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Zhejiang Urban Environment Project Funded by World Bank

Shaoxing Component

Environment Impact Assessment ReportFor

Integrated Project for Capital of Yue Kingdom Conservation

(For Review)

Januray, 2007

Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province

National EIA Cerfificate: Jiazi Nr. 2003

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Sheet of Responsibilities

Preparation Unit: Environmental Science Research & Design Institute Of Zhejiang Province

EIA Certificate: National EIA Cerfificate: Jiazi Nr. 2003

Representative of Judicial Person: Wu Bin (Professorial Senior Engineer)

Responsible Leader: Zhou Shuxun (Senior Engineer)

Director of EIA Center: Zhou Anguo (Senior Engineer, EIA License Nr. A20030053 )

Project Principal: Jin Yongping (Senior Engineer, EIA License Nr. A20030038)

List of Participants

Name Title Specialty EIA License Nr. RoleJin

YongpingSenior

EngineerEnvironmental

Chemistry A20030038 Responsible

Zhu Yuguang

Senior Engineer

Environmental Science

A20030049 Participation

Huang Xuan

Senior Engineer

Environmental Protection

A20030032 Participation

Zhao DuoProfessorial Senior Engineer

Environment Science

Participation

Huang Ji EngineerEnvironment

ScienceA20030035 Review

Shu Yusheng

Professorial Senior Engineer

Environment Engineering

A20030052Review and Approval

Cooperator: Shaoxing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Station

Table of Contents1 Introduction.................................................................................................................1

1.1 Background..........................................................................................................11.2 Environment Impact Assessment.........................................................................11.3 Bases for Environment Impact Assessment.........................................................2

1.3.1 Environmental Protection Basis Concerned.................................................21.3.2 Project Documentation.................................................................................2

1.4 Assessment Contents and Key Points..................................................................31.4.1 Assessment Contents....................................................................................31.4.2 Key Points of Assessment.............................................................................3

1.5 Assessment Scope, Standard and Class and Environment Protection Objectives...................................................................................................................................4

1.5.1 Assessment Scope and Functional Zoning...................................................41.5.2 Assessment Standards...................................................................................41.5.3 Assessment Class..........................................................................................41.5.4 Assessment Periods.......................................................................................51.5.5 Environmental Protection Objectives...........................................................5

1.6 Assessment Principle...........................................................................................51.7 Environment Assessment Organization...............................................................6

1.7.1 Project Organizational Structure...................................................................61.7.2 Profile of Assessment Unit...........................................................................6

2 Project Summaries......................................................................................................72.1 Status Quo and Existing Problems......................................................................7

2.1.1 Land Use.......................................................................................................72.1.2 Buildings.......................................................................................................82.1.3 Communications.........................................................................................102.1.4 Sights..........................................................................................................11

2.2 Contents of Project............................................................................................122.2.1 Principles for Construction.........................................................................122.2.2 Contents of Construction............................................................................13

3 Status Quo of Environment......................................................................................183.1 Natural Environment Conditions.......................................................................18

3.1.1 Geographic Location..................................................................................183.1.2 Brief Introduction on Local Climate and Weather......................................183.1.3 Brief Introduction on Hydrological Situation.............................................193.1.4 General Situation of Topography, Geology and Physiognomy..................203.1.5 General Situation of Soil and Vegetation....................................................20

3.2 Social Environment Status.................................................................................213.2.1 Administrative Division..............................................................................213.2.2 Population...................................................................................................213.2.3 Society and Economy.................................................................................21

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3.2.4 Communications.........................................................................................223.2.5 Water Supply and Wastewater....................................................................233.2.6 Public Health..............................................................................................233.2.7 The Urban Master Planning for Shaoxing Municipality (1994-2010).......243.2.8 Environmental Protection Tenth-five Plan and Long-term Goals for 2010 and 2020...............................................................................................................25

3.3 Status Quo of Environment Quality..................................................................273.3.1 Status of Water Environment Quality.........................................................27(1) Investigation of Surface Water Environment Quality Status.........................27(2) Assessment on Status of Water Quality Environment....................................283.3.2 Status of Air Environment Quality.............................................................293.3.3 Status of Sound Environment Quality........................................................32

4 Projected Environment Impact and Mitigation Measures........................................334.1 EIA in Construction Period and Mitigation Measures.......................................33

4.1.1 Construction Noise.....................................................................................334.1.2 Constructional Impact on Environmental Air.............................................364.1.3 Constructional Impact on Ecosystem.........................................................374.1.4 Constructional Impacts on Communications and Urban Infrastructures....394.1.5 Domestic Pollution of Constructors............................................................404.1.6 Construction Waste.....................................................................................414.1.7 Constructional Impacts on Cultural Relics.................................................41

4.2 Environmental Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures...........................424.2.1 Water Environment Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures............424.2.2 Air Environmental Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures..............454.2.3 Sound Environment Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures...........464.3.4 Noise Impact Projection and Assessment...................................................494.2.4 Assessment on Environment Impact on Organisms and Mitigation Measures..............................................................................................................524.4.2 Mitigation Measures...................................................................................534.2.5 Land Use and Soil Erosion Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures 544.2.6 Impact on Urban Views and Cultural Relics and Protective Measures......574.2.7 Impact Analysis of Resettlement and Countermeasures.............................58

5 Alternative Options...................................................................................................62The project owner provided us with two implementation options for selection.........63(1) Option 1..................................................................................................................63The total project investment for this option is 310 million yuan.................................63(2) Option 2..................................................................................................................64The total project investment for this option is 740 million yuan.................................64(I) Positive Effects.......................................................................................................64(2) Water Environment................................................................................................65

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6 Benefit Analyses and Total Amount Control............................................................676.1 Social Benefit Analysis......................................................................................676.2 Environmental Benefit Analysis........................................................................686.3 Economic Benefit Analysis................................................................................696.4 Total Amount Control........................................................................................69

7 Environment Management Plan...............................................................................707.1 Environment Administration and Supervision Agency.....................................707.2 Responsibilities of Environmental Adminstration and Supervision Agencies. .707.3 Environment Monitoring Plan...........................................................................74

7.3.1 Necessary Environment Monitoring...........................................................747.3.2 Cost of Monitoring Equipment...................................................................76

7.4 Training Plan......................................................................................................777.4.1 General Requirements................................................................................777.4.2 Basic Character Requirements of Personnel...............................................777.4.3 Training of Environmental Protection Staff...............................................78

8 Public Participation...................................................................................................798.1 Content and Method of Public Participation Survey.........................................798.2 Results of Survey...............................................................................................808.3 Information Disclosure......................................................................................828.4 Summary............................................................................................................82

9 Conclusions and Recommendations.........................................................................839.1 Conclusions........................................................................................................83

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1 Introduction1.1 Background

Shaoxing City is one of first batch 24 historical cities named by the State Council, which is famous at home and abroad for its profound historical accumulation, abundant humanity landscapes, beautiful scenery of land of rivers and lakes. To improve the ecosystem of the old city and its urban environmental conditions as well as to heighten its city grade, Shaoxing City proposes to implement the Project of The Capital of Yue Kingdom Historic Zone (CYKHZ).

Under the pre-condition of overall protecting both the historical features of the CYKHZ and the ecological landscape, the implementation of the project will include upgrading of the infrastructures within the zone, reform of the vegetations of scenic area and hilly forest, construction of historical and cultural views and tourism facilities so as to integrally develop the tourism industry and urban economy, thoroughly improve the residential environment and raise residents’ living standard. In this way, CYKHZ will be built up as a core exhibition area of the ancient Yue Culture of Shaoxing, a major gathering area for the citizens’ leisure life and a new attraction of cultural tourism, to realize a harmony between ecosystem/nature and cultural landscapes.

1.2 Environment Impact Assessment

In accordance with The Notice of Strengthening EIA Management on Projects Funded by International Financial Organizations (Nr. 324 Document) by NEPA of China and the Operative Policy (OP 4.01), the Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province is charged with the EIA for the Project.

The aims of preparing this EIA Report are: to make projections and assessments for the potential impacts the Project may bring to on the basis of investigation and assessment on the natural environment, social environment and environment quality of the project area; and in the light of the negative impacts the Project may bring about to the environment, to put forward relevant environmental protection countermeasures and mitigation measures for the owner, design institute and construction entity to control pollution and protect environment well in the course of design, construction and operation, and to provide the EPBs at various levels with bases for environment management. Consequentially, not only the urban infrastructures will be upgraded well, but also the environment of this area protected well.

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Pursuant to the EA categorization principle set forth in the Notice and OP 4.01 mentioned above, the EA category of Project CYKHZ is defined Category A according to the nature and characteristics of the proposed project as well as the identification results of the environmental impact factors.

1.3 Bases for Environment Impact Assessment

1.3.1 Environmental Protection Basis Concerned

(1) The Environmental Protection Law of PRC, December, 1989;

(2) The Environment Impact Assessment Law of PRC, October, 2002;

(3) The Environment Protection Regulation for Construction Projects (the Nr. 253 Decree of the State Council, PRC);

(4) The Notice of Strengthening EIA Management on Projects Funded by International Financial Organizations (Huanjian (1993) Nr. 324 Document), NEPA, November, 1993;

(5) The Interim Procedures for Public Participation in EIA (Huanfa [2006] Nr. 28) by NEPA, 2006;

(6) The Environmental Protection Management Regulation for Construction Projects in Zhejiang Province, the Nr. 166 Decree of the Provincial People’s Government, December 15, 2003;

(7) The Technical Guidelines for EIA (HJ/T2.1~2.3-93、HJ/T2.4-1995), NEPA;

(8) The Technical Guidelines for EIA – Non-pollution Ecological Impact (HJ/T19-1997); NEPA, November, 1997;

(9) OP 4.01 by the World Bank.

1.3.2 Project Documentation

(1) The Urban Master Planning of Shaoxing City (2001-2020);

(2) The Subarea Planning of Yuecheng District of Shaoxing City (1999);

(3) The Historic City Conservation Planning of Shaoxing (July, 2001);

(4) Conservation Ranges and Construction Control Areas for Cultural Relics Units of Shaoxing City;

(5) Greenbelt System Planning of Shaoxing City (1998);

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(6) Shaoxing City’s Planning for Urban Wastewater Collection System (1999);

(7) The Master Planning for Tourism Development in Shaoxing (1999);

(8) The Yearbook of Shaoxing (2005);

(9) Planning Scheme for CYKHZ by Shaoxing Planning Bureau, Shaoxing Urban Planning Design & Research Institute and Shaoxing Urban Building Design Institute (September, 2006);

(10) The Resettlement Action Plan for the CYK Conservation Project by Shaoxing Urban Environment Project Office (Novenmber, 2006).

(11) EIA Consultation Contract between Shaoxing PMO and Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province.

1.4 Assessment Contents and Key Points

1.4.1 Assessment Contents

(1) Collection and monitoring of environment quality data and assessment of environment quality status quo.

(2) Analyses of resettlement impact during project construction period, soil erosion impact and impacts on surface water, air, ecosystem, sound environment, communications and urban infrastructures.

(3) Making Projections and analyses of potential positive and negative impacts of project operation on the society, water, air, sound and ecological environment, and putting forward relevant mitigation and control measures.

(4) Analysis of Environmental and economic gains and losses,

(5) Preparation of plans for environment management, monitoring and training.

(6) Collecting comments of the public.

1.4.2 Key Points of Assessment

(1) Impact of construction period on ecosystem.

(2) Impact of construction period on urban infrastructures (road, water and wastewater, electric power and telecom).

(3) Resettlement impact during of construction period.

(4) Impacts during operation period on water, air, sound and ecological environments.

(5) Pollution prevention and ecological rehabilitation measures.

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1.5 Assessment Scope, Standard and Class and Environment Protection Objectives

1.5.1 Assessment Scope and Functional Zoning

The basic assessment range is identical to the construction range, i.e., starting from the Yanshan Canal in the east, ending to eshiqian-Pianmenzhijie Street-Dajiaochang Side, and to Fushan Western Road) in the west, connecting Huanshan Road in the north, covering an area of 39.7 ha.

(1) Water environment functional zoning: In accordance with The Zhejiang Scheme for Division of Water Function Zones and Water Environment Function Zones (Zhezhengbanfa [2005] Nr. 109), the canals in the urban district of Shaoxing City belong to the Xiao-Shao River System, whose water function zone is that of the canals in the urban district of Shaoxing City, used for Shaoxing industrial and landscape purposes, and the water environment function is of industrial use water zone, water quality protection goal being Category IV.

(2) Air environment quality function zoning: According to The Environment Air Function Zoning Map of Shaoxing City, it is known that the area assessed belongs in Category II function zone.

(3) Sound environment quality function zoning: According to the applicable area division map of The Area Environment Noise Standard of Shaoxing City, the area assessed belongs in Category 1 function zone.

1.5.2 Assessment Standards

(1) Category IV Standard (for canals in the urban district of Shaoxing City) of The Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002).

(2) Category II Standard of the Environment Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996).

(3) Category 1 standard of The Environment Noise Standard for Urban Areas (GB3096-93).

(4) Noise Limits at Construction Site Boundary (GB12523-90).

1.5.3 Assessment Class

Pursuant to the EA categorization principle set forth in the Notice and OP 4.01 mentioned above, the EA category of Project CYKHZ is defined Category A according to the nature and characteristics of the proposed project as well as the

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identification results of the environmental impact factors.

1.5.4 Assessment Periods

(1) Construction period: from construction commencement to completion (from the end of 2006 to 2010, prior to the 2500th anniversary of the founding of Shaoxing City).

(2) Operation period: The Project will be put into operation after completion.

1.5.5 Environmental Protection Objectives

(1) The water quality of the project-affected Huanshan Canal should not be worse than the existing level.

(2) A Water and soil conservation program will be implemented in accordance with the Law of The People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation, to ensure the status of water loss and soil erosion will be improved to a certain extent.

(3) Urban landscapes and ecosystem will be improved.

(4) No damages to cultural relics and sites or tourist scenic spots.

(5) Try best to avoid disturbances (including noise, traffic, excavation, piling of construction solid wastes, etc.) to citizens.

1.6 Assessment Principle(1) According to the features of the Project, main environment elements and

impact factors are assessed, with stress placed on key environmental protection objectives.

(2) The assessment is carried out by means of data collection, analogous investigation, data analysis and site monitoring, with the materials available utilized adequately. As for public participation, the public’s comments are collected in such a way as disclosure of the project summary in the proposed project area and distribution and collection of questionnaires.

(3) Making conclusions on the project feasibility from the angle of environmental protection, putting forth control measures of environment impacts, and having those measures to be operational to the maximum extent. Providing bases for the project approval agencies concerned to make decisions, for design institutes to design and for contractors to construct and for the owner to manage the Project.

1.7 Environment Assessment Organization

1.7.1 Project Organizational Structure

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The EIA Report for CYK Integration & Conservation Project of Shaoxing is prepared by the Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province, supported in work by the Shaoxing Municipal Environment Monitoring Station.

1.7.2 Profile of Assessment Unit

Established in 1977, The Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province (ESRDIZ) is the only one integrated professional design and research unit in environmental protection field in the province. From 1985, it began to assume EA work, being a unit of doing EA early in China. The Environment Impact Assessment Center of ESRDIZ is a professional department of conduction project EA with more than 80 professionals possessing EA licenses, including eight professorial senior engineers, 33 senior engineers, one doctor and 15 masters. The institute/center holds a Class A EA Certificate (National EA Certificate Nr. 2003) issued by NEPA, whose business scope covers a great range of industries, such as surface water, underground water, seawater, air, sound, solid waste, ecology, water and soil conservation, society and economy, human health…, light industry, textile, chemical fiber; buildings and public utilities; chemical industry, petrochemical, medicine industries; ocean and seashore engineering; regional development; transportation; machinery, electronics; water conservancy, hydropower; thermal power plant; building materials… The institute is one of the four units in the EA units of China which are able to carry out EAs for the most industries. It once conducted EAs for large- and middle-sized projects, such as expressway, airport, dock, grand bridge, railway, municipal solid waste landfill, urban wastewater treatment works, integrated urban improvement, integrated waterway improvement, etc.; in addition, it once carried out EAs for several projects the World Bank and ADB funded, such as Waterway Upgrading Project of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, urban water supply project of Wenzhou City, Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway Project, Inland Waterway Upgrading Project, Project of Upgrading Low- and Middle-level Roads in Zhejiang, Wenzhou Shanxi Water Control Project, Qige WWTP Project, Hangzhou Tianziling Landfill, Shaoxing Eastern Area Land Development Project, etc.

The institute is well received by NEPA, Zhejiang Provincial Government and clients, awarded the glorious titles by NEPA as National Environment Protection Advanced Collective and National Advanced Unit of EIAs for Construction Projects.

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Shaoxing City proposes to implement the conservation and improvement project of CYKHZ from the end of 2006 to by the 2500th anniversary of the city foundation. Under the pre-condition of overall protecting both the historical features of the CYKHZ and the ecological landscape, the vegetations of scenic area and hilly forest will be reformed and historical and cultural views and tourism facilities will be constructed; in addition, the residential conditions of the residents will be improved.

The name of the project is the Project of Capital of Yue Kingdom Historic Conservation Zone of Shaoxing.

The location of the project is shown in Diagram 1 attached.

2.1 Status Quo and Existing Problems

The CYKHZ is a part of the Yuezicheng HP of Shaoxing, situated in the west of Shaoxing City, with Fushan Hill as its core, starting from the Yanshan Canal, ending to eshiqian-Pianmenzhijie Street-Dajiaofangyan in the south, and to Fushan Xilu in the west; connecting Huanshan Road in the north, covering an area of 39.7 ha. Please refer to Diagram 2 attached.

Fushan Hill presents its run from northeast to southwest, whose shape is like a lying dragon. So the hill is also named Wolong (lying dragon) Hill. There exists a layout of the administrative authorities’ buildings of the past dynasties, temple, official residences and traditional housing distributed along the southern foot of the hill. Among others, the place where the Terrace of King Yue is located was the locality of the Palace of King Yue, Yuezhou Government, Shaoxing Prefecture Government and Shanyin County Government all along. In addition, there is the Flying Wing Pavilion, Wen Zhong Tomb, Cliff Inscriptions of the Tang and Song dynasties, Wind-rain Pavilion (Qiu Jin Memorial Pavilion) and Martyrs Tomb.

