GEF Huai River Basin Marine Pollution Reduction Project

GEF Huai River Basin Marine Pollution Reduction Project

Dongying City

EA Report

July, 2011

Contents

1 Project Description

1.1 Project Title

1.2 Project Location

1.3 Project Development Objectives

1.4 Project Summary

2 Policies and Regulations

3 Project Background

3.1 Project Background

3.2 Project Necessity

3.3 Industrial Policy and EP Policy Compliance

4 Project Contents

4.1 Contents of the Wetland Project

4.1.1 Land Acquisition Status of the Project

4.1.2 Main Contents of the Project Construction

4.1.3 Sluice Gate Operation Optimization

4.1.4 Public Utility Projects

4.1.5 Main Project Quantities

4.2 Agricultural Pollution Control and Rural Waste Management

4.3 The Establishment of Farmer Environmental Protection Association (FEPA)

4.4 Capacity Building, Policy Studies, Project Management and Implementation Support

4.4.1 EP Education and Training Center

4.4.2 Capacity Building

4.4.3 Policy Study and Development

4.4.4 Project Management and Implementation Support

5 Alternative Analysis

6 Environmental Baseline

6.1 Brief Introduction to the natural environment

6.2 Brief Introduction to the social environment

6.3 Status of regional environment quality and sensitive protection goals

6.4 The main environmental objectives

7 Environmental Impact Assessment

7.1 Project Analysis

7.1.1 Processs flow

7.1.2 Analysis factors

7.2 The generation and emission of pollutants and control Measures

7.3 Environmental Impact Analysis

7.3.1 Environmental Impacts of wetlands during the construction period

7.3.2 Environmental Impacts of wetlands during the operation period

7.3.3 Environmental Impacts of Agriculture and Rural Pollution Control Component

7.3.4 Environmental Impacts Analysis for the Training Center

7.4 Social Impacts Analysis

8 Public Participation and Information Disclosure

8.1 Public investigation

8.2 Summary of seminar and visit Advisory

8.2.1 Summary of comments from enterprises

8.2.2 Summary of expert advice

8.2.3 Summary of comments from pilot villages

8.3 Information Discloure

8.4 Conclusion

9 Conclusion and proposals

9.1 Conclusion

9.2 Measures and proposals

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1 Project Description

1.1 Project Title

GEF Huai River Basin Marine Pollution Reduction Project.

1.2 Project Location

This project locates in the Dongying District and Kenli County of Dongying City, Shandong Province.

1.3 Project Development Objectives

The project development objective is to demonstrate innovative and cost-effective water pollution control practices in Guangli river catchment of Dongying City contributing to pollution reduction in the Bohai Sea.

1.4 Project Summary

Base on the water quality of Guangli River, distribution of pollutant sources and land utilization status within the river basin and in view of the development planning of Dongying City, it was selected that the wetland and sluice gate operation optimization projects will be constructed at Dongba Road in the downstream of Guangli River; Implement the agricultural and rural pollutant reduction project in the pilot villages along the Guangli River to reduce the pollution to the the Guangli River; Strengthen the capacity building, policy development and project management to increase the capacity of project management and PIU and achieve the sustainable development of this project.

The total investment for the proposed project is 0.2570678 billion RMB. The proposed wetland project at Dongba Road includes ecological retention pool and free-surface flow wetland components with a total coverage of 2698.5 mus, including 73.5 mus and 2625 mus for retention pool and free-surface flow wetland respectively. It is planned the project will be commenced in Jan.2012 and the relative plants will be planted, and will start operation in 2013 with one year construction period. The agricultural and rural pollutant reduction project in the pilot villages will be commenced in Jan.2012 and operated in the end of 2014. The capacity building, policy development and project management work will be implemented throughout the project process.

After the completion of the proposed project, the pollutant from the sources will be reduced effectively and the pollution to the surface water of Guangli River will be improved, the water sources will be protected, developed and utilized effectively and the pollution to the Bohai Sea will be greatly reduced with a total CODCr of 430 t/a and total NH3-N of 129 t/a.

2 Policies and Regulations

2.1 Law and Regulations

1、 The Environmental Protection Law of the P.R.C. （1989.12）

2、 The Environmental Impact Evaluation Law of the P.R.C. （2003.9）

3、 The Law on the Prevention and Control of the Air Pollution of the P.R.C. （2000.9）

4、 The Law on the Prevention and Control of the Water Pollution of the P.R.C. （2008.6）

5、 The Law on the Prevention and Control of the Noise Pollution of the P.R.C. （1996.10）

6、 The Law on the Prevention and Control of the Solid Waste Pollution of the P.R.C. （2005.4）

7、 The Clean Production and Promotion Law of thee P.R.C. （2002.6）

8、 The Water and Soil Conservation Law of the P.R.C. （1991.6）

9、 The Temporary Regulations on Pollution Prevention and Control of Huai River Basin. （2002.11.19）

10、The Environmental Protection Regulation for Construction Projects of Shandong Province, document [No.99,2001] issued by Shandong People’s Congress. （2001.12）

11、 Environmental Functional Area Planning Scheme for Surface Flow of Shandong Province issued by Shandong EP Bureau.

