI1+950 __

Huangnan

_

_

_

Right 180m

_

_

K13+300 Huangnan K13+300

_

_

_

_

Environmental features On the east bank of the Ganjiang River, clustered living on plain land.fill height 6m

4 families 21

Hills

20 famnilies,95 people

Clusteredhouses, flat landform

_people

Right 140m Right 140m

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 time

L

Noise (dB) LL0 50

Nuanbei K4+85

. irtr%oo ros% . ofFirst houses oue close to the road

Daytime Nighttime

53 8 46 0

48.0 42.7

43.7 40.5

51.1 43.8

Liujia (Baijia) K 10+150

First rowvhouses close to the road

Daytime Nighttime

43.0 41.0

43.0 40.0

42.0 40.0

42.6 40.4

Data from the monitoringreport submitted by the Ji-an PrefectureMonitoringStation.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 3.5.1

Air

Current The

ambient have

Condition

proposed

found.

automobiles' living. quantity.

road

air remains been

emission

as well hence

Investigation

as total

mostly

natural. The

goes Along

through the

countryside.

line,

no large-size

present

ambient

air

and carbon

monoxide

(CO)

suspended

the current

ambient

particles(TSP). air is of fine

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pollution produced The quality.

villages

and

stationary comes from

pollutants

fields

where

pollution from

people's discharged

the

sources

flying

dust.

working are small

and in

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 MonitoredResultsfor AmbientAir Houriv average value Monitoin item point Liujia

(Baijia)

NOx TSP

Concentration limit(mg/m) 0.006-0.018 -

Excessive rate(%)

Daily average value Concentration limit(mg/m 3 )

0

0.008-0.012 0.108-0.126

-

Excessive rate(%) 0 0

Max excessiv eties times 0 0

Total daily average value value 0.010

0.114

Data from the monitoringreport submitted by the Ji'an PrefectureMonitoring Station, August,2000.

From Table 3-5, it shows that the daily average NOx and TSP concentrationsare lower than national Class II standard, not above the limits. NOx has a relatively large environmentaltolerance.

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Chapter 4 Environmental Impact Prediction and Protective Measures 4.1 Social EnvironmentalImpact Assessment 4.1.1 Impact on CommunityDevelopment After the completionof this Project, technicalstandardswill go up remarkablyand the road conditions will be improved so that transportationcapacity will also rise up noticeably. Constructionof this project will greatly strengthenthe relations of the two sides of Wan'an on the Ganjiang River. The traffictension on the Wuyun Bridgewill be mitigated, so that exchangesof commodities and informationbetween 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 socialaspects. 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 suffermuch impact. 4.1.3 Removal and Resettlement It has been calculatedthat removal work involvedin 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 resettlementwill be undertaken by the principle of local resettlement,overall interest. coordinatedarrangement. 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

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and reduce the adverse impactof resettlementto the minimumextent. Table4-1 Brick- tile houseof (m2)

brick-concrete house(i 2)

Estimated Removalof Buildings ClaN -brick-tile house (i 2)

Toilet. pigpen(m2)

TB

Brickwall Concretegrain (m) ground (m2)

4617.5 1300.4 1150.7 8 12 20 290.00 380.00 6 Note: data from the < Preliminary esign for the Wanman ConnectingRoad>.JiangxiProvincialTransportation DesignInstitute(Sept.2000).

The construction unit of the project shall make arrangementprior 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 resettlementaction plan of this project (RAP). 4.1.4 Land Resource Value Analysis Statistics show that the proposedroad occupies 603.6mu of land. For details, refer to Table4-2. Table4-2

Estimationof Land OccupancyandProportion Landacquired(mu)

Type1

Qt'.

