VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 2 220kV Cau Bong-Duc Hoa Transmission Line

Environmental Monitoring Report Quarterly Report April to June 2015 VIE: Power Transmission Investment Program, Tranche 220kV Cau Bong-Duc Hoa Transmission Line Prepared by Southern Power Projects Management Board for the Asian Development Bank This environment monitoring report is a document of the borrower The views expressed herein not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area NATIONAL POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION SOUTHERN POWER PROJECT MANAGEMENT BOARD POWER TRANSMISSION INVESTMENT PROGRAM, TRANCHE 2; Loan: 2959-VIE 220kV CAU BONG - DUC HOA TRANSMISSION LINE SUBPROJECT SECOND QUARTER ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT FOR PERIOD OF APRIL TO JUNE, 2015 JULY 2015 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 NATIONAL POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION SOUTHERN POWER PROJECTS MANAGEMENT BOARD ***** POWER TRANSMISSION INVESTMENT PROGRAM, TRANCHE Loan: 2959-VIE 220kV CAU BONG - DUC HOA TRANSMISSION LINE SUBPROJECT SECOND QUARTER ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORT FOR PERIOD OF APRIL TO JUNE, 2015 SOUTHERN POWER PROJECT MANAGEMENT BOARD Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 TABLE OF CONTENT ABBREVIATIONS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project background 1.2 Project scale and description 1.3 The objectives of internal environmental monitoring 10 2.2.1 Duties of the related stakeholders in the institution 11 2.2.2 Layout of Internal monitoring arrangement 12 THE SUBPROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 19 ENVIRONMENT COMPLIANCE MONITORING 19 4.1 Environment compliance at construction site 19 4.2 Compliance in safety and health for workers and affected communities 22 PROGRESS/ RESULTS ON OVERCOMING THE SHORTCOMMINGS IDENTIFIED IN THE PREVIOUS REPORT 25 SUMMARY ON KEY ENVIRONEMNTAL ISSUES NEED TO BE RESOLVED 27 6.1 Identified key environmental issues 27 6.1.1 Environmental issues at site 27 6.1.2 Mitigation measures addressing these issues 27 6.2 Environmental issues in safety and healthy for workers and communities 27 6.2.1 Identified environmental issues 27 6.2.2 Mitigation measures addressing these issues 27 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 28 7.1 Conclusion 28 7.2 Recommendations 29 APPENDIXES 30 Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: The positions of 220KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa transmission line Table 2: Summary of the environmental requirements in EMP/IEE and in B&C documents 14 Table 3: Progress on subproject implementation 19 Table 4: Summary of the adverse impacts and applied mitigation measures at sites 21 Table 5: Summary of adverse impacts and mitigation measures for labor safety and community health 23 Table 6: Progress and results of resolving the environmental issues found in the previous quarter 25 Table 7: Main environmental issues and mitigation measures need to be implemented 28 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Layout of 220KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa transmission line Figure 2: Layout on internal monitoring arrangement for ES 13 Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 ABBREVIATIONS ADB AH B&C documents CEMP CLO CPC EMoP EMP EO of NPT EPC ES ESHO HCMC IEC IEE IES NPT NES RoW RP SiE SPPMB SPPMB EO SPPMB SE USD VND Asian Development Bank Affected households Bidding and Contract documents Contractor Environmental Management Plan Community Liaise Officer Commune People Committee Environmental Monitoring Plan Environmental Management Plan Environmental Officer of NPT Environmental Protection Commitment Environmental Safeguard Environmental Safety Health Officer Ho Chi Minh City Electricity Installation & Construction Joint Stock Company Initial Environmental Examination International Environment Specialist National Power Transmission Corporation National Environment Specialist Rights of Way Resettlement Plan Site Engineers of Contractors Southern Power Project Management Board Environmental officers of SPPMB Supervision Engineers of SPPMB United State Dollars Vietnam Dong Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The subproject of 220kV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa TL has a total line of 13.42km long, 43 supporting towers Its ROW is 22m wide, 11m from each side of line centre The line that starts from 220kV Cu Chi substation traversing Nhuan Duc, Trung Lap Ha, Phuoc Hiep, Phuoc Thanh and Thai My communes of Cu Chi district, HCMC and Duc Hoa commune, then ends at 220kV Duc Hoa substation, Tan My commune, Duc Hoa district, Long An province Implementation progress: the subproject was executed on June 10, 2014 and expected to be finished