Most of residences on the northern side of Pianmenzhijie Street are traditional houses including Sun Qingjian Ancestral Temple and other historical buildings.

2.1.1 Land Use

The current status of land use is shown in Diagram 3 attached. Main problems of land use status quo are below:

(1) There are a few land uses for residence, culture, education, sports and hygiene on

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the northern and eastern parts of the hill, which have invaded the public greenbelts.

(2) The industrial land use is close to the Fushan Park, which affects the completeness of the landscape features of the historic zone.

(3) Supporting facilities in the residential land use are incomplete; residential land use per capita is on the low side; old houses have not yet been repaired for long with bad residential conditions.

(4) Commercial buildings are bad in quality, whose classes are low; new ancient style buildings have not been fully used yet; there are no complete cultural recreation facilities.

(5) There is a serious shortage in parking place.

2.1.2 Buildings

The layout of the existing cultural conservation units and excellent historical buildings in CYKHZ is seen in Diagram 4 attached.

(1) Ages

Buildings are classified into four categories: buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties; those of the Republic of China; those of 1950-60s; and those of from 1980s to date.

Among others, the buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties are mainly distributed on both sides of Fuzhijie Street and one side of Pianmenzhijie Street, among which some buildings of 1950-60s are mixed.

The Shaoxing Silk-weaving Factory occupies some space within the Project area. Some landscaping buildings were built after implementation of the policy of reform and opening up to the outside world. It is why most of the buildings in the zone are those of 1970-80s and 1980-90s.

(2) Style and Features

They can be classified into four categories: Category I style and features (conserved intact with typical local characteristics, or with historic significance, or rehabilitated according to the requirements of style and features), Category II (traditional style and features partially damaged), Category III (average buildings, which will be consistent

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with the traditional style and features after being renovation) and Category IV (interfering with the style and features of landscape, illegally constructed sheds or without style and features remained or with bad quality). Category IV buildings are big in size while Categories I and II occupy big spaces.

(3) Quality

Four categories: Category I buildings (intact in quality, most of them were constructed in or after 1980s), Category II (most structure intact, most of them being brick-concrete structured housing of 1979-80s and traditional brick-wood structured housing with an intact structure), Category III (bad quality) and Category IV (very bad quality, dangerous house or simple shed). Categories I and II buildings are more and Categories III and IV less. Those of Category III are mainly industrial workshops and residential houses constructed in 1950-60s including the traditional buildings with severely aged structures and walls.

(4) Heights

Four categories: One-storied buildings (eave height not higher than 3.3 m), two-storied (5.4 m), three-storied and four or above storied. In the project area there are mainly one or two storied traditional buildings. Though the three-storied being few, most of them are located near the internal lines of key landscape spots, seriously interfering with the style and features of the historic views.

(5) Roofs

Three categories: Slope roofs (traditional buildings), horizontal roofs (modern buildings), those of dangerous sheds and simple houses. Among others, the slope roofed buildings occupy more in area; while horizontal roofed buildings are big in size, forming serious interference to the spatial views.

(6) Classifications

To sum up, the buildings in the project area can be categorized into five: cultural conservation units, excellent historic buildings; average historical buildings, average buildings and interfering buildings. Descriptions are as follows:

Cultural conservation units: State-approved cultural conservation units (CCUs) at various levels.

In CYKHZ, there are seven municipal-level CCUs, such as Wen Zhong Tomb, Terrace of King Yue, Wind-rain Pavilion, Fushan Martyrs Tomb, Cliff Inscriptions of

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the Tang and Song dynasties, Flying Wing Pavilion (Sea Viewing Pavilion), Sun Qingjian Ancestral Temple. In addition, there are nine municipal-level cultural conservation points (CCPs). At present, most are already renovated, a minor part needs to be tapped, sorted out and repaired.

Excellent historical buildings: Category I style and features, Categories I and II quality, ages of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and ROC.

Average historical buildings: Other historical buildings before 1950, except excellent historical buildings.

Average buildings: Categories II and III style and features, Categories I and II quality, one- or two-storied buildings and new landscaping buildings on the hill.

Interfering buildings: Illegal buildings and others excluding the abovementioned four categories of buildings.

2.1.3 Communications

(1) External communications

Eastern side: There is Fuhengjie Street, linking with Jiefang Road, whose traffic conditions are convenient and the accessibility good.

Northeastern side: There is Huanshan Road, linking with Fuzhijie Street, Pianmen Zhijie Street and Fushan Xilu, which jointly form the ring road around the zone.

Southern side: There is a primary urban highway, Renmin Road.

Western side: There is a secondary urban highway, Fushan Xilu, connecting with Huancheng Xilu (western ring road), a primary urban highway.

Existing problems: There is only Fuzhijie Street linking the northern and southern parts of the Project. This street is narrow with unsmooth traffic flows. In the zone, the internal communication system has not yet formed. There is no parking lot with a big area near the park.

(2) Tour routes in scenic area

There are complete communications systems in Fushan Hill Scenic Area and the leisure area in the park at the foot of the hill. All the scenic spots are linked with each other by road.

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Existing problems: Tour routes are not organized in good order. What are the primary ones are not differentiated from what are the secondary. In some plots, there are sparse tour routes. There exists a phenomenon that some steps of tour routes are damaged or lost.

2.1.4 Sights

(1) Cultural sights

They are mainly the Terrace of King Yue, Flying Wing Pavilion, Wen Zhong Tomb, Cliff Inscriptions of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Wind-rain Pavilion, Martyrs Tomb, Sun Qingjian Ancestral Temple and Thunder God Temple.

(2) Precinct sights

They are mainly traditional buildings and structures, such as old housing, ancient wells, etc.:

A residential compound with three yards at 26 Fuzhijie Street, a residential compound with three yards and an ancient well at 213 Fuzhijie Street, an ancient well of the Ming Dynasty at the northern end of Fuzhijie, a cluster of housing in the west of Sun Qingjian Ancestral Temple in Pianmen Zhijie, and a residential compound with three yards and a large-sized Taimen at 51 and 111 Pianmen Zhijie.

(3) Hill and forest sights

They are mainly cherry woods, camphor woods, dragon-head shaped cypress, Longqiu Spring, miniature garden, Purple-green Pavilion, Triangle Pavilion, Xiaoqiaoyuan Pavilion.

(4) Existing problems

Some buildings and structures are not consistent with the style of the scenic area;

Exhibition contents in some sight buildings are not abundant enough;

There exist no relations between some ornamental sights and the peripheral sights; Plants are in disorder, in shortage of big trees.

2.2 Contents of Project

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2.2.1 Principles for Construction

(1) Subject

It is defined that CYKHZ should be an area of displaying the ancient Yue Culture of Shaoxing in a centralized way with main functions of tourist sightseeing, commercial services and residence. In the project implementation, the authenticity, integration, continuity and characteristics should be adhered to. The principle should be adhered to that priorities should be given to conservation, citizens and ecosystem in order that CYKHZ can be constructed to be a core exhibition area of the ancient Yue Culture of Shaoxing, a major gathering area for the citizens’ leisure life and a new attraction of cultural tourism, to realize a high harmony between ecosystem/nature and cultural landscapes. . (2) Scope

With Fushan Hill as core, starting from the Yanshan Canal in the east, ending to eshiqian-Pianmenzhijie Street-Dajiaofang Side, and to Fushan Western Road) in the west, connecting Huanshan Road in the north, covering an area of 39.7 ha. according to the planning. The Project is a part of the Yuezicheng HP under Shaoxing Urban Infrastructure Upgrading Component of ZUEP. The Scope of the Project is roughly equivalent to that of the secondary conservation area of Yuezicheng HP, which occupies an area of 39.4 ha.

(5) Height

Heights will remain unchanged of cultural conservation units and newly identified excellent historical buildings;

The control story number will be two with a maximum eave height no more than 5.4 m for average buildings on Fushan Hill and those buildings on both sides of Fuzhijie and in the core conservation zone of some sections of Pianmen Zhijie

The control story number will be three with a highest eave no more than 8.5 m for other areas.

(3) Upgrading ModesThe upgrading modes are shown in Table 2.2-1.

Table 2.2-1 Upgrading ModesType Cultural Excellent Average Average Interfering

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Relic Building

Historical Building

Historical Building

Building Building

Conservation and Renovation

Modesconservation Improvement Retention

Rectification, demolition

Demolition

In addition, if there is a need of the completeness of the overall style of the historic zone, traditional buildings should be constructed additionally according to their sizes, colors and layout; as to the typical traditional Taimen of Shaoxing, if necessary to be removed due to the Project implementation, those houses should be relocated integrally elsewhere for conservation.

2.2.2 Contents of Construction

(1) Main technical and economic indicators

The main technical and economic indicators of the Project are shown in Table 2.2-2.

Table 2.2-2.Main Technical and Economic Indicators

Function ZoneOccupation

Space (m2)

Area of Building to Be Demolished

(m2)

Floor Area (m2)

Zone of Eco-conservation and Site

Park 227,600

Housing: 4930Office and others:: 5490

2330

Zone of Traditional Housing Conservation

86,100Housing: 1035 Workshop: 16,117Office and others:: 4238

13,140

Leisure and Tourism Zone

61,600Housing: 3840 Workshop: 30,150

2480 (plus: 15,000 of Shaoxing City History Museum, a soil covered building; 18,200 of underground public parking lot）

Tourism and Trade Zone 21,800Housing: 3380 Workshop: 1660

6630

Total 397 000 72,693 57,780

(2) Plan Layout Overall Plan Layout

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The whole zone covers an area of 397,000 m2, 72,693 m2 to be removed and 57,780 m2 to be constructed.

Key control points: (1) archway; (2) Taiqianguangfang; (3) Terrace of King Yue; (4) Opera Stage of the Fire God Temple; (5) Qingbai Spring; (6) Palace of King Yue; (7) Purple-green Pavilion; (8) Woxin (Sleeping on Brushwood) Pavilion; (9) Sacrifices Offering Platform; (10) Supporting service building(s); (11) Eastern entrance (Longshan Poets’ Society ); (12) Memorial Square for 2500th Anniversary of City Foundation; (13) Orchid Garden; (14) Fan Li Ancestral Temple (Thunder God Temple); (15) Martyrs Tomb; (16) Morning Exercise Square; (17) Yarn Washing Pool; (18) Cliff inscriptions; (19) Wen Zhong Tomb; (20) Flying Wing Pavilion; (21) Wind-rain Pavilion; (22) Penglai Taoist Temple; (23) Town God Temple; (24) Tourists Service Center; (25) Leisure Square; (26) City History Museum of Shaoxing; (27) Sun Qingjian Ancestral Temple; (28) Internal Reception Division; (29) New building cluster to be developed.

See Diagram 4 attached.

Functional zones

There are four functional zones, i.e., ecosystem and site conservation zone, cultural leisure and tourism zone, traditional housing conservation zone and tourist and trade zone.

Technical and economic indicators of the functional zones, buildings proposed to be demolished or constructed and roads and landscaping measures are respectively shown in Diagrams 5, 6, 7 and 8 attached.

(2) Spatial control

CYKHZ has gradually formed its distinct characteristics in the course of being integrated into the city since a long time ago. Head of the three hills in the city;

City landmark with the Flying Wing Pavilion as a post, whether it is seen from the plan layout or spatial configuration of the city;

Palace of King Yue, city axis formed through the Terrace of King Yue and Fuzhijie.However, such relations have been gradually weakened in the process of modern city development. The hill body has been enclosed by buildings and large-sized buildings have appeared continually. Though in the past years the Party Committee and

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Government of Shaoxing Municipality have made great efforts to have the Project of Landscaping of Hills and Canals so that the image of Fushan Hill has been much obviously improved, the existing status of it is still far away from the brand requirement of the Capital of Yue Kingdom. Therefore, the planning will further deepen such relations, described as follows:

Strengthen the principal axis relation of CYK so as to form the size and image of the city of a king to heighten its spatial position in the city; in addition, a new assistant axis of echoing and setting off the principal will be formed along Fuhengjie-Taiqian Square-Memorial Square.

Intensify the openness of the hill body. It well connects with the urban roads in the west and north; furthermore, the opening of a big space in the southeastern corner will be realized toward Renmin Xilu. Thus the hill area will be adequately merged into the city, becoming the real “green heart” of the city.

Protect the good contour line of Fushan Hill, controlling all the buildings and

structures having considerable sizes within the range of the ridge where the line of sight can reach from the sight center, the Flying Wing Pavilion.

The story number will be controlled no more than two in principle. On the periphery, a few small-sized buildings will be allowed locally to be three storied; nevertheless, it is impermissible for them to interfere with the ridge line.

(4) Road communications

In the era the urban road communications are being developed energetically, there always exists a problem that traffic flows are concentrated in the core historic and cultural conservation precincts of old cities. CYKHZ is also in such a case. Currently, the basic traffic demand has been initially met by means of traffic control over the narrow Huanshan Lu and Fuzhijie as well as the bustling Fuhengjie. This is also the main cause that makes the conservation areas move from the brilliant time to the slack. To address the issue of reasonable connection between the redevelopment of CYKHZ and the functions of the city, it is planned below:

At Hezuo Long (lane), where there are relatively less traffic conflicts, extend Huanshan Lu to shiqian to form a ring-shaped passage on the periphery of the scenic area. The net width of vehicle lane should be controlled 8 m, and sidewalk(s) will be paved after the buildings being set back.

Five new public parking lots will be set up along the peripheral roads, one of which will be constructed underground at the southern foot of the hill with an area of 18200 m2; on the eastern side of CYK and at the tourist service center on the

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southeastern side of CYK a small-sized ecologic parking lot will be individually set up with an area of 1650 and 1250 m2 respectively. In addition, two small-sized parking lots will be set up on the eastern side of the Town God Temple and in the north of the existing Landscaping Administrative Bureau to resolve the issue of provisional parking on the ground. These parking lots with the three existing ones can ensure to provide adequate spaces for vehicles coming from the external.

Locations of the parking lots are seen in Diagram 9 attached.

Walking is the main traffic means for communications within the conservation zone. Use Fuzhijie, Fuhengjie and Longshan Houjie (rear street) as framework, sort out the traditional streets/lanes in the zone so as to make them link with each other, to ensure normal operation of the tourism and trade streets in the zone as well as convenient trips of the common people in the historic zone. In such a way, a traditional street/lane space will be formed with the rich characteristics of a land of watercourses and lakes.

Paths on the hill will be repaired, except for some which will be paved for linkage. (5) Tourist routes

The planned tourist routes are set up through extension on the basis of the paths on the hill. Two entrances will be added to the original ones. One is the eastern entrance towards the Precious Pearl Bridge, constructed by using Longshan Poets’ Society, closely connected with the city square and linking smoothly with the existing path on the hill. The other is the southwestern entrance on one side of the tourist and trade zone at the Town God Temple, which will strengthen the relations between the functional zones. Meanwhile, the northern entrance on Huanshan Lu and the western entrance on Fushan Xilu will be retained to facilitate local residents for their morning exercises and tourists for their sightseeing.

Primary tourist routes will ensure the accessibilities of the main scenic spots. Specific arrangements are as follows: One goes along the traditional axis through Fuzhijie, the Terrace of King Yue and Palace of King Yue, linking with the tourist routes on the hill, series connecting the Flying Wing Pavilion, Wenzhong Tomb, Cliff Inscriptions, Thunder God Temple, Wind-rain Pavilion, Penglai Taoist Temple, Town God Temple, etc. The other primary tourist route goes along the assistant axis through Fuhengjie-Taiqian Square-City Foundation Memorial Square, linking with the Leisure Square and the City History Museum at the southeaster foot of the hill.

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Secondary tourist routes are to connect between the scenic spots and accesses, forming a complete tourist circuit together with the primary.

No tourist routes with fixed trends will be set in the protection area of the hilly forest.

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3 Status Quo of Environment

3 Status Quo of Environment 3.1 Natural Environment Conditions3.1.1 Geographic Location

Shaoxing City is located in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta and in the west area of the Ningbo-Shaoxing Plain. It borders on Ningbo in the east, Hangzhou in the west and faces Shanghai across the Hangzhou Bay in the north. The geological position of the city is at 29° 13′36″ – 30° 16′17″N, 119° 53′ 02″ – 121° 13′38″E. The city covers an area of 8255.73 km2. By the end of 2004, the total population is about 4.347 million, of which 645 thousand is urban population. Yuecheng District of Shaoxing City, which the project is located in, is in the central area of the Xiaoshan-Shaoxing Plain. The Municipal Government of Shaoxing is seated in Yuecheng. The total population of Yuecheng is about 450 thousand. 3.1.2 Brief Introduction on Local Climate and Weather

Shaoxing City, near the East China Sea, belongs in the subtropical monsoon climate region, with a remarkable monsoon and warm-humid climate. The plum rainy reason starts from 16th April to 15th July. During this period, it is always raining because the warm air currents monsoon meet with the cold air currents, which often causes waterlog to some extent. The typhoon season is from 16th July to 15th October. The typhoon rain is heavy and centralized, which is likely to result in flood disasters. From December to the next February, the cold air controls the region of Shaoxing with a fine but cold weather and less precipitation. The annual dominant direction of wind is NE-E. In summer the dominant direction is SW. The annual average speed of wind is 1.65 m/s and the maximum 9.9 m/s.

Basic weather factors (1961-1990) from Shaoxing Weather Station are listed in the Table 3.1-1.

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Table 3.1-1 Basic Weather Factors in Shaoxing

Factors Jan. Apr. Jul. Oct. All-yearAir pressure (hpa) 1026.0 1015.0 1003.9 1019.0 1016.0

Utmost Maximal Air Temperature ( )℃ 26.7 34.4 39.5 34.9 39.5Utmost Minimum Air Temperature

( )℃ -9.6 0.2 17.4 2.8 -10.1

Average Temperature ( )℃ 4.1 15.7 28.8 18.3 16.5Comparative Temperature ( )℃ 79 81 79 83 81

Precipitation (mm) 61.7 132.9 136.1 97.6 1460.9Evaporation (mm) 38.2 94.5 190.0 78.7 1143.0Sunlight hours (h) 119.5 142.8 246.6 157.1 1996.4Sunlight Rate (%) 37 37 58 44 43Raining Days (d) 11.2 16.2 12.0 11.3 157.2

Thunderstorm Days (d) 0.0 3.5 9.8 0.5 36.6Gale Days (d) 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.1 3.1

3.1.3 Brief Introduction on Hydrological Situation

The existing rivers in the urban district can be divided into three subsystems:

(1) The Pianmen Subsystem: It starts from Pianmen Bridge in the south to Beihai Bridge in the north, including Huanshan Canal, Fushan Canal and Xixiaohe Canal;

(2) The Nanmen Subsystem: it starts from Nanmen in the south to Dongguomen in the east, including the south section of Jiefang-Lu Canal, Lu-Xun-Lu Canal and Xianhuan Canal;

(3) The Dongguomen Subsystem: It starts from Dongguomen, passes through Bazi Bridge and diverts at Xiangqiao Bridge. Its northern branch passes through Changan Bridge to the Chengbei River; its western branch passes along Shang-Dalu River to Xiguomen Bridge. The canal impacted directly by the Project is the Huanshan Canal, included in the Pianmen Subsystem.