Percentaee

Padda field

Drv land

Barrenhills and land

Wood land

230.8

2.78

11.11

311.27

0.46

1817

A

Cash

18.84 3.12

Reoods eser% House | pond base 13.97

j2.30

Grain eround

9.76

11.81

160

1.96

Note: data from the < Preliminary Design for the Wanan ConnectingRoad>. Jiangxi Pro' incial TransportationDesignInstitute(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 industriesalong 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 precioustillage resources. we suggest that land management departmentsreinforce their functionin sanctioning and controllingland use along the road. 4.1.5 Analysis of Convenience of the Residents To construct Wan an Bridgeon 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 shortenedso 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 Impacton People's Living Quality When the proposed Project has been put into operation, economy will develop rapidly and living environmentwill be improved greatly, therefore, people will enjoy higher standardsof living. 4.2 EcologicalEnvironmentalImpactAssessment 4.2.1 Impacton 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 actualtypes 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 alongthe 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 adverseimpact on agriculturalproductionand 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 functionby cleaningand treating properly. After the completion of the road, the transportationinfrastructurecan 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 developmentof the local agriculturaleconomy,and transforming the forn of land use. Accordingly, construction of this project and its later operation exertsonly limited impacton the pattern of local land use and agriculturalecology. 4.2.2 Impacton Plants and Animalsalong 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

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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 economicloss. However, no long-run destructiveimpact can occur since no primitive forest or endangeredspecies can be foundnearby. (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, poisonousgases on the construction site as well as pollution will cause animals to emigrate. In any case,the construction will not alter the environrnentso muchas to drive all of the animals away. Some of them can still live on in this part of the land. Therefore, this project only exertsmild 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 GanjiangRiver 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 protectedin 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

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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 OperationPeriod 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 GanjiangRiver, the flow and speed are both stable havingrelatively 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 waterquality. i Impact of the ProposedRoad on Current AgriculturalIrrigation Pattern The area along the proposedroad 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 agriculturalirrigationpattern. In the recommendedprogram,45 culverts are to be built, averaging 3.247 culvertsper 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. Departmentof 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 erodedarea will reach the state of intensive erosion. Table4-3

Erosion Intensity Estimation during Construction

Currenterosion Currenterosion level index (tSkm'- a)

Sectionlength Construction period (km) erosionmodule (t/km: - a)

Construction period erosionlevel

Slight

<500

12.10

3335

Moderate

Mild

500-2500

1.76

3335-16675

Intense-seervintense

As many cuttingsand fillingsalong the whole road, excavationand filling are set at 2m for the average height. then the increased area at the side slope will amount to 2, 0.183krm 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 excavationand 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 borrowingareas so to prevent soil erosion. 4.3 Acoustic EnvironmentalImpactAssessment 4.3.1 Construction Stage Along the Wan'an connectingroad, 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 betweenthe 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. Particularlyat night, the construction noise will influencepeople rest and sleep. Large-size machineryalso makes loud noise to disturb workersand residents in the nearby. In this regard, it is necessaryto arrange the construction time rationally, such as to avoid the school time, nighttime of residents' rest, in case of impossibility to avoid. temporary mitigation measuresshall be adopted. 4.3.2 Traffic Noise Impact EstimationDuringThe OperationPeriod This prediction observes relevantmode in EnvironmentalImpactAssessment 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 radiationacoustic grade, dB:

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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 A Ldistane-it

time for

(LAeq), here, lh;

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;

ALsur--Traffic noise correctioncausedby 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

(dB)

-AL,

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. Parameterscalculationsare as follows: (1) Trafficvolume Traffic volumefor 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:

small vehicles : V=237XN-° 1602 middlevehicles : V=212XN-° 1 47 7 large vehicles : V=as 80 percent of middle vehicles where: V--calculated speed; N--traffic volume per hour, modified by the following: (©)Whendesigned vehicle speed is smaller than 120km/h, the calculationwill be reduced proportionately; © Whenvolume of small vehicles is smaller than 50 percent of the traffic volume. 21

the reduction is of 30 percent for every reduction of I0Ovehicle; (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: 2 .2 +0. 18VL large vehicles : Lw.L=7 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

V i- -average running speed, km/h.