in September 2015 As of June 30, 2015, the work progress has achieved about 78.6 % of all works The progress in the second quarter was not remarkably made because of the delay in the compensation to the affected households The environmental safeguard monitoring results in the second quarter of 2015 showed that the constructor’s environmental compliance is good The typical achievements in terms of environmental safeguard, results of resolving the environmental issues found in the previous quarter and several shortcomings on the environmental performances identified in this period and measures recommended for overcoming them are summarized as follows:  The main achievements For implementations of the mitigation measures at sites, the contractor’s achievements were that they performed well in reducing dust, noise, vibration, landslides; not blocking water flows, protecting the natural environment by making the turbid water from foundation holes clear before discharging it into the water body and preventing the trees and works adjacent to the construction sites from any damages The contractors mostly rehabilitated the environment after construction, fully repaired and compensated for any damages and losses caused by the construction and have improved in collecting and classifying the construction wastes such as cement bags, iron materials and plastic cans to be reused or recycled; Dragging wire ensured safety and no negative Impacts on rice field and disturbance of public traffic For protecting health and ensure safety for the workers and local communities, the contractors were in compliance with the regulations of CEMP, particularly: - All migrant workers registered as the temporary residents to local authorities, respected local cultures and have a good relation with the community; - Contractors installed a warning signal board surrounding the excavated holes of foundations and on the erected towers to prevent local people from any potential accidents; - All workers have been educated to improve their awareness on social diseases especially HIV/AIDS; - The contractors have issued the labor safety regulations and provided the workers with the labor protecting equipment and reminded them to use during the time of working at site - The contractors have built the temporary camps for the workers at sites for guarding the construction materials at night time and taking a short rest at lunch time with the adequate provisions of portable water and first aid kits The Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 camps which are located at the ventilated and safe places are equipped with garbage bins and hygienic toilets The progress and results of resolving the environmental issues found in the first quarter of 2015 In compliance with the Letter No 2260/AMN-ĐB dated 06 April 2014 requested all contractors to resolve the environmental issues identified in the first quarter of 2015, all contractors have resolved these issues within a period of 06 – 30 April of 2015 All contractors complied strictly to surmount all the shortcomings found in the first quarter of 2015 Concretely, IEC rehabilitated the irrigation canal crosses the entrance to tower No 43 in Tan My commune, Duc Hoa district, Long An province by dredging the sedimentation, collecting and removing all construction residues of wood sticks, cement bags, so that grasses could grow, covering the banks of canal preventing it from landslide and improving its water quality Contractor Song Da 11 was in compliance with implementation of the mitigation measure of keeping cement and blamable materials at least 20m far from the kitchen and sleeping place of workers to ensure health and safety for the workers staying in the camps Contractor Song Da 11 Thang Long dredged and removed all residues of stone and sand out of the lot of rice field next to the site of gathering the construction materials for constructing the tower No located in Bau Tron village, Nhuan Duc commune, Cu Chi district All the shortcomings were observed not to be repeated in the second quarter However, when NES interviewed the households whose lands are temporarily affected by the subproject and the wiring workers, several remaining points need to be further resolved were as follows: - The lot of rice field located surrounding the tower No of household Tran Van Nhuan, Bau Tron village, Nhuan Duc commune, Cu Chi district was contaminated with stone, sand and clays caused by drops during transporting materials to the tower and storing the excavated land, which needs rehabilitating (Song Da 11 Thang Long) - The wiring workers were not provided a mobile tool kit with necessary medicines at sites to be ready to respond to urgent accidents; Recommendations - Contractor Song Da 11 Thang Long should restore the lot of agricultural land/compensate to the affected