According to the statistics of the configuration characteristic information of the river systems, the average width of the canals in the urban district is 14.66 meters, with a maximum width of 95 meters and a minimum width of 3.0 meters; the average depth is 1.21 meters; and the total amount of water stored is 310 thousand m3. The multi-year average water level is 3.81 m. During the high-water period (Feb.-Jun.), the monthly average water level (MAWL) is higher than 3.85 m; during the low-water

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period (Jul.-Sep.), MAWL is 3.54-3.76 m; and during the average –water period (Oct.-Next Jan.), MAWL is 3.81-3.08 m. The water levels of 20-, 50- and 100-year return floods are respectively 5.0 m, 5.10 m and 5.18 m.3.1.4 General Situation of Topography, Geology and Physiognomy

Shaoxing lies in the belt that connects the hilly areas in the west and east of Zhejiang and the plain in the north of Zhejiang.

Shaoxing urban district is a typical river-network plain, which is an alluvial one formed by the co-effect of rivers, lakes and the sea. The area is flat with an average altitude of 4-6 m. In the south of it is Kuaiji Mountain with an altitude of 500-1000 m. The rumps of the mountain are near the urban district which form a few hills on the plain, with heights of less than 300 m, such as Fushan Hill (included in the project), Jishan Hill and Tashan Hill. The seawalls and riverbanks built and repaired in the different dynasties protect the low-flat river-net plain from the menaces of floods and tides.

Most of the bare stratum in Shaoxing is alluvial deposit of the quaternary with the coastal, river and lake sedimentary facies. The substrate is a silt & clay layer with a great thickness and the upper layer is covered with rice clay and artificial soil. Between them is a lay of peat with different thicknesses. In addition, there are some small areas of igneous rocks of the Mesozoic.

3.1.5 General Situation of Soil and Vegetation

Basically, the topgraphy of Shaoxing City has the trend of being high in the southwest and low in the northeast. The physiognomy is transited from low-hills to piedmont alluvial sector, then to seabeach plain (isolated hills). Therefore the sources of pedogenic parent materials are complicated. In the southern Kuaiji mountaineous area, the soil is mainly residual soil (weathered materials), clinosol and washed and drifted materials; In the south of Xiaoshan-Shaoxing Railway there is mainly lake deposited materials; The river network plain north of the railway is of the epeiric sea and lacustrine parent materials; And the shoal on the seabeach is of new marine deposit. The place where the Project is situated is in the south of the Xiaoshan-Shaoxing Railway.

Fushan Hill is an urban park with flourshing vegetations and a good ecosystem. On the northern slope, there are mainly native vegetations. Beside Longshezui (Dragon Tongue-mouth) at Longwei (Dragon Tail) there are two old comphors. In the park there are such Shaoxing local trees as camphor trees, wingnut, Paper mulberry, bead trees, Pittosporum tobira, etc, In addition, there are a large number of cultivated plants, such as bamboo, peach, tea, pine and flowers; besides, there are cherry blossom woods, camphor woods, dragon-head like old cypress, old camphor trees, Longqiu Spring, the miniature garden, etc.

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3.2 Social Environment Status3.2.1 Administrative Division

There is one district, two counties and three county-level cities ---- Yuecheng District, Shaoxing County, Zhuji City, Shangyu City, Shengzhou City and Xinchang County under the jurisdiction of Shaoxing Municipality.

The assessed range is situated in the Fushan Subdistrict of Yuecheng District, a part of the Yuezicheng Historic Precinct, called The Capital of Yue Kingdom Historic Zone (CYKHZ). The precinct occupies an area of 68.3 ha., while the zone, 39.7 ha.

3.2.2 Population In 2004, the population of Yuecheng District, Shaoxing, was 449970, including a permanent population of 8056. Per calculation based on the useful land area, land use per capita was 55 m2, less than the per capita land use standard value of Class II stipulated by the state, 75.1~90.0 m2. The planned permanent population of the Yuezicheng HP is 4467. This Project is a part of the Yuezicheng HP (equivalent to the secondary conservation zone of the HP), where there is a permenant population of 2873, of which 1059 persons are proposed to be resettled.

3.2.3 Society and Economy

Shaoxing is located on the coastal regions with abundant products and a developed economy. The industrial framework is mainly composed of textile, printing and dyeing, leather processing, food, brewery, machinery, metallurgy, pharmacy, electron industries. In recent years, as the Shaoxing Economic Development Zone, the Light & Textile Industries City of China and the southern development zone have been developed, the city size has been extended and the infrastructures of communications, post and telecom, banking and tourism have been improved day after day, the economies of Shaoxing City and its counties (cities at county level) have been changed significantly. In 1992, Shaoxing City was listed the Top 40 cities of the first batch in terms of the physical environment for investments; and in 1993, it was also evaluated a national, excellent, integrated environment improvement city. In 2004 the municipality’s annual gross domestic product of was 131.387 billion yuan, including

9222 million yuan added value of the primary industry (growth rate of 3.5%)，8673

million yuan added value of the secondary industry (growth rate of 17.1%， and

43491 million yuan added value (growth rate 3.5%). In 2000 the Shaoxing Municipality’s economic strength ranked at the third place in the province. In 2004,

the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 15642 yuan，and per capita

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net income of rural residents was 6970 yuan, respectively increased by 18.9% and 13.5% over the previous year. Yuecheng, the old city of Shaoxing, where the Project will be located, is a scenic tourist city with the sight of land of lakes and rivers as its features, having a good name of Venice in the East. It has had a long history with a large amount of cultural relics, and given birth to talented people generation to generation. The city is one of the first batch 24 historic cities named by the State Council in 1982, belonging in an open citiy of Category A.

Yuecheng is the political, economic and cultural center and the hub of communications of the Municipality’s one district, two counties and three county-level cities, having been one of political and economic centers all through the ages. It is a light industry city with brewage, light and textile industries as its characteristics. Machinery and electronic industries also have a place in the economy of the city.

3.2.4 Communications

The Yuecheng District (where the old city is located) is the communication hinge of Shaoxing with good traffic facilities. The main roads, channels and railways are described below:

(1) Roads

National Highway 104: This highway starts from Beijing and ends to Fuzhou with a total length of 2334 km.

National Highway 329: It is also called Hangzhou-Ningbo Highway, from Hangzhou to Shenjiamen with a total length of 298 km, the section of which from Qianqing to Sanjiaozhan of Shangyu overlaps that of NH 104.

Shaoxing-Ganlin Highway (Provincial Highway 32): From Wuyun in Shaoxing to Ganlin in Shengzhou, with a total length of 80 km.

Shaoxing-Datang Highway (Provincial Highway 31): It starts at Yuanmen Bridge (connected with NH 104) and ends at Datangyan to link with Hangzhou-Jinhua Highway.

Its total length is 61 km.

(2) Channels

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The Xiaoshan-Shaoxing Canal: This channel belongs in the Sanjiang River System. In the Xiaozong Qiandao Period (1165-1173) of the Southern Song Dynasty, this canal was formed by connection of the Xixing Canal and the old waterway in Shanyin (a part of Shaoxing). The Annals of Shaoxing Prefecture of the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty recorded: “the Canal starts at Xixing, passes through three counties and ends at the Cao’e River with a length of more than 200 li. The Xiaoshan Canal”

(3) Railway

Shaoxing is a region where a railway passes through. Xiaoshan-Ningbo Railway from Xiaoshan to Ningbo with a length of 147 km, connects with Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway at Xiaoshan. The Xiaoshan-Ningbo Railway passes through Shaoxing County, Yuecheng District (old city of Shaoxing) and Shangyu City with a length of 62.6 km.

3.2.5 Water Supply and Wastewater

The water source of Shaoxing urbanwater supply is the Tangpu Reservior with a design capacity of one million m3, that of Phase I being 400k m3. The water supply network passed the completion acceptance in December 2000, and in January 2001 linked with the network in the urban district.

In the year of 2004, raw water was supplied of 160.02 million m3, a year-on-year growth of 13%; tap water supplied 118.81 million m3, a year-on-year growth of 43%.

Since the Yuecheng Wastewater Treatment Project started construction in 1985, 10 pumping stations had been built in the old city by the end of 1998.

The wastewater of the old city is transmitted mainly through the trunk sewer in Zhongxing Beilu (northern road) to the Nr. 7 Pumping Station and then to an urban wastewater treatment plant. After treatment, the effluent is discharged into the Cao’e River. The original planning capacity of the Shaoxing Wastewater Treatment Plant was 500 000 m3/d, and extended to 650 000 m3/d later. Phases I and II of the secondary biochemical treatment plants were completed, each with a capacity of 300 000 m3/d.

In the HP at the Hill under the Project, there are some houses not connected with sewers. After the project implementation, sanitary facilities will be upgraded to allow the domestic sewage of the residents in the Project area will all be intercepted by sewers.

3.2.6 Public Health

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It is analyzed on the basis of data available that there are no local epidemic diseases in Shaoxing City. In 2004, the first five infectious diseases in order were hepatitis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, diarrhea and syphilis, amounting to 90.98% of the total number of cases of Categories A and B epidemic diseases. The public health of residents in the assessed range is good.

3.2.7 The Urban Master Planning for Shaoxing Municipality (1994-2010)

In November 1995 the Urban and Rural Planning Design Institute of Shaoxing City and the Urban and Rural Planning Design Institute of Hangzhou University jointly proposed the Master Planning for Shaoxing Municipality (1994-2010). In the planning the nature of the central city of Shaoxing Municipality is defined an international tourism city with the features of its history, culture and natural landscapes. The central city is composed of three areas of Yuecheng, Keqiao and Paojiang. The extending direction of the urban land use is toward the north. The short term of the planning is the year of 2000, with a population of 520 thousand and an area of 62 km2; and the population of the long term of the planning is 800 thousand and the area of 100 km2.

The planned urban functional layout consists of five funcational zones with a feature of green spatial structure. The five functional zones are the old city area, (including the old urban district, the north, south and west areas of the old city), the east area of the city, Kuaiji Mountain area, Keqiao and Paojiang areas. Descriptions are detailed below:

The old city area: It is Shaoxing municipality’s center of politics, culture, education, science & technology, finance and trade. In this area surrounded by the Moat, it is the place with the characteristics of the historic city, where priorities should be given to the development of the tertiary industry, improvement of living and working conditions. The north area of the city is a communication center and water-based tourist area, where the advantages of the stations of railway, highway and waterway should be brought into full play and the Datan and Didang Water Parks will be set up. The south area will be a comprehensive zone for culture, education and residence. Near the traffic trunk line, technology- and labor-intensive industries should be established. The west area lies upstream to the water source of the city, where construction of polluting project is prohibited, and on the foundation of the existing residences, additional housing will be constructed to form residential areas.

The east area: The Economic and Technological Development Zone lies there, where high-tech industries should be mainly developed with pollution free and low energy consumption; in addition, residential quarters and the tertiary industry should also be laid out. In the area from the north side of Renmin Road to the south side of the

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Hangzhou-Ningbo Canal, there will be an industrial storage area in the planning. In the area from the south side of Renmin Road to the north of the extended section of Huanchengnan Road, there will be a residential area. In the area from the south of the extended section of Huanchengnan Road to the north of Yu the Great Mausoleum, there will be a high-tech industry area and the Jiangnan Amusement Park. It will be gradually developed to a center of economy, physical culture and entertainment.

Kuaiji Mountain Area: This is a tourism zone. There are some sites of historic heritages and fine scenery, such as Yu the Great Mausoleum, Censer Peak, Ruoye Stream, etc. This area will become a tourist holiday resort producing combined benefits, integrating the historic culture and the landscape.

The Keqiao Area: The Chinese Textile City is located in this area. While the professional market is consolidated and developed, the secondary industry with the light and textile industry as the principal as well as the tertiary industry serving the market should be developed further so as to form a setup of “the industrial area is in the north while the market is in the south”.

Paojiang Area: Priorities should be given to developing the secondary industry while residential areas and the tertiary industry should also be developed subsidiarily.

This Project is located in the old city area. After completion, its funcations will be in conformity with those set forth in the planning.

3.2.8 Environmental Protection Tenth-five Plan and Long-term Goals for 2010 and 2020

(1) Environment Targets of 2010

To 2010, the industrial pollution in the municipality will be controlled effectively, the environment quality of major towns and citiese improved obviously, the water quality of main water areas improved to some extent, the ecosystem will enter a benigh circle on the whole, and the environment, economy and society will be developed in a harmonious way.

- The industrial layout and structure should be adjusted reasonably, the levels of technology and equipment raised, and main pollutants reduced apparently.

- Water quality of main water areas should be improved distinctly. The water quality of the Jianhu Lake and the river system on the Shaoxing-Shangyu Plain should meet the standard steadily. That of the mainstream of Cao’e River should reach Category II-III, and that of the Puyang River should be good. That of the source of drinking water for urban areas should meet the national standard. The

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Tangpu Reserior should be constructed and put into operation.

- The urban environmental infrastructures should be upgraded. Secondary centralized wastewater treatment facilities should be constructed in the urban areas and key towns. Phase II wastewater treatment project for the city proper should be completed and put into run.

- The air quality should meet the standard steadily and be kept in good conditions in most cities. The quality of surface water should be improved evidently. Among others, the water quality in the canals in the urban area should meet Class III- IV Standard and that of other towns should meet the standard; The regional environmental noise and the traffic noise basically meet the standard; The harmless disposal systems of domestic solid wastes should be basically completed in towns.

- Soil erosion should be under control on the whole. The agricultural ecosystem should be improved further. And the preservation of nature reserves and the bio-diversity should be developed further.

(2) Section 9 Environmental Protection Planning of Shaoxing Urban Master Planning (2001-2020)

In July 2001 the Pepple’s Government of Shaoxing Municipality issued the Urban Master Planning of Shaoxing City (2001-2020) prepared jointly by the Planning Design & Research Institute of Shaoxing City and the Urban and Rural Planning Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University. Section 9 Environmental Protection Planning is excerpted below:

Subclause 9.0.1 Objectives of Planning

To optimize the urban layout and place stress on protection of drinking water; environment air and water and sound environments should respectively meet the national standards of functional zones, to form a good ecological and environmental protection system.

Subclause 9.0.2 Requrements of Planning

Water quality: The water quality of the urban district and that of the main part of the Jianhu Lake should be not worse than Category II surface water standand; in the short term, the water quality of 80% canals should be not worse than Category IV surface water standard; the up-to-the-standard rate of the water quality of drinking water source should be 100%.

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Atmosphere: It is required that all meet Class II standard; the air quality conform to Class I standard in major scenic spots; the coverage rate of fume control be 100%. Noise: In the short term, on the trunk lines, noise should be lowered to 70 dB and the average value of regional environmental noise lower than 56 dB.

Slags: The integrated utilization rate of industrial slags should reach 100%.

3.3 Status Quo of Environment Quality 3.3.1 Status of Water Environment Quality

(1) Investigation of Surface Water Environment Quality StatusTo know the status of the water environment quality of surface water in the proposed project area, we collected the water quality data of 2005 and January-July 2006 of the routine surface water monitoring sections in Shaoxing, shown in Tables 3.3-1 and 3.3-2.

Table 3.3-1 Data of Surface Water Quality Monitored at Routine Monitoring Cross-sections in Shaoxing between January and December, 2005

Unit：mg/L except pH

Name of cross-section

pH value

DO BOD5Crude oils

NH3-N CODMn TP

Dudong Bridge 7.27 2.61 5.66 0.08 1.49 6.31 0.260

Guangning Bridge

7.32 2.42 9.13 0.15 1.51 7.83 0.349

Beihai Bridge 7.26 2.41 8.28 0.24 1.58 8.64 0.349

Qingshan Railway Bridge

7.34 2.56 6.83 0.06 1.70 6.87 0.333

Pianmen Highway Bridge

7.38 3.56 5.62 0.18 1.33 7.08 0.212

Nianfo Railway Bridge

7.42 3.35 5.20 0.11 1.37 6.40 0.261

Nandu Bridge 7.37 2.86 5.59 0.09 1.76 6.63 0.261

Geshantou 7.05 3.89 3.39 0.21 1.17 4.44 0.133

Xiguo Railway Bridge

7.26 3.38 7.80 0.13 1.66 7.66 0.359

Lizhujiangkou 7.48 2.84 6.98 0.17 1.23 8.30 0.209

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Table 3.3-2 Data of Surface Water Quality Monitored at Routine Monitoring Cross-sections in Shaoxing between January and July, 2006

Unit：mg/L except pH

Name of cross-section

pH value

DO BOD5Crude

oils NH3-N CODMn TP

Dudong Bridge

6.88 3.30 4.98 0.14 1.72 5.45 0.266

Guangning Bridge

7.23 2.42 7.70 0.29 1.77 6.37 0.390

Beihai Bridge 7.00 2.68 8.81 0.39 1.93 7.17 0.353Qingshan Railway Bridge

7.05 2.58 5.69 0.21 1.61 5.95 0.348

Pianmen Highway Bridge

7.04 3.69 5.53 0.20 1.38 6.77 0.235

Nianfo Railway Bridge

7.04 4.30 4.81 0.14 1.34 5.45 0.235

Nandu Bridge 7.12 3.29 5.32 0.22 1.60 6.27 0.267Geshantou 6.70 5.22 4.49 0.30 1.08 4.54 0.078

Xiguo Railway Bridge

7.00 3.03 5.76 0.31 1.41 6.40 0.330

Lizhujiangkou

7.15 3.52 5.37 0.18 1.40 7.68 0.289

(2) Assessment on Status of Water Quality Environment

In accordance with The Zhejiang Scheme for Division of Water Function Zones and Water Environment Function Zones (Zhezhengbanfa [2005] Nr. 109), the canals in the urban district of Shaoxing City belong to the Xiao-Shao River System, whose water function zone is that of the canals in the urban district of Shaoxing City, used for Shaoxing industrial and landscape purposes, and the water environment function is of industrial use water zone, water quality protection goal being Category IV. Therefore, the Category IV Standard (for the canals in the urban district of Shaoxing City) of The Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002) is implemented in the assessment of the surface water environment.