(5) distance attenuation A L distance @To calculatethe space headway di betweenvehiclesof type i. di = lOOOx[

Ni

(m)

in which: N 1 - -type i vehicle daytime or nighttimetraffic volume per hour, vehicle/h; V i -- type i vehicletraffic volume per hour, km/h: (© Distance (r2) between the estimation point and noise equivalent vehicle running line. r,= where: DN - -

the distance(m) from the estimation point

the distance(m)from the estimation point Calculationof A L distance

DF

(

D

--

When r, <

/2 R, ALAi4i

When r,)' /2 RfI A

j

K I K, .20lg 7' 7.5

=20K,

to the near lane;

to the efar lane (dB)

[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

[di

7

K2 j7j

5 30

207 5

40

ConstantsRelatedto VehicleSpacing 50

60

70

80

0.61 0.71 0.78 0.80 0.83 04

10O 140 160 250 300 085

088

.88

Data:SpecificationsConcerningEIA for HighwayConstructionProject(Trial)

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8I9 090

(6) Traffic noise correction A L longi largevehicles:

Llon2g=98X

3

caused by the longitudinalgrade

(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 concretefor surface material, A Lpavemen,t is 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 soundcaused by wood barriers. When depth of the wood is 30m, A L 2 wood= SdB: whendepth 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 TrafficNoise 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 Omat the early operation period. and with the growingof traffic volume, the distance grows up to 30m until the late operation period.Since.this project has to do with innovation of some

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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 Operation stage

(year)

Time

Estimated Traffec Noise Results during Operation Period Estimatedvalue of traffic noise at different distance beyond the shoulder ,dB

peimeod_____

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

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

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

nighttime

59.7

56.4

54.5

52.9

50.3

48 0

46 7

45 2

43 3

40 9

2004

2015

2023

Table4-6

AnuatentDationDisw WhenTrafikNoiseCompliesWhlhCbssV

2004 standard compliantdistance Daytime Not excessive

:

Standad

2015 standard compliantdistance

nighttime <20

Unit:m

distance

daytime

nighttime

Daytime

Not excessive

<.20

Not excessive

Nighttime 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( 100.1Laeqtraffic+ 1001Laeqbackground

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.

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Table 4-7 Traffic Noise Estimation and Excess Statistics at Sensitive Locations No

Locationname

Mileage

distance from center Right

I

Xiake-tang

Standard daytime

Yuanbei

K4+850

4

6

7

8

9

WananTianxzMiddle School

Xiajianpo

K9+ i50

Liujia(Baijia)

K10+ 100

Yang-iiapo

KI 1+ 950

j K13+300 }

54.0

-

-

-

55

45.9

46.7

47.9

-

-

-

daytime

70

59.9

62.1

63.3

-

-

-

-

-

1.1 3.2

-

daytime

K5+800

K6+600

Qianebei

Note: i-"

53.1

nighttime

Right l daytime edge-40m nighttime

Tiae

Huang-nan l l

52.6

left 20m-

Right 80

(Wanan Gongdai 5

70

-

nighttime

3

Unit: dB

Trafficnoise noise excess value estimatedvalue 2004 2015 2023 2004 2015 2023

K4+200

120m 2

Noise

-

55

54.5

56.1

58.2

-

70 55

61.5 56.1

62.9 57.7

64.9 59.8

1.1

55

53.5

54.4

55.5

-

-

-

-

-

2.7

4.8

-

-

nighttime

45

47.2

48.2

49.8

daytime

70

54.9

55.9

57.4

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

0.5

49.0

-

_

1.6 43.9

-

_

51.0

-

_

4 46 4

_

Right 60

2.2

3.2

4.8

-

nighttime

55

48.8

50.1

51.9

-

dartime

70

52.8

54.1

54.5

-

L eft 110

I nighttime

55

46.3

47.1

davtime

70

59.1

60.6

48.5

nighttime

55

62.7 _ 53.9 55.5 57.7

davtime

70

45.2 46.8

nighttime

55

39.9

daytime

70 5

47.9

Right

-

-

2.7

Right 180

Right 130 } _ |

t

49.2

4 ~~~~~~~~~nighttime 55 43.8 44.0

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 IOOmaway, 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