household with an amount for his self – rehabilitation; - Both contractors of Song Da 11 Thang Long and Song Da 11 should equip their workers with a mobile tool kit including necessary medicines to ensure that the workers would be aided first before transporting to the nearest health station when an accident occurs at sites ***** Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project background To carry out its plan to expand power generation, transmission and distribution capacity to meet the rapidly growing electricity demand throughout the country, the Government of Vietnam has requested the financial resource from a Multi – Tranche Financing Facility (MFF) funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to invest the power development program The program will include the physical investments in transmission and distributions of power with an expectation to (i) facilitate power transfers, (ii) remove transmission bottlenecks and (iii) reduce transmission losses and voltage fluctuation To deploy its master plan on the national power development, the subproject 220KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa transmission line is invested under the Tranche II with a total budget of around 20 million USD1,2 NPT is the executive agency and SPPMB is the implementing agency for the subproject 1.2 Project scale and description The subproject of 220kV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa has a total line of 13.42km long, 43 supporting towers Its ROW is 22m wide, 11m from either side of the line centre The line starts from 220kV Cu Chi substation and traverses Nhuan Duc, Trung Lap Ha, Phuoc Hiep, Phuoc Thanh and Thai My communes of Cu Chi district, HCMC and Duc Hoa commune, then ends at 220kV Duc Hoa substation, Duc Hoa district, Long An province A general layout is presented in Figure and Table Table 1: The positions of 220kV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa transmission line Starting ÷ Lengths Province/city District Commune/ward ending points (m) Nhuan Duc, Trung G3.11-G4.1 HCMC 125 Lap Ha G4.1-G4.1A HCMC 1,163 G4.1A-G4.1B HCMC Nhuan Duc 200 G4.1B-G4.1C HCMC 157 Nhuan Duc, Trung G4.1C-G4.1D HCMC 3559 Lap Ha Cu Chi G4.1D-G4.2 HCMC Trung Lap Ha 683 G4.2-G4.3 HCMC 1,760 Phuoc Hiep G4.3-G4.4 HCMC 444 Phuoc Thanh G4.4-G4.5 HCMC 565 10 11 12 13 G4.5-G4.6 G4.6-G4.7 G4.7-G4.8 G4.8-G4.9 N o HCMC HCMC LONG AN LONG AN Thai My Duc Hoa Cau Bong, Tan My 1,145 323 2,160 834 Exchange rate 1USD = 21,480 VND Updated from the approved EPC of 220KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa transmission line subproject Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 14 G4.9-ĐC LONG AN 15 DC-220kV LONG AN Total 2 (Source: Feasibility study report, PECC-2, 2012) 232 70 13,420 Figure 1: Layout of 220KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa transmission line According to the IEE of Cau Bong – Duc Hoa transmission line approved in December 2012, the subproject construction scale leading to the potential environmental impacts in the subproject areas includes (i) excavating 46 tower foundation with the quantity of excavated earth and rock is about 30,793 m3 and average of each tower is of 669 m3 and all earth and rocks will be temporarily stored within the construction site and will be used to fill back the tower foundation after the concrete reinforcement; Gathering construction materials such as irons, cements, sand, stones to sites for concreting the towers with the requirement of concrete in total is around 6,045.17 m3 and average of each tower requires 163.84 m33 The materials will be transported by trucks to prepared sites as closed as possible to the constructed tower based on its specific The concrete quantity updated based on the SPPMB’s Technical Department in 2015 Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Position/ time Adverse impacts 43 temporarily affected if site after rehabilitation completion of foundation has not been done not of towers properly; Damaging community roads Implemented mitigation measures Implementing agency Recommended activities its original Song Da 11 condition; Roads damaged by transportation materials to site repaired to its previous status; Solid wastes such as cement bag, The towers irons was of 30, 32 and improper 33; 4, 5, and management 6; lead to environmental deterioration All construction wastes were Song Da 11, managed and Song Da 11 treated as Thang Long regulated Excavated land and materials improperly managed would spread Towers of out of the site 30,32, 33 4, boundary, 5, which affects to public transportation and quality of the surrounding land Contractor of All excavated Song Da 11 soil and Thang Long materials to should sites were kept compensate to within the site’s rehabilitate the boundaries quality of land without affecting on Contractor Song