Table 3.3-1 shows that in 2005, the pH values of the monitoring cross-sections of the

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canals/rivers in the urban district of Shaoxing City met the Category III Standard of Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002); DO, Category V Standard; except for the cross-section of Getoushan, whose BOD5 met Category III Standard, at other cross-sections, BOD5 met Category IV or exceeded the standard limit of Category IV; as to the permanganate index and TP, except for the cross-section of Getoushan, the two indicators of which met Category III Standard, at other cross-sections, met Category IV; ammonia nitrogen at all the cross-sections met or exceeded Category IV; crude oils at all the cross-sections met Category IV. Therefore, the water quality at the assessed cross-sections was assessed Category V, not meeting the requirements of Category IV Standard.

Table 3.3-2 shows that between January and July, 2006, the pH values of all the monitoring cross-sections met the Category III Standard of Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002); DO of the Getoushan cross-section met Category III, that of Guangning Bridge, Beihai Bridge and Qingshan Railway Bridge, Category V Standard, and that of others, Cagetory IV; except for the cross-section of Guangning Bridge and Beihai Bridge, whose BOD5 met Category V Standard, at other cross-sections, BOD5 met Category IV; as to the permanganate index, except for the cross-sections of Dongdu Bridge, Nandu Bridge and Getoushan, whose permanganate index met Category III Standard, at other cross-sections, the index met Category IV; TP met Category IV or exceeded Category IV except Getoushan cross-section, at which TP reached Category III; ammonia nitrogen at the cross-sections of Dudong, Guangning, Beihai, Qingshan Railway, Nandu bridges met Category V, the rest Category IV; crude oils at all the cross-sections met Category IV. In 2006, the water quality could meet water quality standard of Category IV at the cross-sections of Getoushan, Lizhujiangkou, Nianfo Railway Bridge and Pianmen Highway Bridge. Therefore the water quality was improved by comparison with that of 2005.

3.3.2 Status of Air Environment Quality

(1) Environmental Air Quality Status Investigation

This EA collected the monitoring data of January 2005-June 2006 of the routine monitoring points of air quality in the urban district of Shaoxing to assess the status quo of air quality in the assessed area. For details, refer to Tables 3.3-3 and 3.3-4.

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Table 3.3-3 Monitoring Data January-December 2005 of Routine Monitoring Points in Urban District of Shaoxing

Location of MPs

Daily Average Concentration Range of SO2

(mg/m3)

Daily Average Concentration Range

of NO2(mg/m3)

Daily Average Concentration

Range of PM10

(mg/m3)Shaoxing Central

Station of Environmental

Monitoring

0.022~0.080 0.031~0.070 0.060~0.141

Administrative Commission of

Shaoxing Economic Development Zone

0.015~0.067 0.017~0.079 0.041~0.129

Table 3.3-4 Monitoring Data January-June 2006 of Routine Monitoring Points in Urban District of Shaoxing

Location of MPs

Daily Average Concentration Range of SO2

(mg/m3)

Daily Average Concentration Range

of NO2(mg/m3)

Daily Average Concentration

Range of PM10

(mg/m3)Shaoxing Central

Station of Environmental

Monitoring

0.022~0.080 0.031~0.070 0.060~0.141


Shaoxing Economic Development Zone

0.015~0.067 0.017~0.079 0.041~0.129

(2) Environmental Air Quality Assessment

(5) The single index assessment method was adopted to assess the status of the environmental air quality in the assessed area on the basis of Category II Standard of the Environment Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996). When the single index is more than 1, it is expressed the air quality exceeds the standard

Ii=Ci/Si

In the formula: Ii ---- the single index of pollutant i;

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C i---- the measured concentration of pollutant i;

Si ---- the standard concentration of pollutant i.

The assessment results are shown in Tables 3.2-5 and 3.2-6.

Table 3.2-5 Assessment Results of Environmental Air Quality Status of January-December 2005

Location of MPs

SO2 NO2 PM10

Shaoxing Central Station

of Environmental

Monitoring

Max. daily average concen. (mg/m3)

Pollution index


Pollution index


Pollution index


Shaoxing Economic

Development Zone

0.080 0.53 0.070 0.58 0.141 0.94

0.067 0.45 0.079 0.66 0.129 0.86

Table 3.2-6 Assessment Results of Environmental Air Quality Status of January-June 2006

Location of MPs SO2 NO2 PM10

Shaoxing Central Station of

Environmental Monitoring


Pollution index


Pollution index


Pollution index


Shaoxing Economic

Development Zone

0.062 0.41 0.063 0.53 0.117 0.78

0.052 0.35 0.069 0.58 0.121 0.80

Tables 3.2-5 and 3.2-6 show that all the assessment indicators, the pollution indexes, were less than 1 of the air quality measured at the routine monitoring points in the urban district of Shaoxing between January 2005 and June 2006, able to meet Class II

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standard of the Environment Air Quality Standard of the Environment Air Quality Standard (GB3095-1996), the environmental air quality being good. The results of air variation tendency analysis show that the maximums of daily average concentrations of SO2, NO2 and PM10 decreased to a certain extent in 2006 over 2005, indicating the environmental air quality in Shaoxing is being improved continually.

3.3.3 Status of Sound Environment Quality

In 2004, the average equivalent sound level range of the environmental noise in the town areas was 54.9~57.8 dB, all below the national standard limit all year round.

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4 Projected Environment Impact and Mitigation Measures

4 Projected Environment Impact and Mitigation Measures4.1 EIA in Construction Period and Mitigation Measures

The following are the environmental impacts in the constructions period:

· Construction noise

· Impact of construction on the atmosphere · Impact of construction on the ecosystem · Impact of construction on the traffic and urban infrastructures · Domestic pollution of the constructors· Construction wastess· Impacts of construction to the cultural relics

Besides, there will be the impacts of resettlement and soil erosion to the environment, which are assessed in specific sections in this report, and thereby not described in detail in this section.

4.1.1 Construction Noise

Construction noise mainly comes from constructional plants and transport vehicles. Different noises will give rise at different stages, sites and operations. This project will be implemented for about three years with complicated operation contents including demolision of buildings and construction of a pedestrian street and sight architectures; construction of parking lots (ground and underground); laying of pipelines/cables of water and wastewater, electric power supply, telecom and fuel gas); renovation of cultural relics, excellent historical buildings, average historical buildings and average buildings; upgrading of landscapes, etc. Therefore, almost all types of constructional plants will participate in the construction except for large-sized pile drivers. The major construction plants and the levels of their acoustic radiations are given in Table 4.1-l. In this table, the value is of a single one. And when multiple machines are operated at the same time, the noise will increase by 1-8 dB.

Table 4.1-1 Major Constructional Plants and Levels of Acoustic Radiations

Unit: dB

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Nr. MachinesAcousic

Level (dB)

Nr. MachinesAcousic Level

(dB)

1 Excavator 79 5Woodwork saw

and planer95

2 Bulldozer 75 6Pneumatic hand

drill85

3 Bored Pile Driller 81 7 Elevator 724 Concrete mixer 79 8 Tip truck 84

Note: The measurement distance is 1 m for woodwork saw and planer, 7.5 m for tip truck, and 15 m from others.

Considering that types, numbers and locations of machines will be frequently changed, so will the constructional noise impacts on the construction site boundaries, we had to estimate them by means of analogous measurement method, assuming that the distance is 50 m between the site center to the boundary. The standard limits set forth in The Construction Noise Limits at Construction Site Boundary GB12523-90 are seen in Table 4.1-2.

Table 4.1-2: Noise Limits at Boundary Construction Site

Unit: LAeq dB

Construction Period

Main Noise sourcesNoise Limit

Daytime Nighttime Earthworking Bulldozer, excavator, loader, etc. 75 55

Piling Various pile drivers 85 Forbidden Structure Concrete mixer and vibrator, etc. 70 55

Decoration Crane, elevator, etc. 65 55

Under this Project there are three types of construction site. Therefore, the impact of construction noise will be different to the peripheral acoustic environment.

Type I is on Fushan Hill. Here, there is a large area of landscaped land a few sight architectures. Under the Project, the vegetation will be transformed, tourist routes paved and some scenic spots built, rehabilitated or reconstructe, such as the Sacrifices Offering Platform, Penglai Taoist Pavilion, Fan Li Ancestral Temple and Yarn Washing Pool. The construction of the above will be carried out in the unoccupied spaces on the hill, there are no residents living around which. Thereby, there will be no impact of construction on the peripheral acoustic environment.

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Type II is the foot of Fushan Hill. The original site of the Shaoxing Silk Weaving Factory or space where buildings are removed will be used for construction. The sight architectures to be built under this Project all belong in this type, such as Taiqian Square, Longshan Poets Society, Memorial Square for the 2500th Anniversary of City Foundation, City History Museum of Shaoxing, Tourist Service Center, etc. The construction noise at the sites of this type can be classified into two stages. At Stage I, noise is generated by constructional plants of demolishing buildings; and at Stage II, by those of building new constructions. The construction noise will be at 57-70 dB at 50 m from the boundary of construction site of the two types. If the construction site is near the peripheral housing (less than 50 m), there will be some impact on the residents living there, especially nighttime construction will bring more serious impact on them. Because the plot of Shaoxing Silk Weaving Factory is large in area, so will be the site after removal of the factory, thus the impact of construction noise will be less.

Type III includes the foot of Fushan Hill, both sides of Fuzhijie, Pianmen Zhijie and the northern side of eshiqian and Grand Drill Ground, all of which are located in the historic zone. Most of the cultural relics and historical buildings as well as average buildings which need to be protected or renovated are all situated in the areas of this type. Main work for the areas of this type under the Project is demolision or renovation. The acoustic level of construction noise at 50 m from the construction boundary will be 57-70 dB. Since most of the houses in the HP are old, the spaces between them are narrow and the floor area ratio is high, the construction operation at one place will unavoidably bring about the impact on the surrounding neighboring residents. In particular, in case of nighttime operation, the construction noise will inevitably exceed the standard limit.

To reduce the construction noise impact on the residents’ houses and other sensitive points in the surroundings, the following measures should be taken:

(1) Low noise constructional plants and methods should be selected for use (for example, bored or statically pressed piles should be used to replace hammered ones).

(2) Construction should be stopped in the nighttime. In case of continuous operation so that it is necessary to carry out construction in the nighttime, an application should be submitted to the local EPB for approval, and a public notice should be posted up for residents’ information and understanding.

(3) If there exists an especially sensitive point near the construction site, a provisional sound insulation barrier (enclosure wall) shall be set against the side close to the sensitive point. Under this Project, there are a lot of cultural relics and old buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynaties to be renovated. Around them there are residents’ houses in general. Therefore, besides there should be chemical fabrics erected at the construction site boundaries to reduce the dust and avoid negative sight influence,

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temporary sound insulation barrier (enclure wall) should be set up, where necessary, with a height of 3 m and a length to be decided as needed. The cost of temporary barrier is estimated 20 000 yuan.

4.1.2 Constructional Impact on Environmental Air

4.1.2.1 Flying Dust and Asphalt Fume

Dust during construction period is mainly produced out of building demolision, road pavement excavation, construction materials handling, vehicles moving, etc. Per statistical data, mian dust sources in construction site are the movement of transport vehicles, representing about 60% of the tota dust. The amount of dust varies with weather, situation of road, velocity of vehicle and speed of wind. In general, the impact range of road dust caused by the natural wind is within 100 m. In gale days, the dust amount and impact range will be enlarged. Construction raised dust will also be generated if abandoned soil, sand, lime, spoil (a mixture of weathered stones and soil produced in quarry and used for treatment of subgrade or foundation base, etc.) are inappropriatedly covered, handled or transported so as to be cast off, the impact range being 100 m or so, too. For construction of a large-sized parking lot, the History Museum and Squares, commercial pre-mixed concrete will be used. So cement dust impact will be small. However, some scattered cement mixing spots will generate cement dust. When a road (e.g., the road of linking Huanshan Lu via Hezuo Long to the road at eshiqian) is paved with asphalt concrete, asphalt fume will be generated. The fume contains phenol, 3,4-Benzypyrene and other toxic substances. The cement dust and asphalt fume will bring about impacts on the residents at 100 m leeward places from the sites.

To abate such impacts, the following preventive measures must be adopted:(1) Watering

The dust in the air in site and road can be restrained with watering and cleaning．If

only watering without cleaning，the dust in the air will be lessened about 70-80 per

cent; if watering after cleaning， the rate of dust reduction will be above 90 per

cent．Some experiments show that the TSP pollution distance caused by dust in the

air will be shortened to 20-50 m if the operations of watering and c1eaning are conducted 4-5 times in site every day. Under the Project, there will be a large amount of buildings to be demolished with a floor area of 72 693 m2. Water should be

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sprayed on the demolision objects before or during demolision to control the dust.

In addition, materials under transport should be covered well, and transportion without covering should be avoided; lime, sand and other fine grain materials should not be stacked at open areas as far as possible. In case that they have to be stacked at open areas, water should be spinkled on them to raise water content of their surfaces to curb dust.

(2) Use of commercial concretes

Contractors with certain strengths should be selected; commercial cement concrete and asphalt concrete pre-mixed at plant should be employed, which should be transported by sealed trucks.

With regard to the designated plants of producing commercial cement concrete and asphalt concrete, the “Three-simultaneous’s” (Simultaneous design, simultaneous construction and simultaneous being put into operation of both of environmental facilities and the plant) requirements should be put forward on them to take effective measures to abate the impacts of the related elements on the environment. Also, environment monitoring and environment management should be strengthened to ensure that the air of environment will not be polluted.

(3) Housing at 100 m leeward to be evaded

When temporary, scattered cement concrete mixing and asphalt concrete operation spots are selected, the housing at 100 m leeward from them should be kept away.

4.1.2.2 Decoration-produced Gas

New buildings with a total floor area of 57 780 sqm will be constructed under the Project, including 13 140 sqm in the traditional housing conservation area. In addition, there will be a lot of buildings in need of decoration. The decoration gas mainly contains the xylene from paints, and the formaldehyde from veeners. Because the decorative amount will be great in the renovation of the traditional housing in the HP, and the houses renovated are mixed with other residents’ houses, the impact of the gas may be large to the residents related. As a result, it is required that up-to-standard low toxic paints and veeners be selected.

4.1.3 Constructional Impact on Ecosystem

The main constructional impact of the Project on the ecosystem is variation of vegetation state.

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The original greenbelts will still be greenbelts basically after completion of the Project. So there will be no loss of vegetation due to perpetual land occupation under the Project. Furthermore, most land to be provisionally occupied for the construction is unoccupied so that there will be no damage to the vegetation. Occasionally, in case that some greenbelt needs to be occupied temporarily, no damage would take place to the vegetation provided that the plot should be cleaned cautiously and recovered to the original state after the construction is finished.

In the implementation of the Project, the vegetation will be kept under the original ecosystem as far as possible. Several places will be selected carefully, where ornamental plants will be planted. Various measures should be taken to landscape the Hill and prevent soil from erosion. Hence, the construction of this Project is conducive to the improvement of the terrestrial vegetation and ecosystem.

In addition, exploitations of stone, sand, spoil and gravel will also bring about impact on the ecosystem.

All stones used for the Project will be purchased from outside. In exploitation of stones, vegetation on the ground surface will be damaged. Also, noise and dust will be generated in the quarry, destroying landscape. Therefore, management must be strengthened on the quarry to make exploitation be in good order. The contractor for this Project shall select stone suppliers qualified in both environmental and engineering requirements, and specify the environmental requirement in the purchase contract.

Temporary piling of stones will also bring forth impact on the vegetation. After the construction is finished, the plot should be put in order timely, and the vegetation should be recovered quickly.

The sand to be used for the Project will come from the sand yards on the Cao’e and Puyang rivers. If not managed suitably, sand exploitation from river will affect shipping and produce potential trouble to the safety of river dikes to influence flood control. Therefore, local environmental protection agencies should strengthen the management on sand exploitation activities with assistance of other agencies concerned.

Byproducts of stone quarry, spoil and gravel used for this Project will come from quarries of the East Lake, Zhuji, Xinchang and Tiantai. The impact of their exploition and stack on the environment has been described above.

The biggest impact of this Project on the ecosystem is the change of plant species in the vegetation transform. The following measures should be taken to reduce interference with the existing ecosystem to the maximum extent:

· Pay attention to control of construction range;

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· Keep the original state as far as possible at ecologically sensitive areas, for instance, steep cliffs; if there are constructional activities, the damage to the existing vegetation of the hilly forest;

· In cleaning up the tree species with no good views on the Hill, pay attention to preservation of other species. By all means, avoid cleaning up in a head-shaved way;

· Carry out in stages and by lots;

· Plant species harmonious with the environment should be selected;

· Attach importance to selecting local tree species;

· When big trees are purchased, attention should be paid to preservation of the vegetations in their origins.

· Preserve the old and renowned trees appropriately. Check and record the old and renowed trees again within the project occupied area. Enclosure should be erected for each old tree to prevent from being damaged due to careless construction.

4.1.4 Constructional Impacts on Communications and Urban Infrastructures

(l）Impact on the Communications

The impacts of the project on the communications include the impact on road traffic and the indirect impact on shipping.

Impact on traffic flow

Because ofthe constructional operations, in a certain period the number of vehicles transporting soil, sand and stones will increase sharply. If the vehicles are dispatched unsuitably, the traffic congestion may take place. So the management and the dispatch must be reinforced.

Damage to pavements

If the vehicles are overioaded or covered improperly, there will be some soil, stones and sand scattered on the way. If they are not cleaned in time, the pavement of road will be damaged because of roller compaction. Furthermore, they will bring about dust in dry season and cause soil erosion in rainy days. Hence, it is necessary to strengthen the education about environmental protection to the drivers and the loaders. And some persons must be dispatched to clean the scattered materials.