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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 standardcan be smaller, too. (2) TSP GeneratedBy Constructionand HaulingVehicles 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 nearbyarea severely. 4.4.2 Ambient Air ImpactEstimationDuring OperationStage (1) Calculationof DischargingSourceIntensity of Auto Tail Gas Pollutant. The calculation formulaof gaseouspollutants is

Qj=Aj

.EUj3600'

. =t

of which: Q1 -type j pollutantdischargingintensity mg/s - m; A-traffic volume/ hour of type i vehicles in the forecastingyear. vehicles/h; E-i-under a motorwaycondition, 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 intensitycalculationformula 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 numberin 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 PollutionDispersionModel QWhen the angle between wind direction and the source is ° < 0 <90C, the dispersion mode is:

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CR=

Qr U

2ir,u

l

a:

exp - IQ.J]exp 2u

[ I(z-h) 1+exp[-I

-2u

z+hj:]dl

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 typej 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 verticalto the line source(Q=90°C). the mode is:

=(2>2, C,.ertical =

(

UC

P

[exp 20-2

When the wind directionis parallellto the line source(Q=0°C).the mode is: Cp

(a27

Uc (r)

r = [y2 + (Z2 /e2)]2 e =:c/zI1 of which: r - equivalent distance from the microelementto the measurementpoint. m; e - customary dispersionparameterratio 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/T2.3-93Appendix B. The wind speed is set to be 2.6mI/s subgrade width 12.0m.and average earth-filling height2.0m. (3) Forecastingof Auto Tail Gas ConcentrationDispersionalongthe Road. The NOx and CO dischargingrconcentrationof 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 emittedvehicles will also increase.Comparedwith class 2 air quality standard, the NOx and CO concentration under stability D do not exceed their correspondingcriterion. (4) StandardCompliance for AutoTail Gas (1) From Table 4-8, we can see that as this project has s small traffic volume and

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low driving speed, the NOx and CO dischargingvolume 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. (®)Analysisof Impact on SensitiveLocations Within the assessment scope, there will be 8 sensitive locations. According to forecasting, the NOx and CO concentrationsat 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 onstage 2004

NOx

2015

2023 2004

CO

2005

2023

Traffic 10 Rushhour

Distancefromroadside(m) 40 100

200

0.006-0.009

0.003-0.006

0.002-0.003

0.001-0.001

Dai1xaverage 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

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

Dailyaverage 0.014-0.021 0.007-0.014 0.004-0.007 Rushhour

0.002-0.002

0.023-0.035

0.013-0.023

0.006-0.012

0.003-0.003

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

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

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.

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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 Baigaoroad 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 EcologicalDamage 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 impacton local ecology. But such impactis temporaryand slight. 4.5.4 Impact on Air and Acoustic Environment Excavation of stone will produce noise and shock, its transportationcan reducethe 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 extensivelysolicited 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 synchronicallywith the main works. Plant species were optimized during design stage so to restore and compensatefor the vegetation. (3) Water and Soil Conservation Drainage and protection works were designedfor subgrade. including intercepting ditch, side ditch. retainingwall 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,

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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 reasonablydesignedto 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 emphasizedthe principle of diversion from towns and villages, minimumremoval 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,resettlementof 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) TransportationRisk 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 entranceand 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 accordancewith design requirement. 02 Sewage and garbage from construction camp shall be collectively treated or

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made into family fertilizer. (©)Construction vehicles should run on temporary excess roads, can not run in agriculturalfields and woodlands. ) Contractorsshould take measuresto shorten the temporary land occupationtime. and reclaimthe land or planted timelyafter construction. ®)Waste earth must be handled in strict accordancewith design requirements.and the environmentof waste sites shall be well protected. a Quarrycontractor 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 relatedrules. (2) WaterConservation ( Earth and stone works will not be constructedin the rainy monthof July. (© To reduce damage on surrounding vegetation as much as possible, to plant timely and to restore the vegetationwithinthe 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 Wasteoil of hauling vehicles and constructionmachines and solid waste with oil dirties should be collectivelytreated. (©)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 allowedto operate at night. (© If clustered residences exist 50m within the excess road, then material hauling is prohibited at night. In daytime. if materialsare 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 residencesand schools as far as possible. (a) Construction excess roads should be far away from hospitals, schools and