surrounding the tower No public traffic; Da 11 located in the Materials and rice field of excavated land household Tran spread in paddy Van Nhuan, field were Bau Tron dredged and village, Nhuan compensated to Duc commune, rehabilitate it Cu Chi district 4.2 Compliance in safety and health for workers and affected communities In the stage of executing tower foundations, which requires simple works, contractors mainly mobilized local laborers Worker camps serve as a temporary place for workers staying at noon time and for protecting materials at night time only All contractors have their office located close to the sites, which is also the accommodation for its Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 technical staff Activities to ensure labor safety and community health are concerned by SPPMB and contractors During the period of second quarter of 2015 the environmental monitoring of health and safety of the workers and local communities showed that the contractors complied with the regulations of CEMP, particularly: All migrant workers have registered as the temporary residents to local authorities, respected local cultures and had a good relation with the community; All workers have been educated to improve their awareness on social diseases especially HIV/AIDS; The contractors have issued the labor safety regulations and provided the workers with the labor protecting equipment and reminded them to use during the time of working at site The contractors built the temporary camps for the workers at sites for guarding the construction materials at night time and taking a short rest at lunch time These camps were equipped with the adequate provisions of potable water and first aid kits The camps are located at the ventilated and safe places with suitable provision of sanitary toilet, separate garbage bins, solid waste disposal site and preliminary domestic wastewater treatment system Wiring workers were provided with technical knowledge and appropriate labor protective equipment Nevertheless, contractor should provide a mobile first aid tool kit and necessary medicines for the wiring workers because their working characteristics is moving from place to another within a day therefore no temporary camps at site to be built The achievements and some issues in terms of occupational and communal health and safety in quarter of 2015 are summarized in Table Table 5: Summary of adverse impacts and mitigation measures for labor safety and community health Position/ time Implemented mitigation measures Worker’s camps are located at high and The worker ventilated places and camps at Domestic have hygienic toilets site tower wastes not Garbage bins are No 30, 32 yet carefully provided at sites to and 33 Thai collected collect, classify and This will My treat wastes and affect commune, preliminary Cu Chi workers’ wastewater treatment health district, following the HCMC regulations, All workplaces of towers No 30, 32, 33, 4, and 6; 43 Adverse impacts Workplace accidents and health of workers; loss of productivity Accidents to No drugs and alcohol allowed on site; portable water and sanitary toilets on site for workers are supplied; Implementing Recommended agency activities Contractors of IEC, Song Da 11 and Song Da 11 Thang Long Contractors of Song Da 11, Song Da 11 Thang Long and IEC Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Position/ time Adverse impacts surrounding communities Implemented Implementing Recommended mitigation measures agency activities Issued the regulation on labor safety at site; Erected warning signs and barriers around work areas; Compliance with the approved safe procedures and process of wiring Construction site can only be accessed with permission of Contractors Provided workers with adequacy of laborer’s protective equipment; Provided the worker’s camps with a box of necessary medicines for first aid; All roads used for transporting materials to sites All workplaces and worker’s Installed signal board at construction sites All vehicles have properly maintained and operated in Accidents to accordance with road surrounding laws Contractors of communities Song Da 11, All loads are properly Song Da 11 from secured and fugitive Thang Long vehicles loads are covered transiting and IEC villages Drivers are fined if ignore safety requirements Loss of Chance discovery Contractors of cultural notified to local IEC and Song value; functioning agencies Da 11, SE and Disturbance for resolving; EO Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Position/ time camps Adverse impacts to forest, wildlife; Social unrest; Implemented Implementing Recommended mitigation measures agency activities Educated workers on social transmission diseases HIV/AIDS; Registered temporary residence for workers with local authorities; Activity of dragging wire conducted by