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Indirect impact on shipping

Presently, motorboats in Shaoxing cruise on the Moat only, and there is no navigation in the assessment range of the Project. Owing to the constructional operations, the material transportations and workers will increase in certain periods to bring about indirect impacts on the shipping on the Moat. Therefore, a notice should be released in advance in order to strengthen management and dispatch.

(2) Impact on urban infrastructures

During construction, especially in excavation, electric power and telecom wires/cables, and water and wastewater pipelines will be often encountered in the project area and may be broken if operations are not suitable. In the he construction for the Project, there will be overhead electric power and telecom wires removed and the cables embedded underground. In addition, some pipelines and cabled TV and telecom cables will be laid. It is required that prior to construction commencement of each contract, the contractor should prepare a list for statistics, supported by the agencies concerned, marking one by one, and strengthen education and management on the operators. In case of an accident, prompt treatment should be conducted in accordance with the emergency preparedness program.

4.1.5 Domestic Pollution of Constructors

At different construction stages, the number of constructors varies greatly. In a general construction site, there are constructors no more than 500. So, we calculated the amount of domestic pollution of constructors, given a number of 500.

The main domestic pollutions of constructors are demestic sewage and solid wastes.

It is assumed that on average a constructor consumes about 150 L/d of water, and produces about 50 g BOD5 and 60 g CODCr. Supposing the domestic sewage amount accounts for 60% of water consumption, then the amounts of sewage and pollutants produced by 500 persons in the construction site are given in Table 4.1.3. If discharged without treatment, the domestic sewage of the contructors will affect the urban appearance and the canal water quality.

Table 4.1.3 Sewage and Pollutants of Constructors

Water Consumption

(m3/d)

Sewage

(m3/d)

BOD5

(kg/d)

CODCr

(kg/d)

75.0 45.0 25.00 30.00

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There will be a small amount of domestic solid wastes produced by the constructors. If every person produces one kg a day, 500 persons will produce 500 kg daily. If not cleaned up timely, the domestic solid wastes will affect the urban appearance and the public health.

For the domestic sewage, hotel, company or other units-owned toilets may be borrowed to use; or, in the construction sites where constructors are relatively concentrated, septic tanks should be set up to treat the sewage and the residues should be cleaned up and transported out timely. The estimated cost is about 20 000 yuan.

The solid wastes must be piled up in the designated places and be cleaned up timely. It is prohibited to mix constructional solid wastes into domestic solid wastes.

4.1.6 Construction Waste

For the construction of the Project, approximately there are buildings with a floor area of 72 693m2 to be removed, including brick-wood structures, simple structures and some attachments on the ground. In addition, there are a large number of buildings in need of renovation, including some cultural relics buildings to be conserved, excellent historical buildings to be improved, and average buildings to be repaired or demolished.

Construction waste, if not cleaned up and transported away timely, may affect the urban appearance: in windy days, dust will be raised; and in rainy days, the waste may block sewers. If reusable construction waste is not recycled, this resource will be wasted.

There are two methods of disposing construction waste. (i) For recycleable materials, such as steel bar, brick, timber, glass, etc., they should be recycled, which may be delivered to the used construction materials purchasing station; and (ii) for non-recycleables, most of them being concrete debris, they should be either transported to a nearby construction site and then used for backfill or delivered to a landfill. A landfill which is quite near to the project area is the Dawa Landfill, transport distance 18 km.

4.1.7 Constructional Impacts on Cultural Relics

The impacts can be classified into two types: (i) those to the existing cultural relics/old buildings. For this case, detailed conservation and renovation plan should be prepared, and the construction carried out carefully. By all means avoid demolishing and reconstructing the old buildings in a large scope to construct “artifical old buildings”. Due to the needs of laying pipelines/cables, some alleyways

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may be broadened sometimes. At that time, it is very likely to demolish renowned alleys, shops and buildings and reconstruct them. Some old houses and other buildings are live exemplars of the architectural history. Any pseudo-classic architecture is unable to recover all the implications of the original. Therefore, the design institute should work out a detailed plan for the renovation of the old housing. Before construction, the renovation plan should be demonstrated, announced to the public and exhibited for the comments of citizens and all circles. (ii) Underground sites or embedded objects found in excavation. Before construction, Shaoxing PMO should work out a prepareness program jointly with other agencies concerned for dealing with emergency matters of protecting cultural relics in the process of construction, training persons in charge of the construction and educating the constructors to raise their awareness of cultural conservation. Once such kind of things are found, the constructors shall stop constructional operations immediately, and a specific person(s) shall be dispatched to protect the scene and report to the person in charge of the construction, Shaoxing PMO and the cultural relics conservation agency, cooperating on the cultural relics protection.

4.2 Environmental Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures

4.2.1 Water Environment Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures

4.2.1.1 Status and Projection of Pollutant Discharge

The statuses of water and wastewater will vary to some extent after the project implementation. Changes are mainly below:

(1) Irrigation water for the vegetation of the scenic area. The species and quantities of vegetations in the scenic area will increase or decrease after the project implementation. However, basically the space of the scenic area will remain unchanged. Therefore, the amount of irrigation water will not vary largely.

(2) Domestic water (including washing water and drinking water of restaurants/hotels) of tourists; domestic sewage. After the project implementation, the number of tourists may increase. Accordingly, the amounts of water and wastewater may increase for the purpose of tourism. The domestic sewage is and will be discharged into sewers, not the Huanshan Canal, before and after the project construction.

(3) Domestic water and sewage of the households in the HP. After the implementation, the households will definitely decrease. The amounts of water and wastewater may vary to some extent (Though the number of residents will decrease, the water consumption per capita will increase due to improvement of

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sanitary facilities). The sewage reduction after the sewage of the resettled residents and that from the renovated housing are intercepted into the sewers is calculated below. This part of sewage will no longer enter the Huanshan Canal.

(4) In the long term, the existing swimming pool will be changed to be the Yarn Washing Pool. The water volume will change and the exchange cycle of inflow and outflow will also change to some extent. The water of the Yarn Washing Pool will be sight water only, the pollutants contained in which will be reduced significantly, by comparison with those in the wastewater of the swimming pool. The water of the swimming pool can be recycled for use and a small amount of the wastewater can enter the sewers; the water of the Yarn Washing Pool should be reused, too, and a small amount of wastewater may enter either the Huanshan Canal or the sewers. The two methods will bring about no or less impact on the water quality of the Huanshan Canal.

To sum up, after the project implementation, the water consumption and wastewater discharge will vary to a certain extent.

It can be seen from the above analysis that the main factors of affecting the water quality and the change of amount of the sewage discharged into the Huanshan Canal are the sewage amount of the residents resettled and that of those still staying in the HP. The sewage of 1059 persons resettled will be transferred to the residential quarters for resettlement, which will no longer be discharged into the Huanshan Canal. The sewage from the old housing renovated will be received by the sewers.

Because the Planning Scheme for CYK Cultural Conservation Zone does not provide the population number of the area occupied by the Project, we have to calculate it by reference to the data related to the Yuezicheng HP from the FSR for the Shaoxing Urban Infrastructure Upgrading Component of ZUEP, taking into account the population to be resettled under this Project.

In the FSR for the Shaoxing Urban Infrastructure Upgrading Component of ZUEP, the Yuezicheng HP renovation project occupies an area of 68.3 ha. including 23.9 ha. of the Fushan Park. In the rest 44.4 ha. of land, there are 8056 permanent residents of 2636 households living there, 3.1 persons/household on average and per capita construction land use 55 sqm. It is proposed to resettle 3589 persons and reserve 4467.

This (CYK) Project will cover 39.7 ha. of land including 23.9 ha. of the Fushan Park and 15.8 ha. of the rest HP. Given the per capita construction land use 55 sqm according to the FSR of Shaoxing Urban Infrasture Upgrading Component of ZUEP, it can be calculated out the permanent residents in the HP of this Project, 2873 persons, 1059 of which will be resettled and 1814 of 585 households or so will remain. On the basis of the planning for municipal infrastructure upgrading, the residential sewage in the HP below the hill should be intercepted by the sewers

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through upgrading of the inner facilities of housing and use of modern sanitary equipment. Considering there may be special difficulties due to historical reasons, the actual quanity of upgrading is set to be 95%, thus 1723 persons’ sewage would enter the sewers.

Plus 1059 persons resettled, totally 2782 persons’ sewage would no long flow into the Huanshan Canal.

It is supposed the concentrations COD and BOD of the domestic sewage 350 mg/l and 150 mg/l respectively. In 2000 the annual per capita water consumption of residents in the old Shaoxing City was 82.9 m3. The water consumption in CYK HP did not change largely in the past several years, the annual per capita water consumption still being 90 m3 for calculation, and the sewage amount taken 85% of the water consumption, so the annual sewage produced annually by the 2782 persons would be 213 000 m3, containing 74.5 tons of COD and 31.9 tons of BOD.

Therefore， the project implementation would reduce the pollutants of COD and

BOD discharged into the Huanshan Canal by 74.5 and 31.9 tons respectively, which will improve the water quality of the canal to a certain extent. According to the data monitored at the Pianmen Highway Bridge monitoring point (the city’s monitoring point nearest to Fushan Hill), the water quality at this place reached the Category IV water quality standard, ranking among the first four places of the city’s nine water quality monitoring points. After the project implementation, hopefully the water quality of the canal will be improved.

The primary sewers in the HP will be laid beneath the primary roads, and the branches beneath the secondary roads or alleyways. When appropriate, severak septic tanks will be constructed in the residential aeas; and when the conditions are not available, the night soil can directly pass through manholes to enter the sewers. The sewage from the old city will go through the western trunk sewer and run along Zhongxing Beilu (northern road), transmitted to the Nr. 7 Pumping Station, and then to the Municipal WWTP of Shaoxing, discharged into the Cao’e River after treatment.

The Municipal WWTP is situated in Sanjiang Town on the riverside of the Cao’e River, 10 km away from the old city, with a capacity of 650,000 m3/d, jointly constructed by Shaoxing City and Shaoxing County. The secondary biochemical treatment facilities of Phases I and II with a total capacity of 600,000 m3/d were already completed and put into operation. Presently, this Plant receives 520,000 m3

of sewage daily, This Project will collect 583 m3/d of sewage through sewers. Such a small amount of sewage will be admitted by the Plant easily. No problems to the diameters of the sewers, pumping stations of the sewerage system.

In a word, the implementation of the Project will collect the sewage of households not

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yet intercepted currently to make it no longer enter the Huanshan Canal. Hence, the water quality will be hopefully improved after the implementation of the Projec.t

4.2.2 Air Environmental Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures

After the project completion, the main impact on the air environment is from the fume of cookrooms of the commercial food and drink trade, the tail gas of cars in the parking lot and underground carport.

(1) Tail Gas of Carport under Ground and Parking Lot on Ground

There will be a large-sized underground carport under this Project, with a floor area of 18,200 sqm. It will be used socially, located at the southern foot of Fushan Hill.

If not eliminated promptly, the toxic and harmful gas the cars emit in the underground carport will seriously contaminate the air in the carport. The main pollution factors are carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). For this reason, a relevant supporting ventilation system shall be installed. In general, the system can be controlled manually. The duration and frequency of ventilation are decided by the operators according to his estimation or controlled by an automatically controlled intelligent ventilation system.

Usually, the air waste will be drawn to a vertical well(s) and emitted at an elevated outlet on the top of the carport. The outlet height should be higher than buildings on the ground. Generally, the air waste may be emitted through an exhaust tube(s) on the roof(s) of building(s). Under the circumstances of this Project, the outlet(s) will be on a slope of hill, where there are no buildings. So, the exhaust tube(s) can be designed separately. It is required that the shape of the exhaust tube(s) be harmonious with the environment surrounding it. Since there are no sensitive buildings (e.g., housing of residents), this environment impact assessment report doesn’t calculate the concentrations of the air waste pollutants falling down to the ground.

If the efficiency of the ventilation equipment is unable to meet the requirements, the tail gas released from the access of the carport will bring about an impact on the surroundings at the peak hours. Hence, adequate considerations shall be taken of tail gas collection rate when the air exhaust system is being designed. The blowing rate shall be large enough to make the access keep a certain amount of negative pressure. Furthermore, the wind curtain equipment should be installed to collect and exhaust the tail gas as much as possible, to reduce non-organized emission of the tail gas. This point is especially important if there are residents’ houses near the access of the underground carport.

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The impact of the tail gas from the access of the underground carport will exert at the place near it. From the analogous data collected, it can be seen that the air quality can meet Class II standard of The Environmental Air Quality Standard GB 3095-1996 at the place 10-20 m away from the access of an underground carport with 1455 car parking spaces.

This Project is still at the stage of scheme design and FSR, so the location, height of the exhaust tube and the location of the access of the underground carport have not yet decided. Therefore, this EIA can but put forth requirements conversely. On the basis of the projected assessment, it is required that the access of the underground carport under this Project be more than 20 meters away from residents’ houses.

Similarly, the tail gas of vehicles on the ground will also bring about impact on the environment. According to the analogous data collected, the affecting distance of the tail gas from a large- or small-sized parking lot will be 40-20 meters from the boundary. It is required that the boundary of a large- or small-sized parking lot be 50-30 m away from residents’ houses.

(2) Fume Waste of Cookroom of Food and Drink Trade

There will be some middle- and small-sized food and drink enterprises under this Project. The fume of cookroom contains some grease, organic substances and decomposed or cracked products generated in the process of food processing and cooking, which are harmful to people’s health, having impact on the environment. As required by The Fume Emission Standard of Food and Drink Trade (GWPB5-2000), the cookroom fume of food and drink trade is not allowed to exhaust until it is treated by a fume purification device and meets the exhaust concentration standard, 20 mg/m3. In addition, the food and drink businesses shall not be set up below residents’ buildings, to avoid the fume waste pollution to residents.

4.2.3 Sound Environment Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures

During the operation period of the Project, mainly noises will be produced by the pump house and parking lots. The strengths of noise sources and projected impact will be assessed below and consequently, preventive measures will be put forward to abate such impact:

4.2.3.1 Noise Source Strength

The nature of this Project is of upgrading the infrastructures in the old city. Therefore, there are no extremely strong noise sources. Under the Project, there will be one booster pump house for the Yarn Washing Pool (for the long term) and five parking

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lots to be constructed. The pumps and vehicles of these facilities will all be strong noise sources. The exhaust blowers at the cookroom of the tourist service center as well as the outdoor blowers of airconditioners will also be common noise sources. The noise source strengths concerned are shown in Table 4.2.1.

Table 4.2.1 Sound Radiation Level of Noise Source

Noise Source Sound Level (dB) Distance of Measuring Point

Pump 92~95 1 m

Car 70~75 7.5 m

Bus 75~84 7.5 m

Exhaust blower 90~95 1 m, 45

Outdoor blower of airconditioner 60~65 1 m, 45

4.2.3.2 Projection Model

(1) Attenuation of Acoustic Propagation

Attenuation model of acoustic level A in propagation:

Where:

- Acoustic level A r meters far from the acoustic source, dB;

- Acoustic level A at the reference point r0 meters far from the source, dB;

- Acoustic level A attenuation due to geometrical diffusion of sound wave, dB;

- Attenuation of acoustic level A caused by shelters, dB;

- Attenuation acoustic level A caused by air absorption, dB.

There are three models relevant to the projections for the project.

Attenuation model for point acoustic sources

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Where: L2, L1 - Acoustic levels r2 and r1 meters from the source respectively.

This model is applicable to point sources in the open area.

Model of noise radiated by walls of a regular room

In the formula:

L2 – Projected acoustic level l meters far from the room, dB; L1 - Acoustic level l meter from the wall in the room, dB;

- Average loss of acoustic transmission through the wall, dB;

F – Area of the wall，m2； l – Distance between the projection point and the wall, meters.

This model is applicable to indoor acoustic sources.

Noise radiation model for parking lots

For noise projections of parking lots and underground carport, theoretically the random point source model should be adopted. Usually, the analogical monitoring method can be employed to address this issue. This assessment report adopted the analogical method to obtain the projection results and used the random point source model by reference to a literature concerned to calculate out the noise protective distance from the access of an underground carport and consequently assessed the noise impact of theunderground carport under this Project. The literature is The Computer Simulative Projections for Noise of Underground Carport in Urban Residential Area by Guo Chunyan and Shi Lili, the supplementary issue P130-135 of The Acoustic & Electronic Engineering.

4.2.3.3 Survey and Monitoring of Noise Status Quo

To make projections for environmental impacts of various noise sources, it is necessary to understand the status of the environment where the facilities are located. Therefore, a survey was conducted on the housing distribution in the surroundings and a monitoring on the background noise was carried out.

The time of the survey and monitoring was the daytime of 20 March 2006. The results are shown in Table 4.2-2. Locations of monitoring points are shown in Table 4.2-2 and Diagram 10 attached.

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It can be seen from Table 4.3-2 that as far as the noise statuses at various monitoring points (MPs) are concerned, that at the MPs in Fushan Park was able to meet the standard for Category 1 Area (55 dB), while some MPs in the HPexceeded the standard for Category 1 Area, but met the stardard for Category 2 Area.

Table 4.2-2 Monitored Values of Noise Status (Daytime)Sound Level Unit: LAeq dB

Nr. of MP

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Loca-

tion

North

Huans

han

Lu

East

Huan-

shan Lu

FuhengjieFu

Zhijie

Pian-

men

Zhijie

Xi-

yuan

Garde

n

Cliff

Inscri-

ptions

Palace

of King

Yue

Terrace

of King

Yue

Wind

-rain

Pavi-

lion

Sound Level

54.2 55.0 54.8 56.0 56.7 55.0 47.2 52.5 53.049.5

4.3.4 Noise Impact Projection and Assessment

Most area to be occupied is Fushan Park, where there are no residents. The rest part is the historic neighborhood, mainly located on both sides of Fuzhijie and the northern side of Pianmen Zhijie. In the Project Area, there is no primary or secondary road for vehicle traffic.. Most are walkways and a few are semi-walkways (accessible for vehicles during specific periods of time). Therefore, there will be no traffic nosie in the area on the whole.