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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 located200m beyond sensitive locations. ( Workers' work time shall be controlled according to labor hygiene standard, machine operatorsshall be provided by earplugsand helmets. ) Transportationmanagement over road building materials should be enhanced. Contractors must formulatematerial 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. (® Vehicleshauling road-buildingmaterialsshall be covered to reduce spillover. ( Hauling roads and construction sites, especially the stabilizing earth mixing plant, shall be water sprayed and cleanedtimely to prevent secondary flying dust. (A In filling the subgrade. necessarywater 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 Contractorsmust 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.

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The above measuresto be taken during constructionstage have been defined in the contracts signedwith the contractors 4.6.3 Operation Stage (1) EcologicalRestorationand 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 engineeringdesign. 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 importantin that the planting can stabilizesubgradeslope, reduce soil erosion. reduce pavement runoff. Maintenanceover road protectionand planting works should be enhanced so as to preventsoil 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 Forecastingshows 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 entranceof 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

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substancetransportation, 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 GanjiangBridge. After implementation of the above measures, the adverse impacts on this projectcan be reduced to an acceptablelevel.

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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 crossingthe 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 heavytraffic 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 coonectingroad of the Taihe-GanzhouHgighway,the Wan an ConnectingRoad is the only way to connect the Gan-YueExpressway in the Wan'an territory. So the construction of this road is verv urgent for developing the Wan an's economyand 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 alignmentstarts 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 basicallyside by side with Baijia-Gaoporoad, crossing the GanjiangRiver at Shaokou. Hence, we have designed two alternative programs for the locationof the bridge on the basis of the riverbed for bridge piers and the connection lines on the two ends. We have also prepared two correspondingalignments 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(bridgelocation), Program I has a lengthof 7.27km, while Program [I 7.00km.

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5.3 Comparative Analysis of Alignment Alternatives

The comparisonof 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) transmissionline 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 removedat south-east bank. (2) Bridge site in Program II has a mileageshorter 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. 2 . while Program II 4987 mi 2 (5) Program I will remove building of 3064.25m . 2 a less removal of 1922.75m (6) Within the assessment scope for the two Programs. the number and size of villages are rather similar. Because connectingroad 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 resettlementpeople.we recommendthe Program II.

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Chapter 6 Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan 6.1 EnvironmentManagementPlan 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. PlaningSectionof JiangxiProvincialCommunication Department(3 persons)

_

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I

JiangxiProvincialHigh-ClassHighwayAdministration ProjectOffice,Wan an count TransportationBureau(3-6)

Design staff

Environment protection

Contractor's environmental

Jiangxi Provincial Environmental

supervision engineer(l person)

person (I person)

Monitoring Center

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 Transportation Bureau (1)

Environmental staff of Wan an Management Agency (1)

Fig. 6-2 Environmental Management Organization in Operation Stage

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The Planning Division of Jiangxi Provincial Communications Department is responsible for formulatingenvironmentalmanagement methodsand 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 supervisoryengineer who is responsible for supervising the implementation of environmentalprotection measures specified in the EAP and bid documentsand responsiblefor 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 environmentalprotectionwithin their respectixesections 6.1.2 Supervising Organizations

The environmental protectionof this project is subjectto the supervision from the environmental protection bureaus in Jiangxi province. Ji'an prefecture, and Wan'an county. 6.1.3 EnvironmentalManagementPlan The environmental managementplan for this proposedproject 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 intendsto send persons to participatein the EP training for

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the Gan-Yue Expressway Taihe-Ganzhou Section. Table6.1-1 EnvironmentalManagementPlan for the Project Potentialnegativeimpact