12、 The Strategic Planning for Water Pollution Prevention and Control of the Key River Basin Listed in the National Eleventh Five-year Plan.

13、 The Development Planning of Effective and Ecological Economic Region for the Yellow River Delta.

14、 The Overall Planning for the Environmental Protection of the Bohai Sea.

15、 The Overall Urban Planning for Dongying City (from 2005 to 2020).

16、 Ecological City Construction Planning of Dongying City.

17、 The Management Approach for Water Pollution Prevention and Control of Guangli River Basin in Dongying City.

18、 The Planning of Ecological Infrastructure for Central City of Dongying City.

19、 The Overall Planning of Water System in Central City of Dongying City.

20、The Planning for Guangli River Comprehensive Improvement Project of Dongying City.

21、Notice on Water Quality Improvement of the Pollution Reduction in the River Basin, issued by Dongying Municipal Government [No.115, 2009].

22、Notice on the Tasks of 2010 for the Guangli River Comprehensive Improvement Project, issued by Dongying Municipal Government.

2.2 Environmental quality standards

1. Class Ⅱ of Ambient air quality standard(GB3095-1996).

2. Class Ⅴ of Surfacewater quality standard(GB3838-2002).

3. Class Ⅲ of Groundwater quality standard (GB/T14848-93).

4. Class Ⅱ of Environmental quality standard for noise(GB3096-2008).

2.3 Pollutant emission standard

1. Class Ⅴ of Surface water quality standard(GB3838-2002).

2. Noise limits for construction site(GB12523-90).

3. Standard for pollution control on the storage and disposal site for general industrial solid wastes(GB18599-2001).

3 Project Background

3.1 Project Background

The ecological issues become more and more serious due to the wastewater distributed with high pollutant loads. With the larger scale sea development of the Bohai Sea, the contradictions between development and environmental protection become more seriously. Dongying City is the direct suffer from the serious pollution of the Bohai Sea. Only in 2008, the pollutant distributed by Dongying City to the Bohai Sea contains 2100t COD, 393t BOD, 368t NH3-N, 85t total phosphorus and 48t total nitrogen. Under this kind of status, WB and GEF conduct cooperation to improve the ecology system pollution of the large sea. In order to reduce the pollution to the Bohai Sea, Shandong Province utilizes the GEF grant and local counterpart fund to manage and control the pollution to the Guangli River of Dongying City which sets a good example for other river basin pollution management in Huai River basin.

Guangli River is the main drainage river of the central city in Dongying City, the river flows from Wangying Sluice of Nanzhan Dam of Yellow River to the central city with a flow path from west to southeast and then to the Bohai Sea after the combination with flood controlling rivers, the total length is 60km with a coverage area of 510 km2 which plays a important role in water supply, drainage, flood control and ecology improvement. Besides, Guangli River is the main wastewater catchment and nearly 40,000 ton/day of the wastewater was distributed to this river and its branches in 2009, more than 90% of that is urban daily life wastewater while the others is industrial wastewater. Due to the weak sewerage pipeline and the wastewater distributed to the river without treatment, the water of the Guangli River was seriously polluted. Though several improvement projects were conducted by Dongying City in recent years, the water quality of Guangli River still can not meet the Class V requirement.

In order to rehabilitate the ecology system, increase the biodiversity, prevent the water loss and soil erosion, improve the climate and conserve the water source and improve the water quality of Guangli River and Bohai Sea, Dongying City proposed to construct this project supported by WB.

3.2 Project Necessity

（1）Comply With the Development Planning of Effective and Ecological Economic Region for the Yellow River Delta.

The Yellow River Delta locates in the entrance of the Yellow River which is to the south of the Bohai Sea and it is an important strategic site for the development of the Bohai Sea Region. China pays much attention to the sustainable development of the Yellow River Delta and the requirements listed in the Tenth and Eleventh Five-year Plans require to carry out effective and ecological economy in this region. In order to promote the effective and ecological development of this region, China has developed and issued The Development Planning of Effective and Ecological Economic Region for the Yellow River Delta. It is defined that Strengthen the environmental protection by prevention and comprehensive improvement, EP standards and pollutant distribution controlling systems should be implemented strictly to increase the environment carrying capacity. Strengthen the industrial wastewater treatment; close the enterprises with high pollutant loads; prevent the industrial pollution diverting to the rural area. Strengthen the rural environmental protection, focusing on the livestock breeding pollution, soil pollution and rural solid waste pollution to control the rural pollution source effectively. Strengthen the pollution improvement to the key river basin and comprehensive improvement to the lesser river basin.

Guangli River is a key river of Dongying City, but its water quality is far below the required Class V standard of Surface Water Quality Standard（GB3838-2002）. In view of this issue, this proposed project will construct wetlands in the downstream of the Guangli River and implement rural pollution improvement in the pilot villages along the Guangli River which will improve the water pollution in Guangli River and Bohai Sea, so that complies with the Development Planning of Effective and Ecological Economic Region for the Yellow River Delta.