contractor Song Da 11 at towers of No 18, 19 (Phuoc Thanh commune) and contractor Song Da 11 Thang Long at tower No (Nhuan Duc commune) Risk of labor accident due to incompliance with the approved procedure and process of wiring and inadequate use of labor protective equipment Wiring may affect on the public traffic safety; No hunting wild animals and protecting forest Contractor was in full compliance with the procedures and process of wiring approved by SPPMB; Installed traffic sign boards and assigned staff responsible for instructing traffic at both sides of the road/ canal section when the line crosses the road/canal Provided technical knowledge and adequate labor protective tools for workers in duties of dragging and connecting; wire Contractor Song Da 11 Thang Long and Song Da Contractor 11 should provide the wiring workers with a tool kit and necessary medicine to ensure they are in first aid prior to transporting to nearest health station when an accident occurs; PROGRESS/ RESULTS ON OVERCOMING THE SHORTCOMMINGS IDENTIFIED IN THE PREVIOUS REPORT The shortcomings found in the previous quarter included the site rehabilitation after completing the foundation construction and storing construction materials in a safe manner The shortcomings were totally resolved by the contractors The progress and results of dealing with the previously environmental issues is summarized in Table Table 6: Progress and results of resolving the environmental issues found in the previous quarter Recommended Respons Target No Issues Causes Results Actions ibilities days I Environmental safeguard at sites Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 No II Issues Causes The environment surrounding tower No 43 was Contractor not totally was not in rehabilitated, compliance which blocked with the flow irrigation rehabilitation water and caused of totally the irrigation environmental canal and the pollution (Tan surrounding My commune, environment Duc Hoa district, Long An province) Returning the The ground after contractor completion of was not in tower erection full was not fully compliance completed, with the which caused implementati pollution of the on of surrounding mitigation environment measure of (tower No 36, rehabilitating 37, 38 and 39, the Thai My construction commune, Cu environment Chi district, to its original HCMC) status Construction materials of Contractor stone and sand did not spread on the comply with rice field would rehabilitating affect its land the quality and harm agricultural cultivators soil quality (tower No.5, after the Nhuan Duc tower commune, Cu construction Chi district, completed; HCMC) Safety and health of workers The construction Contractor Recommended Actions Respons ibilities Target days Results Contractor should dredge the irrigation canal, and collect all residues of woods, cement bags on the IEC surrounding tower No 43 to rehabilitate entirely the environment as its original condition 06- 30 Totally April of complie 2015 d Contractor should collect and treat the residues of cement bags and nylon on Song the land Da 11 surrounding the towers of 36, 37, 38 and 39); 06-30 April, 2015 Contractor should dredge the residue of stone and sand in the rice field before the farmer cultivates next crop Totally complie d Song 06- 30 Totally Da 11, April of complie Thang 2015 d Long Contractor should Song Southern Power Project Management Board 06- 30 Totally 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 No Recommended Respons Target Results Actions ibilities days materials were was not in move cements far Da 11 April of complie stored inside the full from the worker’s 2015 d worker’s camp, compliance dining and sleeping being at risk of with the places to ensure safety and health of health effects of mitigation of workers the workers measure (Tower No 32, ensuring Thai My sanitation in commune, Cu the worker’s Chi district, camps at sites HCMC) Issues Causes In sum, the contractors complied fully to surmount the improperly environmental performances found in the previous period and did not repeat the shortcomings in the second quarter period SUMMARY ON KEY ENVIRONEMNTAL ISSUES NEED TO BE RESOLVED 6.1 Identified key environmental issues 6.1.1 Environmental issues at site The land surrounding tower located in the rice field of household Tran Van Nhuan was complained to be polluted with stones, sand and clays from the foundation construction activities This was admitted by the contractor and environmental consultant at the site (Bau Tron village, Nhuan Duc commune, Cu Chi district, HCMC); 6.1.2 Mitigation measures addressing these issues Contractor of Song Da 11 Thang Long should rehabilitate the quality of land surrounding the tower No located in the rice field of household Tran Van Nhuan, Bau Tron village, Nhuan Duc commune, Cu Chi district) or the