Mitigationmeasures

1. Planning & design stage

Organizationfor Organizationsin

action

charge*

Designunit

I. Reducedflood dischargecapacirv 2.Removal and compulsorv I Thoughtful design resettlement for the project land 2.Formulate and implement a proper resettlement plan & acquisition compensationspolicy 3 Loss of land resource 3 Minimum farmiand occupation 4 Damageto the landscape 4. Careful design in harmonywith landscape 5 Erosion on soil locser than 5 restorethe occupied irrigationfacilities and set up culverts subgrade caused b! cutoff trench 6 Don't directly dischargepavementrunoff into water bodyor or veep drain irrigation system 6 Pollution from pavementrun-off

'an'an counts Resettlement office Design Unit Design unit

WBLPO a r Jiaanprefectureand Wan'an county govemments

Design unit Design unit

II. Constructionstage I Increaseof 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-oidaccidentalspillover 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 discoveredand 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 discoveredduring construction 7 Sign an agreementwith the uttlitt agency.replacementgoes 6 Terrain surtace broken at the before relocation to minimize the impact cutting/ifilling and quarry sites 8 Strengthentraffic managementat possible traffic conflict 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.handleit properly %sastesat constructionstes It Necessar- action shall be taikento present virus breeding 10 Possiblediseaseoutbreakamong 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

Contractors

aI

WBLPO an Municrpal Godemmen t Goverment

III. Operation stage I Noise and air monitoring be madeat sensitwxe locations 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 ssstemrwaterbody 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 substancesiunjury or death necessarm organizationand management proceduresto 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

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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 place item firquency time

Residences and schools near unpaved Construction construction phase road and stabilizing earth mixing plant Operation phase

(

TSP

NOx (K104-150)

Once per random morning and sampling afternoon in construction 1-2days. each with 24 once/year hours ~(winter)continuous

Implementing Responsible organization Organization

Ji'an Municipal Environmental Monitoring Station

Supervisorm organization

Supervising ompanJi'an IPHCHA Municipal Ji an Environmental Municipal Protection Munspal Bureau Brau Bureau

monitoring WBLPO-the World Bank Loan Project office of JPCD JPHCHA-JiangxiProvincialHigh-ClassHighway Administration

Table 6-3 AmbientNoise MonitoringPlan stage

IL

Monitoring M

place

vx

onitoringr

in Monitonng Sampltn

fiWuenc-% ddurMaon time

Hauling road Xiaketang (K4+200) Construction Construction site whereAmbient Once/ there are phase residence noise month

Exeuting

oriu on

twice per Supervision One day dav during construet Engineer

Operation phase

Supervisory

oanuon

Superxising compan J'an WBLPO ' JPHCHA Municipal Ji'an Environmental Municipal rotecuon Transportation Bureau

(village) or sensitive location schools) within 100m Yuanbei (K4850) Tianbei Ambient 4 times! (K5+300) noise vear Liujia (Ki O- 150)

Reonsible

apnizton

Two times a day in the day and at night

Bureau 10:0011:00 22:0023:00

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Ji'an Municipal En%ironmental Monitoring Station

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 upstreamn the seasonor Construction bridge, average Supervising Wan'an 200m seastin a Jia company. Wi'an Bndgesit thebridge 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 TFour Bureau Operation domnstream t Bureaa thebridge

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 InvestmentEstimate

No

Item

Contents

Quantitr

Unitprice

Amount (10.000 v;yan)

I

Planting

2

Waterspray,living garbage disposal. Environmental tarpaulin-coveringof 10.000 protection cost during hauline vehicles. slag disposal. mud 36 months 10.000 construction stage delivery and a treatment l

36.0

3

Sound barrier

Tianbei(K5+300)

1.000 Iyuan/m

15.0

Enironmental monitoring

Construction. noise. TSP. %sater 3 quality Operation: noise, air. wvaterquality 3 years

' 20.000 yuan/year 10.000 viuan/vear

6.0

4

5

Warnine board

Reminddrivers of safety

4

;.n0e iuian/each

0.4

6

EP traininp

Participate in the training Enpresswai

5.000 2man,time yu;an/man tm time

1.0

7

Contingenc!