（2）Comply with the Planning for the Wetlands Construction of Shandong Province.

The planning defined that scientific waste treatment approaches should be adopted during the river improvement process, not only focus on the security of the water quality but also the economic development and social stability. That is to say the project shall focus on each rivers of the basin and follow an integrate thought of project objectives, total quantity, project and investment, adopt a strategy of improvement, utilization and protection, comprehensive utilization of economic, legal and scientific and technology approaches and make full use of the roles of market mechanism, macro-control mechanism and public participation mechanism to promote the economy structure adjustment within the basin, urban infrastructure construction, clean production, pollution improvement and ecology protection works, then promote the comprehensive pollution improvement works within the basin.

Wetland is composed of water, matrix under permanent or intermittent saturation, aquatic life and aquatic plants which is a complex ecology system with high productivity and great activity. As an important habitat for a variety of livings, it also has the following functions, such as water conservation, flood and water logging control, water purification and pollutant degradation, etc. Wetland is one of the most productive ecology systems in the world and it is the cradle for biodiversity and storage place for important genetic substances. Artificial wetland is designed to simulate the structure and functions of natural wetlands which is composed of matrix under permanent or intermittent saturation, emergent plants, submerged plants and animals, utilize appropriate shape, size, water distribution and collection systems to ensure a good water flow and high pollutant removal efficiency.

There are a number of successful examples and adequate practice experience in utilizing wetland to purify the water quality in Shandong Province, such as wetland for Jining WWTP with a coverage area of 1500 m2 under the joint construction of Shandong EP Bureau and Jining Municipal Government in 2003; Xinxue River Wetland for Water Purification Project with a coverage area of 1500 mus under the joint construction of Shandong EP Bureau, Jining Municipal Government and Weishan County Government in 2005. All of the above wetland projects are operated with a good outcome.

So this proposed project complies with the Planning for the Wetlands Construction of Shandong Province.

（3）Comply with the Planning of Yellow River Water City- Water Pollution Improvement Project for Dongying City.

It is clearly defined in the Comprehensive Management of Water and Air Pollution Implementation Scheme for Environmental Protection Plan of Dongying City that the river basin water pollution prevention and control work shall be strengthened, and one of the projects is the construction of Dongba Road Wetland Project which is the wetland construction of this proposed project, so this proposed project complies with the Planning of Yellow River Water City- Water Pollution Improvement Project for Dongying City.

3.3 Industrial Policy and EP Policy Compliance

（1）Industrial Policy Compliance

The proposed project is surface water –Guangli River Water Purification Project, it is an environmental protection and improvement project which is not the restricted or obsoleted project that listed in Guiding Catalogue of Industrial Structure Adjustment (2011 version). Therefore, it is a permitted construction project and in line with the requirements of national industrial policies.

（2）EP Policy Compliance

According to the document [No.131, 2007] issued by Shandong EP Bureau, this proposed project complies with the environment protection law and regulations and the local planning. If the pollutant discharged after meeting the relative standards, there will be no impact on the local pollution improvement tasks. The proposed project area is not within the scope of forbidden approval or restricted approval, so this proposed project is in line with the requirements of the document [No.131, 2007] issued by Shandong EP Bureau.

4 Project Contents

The project development objective is to demonstrate innovative and cost-effective water pollution control practices in Guangli river catchment of Dongying City contributing to pollution reduction in the Bohai Sea. The project contents mainly include:

（1）Wetland and Sluice Gate Operation Optimization

With the wetland of Dongba Road, part of the river water will be treated and reused by Huanghe Road water system; and the pollutant will be reduced by the sluice gate operation optimization; through the distribution, diversion, storage of the natural water flow, regulation of the water level and prevention of encroachment of sea water to ensure the management and utilization of the sluices.

（2）Agricultural Pollution Control and Rural Waste Management

Through the effective technology and management to carry out the agricultural pollution and rural waste management, then to reduce the pollutant loads in the selected area.

（3）Capacity Building and Policy Studies

Through construction of EP Training Center to increase the public sense of EP and the public participation to the project implementation process and increase the support to the project from society and private agents; Through the training to enhance the capacities of the staffs for project implementation and with the relative developed policies to solve the issues occurred during the project implementation process, then achieve the proposed objectives of the project. The EIA recommendations, EIA of policies, laws and regulations need to be included in this whole process of capacity - building and policy development.

（4）Project Management and Implementation Support

Through the project management to increase the capacity of the project management staffs when developing the management policies and project promotion models; implement the project objectives monitoring through the monitoring evaluation.

The above wetland system construction and agricultural pollution control and rural waste management project are the main physical project components of the proposed project.

See Figure 4-1 for the locations of the Wetland of Guangli River and Pilot Villages of Agricultural Pollution Management Project. See Figure4-2 for the plain view drawing of the Artificial Wetland project.

See Table 4-1 for the components of the proposed project.

Table 4-1 Components of the Proposed Project

See Table 4-2 for the investment of the proposed project.