contractor should compensate to the household for his self – rehabilitation 6.2 Environmental issues in safety and healthy for workers and communities 6.2.1 Identified environmental issues The wiring workers of both contractors of Song Da 11 and Song Da 11 Thang Long were not provided with a mobile tool kit and necessary medicine to respond to urgent occurrences at sites; 6.2.2 Mitigation measures addressing these issues Both contractors of Song Da 11 and Song Da 11 Thang Long should equip their wiring workers with a tool kit and a box of medicine to ensure that the wounded workers would receive a first aid before being transported to the nearest clinic when an urgent accident occurs A summary of the main negative impacts and the mitigation measures need to be implemented is presented in Table Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Table 7: Main environmental issues and mitigation measures need to be implemented No I II Main environmental Implementing Mitigation measures issues Agency At construction sites Residue of stones and sand caused a physical pollution Contractor should dredge the on the land field residues to restore the land Contractor surrounding the tower No quality/ compensate for the Song Da 11 4, Bau Tron village, Nhuan household Tran Van Nhuan for Thang Long Duc commune, Cu Chi self -rehabilitation district) Occupational health and safety of workers and community health and safety Contractors of Song Da 11 Both contractors should and Song Da 11 Thang provide for the wiring workers Song Da 11 Long did not provide for with a tool kit and box of and Song Da their wiring workers a tool medicine at site to ensure that 11 Thang kit and necessary medicine they would receive first aid Long at site to respond to urgent before moved to the nearest occurrences clinic when accident occurs CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 7.1 Conclusion As from June 30, 2015, the implementation progress has achieved about 78.6% against the overall plan The construction progress of contractors is not significant made due to the delay in issuing compensation policies of reducing negative impacts caused by acquiring land to the affected household, which is under the consideration of HCMC’s PC The EMP and EMoP were properly performed by SPPMB and its related contractors, which is in compliance with both environmental policies of ADB and the Government All involved parties mentioned in the institutional arrangement performed well their assigned tasks The SPPMB’s staff and its contractor’s workers have improved their awareness on their occupational health and safety as well as the community health and safety throughout the training workshops In terms of implementation of CEMP of contractor at site, the second quarter of 2015 environmental monitoring shows that contractor resolved all environmental safeguard shortcomings found in the previous quarter However, when NES interviewed the households whose lands are temporarily affected by the subproject and the wiring workers, several remaining points need to be further resolved Concretely, - The agricultural soil surrounding tower No.4 (Bau Tron village, Nhuan Duc commune) was contaminated with construction wastes such as stone, clay Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 - The wiring workers were not provided a mobile tool kit with necessary medicines at site to be ready to respond to urgent accidents; 7.2 Recommendations - Contractor Song Da 11 Thang Long should restore the lot of land/compensate to the affected household with an amount for his self – rehabilitation; Both contractors of Song Da 11 Thang Long and Song Da 11 should equip their workers with a mobile tool kit including necessary medicines to ensure that the workers would be aided first before transporting to the nearest health station when an accident occurs at site ***** Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 APPENDIXES Appendix 1: Letter issued by SPPMB to request contractors to resolve the shortcomings found in quarter of 2015 NATIONAL POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence – Freedom – Happiness SOUTHERN POWER PROJECTS MANAGEMENT BOARD No 2260/AMN-DB on overcoming all environmental issues found in quarter of 15, during construction of 200kV Cau Bong Duc Hoa & 220kV Cau Bong –Hoc Mon – Binh Tan TLs HCMC 06 April 2015 Dear: - Vietnam Electric Construction Corporation (VNECO) - Power construction Company No (PCC1) - Song Da 11 JSC - Song Da 11 TL Ltm - Machine Installation & Electric Construction JSC (IEC) 220kV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa and TL Cau Bong – Hoc Mon – Binh Tan TLs have been constructed under ADB finance In order to meet adequately all requirements of this organization, SPPMB has involved Mr Duong Dinh Dung – national specialist for environment in the two