The
West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA), empowered by the WKCDA
Ordinance (Cap. 601), was set up by the Government with the full support of the
Legislative Council (LegCo)
in October 2008 to take forward the WKCD project.
WKCDA has appointed Maxewell Geosystems Ltd. –
Engineering Surveys Limited Joint Venture (MEJV) as the Engineering Consultants
of the Project and MateriaLab Consultants Limited (
The
purpose of the Report is to set out baseline levels for the air quality, noise,
landscape and visual in accordance with the EM&A Manual (AEIA-178/2013) and
Environmental Permit (VEP-425/2014). These baseline levels for the air quality and noise will
be used as the basis for compliance check during the impact monitoring in
construction stage of the Project. The
landscape and visual baseline monitoring aims to collect information on the
current site characteristics prior to the development in order to make comparisons
between pre-development and post-development, detect change, and make
comparisons against a standard. This Report presents the
locations, equipment, period, methodology, results and observations for the air
quality, noise monitoring, landscape and visual monitoring during the baseline
period.
The structure of the Report
is summarized as follows:
Section 1: Introduction, purpose and the structure of the report
Section 2: Project background information
Section
3: Air Quality, which describes the
baseline air quality monitoring
Section
4: Noise, which describes the baseline
noise monitoring
Section
5: Landscape and Visual, which describes the baseline landscape and
visual monitoring
Section
6: Revisions for inclusion in the
EM&A Manual