Under the Project there will be a pump house for the Yarn Washing Pool in the long term. Within 100 m from it there are no residents’ houses. At 100 m, the noise can meet the standard for Category 1 Area in daytime; and the pump house will be shut at the nighttime 22:00~6:00. Thereby the pump noise will not bring about pollution to the environment.

If close (less than 20 m) to and opposite right to residents’ houses, the fans fixed on the fume exhaust pipes of the restaurants at the Tourist Service Center and outdoor units of air conditioners will disturb the residents.

There will be five parking lots under the Project: Underground parking lot (18,200 m2) at the southern foot of the hill; PL on the eastern side of the Capital of Yue Kingdom (1650m2); PL at the Tourist Service Center at the southeastern side; a small sized PL at the eastern side of Chengtaixiang; and A small-sized PL at the northern side of the Landscaping Administrative Bureau. These parking lots will be

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used for tourists from outside of the city, which will be operated in daytime basically.

This Project is still at the stage of scheme design and FSR. Only roughly orientations are provided of the car parking lots. It is yet unknown whether there are residents’ houses around them, their specific locations, distances and number of households. As a result, no impact extents and affected people’s distributions can be given. Therefore, this EIA can but put forth requirements conversely, which should be met in the stage of preliminary design and working drawings design.

There will be four on-the-ground parking lots (PLs), two large and two small. At the places 50 m away from the boundaries of the PLs, the noise received will be at 52~58dB, which may exceed the limit (55 dB) of the standard for the functional zone.

One underground carport is large with probably more than one access. On the basis of the abovementioned literature, different capacities, auto-type rate (of small-sized cars to all autos), noise functional zones, and noise protectfve distances from the access(es) of the underground carport in daytime and nighttime. In view of the situation of the Project, given the noise functional zone of Category 1 and the auto-type rate 0.7, the protective distances in daytime and nighttime are shown in Table 4.2-3.

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Table 4.2-3 Noise Protective Distances from Access of Underground Carport(Category 1 Funcational Zone, Auto-type Rate 0.7)

Car Parking Spaces(Nr.)

Protective Distances (m)Daytime Nighttime

50 11 21100 15 31150 17 36200 17 41250 17 41300 19 41

When the auto-type rate increases, the protective distance will be reduced a bit (by 1-2 m). The protective distance will also decrease (roughly a half) when in the noise functional zone of Category 2.

From the above calculations for projections it can be obtained that the minimum distance shall be 20 m between the access and residents’ houses (only operation in daytime) and 45 m (operation in both daytime and night-time). In case the requirement is unable to be met, improvement measures shall be taken to reduce the impact.

4.2.3.5 Noise Control Measures

(1) The pump house should be set underground as far as possible. If on the ground, tourists may be affected, though residents will not be affected (because there are no households within 100 m from the pumping station). Therefore, the pumps shall be installed in a sound insulation house and low noise pumps selected for use and sound dampers used on the foundation. The pipelines should be embeded underground and the elbows should be of streamlined type.

(2) In design of the parking lots, the boundaries of them should be more than a certain distance away from the residents’ houses, and greenbelts should be set up between them. Eye-catching guide signs shall be erected around the PLs. No Tooting signs shall be erected at the sides close to residents’ houses. Under this Project there will be two small-sized PLs, on which it is required that their boundaries be more than 30 m away from residents’ houses; it is required on the two large-sized PLs that their boundaries more than 50 m from residents’ houses. If the requirements are not met, the PLs on the ground shall be cancelled and underground or enclosed multi-storied carports constructed.

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The distance between the access of the underground carport and residents’ houses shall be more than 20 m (daytime operation) or 45 m (daytime and nighttime operation). In case that the requirement is not satisfied, the noise at the access shall be treated: low noise pavement shall be employed for ramps; Sound insulation and absorption ceiling used. It is required the sound insulation and absorption plates be transparent materials, and microperforate plates may be used as sound absorption plates. The two measures need 40 000 yuan or so.

(3) The cookrooms should be far away (> 50 m) from the residents’ houses or other sensitive buildings; otherwise, unless the exhaust blowers are installed with sound mufflers.

(4) The outdoor blowers of airconditioners should not be just opposite to the windows of the residents’ houses. If unavoidable, they shall be installed with mufflers.

4.2.4 Assessment on Environment Impact on Organisms and Mitigation Measures

4.2.4.1 Impact on Organisms

The project implementation will enlarge the space of greenbelts and enrich plant species, being conducive to raising the greening rate of the old city and reflecting the biological diversity in the city.

During the project construction period, it is inevitable to damage some roadside trees, landscaping plants within residential areas and enterprises. If not protected adequately, some old and/or renowned trees may be damaged. For example, when the buildings of the Shaoxing Silk Weaving Factory are demolished, an old tree --- camphor near the singles dormetry of the factory which is under Class I protection may be affected. A list of old and/or renowned trees involved under the Project is shown in Table 4.2-4.

Table 4.2-4 List of Old and/or Renowned Trees

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Nr. of Record

Name oftree

Age(Years)

Protection level

Location

002 Camphor 700 IBeside the singles dormetry of Shaoxing Silk-weaving Factory

003 Camphor 700 IWestern entrance of Fushan Park

(Peng’s Pool)004 Camphor 700 I Longshezui at Fushan Hill005 Camellia 700 I Fushan Miniature Garden

008Sweet

osmanthus 500 I

In front of the Palace of King Yue in Fushan Park

009 Elm 500 ITerrace of King Yue in Fushan

Park0011 Camphor 300 I Longshezui at Fushan Hill0012 Camphor 100 II Huanshan Lu around Fushan Hill 0015 Camphor 100 II Municipal Foreign Affairs Office

0022Chinese jujube

100 II At the door of 254 Fuhengjie

0025 Privet 100 IIAt the door of Fushan Miniature

Garden

0029Sweet

osmanthus 100 II

Inside Municipal Cultural Relics Administratve Division

In addition, the exploitation of stones, sand, spoil and gravels may also impact terrestrial vegatations.

In the exploitation of stones, the vegetations on the earth’s surface will be damaged. The stones used in this project will be purchased all from ourside, the East Lake (within the boundary of Shaoxing), Zhuji, Xinchang, Tiantai, etc. No matter wherever the stones are quarried, inside or outside the boundary of Shaoxing, the local vegetations and ecosystems will be affected, the impacts being far-reaching and irreversible.

4.4.2 Mitigation Measures

(1) The 12 old and/or renowned trees must be protected. Before the construction, firstly, identify the old and/or renowned trees, and then prepare a protection program for them. Take such measures as setting up isolation belts between the construction site and the protected objects, etc. In addition, the preservation of these trees should be supervised to insure the trees to be kept in good conditions. Persons should be specifically appointed to take charge of the protection for these trees. Besides, for some plants worthy of being preserved, measures should be

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taken of transplanting them elsewhere. After completion, the temporarily occupied land must be cleaned earnestly and plants should be complementally planted to substitute those destroyed to recover the original appearance so as to minimize the impact of construction to the plants. This measure needs 50 000 yuan of fund.

(2) The management on quarries must be intensified to keep the exploitation to be in good order. The suppliers shall be selected of meeting the project technical conditions and the environment protection requirements. It is required that in the contracts signed with the suppliers for the stones to be used in the Project, the environmental requirements shall be set forth clearly, including ecosystem preservation and soil erosion prevention.

(3) The species of plants should not be unitary in landscaping. Different plants should be selected according to the nature of greenbelt and the requirement of landscape. In disposition of plants, evergeen plants should be combined with deciduous plants; leaf-ornamental plants combined with flowering plants; and arbors combined with bushes and lawn, in order that the biodiversity will be embodied. When big trees are to be purchased, the environmental requirements should be clearly defined in the contracts signed with the suppliers so as to protect the ecosystem of the origins of big trees, such as reasonable elimination and moderate renewal of trees. Species shall not be introduced from elsewhere unless it is demonstrated they will not intervene the original ecosystem.

(4) With regard to those trees and flowers to be eliminated and replaced, they should be retained suitably and utilized as far as possible. The garden management agency should prepare a plan of replacement and reserve fields for transition. For the replacement of some species of plants, appropriate seasons should be selected to raise survival rates and reduce losses,

4.2.5 Land Use and Soil Erosion Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures

4.2.5.1 Land Use

(1) Land occupation by Project

Permanent land occupation by the Project

The space of land to be occupied under the Project will be 39.7 ha., where there is a total floor area of 57780 m2 including land use of buildings and yards.

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The buildings with a total floor area of 72 693 m2 will be demolished, most of which are the Shaoxing Silk-weaving Factory, Xinglian Printing & Packing Co., Ltd., Shaoxing Landscaping Construction Co., Ltd., Shaoxing Municipal Engineering Company, the staff dormitry of Shaoxing Women and Children’s Health Care Hospital. Besides, there are also some residents’ houses, most of which are interference buildings.

There is no cultivated land to be occupied under the Project. After the construction is completed on it, the former greenbelt will still be preserved as the original (or even extended). The total area of greenbelt will be increased to some extent.

Temporary land occupation under the Project

The spaces to be temporarily occupied are for stacking of stones and sand used in transformation of landscapes, development of scenic spots and construction of parking lots new buildings as well as wasted materials dismantled off from old buildings due to renovation.

Additionally, some spaces will also be needed for temporary stacking of soil because of ground excavation for laying various pipelines and cables.

(2) Assessment on impact of land use

This Project will permanently occupy an area of 39.7 ha., no cultivated land occupied. The plots to be occupied are land uses of the former units to be relocated, square(s) and roads. The former greenbelts will remain as the original or extended after the project implementation. Therefore, the project implementation will neither aggravate the tendency of per capita cultivated area decrease, nor reduce the greening rate of Shaoxing City.

Though there will be a certain amount of plots to be occupied for the purpose of construction, they will be clean up shortly after construction to recover the original appearance. This requirement will be able to be met provided that management will have been strengthened.

4.2.5.2 Soil Erosion

(1) Damages or losses of water and soil conservation facilities and their areas

The existing soil and water conservation facilities under the Project will be retained. No land will be acquired for the Project. Either, the Project will not occupy any

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cultivated land privisionally. So this Project will not cause loss of area of soil and water conservation.

(2) Projection of potential soil erosion amount

The project is located in the plain region. So the intensity of soil erosion will not be high. The possible loss of soil is mostly abandoned earth (and temporary piling of it), which is produced from landscape transform, pavement excavation for installation of pipelines/cables. The Project will not cause a large area of exposed working face, so basically there will not be soil erosion produced from the exposed soil.

(3) Impacts of soil erosion

The impacts on the soil erosion include:

Making canal water turbid and affecting water quality

In the construction of the road from Huanshan Lu (road) through the southern part of Hezuo Long (lane) to eshiqian, the water with soil eroded may indirectly flow into the canals to make the canal water turbid and affect the water quality. If not transported out timely or improperly covered when piled up, the abandoned soil, which is generated from excavation for laying pipelines/cables or from road or other constructions, will erode in rainy days (rainstorm in particular), and will be carried by the surface runoff or through sewers to enter the canals to make the canal water turbid and affect the water quality.

Jamming sewers in urban area

When the pipelines of water supply, natural gas and sewage are laid, abandoned soil will be heaped along the routes. If not transported away in time, it will be carried by water into the sewers in rainy days. And the soil will deposit in the pipes, reducing the water flow section and affecting the discharge capacity of the sewers. Under the serious condition, the sewers will be jammed. Generating dust and affecting air quality

If the abandon soil is not transported away in time or covered properly, it will float with rainwater and some will settle down on the ground. In the sunny and windy days, the sediment will change into dust to affect the urban air quality. Currently, that the TSP values in many cities exceed the standard limit is closely related to the abandoned soil produced in construciton.

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Affecting city appearance and interferring sights

If not disposed of timely, the abandoned soil will be dispersed by rainwater and distributed in disorder. In windy days, silt will be blown up to the air to affect the city appearance and land-based sights; when the silt enters the canals, the visibility of canal water will be reduced to affect the water area sights.

4.2.5.3 Control Measures of Land Use and Soil Erosion

(1) Land Use

The period of construction should be shortened and the temporarily occupied plots must be recovered in time.

Where possible, the existing greenbelts should not be provisionally occupied for

construction；And the occupied should be recovered immediately after

construction. If greenbelts are occupied, they should be replanted with grasses and trees to ensure that the area of greenbelts will not be lost.

(1) Conservation of soil and water

The earthwork should be balanced in design and construction. The excavated earth and stones should be backfilled for leveling of construction site. If there is a shortage of earth, spoil and gravels should be bought to fill the gap.

Construction should be carried out in stages and section by section to shorten the duration of a single item construction. Preventive measures should be adopted for exposed working faces to shorten the exposure duration as much as possible so as to reduce soil erosion.

In provisional stacking yards where soil is collectively piled up, drains should be dug around them in order to avoid soil erosion in rain season. The slope gradient of the heaped soil should be small; and the stack should be compacted as solid as possible in order that the land occupation area can be reduced and the soil can be prevented form erosion caused by rainwater.

Construction management should be strengthened and the education to the constructors on water and soil conservation should be intensified. In order to reduce soil erosion, construction should not be carried out during rainstorm.

4.2.6 Impact on Urban Views and Cultural Relics and Protective Measures

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4.2.6.1 Impacts on Urban Views and Cultural Relics

The objectives of the Project are to protect cultural relics and improve the urban views of the area of Fushan Hill. Therefore, this Project will not bring about disadvantageous effects on the urban views and cultural relics. However, if the guiding thought is improper or the methods adopted are inappropriate, though the means adopted seem clever, the results may be disappointing, which may even cause irreversible damages to the cultural relics.

4.2.6.2 Protective Measures for Urban Views and Cultural Relics

To ameliorate the urhan scenery and to protect the cultural relics, it is necessary to take such main protective measures as below:

(1) When the project is designed, adequate considerations should be taken for protection of the cultural conservation units and points from being affected by construction. Before construction, a construction scheme should be designed in the light of features of each building. The implemenation of the scheme must guarantee the safety and stability of the old buildings.

(2) Shaoxing PMO shall, jointly with other agencies concerned, prepare a program for protective disposal of cultural relics found in the construction.

In the demolishing of buildings, excavating of pavements or laying of pipelines/cables, if old remains or underground cultural relics are found, the construction operations shall suspend immediately, the specific persons be designated to protect the locale. The story shall be timely reported to the person in charge of the contractor, Shaoxing PMO shall contact the cultural relics protection agency concerned according to the prepareness program for protective disposal of cultural relics and help the agency conduct the archaeological work. Where necessary, amend the runs of pipelines/cables to bypass the sites with significant archaeological values.

(3) The design schemes for new scenic spots should be demonstrated by multiple parties or disclosed in the media to requst for citizens’ comments on the schemes to optimize and perfect them.

(4) For introduction of additional big trees, demonstrations should be conducted adequately on the necessity and survival possibility. Also attention should be paid to the ecosystem protection for the origins of big trees. For instance, some should be eliminated reasonably and some renewed moderately.

4.2.7 Impact Analysis of Resettlement and Countermeasures

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There will be housing, enterprises, governmental units and businesses to be demolished or relocated. The resettlement scale will be limited, only involving five enterprises (133 persons affected), seven governmental units (95 ones affected), housing of 258 households (831 ones affected), totally 1059 persons affected. Among the 258 households to be resettled, 175 households (560 persons) are in Pianmen Zhijie area, 47 households (146 persons) in Sun Qingjian Ascestral Temple area and Huanshan Lu 5# (36 persons). Among these households, 12 belong in the low-income households. Among the five enterprises, the Shaoxing Silk-weaving Factory already stopped production in July 2005, the resettlement for whose staff and workers has been completed. The Xinglian Printing & Packing Co., Ltd. is still under normal operation. Others have been closed down or relocated elsewhere, only office buildings or warehouses of which are remained. The seven governmental units include the Shaoxing Women and Children’s Health Care Hospital, Shaoxing Environmental Sanitation Station, Fushan Swimming Pool and other four administrative agencies. The dormitory of the hospital is used by its doctors, nurses and managerial staff for their accommodations. In the Shaoxing Sanitation Station there is a toilet and a solid waste transfer station with a capacity of 50 t/d.

The resettlement for the Project will be carried out according to the [94] No. 55

Document of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province and the [99］No. 32

Document of the People’s Government of Shaoxing City ---- Implementation Regulations on Compensations for Removal of Buildings and Resettlement of

Residents in the Urban District of Shaoxing City．It is known that generally the per capita living space of residents to be resettled is less than 8 m2. After resettlement, the lower standard limit is 8 m2/person, the minimum area 21 m2 for one- or two-person household; moreover, sanitary facilities will be complete and residential conditions will be improved. Compensation level for resettlement will be decided in accordance with the cash compensation standard for houses of various structures in Shaoxing City.

In November 2006, Shaoxing PMO prepared The Resettlement Action Plan for Shaoxing CYK HP Project. This document shows that the SPMO (also CYK HP Project Office) conducted investigations on the affected households, enterprises and governmental units in the project area between January and March 2006, April and June 2006 and in November 2006. The method of surveying one household by one household and the method of interview are combined in the investigations. The residents to be resettled participated in the investigations. During the investigations, comments of the residents, enterprises and governmental units were heard on the land acquision and resettlement. In the investigation during January-March, some

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representatives of the residents to be resettled participated in the survey, and put forth their comments concerning the project scenario, compensations for housing demolition and resettlement, which have been adequately taken into consideration in the project engineering design and the resettlement action plan. On September 21, 2006, the Shaoxing Planning Bureau disclosed the Planning Scheme for CYK HP Project in Shaoxing Daily. In the investigations carried out during April-June and in November, 2006, the related representatives of the residents to be resettled participated in the investigations, hearing comments of the residents, enterprises and governmental units on the resettlement and conducting wide consultations. In December 2006 or later, the process of public participation and policy disclosure will be carried out, so as to address all the issues prior to the implementation of the Resettlement Action Plan. On the basis of the feedback information of the Public Participation Questionaire, most residents are of the opinion that in the new residential quarters, the environment is good, supporting facilities complete, traffic conditions fine and their living standard will be raised. They are satisfied or basically satified with the existing compensation standard for the resettlement as well as the places where they will be resettled.

The affected enterprise, Xinglian Printing & Packing Co., Ltd. s will be relocated into the Paojiang Industrial Park. Because the industrial park has been being developed rapidly in the recent years with complete supporting facilities, the enterprise will have a better development prospect after being relocated there.