Planting on the 3 earth wasteareas 4 places and one borrowing site

_

forticipate ~~~for Gan-Yue

1S0m

Expresswa!

5'o of the aboNe

50.000 yvuan/km

20.0

3.0

4.07

Total

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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.

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Table7-1 No

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Results of Statistics in Public Participation

Surveying Content

Attitude

Agree to buildthe road?

Percentage

Yes

98%

No

2%

Don't know

Remark

Blankl

Nation 2

To whom the roadconstructionis

Collective

beneficial

Individual

100%

Blank

3

To build the road.somelandneeds to be acquired. some houses removed.do you agree?

,

Yes No

67.3%

Don't knos blank

12.2% 20.59%

Yes

4

Do vou kno%N aboutcompensation polic\. for land acquisition. removalandresettlement'

A little

59.2%

No

40.8%,

Blank Yes

.Are "ou obedient to acquisition. removal

land Yes.but conditionall\. and

resettlement

6

What environmentpollution , -il

exert a large impact on you?

No

91.9% 6.1%

2°

Blank Noise

71.4%

Auto tail gas Dust

48.9%

Somehaschosen morethanone

Others

choice.

Blankl

7

What measuresdo \ou sueeest to g i m_tip-ate impact9

Road planting

55.1%/o

Soundbarrier

2.0%Soehshsn

. Far a%%av from villages

2.

choice.

.Others Blank

Some haschosen more than one

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.

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(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 ResettlementOffice, and to disclose the storing place in JiangangshanDaily, in this case, the public can have direct access to the related informationwithoutgoing to the government. (3) The owner of the project will install a telephonefor environmental complaint in the Wan'an county resettlementoffice, 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 protectiondepartmentand handleit within48 hours. 7.5 Summary of PublicParticipation The design unit and the owner have paid great emphasison 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.

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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

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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 standardwith 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 impactcan 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. Emissionconcentrationof CO and NOx from automobile tail gas is low and within its correspondingstandard limits. NOx and CO concentration at

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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 environmentalproblemscaused 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.broadcastingand newspaperswill be used to release informationto the public and easy access to environmentaldocumentsand complaint telephonewill be provided to them. (4) To cooperatewith environmentaldepartmentto handle complainttimely. 8.6 EnvironmentalProtection Investmentand ManagementPlan (I) This project involves an investment for environmental protectionof 854.700 yZuan,accountingfor 0.83%of the total investment. (2) The owner has set up resettlementoffice and design/resettlement/environment coordination team, which are responsible for the environrnental protection and resettlementfor the project. (3) A detailed EAP has been formulatedto finalize the environmental mitigation measures and to implement the monitoringplan. 8.7 ComprehensiveAssessment Conclusion The alignmentof 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 concludesthat the construction of the proposed road is feasible.

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Annex I Overview of the AssessmentUnit 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, holdingclass A Certificatesfor EIA issued by NEPA. Environmental Engineering Office of RIH is mainly engaged in environrment impact assessment (EIA) of highway and independentbridges;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, biochemicalengineering.,of whom. 10 persons have high-levelprofessional titles and 6 have middle-level professionaltitles. 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 EnvironmentalEngineeringOffice also has the EIA working experience for the projects financed by the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank. In addition to this. it undertookthe environmental design of freeway sound barrier. sewage treatment, planting and constructionwork. The following is an outline of the assessmentpersonnelfor this project: Shen Yi. male, born in 1962. graduated from Huatong Institute of Water Conservancyand ElectricPower. He is associate researchfellow and the depute director of Environmental EngineeringOffice.. 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 environrnentassessmentin this project