subprojects mentioned above The results of environmental monitoring taken by the Specialist at sites would be submitted to ADB, which is a compulsory condition for financial disbursement Through checking, evaluating and reviewing subproject documents of TL 220KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa & TL 220KV Cau Bong – Hoc Mon – Binh Tan, several shortcomings found by the specialist in first quarter, 2015 need overcoming under the Specialist’s Letter No 0115/DDD-TVCN dated April 01 of 2015 as follows: - Contractor IEC should remove all residues of cement bags and wood sticks surrounding the towers of No 43, Tan My Commune, Duc Hoa district, Long An province to ensure the ground has been completely rehabilitated, without any negative impacts on the environment - Contractor Song Da 11 should collect and treat all cement bags and nylon still on sites of tower No 36, 37, 38 and 39 in Thai My commune, Cu Chi district, Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 HCMC to ensure that no substances/materials difficult in biodegrading to be buried or littered at sites - A group of constructors under the management of contractor Song Da 11 working at the site tower No 32 should store the cement material outside the worker’s camp, which may be at risk of the worker health living in the camp - Contractor Song Da 11 Thang Long should remove all residues of stones spreading on the paddy field to fill up the foundation before the field is starting its next crop to prevent the soil from any adverse impact on; - VNECO should negotiate carefully with the owner of AH to reach a consensus on compensation for some trees affected by the landslide and be together with local authority and the household’s owner to evaluate the status of his adjacent house before continuing the excavation - VNECO must abide by Article of Decree 14/2014/ND-CP dated 26 February 2014 prohibiting people from “using electric pole or power station as house, tent, shop, animal tying or for other purposes” (tower No 17, Tan Thanh Dong commune, Cu Chi district, HCMC) - VNECO should be in compliance with collecting and treating the garbage discharged by the worker’s camp at tower No 17, Tan Thanh Dong, Cu Chi district, HCMC as regulated Currently some households have expressed their concerns on the fact that contactors rehabilitated the site not properly as its original condition To avoid a further complaint made by the affected persons, SPPMB requested all contractors to restore environmental status at site to its conditions as agreed with the affected persons Besides, contractors must comply with collecting and treating hazardous wastes as regulated in case the wastes come out To meet the requirements on both labor safety and environmental safeguard, SPPMB urged all contractors to surmount all environmental issues mentioned above and reported the status of overcoming to SPPMB prior to 20 April, 2015 In case contractors meet any difficulties in dealing with the environmental issues, please inform SPPMB timely to find out solutions for resolving them as required On behalf SPPMB Deputy Director Signed Nguyen Cong Toan Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Appendix 2: Pictures of the results of overcome shortcommings in Q1.2015 Environmental isuses found in the first quarter of 2015 Environmental rehabilitation in the second quarter of 2015 The ground at tower 43, Tan My, Long An is not returned to be its original condition (IEC contractor) Some cement bags and wood sticks are remaining on site Banks of canal and its water quality, access road to tower were rehabilitated; The construction stones being spread on the The residues of sand and stones paddy field of Nhuan Duc commune, Cu spreading on the lot of rice field were Chi district, HCMC, which may be harmful Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 to the cultivating tools and quality of soil if let it mix with the soil dredged and removed out of the field Appendix 3: Environmental isuses found in the second quarter Land rented for transporting materials to tower of Nhuan Duc commune due to the delay in wiring performance; The compensation was fully made for rice loss due to delaying in the next crop cultivation (Song Da 11 Thang Long) Land surrounding tower No was contaminated with stones, sand and clays need a further support for rehabilitation (Song Da 11 Thang Long) Southern Power Project Management Board 220 KV Cau Bong – Duc Hoa Transmission line Subproject Quarterly environmental monitoring report for period of January to March of 2015 Appendix 4: Interview contractors and affected households Contractor of Song Da 11 Thang Long Tower No 30 (Thai My commune) Household of Tran Van Nhuan, Bau Tron village, Nhuan Duc commune, Cu Chi district (tower 4) Tower No 33 (Thai My commune) Southern Power Project Management Board