The affected governmental units will be resettled through exchange of property ownerships or with compensations in cash. Of the enterprises, the Shaoxing Environmental Sanitation Station will be reconstructed in the neighborhood. When the location is selected, it should be noted that the station should be built within a land use for the public building, away from residents’ houses as far as possible, for example, more than 30 m; and that a greenbelt set up to shield the station.

The enterprises and governmental units are basically pollution free or light pollution ones. After removal of them, their toxic or harmful residues must be cleaned up. After the Xinglian Printing & Packing Co., Ltd. is removed, its printing ink stacking place shall be cleared and treated appropricately. After the sanitation station is removed, its solid waste transfer station and toilet shall be cleaned up and treated appropriately, too. The treatments of the two units include the ground surfaces (of concrete) and soils, which shall be individually sealed and packed and transported to the landfill for disposal by types.

The 258 households to be resettled may, in advance, select some property evaluation agencies with adequate qualifications to evaluate their properties, and then choose the

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method of resettlement. One method is the compensation in cash; the other is the exchange of property ownerships. The households obtaining compensations in cash may buy new or second-hand apartments according to their wishes, while those exchanging property ownerships can choose the resettlement options provided by the resettling agency for them. Shaoxing PMO will provide the households to be resettled two places of apartments for resettlement: (i) Future apartments: it is expected to start construction in May 2007 and complete and turn over for use by the end of 2008. The location of these apartments is about 150 m away from the demolition area, situated in the southeast side of the intersection between Renmin Lu and Fuzhijie Street. The plot is unoccupied now. The planned floor areas of the suites are mainly between 55 and 70 m2. The number of the suites is estimated 250 or so. (ii) the other place is the Longzhou Garden Residential Area for Resettlement; 2.4 km away on average from the project area. In the residential area, there are complete public utilities and urban infrastructures as well as good property management.

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5 Alternative Options


In CYKHZ there exist main problems like those in other HPs:

(1) The living conditions are deteriorated which are gradually making the residences of this area a new slam in the city.

In the HP, the population is densely distributed and the living space of residents is narrow, which brings a lot of spontaneous construction activities of the residents for building their simple houses. The traditional residences were mostly constructed with wood and bricks, so they are far away from the modern civilization. These residential areas are becoming new slams in the city.

(2) The kinds of land uses are complex and out of order and the living conditions are poor in the traditional neighborhoods.

In the traditional neighborhoods, industrial workshops and shabby storage buildings are mixed with the residences; the public greenbelts and open spaces are lacking there. Such bad living conditions are unfavorable to the physical and mental health of the residents.

(3) Traditional streets not adaptive to the requirement of the modern communications

The traditional street framework is adaptive to the traditional production mode and living style. As the modern communications are developed rapidly, the dimension and setup of the traditional streets can not meet the requirement of vehicles travel; and it is hard to lay various pipelines and cables in the narrow lanes, either.

(4) The conflicts between the trend of social and economic development and the traditional life style to be sharpened day after day

The infrastructures in the traditional residences are incomplete and obsolete. Because of their new ideas, the new generation residents would prefer to live in well-serviced apartments rather than in those old houses in the surroundings of "small bridge, flowing water and housing". Without a complete reformation of the traditional street area, probably there will be no persons to live in the areas several decades later, let alone the preservation of traditional features and style.

To solve these problems and protect the historical relics in the historic zone, it is necessary to upgrade the urban infrastructure so that the typical scenery of homeland of rivers and lakes in Shaoxing can be shown conspicuously. Only the urban

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infrastructures (fuel gas, electric power, telecom, water and wastewater, cabled TV, street-lighting, etc.) are improved, the traffic conditions and living status ameliorated, the cultural relics renovated and the land uses adjusted, can not only the characteristics of the old city be preserved in its ancient features and styles and rich cultural heritages, but also the roads will be neat, the environment elegant, full with a tranquil atmosphere. Thus the old city of Shaoxing will be worthy of being called a “Historic City”.

This Project will be beneficial to conserve cultural relics, optimize tourist scenic sights and re-appear the characteristics of the historical and cultural old Shaoxing City and raise the living quality of the residents. However, there will exist needs to select capacities and processes in the planning designs for specific components of the Project.

This Project is a concrete program for the implementation of the Yuezicheng HP, one of the five HPs. In the FSR for Shaoxing Urban Infrastructure Upgrading Project, the Yuezicheng HP upgrading project covers an area of 68.3 ha., 23.9 ha. of which is occupied by the Fushan Park (there being no permanent population in this area), and in the rest 44.4 ha., there is a population of 8056 permanent residents, 2636 households, 3.1 persons/household, per capita constructional land use 55 m2. It is proposed to move out 3589 persons and retain 4467.

The project owner provided us with two implementation options for selection. (1) Option 1

The option is decribed in the FSR for Construction in CYK Zone provided on Feburary 28, 2006, which was jointly prepared by Shaoxing PMO and the Huahui Engineering Design Group Co., Ltd.

The total project investment for this option is 310 million yuan.

Under the option, the Project will cover an area of 34.0 ha., including 23.0 ha. of land use for park and greenbelt, 4.3 ha. for residence, 4.8 ha. for industry, 1.2 ha. for culture, education, sport and hygiene, 0.4 ha. for commerce and tourism and 0.3 ha. for administrative offices. The total area of the land uses is 11.0 ha. except the land for the park.

In the option, buildings in the scenic spots occupy a space of 29 507 m2 with a total floor area of 35 641 m2; new houses of residents, a space of 4047 sqm with a floor area of 8036 sqm; the renovated housing, a space of 14 767 sqm with a floor area of 20 288 sqm. Within the range enclosed by the planning red line, 50 456 sqm will be demolished, and 800 residents of about 200-300 households will be retained.

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On the basis of the data set forth in the FSR and by reference to the materials of the Yuezicheng HP, it can be calculated out: in the above mentioned 11.0 ha. of land uses, there would be about 2000 permanent residents living there. Hence, approximately there would be 1200 residents to be resettled.

(2) Option 2

This option is decribed in The Planning Scheme for CYK Conservation Zone, prepared jointly by Shaoxing Planning Bureau, Shaoxing Planning Design Indtitue and Shaoxing Urban Building Design Institute, September 2006.

The total project investment for this option is 740 million yuan.

Under the option, the Project will cover an area of 39.7 ha. Buildings will be demolished with a total floor area of 72 693 sqm, and 57 780 sqm of the new will be built. Totally, five enterprises will be relocated with 55 658 sqm of floor area, 133 persons affected; seven governmental units will be relocated with a total floor area of 4700 sqm, 95 persons affected; houses of 258 households will be demolished with a total floor area of 12 356 sqm, 831 residents affected. There will be 1059 persons to be resettled in total.

Based on the data of this option and by reference to the materials of the Yuezicheng HP, it can be known that in the above mentioned 15.8 ha. of land uses (excluding the land of Fushan Park), there would be 2873 permanent residents, 1059 of whom will be resettled and 1814 will remain.

By comparison between the two options, it is found there exist differences describe below:

(1) The constructional range of Option 2 is much more than that of Option 1. It is mainly because the scope of the HP to be improved is extended largely.

(2) Under Option 2, the number of residents to be resettled is less than that under Option 1. Accordingly, the rate of residents resettled is smaller.

(3) The environmental impacts thereout are different, briefed as follows:

(I) Positive Effects

Because of smaller rate of residents resettled, Option 2 is favorable to social stability. The resettlement will not only affect the masses resettled but also involve the land resource of the place of receiving them and the living standard of the masses resettled

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there. Therefore, Option 2 is advantageous to social stability and protection of the vulnerable groups.

Though the resettlers are reduced under Option 2, the investment is largely increased by more than 100%, mainly because of increased housing renovation. The renovation of the traditional housing will improve the living condistions of the residents in HP. The laying of various pipelines and cables will make more residents enjoy the modernized as the country is developing, sharing the boon brought about by the reform and opening up with the broad people in the new residential areas. Thereby, the Project can be not only an image project of revealing the ancient Yue Culture of Shaoxing with Fushan Hill as its representative, but also a project of warming hearts of the citizens which will improve the residential conditions for more households. So Option 2 is conducive to building a more harmonious society.

(2) Water Environment

By comparison to Option 1, more housing in the HP will be renovated under Option 2. The residential conditions of the residents have not improved thoroughly for years as those living in new residential areas. Especially, the sewage cannot be intercepted into the urban sewerage. Some sewage is discharged locally after passing through septic tanks, or even directly discharged without going through septic tanks. After the project implementation, the retained housing will be connected with sewers in the renovation.

Thus, the domestic sewage of more residents will be collected into the sewerage system after Option 2 is implemented, which will no longer enter directly or indirectly into the Huanshan Canal. This will substantially abate pollutants entering the Canal. Therefore, Option 2 is more favorable to the water quality improvement for the Canal.

Certainly, Option 2 has some disadvantages in comparison with Option 1. Mainly there are two points: (i) the investment needed for Option 2 is much more than that for Option 1, more than doubled. This enhances the difficulty of financing. In addition, the housing renovation is not a profit-gaining work, hence, there would be more risks revealed in the Economic Assessment. (2) In the operations for the housing renovation and pipeline/cable installation, there will exist environmental impacts on the residents in the surrounding areas, such as noise, dust, constructional wastewater, solid waste, etc. So, the disturbances of construction to the residents will be more serious under Option 2. It is accordingly required that in the process of implementation, more attention shall be paid to supervising of the environmental protection measures and putting them into effect.

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Through comparisons between the two options, we agree with Option 2, i.e., the Planning Scheme for CYK HP Conservation. However, it is required that the environmental supervision be intensified and various environmental measures put into effect.

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6 Benefit Analysis

6 Benefit Analyses and Total Amount Control6.1 Social Benefit Analysis

The implemenation of the Project will ameliorate the urban domestic sewage collection system and increase the domestic sewage interception rate to reduce the pollutants discharged into the canals to improve the water environment of canals; and will improve the environment quality of the tourist scenic spots of CYK in Fushan Hill area and even that of the whole city, with distinct social benefits. They will be reflected in these aspects below:

(1) To promote the economic development of Shaoxing

The old urban district of Shaoxing is the political, economic and cultural center of Shaoxing Municipality. The whole city is developed based on the old one. The improvement of the city environment and the urban infrastructures will promote the economic development of the urban district, and will upgrade and adjust the industrial structure. The economy of the urban district will be developed to a new stage and consequently to drive and enhance the economic development of the whole city of Shaoxing.

(2) To influence the urban land price and real estate in the city

Urban land price is mainly determined by its location, the completeness of infrastructures and the situation of the environmental quality. The Project is located at the urban district of the city, being the commercial center according to the Amended Urban Master Planning of Shaoxing City. On the basis of relevant data, the profit produced from the urban land is 2-3 times higher than that from the suburban land with the same space. Besides, according to the evaluation by the relevant department, after the improvement of the urban infrastructures and environment, the land price in the whole city will be raised by 2.321 billion yuan (Land revenue counted for 15 years).

(3) To improve the tourism industry

Shaoxing is a renowned tourism city in South Chinafamous, famous for its long history, beautiful scenery of water countryside and a lot of celebrities. Many domestic and foreign tourists are attracted by the vivid characteristics of tourism. In the urban district, concentrate The scenic spots, such as the ancient Bazi Bridge, the Former Residence of the Sage of Calligraphy Wang Xizhi, the Yuezi City of the

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6 Benefit Analysis

Spring and Autumn Period, the Former Residence of Lu Xun, the Former Residence of Zhou Enlai’s Family, etc.; on the periphery of the urban district, there is Yu the Great Mausoleum, Censer Peak, Orchid Pavilion, East Lake, etc. It is expected that after the project implementation, the improved scenic spots and urban environment will increase the number of tourists as compared with that before the environmental improvement.

(4) To solve the conflicts between the preservation and the redevelopment of the historic city

Shaoxing is a renowned historic city, which was well-known as Yue Kingdom as far back as in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring State Periods. In the urban district, there are national major cultural conservation units, such as the Former Residenc of Lu Xun, etc., provincial-level conservation units, such as Bazi Bridge, Guangning Bridge, Datong School, etc, and municipal-level conservation units scattered here and there. In these years, the contradictions between the preservation and the development are very outstanding. The project implementation will not only improve the environment around the conservation units, but also renovate the existing housing in the HP, which were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Thus, some residents will be resettled elsewhere, the infrastructures can be improved and the traditional setup rehabilitated so that the cultural implications will be thicker.

6.2 Environmental Benefit Analysis

The Project is intended to improve the urban environment. After implemenation, the sewage collection capacity will be enhanced and the water quality of the canals and the ecosystem will be improved.

(l) Sewage interception capacity enhanced

The existing sewage in the project area of CYKHZ, which has not yet been collected by sewerage, will be intercepted by the sewerage after the project implementation.

(2) To improve water quality of canals

The project will reduce some CODCr discharged into the Huanshan Canal and increase the environmental capacity of CODCr through intercepting sewage. The water quality of the canals would probably be improved from currently worse than Category IV up to Category IV. And the water will be in conformity to the requirement of sight water use to eleminate the phenomenon of black water and offensive smell.

(3) To Enlarge Greenbelts

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6 Benefit Analysis

After the project being implemented, the public greenbelts will increase to some extent. Greenbelts are appreciated as the lungs of city, which not only can beautify the environment and regulate the local micro-climate, but also have such environmental effects as absorbing of floating dust and exhaust gas and increasing of oxygen and anions in the air.

6.3 Economic Benefit AnalysisThe next step of the Project of CYKHZ is to enter the period of feasibility study to make projections for the economic gains and losses of the Project; this EIA report will analyze the environmental cost and environmental gains and losses.

6.4 Total Amount ControlCurrently, in the old city, the resident population is 150 000, producing sewage of 14294 t/a and CODCr. The amount of sewage intercepted, treated and discharged is 26.18 million t/a, the CODCr reduction quantity through treatment being 6021.4 t/a. after completion of the Infrastructure Upgrading Project, the planned population of the old city will be 10 000, who will produce 21.90 million t/a, which will contain 7665t/a of CODCr. In the long term, the amount of sewage transmitted to WWTP

would be 15.33 million t/a，CODCr reduction 3526 t/a.

At present, the population in the five historic precincts is 26488. And the planned is

19267 after completion of the proiect．The present sewage produced is 2.053 million

t/a; after completion, the sewage produced would be 3.519 million t/a. The productions of CODCr are: 718.6t/a at present and 1231.6 t/a in future. Now the sewage collection network in the five historic precincts has not yet completed and the

sewage is discharged to the canal on the whole. In future，when the ratio of sewage

collection reaches 70％， the amount of CODCr discharged to the canals will be

369.5 t/a, 349.1 t/a reduced as compared to that before.

In terms of the old city，the total amount of CODCr discharged to the canals in future

will be 2299 t/a, 2832 t/a 1ess than the present discharge, 5131 t/a. As to the five historic precincts under renovation, the current production of CODCr is 718.6 t/a , which is 1ess than the total discharge of 1231.6 t/a in future. So, the production of the pollutant will increase. However, the amount of CODCr discharged to the canals, 369.5 t/a, will be far less than the existing discharge. Therefore, the water quality of the canals will be improved.

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7 Environment Management Plan


The project will bring about certain impacts on the environment in the periods of construction and operation. Environmental control measures must be taken to reduce the environmental impacts. The environmental management must be strengthened in order that the economic and environmental benefits can grow sustainably and harmoniously and that the project construction can conform to the national policy of “economic construction and environmental construction shall be planned at the same time, developed at the same time and implemented at the same time”.

7.1 Environment Administration and Supervision Agency

According to the adminstrative authority set forth in The Environmental Protection Law of PRC and The Environment Protection Administrative Ordinance for Construction Projtect, the EIA Report of the Project should be reviewed and approved by the National Environmental Protection Administration, NEPA). NEPA is the supervisory organization of the Project. The duty of NEPA is to put forward requirements on the basis of the EIA Report, and take charge of the acceptance of the environmental facilities of the Project. The Environmental Protection Bureau of Zhejiang Province, Environmental Protection Bureau of Shaoxing and the local monitoring station will jointly carry out specific supervision and guidance on the implementation of the environmental measures during both periods of construction and operation in accordance with the environment law, regulations and the instructions of NEPA.

SEPAZEPB SEPB Dist./County EPB

Supreme Env.

Supervision

Agency

Provincial ESA Routine ESA

Shaoxing Env.

Mon. Station.

7.2 Responsibilities of Environmental Adminstration and Supervision Agencies

In the feasibility study stage the owner of the Project consigned the Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province to prepare the EIA Report for the Project. The design unit should implement the measures set forth in the EIA Report in the design for the project. The responsible agency of the owner and the environmental protection agencies will review and provide no objection to the design scheme of environmental measures.

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In the construction period, an Environmental Protection Division should be set up under the Project Construction Headquaters, retaining one or two experienced environmental protection staff to supervise the environmental measures implemenation in each stage of construction in line with the national laws and regulations as well as NEPA’s instructions on the Project. The Division must keep a close contact with the local environmental protection agencies and arrange the implementation of the measures in each stage. Meanwhile, the contractors should staff environmental protectors to supervise and manage the measures implemented in contracted sections.

In the operation period, the monitoring may be entrusted to the professional environment agency on the water quality of the canals in the old city and on that of the sewage received by the sewerage. The responsibilities of the environmental Administration and supervision agencies are shown in Table 7.2-1

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Table 7.2-1 Responsibilities of Environmental Administration and Supervision Agencies

Stage Agencies Contents of Supervision Objectives of Supervision

Feasibility Study

SEPAZhejiang

Government Zhejiang EPBWorld Bank

Shaoxing City Government

Shaoxing EPB

1. Review and approval of EIA Outline2. Review and approval of EIA Report

1. To ensure the contents of EIA complete, topics set appropriate and key points outstanding;

2. To ensure major potential issues produced by te project to be reflected adequately;

3. To guarantee available the feasible implementation plan for the environmental impact mitigating measures

Design and C

onstruction

SEPAZhejiang

Government Zhejiang EPBWorld Bank

Shaoxing City Government

Shaoxing EPBShaoxing Cultural

Relics Buruea

1. Inspection on recovery of land occupied temporarily for construction restoration of vegetations and rehabilitation of environment;2. Inspection on measures of controlling dust and noise pollutions; 3. Inspections on emission of air pollutants;4. Inspection on discharge and treatment of domestic sewage and solid waste in construction sites;6. Coordination and treatment of social issues related to the resettlement;7. Coordination and treatment of work linkages between the construction, communications, power supply, telecommunication, water supply and wastewater, fuel gas, etc.