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Annex II

Reference (I) WorldBank OperationalManualOP/BP/GP4.01, March, 1999 (2) "EIA TechniqueGuidelines"[HJ/T2.1-2.3-93, HJ/T2.4-1995,HJ/TI9- 1997,NEPA]; (3) "SpecificationsConcerningEIA forHighwayConstructionProject"(Trial)[JTJO05- 96, MOC]; (4) Li Zhongkai,MeteorologicalPrinciplesof Air Pollutionand Its Application,MeteorologyPress. 1985. (5) Ren Wentong,Traffic Noise andControl,RemenCommunicationPress,1985. (6) Yearbookof JiangxiProvince(1999),JiangxiProvincialStatisticsBureau (7) Yearbookof Ji'an Prefecture (1999),ji'an PrefectureStatisticsBureau (8) Natural AgriculturalResources and AgriculturalZone of Ji'an Prefecture,edited by Ji'an PrefecturePlanningCommission,Ji'an PrefectureAgriculturalZoningCommission.June 1997 (9) Remote CensoringSurvey Reportof Jiangxi Province Soil Erosion,JiangxiProvincialWater ConservancyOffice,NanjingSoilResearchInstituteof China Academyof Science,1997 (10) Atlas of JiangzxiProvince,JiangxiProvincial MappingBureau,March.1998 (I 1) EIA of Linxiang-ChangshaFreeway of Beijing-ZhuhaiNationalTrunckHighway(HighwayIV). RIH of MOC,April 1999. (12) FeasibilityStudyReportfor Wanan ConnectingRoad of Gan-YueExpressway(Taihe-Ganzhou Section),JiangxiProvincialCommunications DesignInstitute (JPCDI).Feb.2000 (13)Two-stage Preliminary Design for Wan'an connecting road of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-GanzhouSection).JiangxiProvincialCommunicationsDesignInstitute (JPCDI). May 1999. (14)Two-stage Preliminary Design for Wan an connecting road of Gan-Yue Expressway (Taihe-GanzhouSection).JiangxiProvincialCommunicationsDesignInstitute (JPCDI).Sept. 2000..

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Annex HI PublicparticipationandQuestionnaire (GroupInterview) Survey .Topic

1. The positive effect of the proposed road on the local economy and society. 2. The possible negative impacts of the road, and mitigation measures Name

Sex

Age

Nation ality

Job Occupation Title

Huang Yili

Male

40

Han

Farmer

YinGke Mr le

35

Han

Farmerschool

n Baijia, Wan'an

4_

Han

Farmer

Primary school

Group 3# Baijia. Wan'an

Liu Rongqi

Male

45

Han

Farmer

Middle school

Group 5# Baijia. Wan'an

Liu Male XiaomingMalean

25

Han

Farmer Far

Middle school

Baijia.Wan'an

Middle scoMale l Baijia. Wan'an

_

Liu Quan

Male

46

Han

Driver

22

Han

Driver

__________ ______

_

__ inm

_ ing_ __

-

Middle Middl

Baijia. Wan an

~~~schoolBa i . W n n

______

Primarv

Peng Xinming __

Middle Prima,

M Male

Zhong Beihua

__ __

Address

Xiao Zhexiang

lndividu

al file

Education

Male I__ __

__

29

Han

_

__

Farmer __

_

__

__

_

school

Baijia. Wan'an 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): Place: Baijia village

GuoYingke

Surveyor or Recorder(Signature):Wang Date: April 12,2000

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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-GanzhouExpresswayof the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProjectfinanced by the World Bank Tanhe-GanzhouExpressway Project Construction Office(TGEPCO); (2) Environmental Action Planfor the Taihe-GanzhouExpresswayof the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProjectfinanced 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-GanzhouExpresswayProject Construction Office(TGEPCO) Sep.22, 2000

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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

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Annex VI List of RelevantReports

(1) EnvironmentalImpact Assessment Reportfor the Taihe-GanzhouExpresswayof the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project financed by the WorldBank, Research Institute of Highwayof MOC , December, 2000 (2) EnvironmentalAction Planfor the Taihe-GanzhouExpressway of the Jiangxi No. 2 HighwayProjectfinanced by the World Bank, World Bank Loan Project Office of JPCD, Dec.2000 (3) EnvironmentalImpact AssessmentReportfor the Ganzhou City ConnectingRoad of the Jiangxi No. 2 Highway Project (Taihe-Ganzhou Highway) financed by the World

Bank, ResearchInstitute of Highwayof 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.

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