1. Three meanwhile’s to be adhered tostrictly;2. To abate the environmental impacts of the construction to the surrounding environment, and to enforce the related environment law and regulations as well as environmental protection standards3. To ensure the water quality of the canals including the Huanshan Canal not to be polluted seriously;4. To ensure the resources of land and landscapes not to be damaged so as to avoid soil erosion;

5. To protect the cultural relics resource not to be destroyed.6. To ensure successful implementation of resettlement to safeguard the social stability;7. To ensure the normal production of the units and the life of residents, in the urban district.

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Table 7.2-1 Responsibilities of Environmental Administration and Supervision Agencies

Stage Agencies Contents of Supervision Objectives of Supervision

Operation

Shaoxing Cultural Relics Buruea

Shaoxing Office of City AppearanceShaoxing EPB

1. Inspection on the implementation of the monitoring plan and training plan;2. Inspection on whether it is necessary to take further environmental measures to deal with unexpected environmental issues;3. Inspection on whether the environment quality at sensitive points meets the relevant quality standard?4. Inspection on the sewage interception facilities in the HPs

1. To protect the environment physically and effectively;2. To put the monitoring and training plans into effect;3. To ensure the implementation of the environment management plan.

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7.3 Environment Monitoring Plan

As a basis of the preparation of the environmental management and protection measures plan, the environmental monitoring plan needs to be implemented for the Project. The environmental monitoring will show the real impacts on the environment and the effects of the measures of environment protection so that the environment will be protected better and the social and economic benefits of the Project will be brought into full play.

7.3.1 Necessary Environment Monitoring

The environxnental monitoring can be carried out in three periods:

(l) The feasibility study period: In this period, the environmental background should be monitored, which can be done by an environmental impact assessment agency;

(2) The construction period: Concentrated monitoring should be carried out in the peak time of construction. The work can be consigned to the local monitor station.

(3) The operation period: after the project being completed, the monitoring on water quality in canals and noise as well as the water quality of enterprises’ wastewater entering the sewerage should be conducted. This work can be consigned to the environmental protection agency concerned.

The monitoring plan for environmental impacts in each period is detailed in Table 7.3-l.

Table 7.3-l Monitoring Plan for Environmental Impacts in Each Period

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Periods ItemTime andFrequency

Locations Items

Feasibilitystudy

Noise 10 min.at each point in daytime, one day

Total 10 points on Fushan Hill and off the Hill LAeq

Canal waterquality

Once per day,successive four days

Section of the Huanshan Canal

Water temperature, pH, SS, total hardness, DO, CODMn, BOD5, non-ionic ammonia, NO2

-, NO3-, volatile phenol,

cyanide, As, Hg, Cr+6, Pb, Cd, total phosphate, total nitrogen and crude oil

Construction

Air4 times a day for 3 succesivedays in peakconstr. period

Construction site TSP, NOx and CO

NoiseOnce respectively in daytime and nighttime in one day during peak const. period

Construction site

LAeq

Operation

Air Successive three days, four times a day

At parking lots on the ground and near accesses to the underground carport

CO and NOx

Urban canal waterquality

Once a day for four successive days in the short term

Section of the Huanshan Canal

Water temperature, pH, SS, total hardness, DO, CODMn, BOD5, non-ionic ammonia, NO2

-, NO3-, volatile phenol,

cyanide, As, Hg, Cr+6, Pb, Cd, total phosphate, total nitrogen and crude oils

Once a day for four successive days, 2-3 years after Project completion

Ditto

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Noise10 min. at each point in daytime per quarter

Similar to those in the feasibility study period, plus points at parking lots and near accesses to the underground carport

LAeq

7.3.2 Cost of Monitoring Equipment

(l) Monitoring Equipment

The monitoring equipment must be decided according to the environmental monitoring items. The consigned monitoring agency must have the relevant equipment and instruments. The list of the equipment and instruments is shown in Table 7.3-2.

Table 7.4-2 List of Environmental Monitoring Equipment and Instruments

Nr. Name Specifications Unit Quantity

1 Atomic absorption spectrophotometer Equipped with flame and graphite ovens

Set 1

2 Ultraviolet spectrophotometer 1

3 Spectrophotometer VIS-723 1

4 COD analyser HH-1 1

5 BOD analyser 2

6 pH-meter PHS-25 1

7 Conductivity meter BSD-A 1

8 Automatic potentiometer titrimeter ZD-3 1

9 Turbidity meter 1

10 Fine balance 1/10000 auto counting 1

11 Platform scale 1

12 Refrigerator 2

13 Electrically-heated thermostatic dry box

HG202-II 10-300 ℃ 1

14 BOD incubator HW-III 1

15 Other device 1

16 Gas chromatograph 1

17 Mercury vapormeter 1

18 Automatic water sampling device 1

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19 586 computer 1

20 Printer 1

21 Chemical agent 1

22 Fume cupboard 1

23 Portable sound-level meter 1

(2) Estimated monitoring cost

7.3.3 Environment Monitoring Report

(1) Stage Reports of Construction Period

The reports should be sumbitted to the local environmental protection agencies for different stages, the contents of which should include construction progress, main construction contents and methods, description of environmental impacts caused by construction and measures put into effect for mitigation of the environmental impacts.

(2) Environment Monitoring Report of Operation Period

In the operation period, the project environmental management agency should, after environment monitoring according to the requirements set forth in the EIA Report, submit the monitoring report to the environmental protection agencies in time.

The contents of the report should include:

(1) Monitoring time, frequency, point locations, monitoring items, methods and schemes of qua1ity control;

(2) Monitoring data and statistical analysis

(3) Briefing of the facilities operation status during environmenta1 monitoring;

(4) Abnormal conditions.

In the course of project construction, monthly reports should be prepared and submitted to the engineering management division and the Shaoxing EPB.

7.4 Training Plan

7.4.1 General Requirements

Training should be conducted for the staff of project managerial staff and workers on

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the knowledge of environmental protection and management.

7.4.2 Basic Character Requirements of Personnel

Environmental protection staff shall know well the environment knowledge, and understand the procedures and techniques of environment management for the Project as well as the environmental protection measures for the Project.

All the personnel of environmental protection shall be trained. Only after passing the examination, can they do their jobs.

7.4.3 Training of Environmental Protection Staff

Under the Project, local and/or overseas training will be conducted for environment protection staff. Main environmental protection staff of Shaoxing PMO should participate in the overseas training to understand new methods and techniques of environment protection for old cities in developed countries as well as skills for bearing the responsibilities for the environment protection of the whole Project. Staff for project environment management and staff for emergency measures will receive local training to raise managerial and technical level. Overseas training one person; local training personnel: five environment management staff, two environment supervision engineers, one person for emergency measures, totally seven persons, estimated cost 100 000 yuan. Breakdown of the cost is shown in Table 7.4-1.

Table 7.4-1 Training Plan for Environmental Protection Staff

Period Item Person NumberTotal PN

Cost (yuan)

Construction

Environmental protection staff of SPMO

Project management 1

1 60 000

Project environment management staff

Each from the contractor and the

development company

2 10 000

Environment supervision engineer

Each from the contractor and the

development company

2 10 000

Staff for emergency measures

City Appearance Office 1

1 10 000

Operation Environment management staff

Each from the City Appearance Office

2 10 000

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and the development

companyTotal 8 100 000

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8 Public Participation


The aim of the Urban Infrastructure ReconstrUction Projects of Shaoxing City is to protect and ameliorate the environment of the city. But in the construction, some negative impacts will be brought about on the social environment and daily life of the residents in the project area. To balance the interests of all parties and make the project plan and design and implementation program optimized as well as to assess the social, economic and environmental benefits the Project will bring about, we, in accordance with the related laws and regulations and the environment assessment policy as well, investigated the public opinions randomly in the old city and analyzed the results of the survey, which are provided to the investment and administrative agencies for their reference in making decisions in order to give full play of the integrated and long-term benefits of the Project to the maximum.

From January to March 2006 and from April to June 2006 and in November as well, Shaoxing PMO organized a specific survey team to conduct the investigations on the quantities of the physical matters to be demolished or relocated due to the implementation of the Project households, hear the comments of the residents, enterprises and governmental units on the acquisition of land and resettlement of residents, and consult with them. The representatives of the resettlers participated in the investigation at each time. In September 2006, the Environmental Science Research & Design Institute of Zhejiang Province disclosed the project information to the public in accordance with the regulations by SEPA. The contents disclosed include the name of project, summary of project, name of the owner and contact means, name of EIA unit and contact means, EIA procedures and main contents, main contents requested for comments of the public; main ways for the public to put forward their comments, duration of the information disclosure, etc. The above contents were published in Shaoxing Daily on September 21, 2006 by the Shaoxing Planning Bureau. The ESRDIZP also organized an investigation on the public participation for the Project from 25 to 30 October, 2006.

8.1 Content and Method of Public Participation SurveyThe public participation mode adopted is as such: In the Project area, a notice was posted of the Project background; at the same time, the questionaires were released to the masses in the Project area to request for their comments on the environmental protection with regard to the implementation of the Project. The information was disclosed on the Notice Board at the Fushan, Fushan Subdistrict Office.

The questionnaires were released at random to investigate the attitudes, comments and demands of the public in the old urban district.

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The main contents of the survey include:(1) Overall attitude to the Project;(2) Understanding extent;

(3) Effects of the project implementation on the development of local economy and tourism and life of residents;

(4) Concerns about the periods of project construction and operation.(5) Attitudes to the compensations for resettlement.

In the questionnaire, also the scope of project is briefed. In addition, the members of the survey team interviewed with households to be resettled, requesting for their comments and suggestions (including resettlement willingness). All the affected units to be relocated filled the questionnaires.

8.2 Results of Survey(1) Analysis of Objects Surveyed

Totally, 16 incorporation questionnaires and 20 individual ones were released and collected respectively for this investigation on the public participation. The units surveyed are mainly organs, enterprises and governmental units in the project area and on its periphery, shown in Table 8.2-1; and the information of individuals surveyed in Table 8.2-2.

Table 8-1 List of Units Surveyed for Public Participation

Nr. Name Nr. Name1 Pianmen Community, Fushan

Subdistrict, Yuecheng District 2 Shaoxing Xuefeng Group Co., Ltd.

3 Shaoxing Municipal Engineering Co., Ltd.

4 Environmental Sanitation Management Division of Yuecheng District, Shaoxing

5 Shaoxing Industrial Science Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.

6 Shaoxing Municipal-level Organs Affairs Management Bureau

7 Shaoxing Scenery & Landscape Construction Co., Ltd.

8 Shaoxing Landscaping Administration

9 Shaoxing Fushan Property Management Institute

10 Fushan Community, Fushan Subdistrict, Yuecheng District

11 Shaoxing Printing-Dyeing & Packing Factory Co., Ltd.

12 Shaoxing Sports Center

13 Shaoxing Municipal Utilities Co., Ltd. 14 Women and Children's Health Care Hospital of Shaoxing City

15 Shaoxing Construction SupervisionCo., Ltd.

16 Shaoxing Municipal Engineering Management Division

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Table 8.2-2 Basic Information of Individual Survey Objects

Gender (％)

Male Female74 26

Education (％)

Junior College or Above

Technical Seceondary School or Below

13 87Age (％)

Below 40 40 or Above40 60

(3) Analysis of survey results① Results of incorporation questionaires

Through analysis of the statistics for the public participation, it is shown that all the units surveyed held an attitude of supporting the Project and had known it, considering that the project construction would be conducive to developing the local economy and tourism as well as improving the living standard of residents; with regard to the resettlement issue whether the resettlement arrangements and compensation are acceptable, 94% of the surveyed units thought them acceptable. None thought inacceptable; 19% of the surveyed units considered that there would be no environmental impact in the construction period, however, 71% thought there would be certain impacts, but all of them being less; 100% considered there would be no impact on the environment after the project completion.

Their main suggestions are to build sanitary facilities according to the national standard during project construction. If the existing sanitary facilites are affected by the Project, relocation or upgrading should not be carried out until communications have been conducted with the Environmental Sanitation Division.

② Results analysis of individual questionnaires

The number of this survey is 50 persons, 29 of whom held an attitude of supporting the project construction, representing 58%; 20 adopted an indifferent attitude,

amounting to 40%; 1 against，accounting for 2%，whose reason is that old housing

is located in a good place, it had better not demolish the old. There were 48 persons expressing that they had known the Project, accounting for 96%; two or 4% not known; 42 persons or 84%; thought the project construction would be beneficial to develop the local economy and tourism and raise resident’ living standard; 8 persons or 16% unclear; 9 persons or 18% considered there would be no impact on the environment during construction period; 11 persons or 22% thought there would be some impact but less; the rest unclear; 31 persons or 62% thought that there would no impact after completion; 2 persons or 4% were of the opinion that there would be

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some impact; the rest unclear; 16 persons or 32% thought that they knew the resettlement compensation policy; 14 persons or 28% thought that they did not know the policy; 20 persons or 40% thought that they knew the Project to a certain extent.

Main comments and suggestions are: support of the project construction, which is good for heightening the city grade and benefiting the citizens. However, housing change may cause inconvenience to their children to go to school. They requested the government take this factor into account. With respect to the resettlement, some residents requested the apartments be provided for resettlement.. It had better not demolish the old. Apartments for Resettlement should be near the former houses.

8.3 Information Disclosure

The EIA report about the Project was disclosed to the public on 25 October 2006 at Fushan Subdistrict where the Project will be constructed and Shaoxing Historical City Protection Office. During the disclosure, no comments were received.

8.4 Summary

The results of the public participation survey indicate that the masses of the people in the Project area have a high public awareness, who hold an attitude of supporting the Projection, considering that the construction of the Project will be helpful to develop the local economy and tourism and raise the living standard of residents. Some individuals put forward their requests on the resettlement. It is suggested that the implemenation agency accept them if reasonable. In addition, the significance of the Project construction should be further publicized so as to make the public understood and get their support.

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9 Conclusions and Recommendations

9 Conclusions and Recommendations9.1 Conclusions

The Project will cause certain impacts to the surrounding environment during both periods of the construction and operation. Measures shall be taken to mitigate them, seen in Table 9.1-1.

Table 9.1-1 Potential Environmental Impacts and Mitigating Measures

StagEnvironmen

t Key Elements

Environmental Impact Mitigating Measures

Construction

Social environment

Resettlem

ent

·5 enterprises, 7 governmental units and 258 households resettled, totally 1059 resettlers.

·Resettlement will affect the living environment of resettlers and also affect the land resource and living standard in the area for resettlement, If handled inappropriately, the resettlement may affect the social stability.

·Strengthen the information disclosure and investigation of public participation;

·Attach importance to the vulnerable groups.

Traffic and urban infrastructure

·At traffic peak period, transport unimpededness may be influenced;·Road pavements may be damaged;·Pipelines/cables may be broken due to excavation.

·Dispatch vehicles and boats reasonably;·Strengthen coverage on trucks transporting stones. In case that the stones fall down and scatter,, send persons to clean them up;

·Strengthen contract with the agencies of power supply, telecom, water supply and wastewater, fuel gas, etc. to prevent pipelines/cables from being dug broken due to excavation; in case of accident, rush to repair timely.

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Table 9.1-1 Potential Environmental Impacts and Mitigating Measures (Continued)

PerioEnvironmen

t Key Elements


Construction

Social environment

Cultural conservation

·Because of careless consideration, some renowned alleys, shops and buildings may be demolished and reconstructed, which will destroy the historical style and features.·Cultural sites and embedded cultural objects may be found

in excavation. If effective measures are not taken, losses may happen.

·The design scheme shall be demonstrated by multiple parties,, disclosed and exhibited to the public.·Working out a prepareness program for dealing with emergency matters of protecting cultural relics, training persons in charge of the construction and educating the constructors. Once such kind of things are found, the constructors shall suspend construction immediately, and a specific person(s) shall be dispatched to protect the scene and report to the person in charge of construction, Shaoxing PMO and the cultural relics conservation agency, cooperating on the cultural relics protection

Water environment

Construction al wastew

ater

·In the construction of bored piles, if discharged at random, the muddy water will flow into rainwater wells to affect the water quality of the canal.

·If discharged at random, the oily wastewaters of constructional vehicles, boats and plants may affect the water quality of the canal.

·Sand, soil and other construction materials concerned piled up in open spaces will be eroded in rainy days to block rainwater pipes and affect the water quality.

·The muddy water shall go through a sedimentation pond with an adequate capacity for sedimentation, ·Strengthen repair and maintenance of vehicles, boats and constructional plants to prevent oils from leakage..·Construction materials shall be stored in warehouses; if piled up in open spaces, sand and soil should covered before rain.

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Constructors’ Sew

age

·If not treated, the sewage of constructors will affect the water quality of the canal.

·Borrow toilets of the units/hotels near construction sites. Arrangements shall be made prior to starting of construction.

·Put up temporary toilets, and clean up and transport the night soil timely..


Stage Environment Key Elements


Construction

Air environment

Dust ·Dust on road, dust of operation, dust in stacking ground will affect the surrounding environment, causing the urban air environmental quality to decline.

·Frequently spray water on road, stacking ground, etc., 4-5 times a day.·Spray water on buildings to be

demolished to restrain dust. ·Employ commercial concrete, transported in a sealed way.·Big mixing spot shall evade the leeward housing within 100 m.

Fume of asphalt

·When a road (e.g., the road of linking Huanshan Lu via Hezuo Long to the road at eshiqian) is paved with asphalt concrete, asphalt fume will be generated. The fume contains phenol, 3,4-Benzypyrene and other toxic substances.

·Use asphalt concrete ppre-mixed in the plant. The designated supplier shall possess asphalt fume purifying devices and take measures for environment monitoring and management.·Labor protection shall be intensified at temporary asphalt spreading spot, work efficiency raised to shorten work duration.

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Decorative waste gas

·The gas pollution of Xylene from paints and formaldehyde from veeners will harm the health of the residents.

·Use up-to-standard low toxic products.


Stage

Environment Key Elements


Construction

Sound environment

Constructional noise

·Noise sound level at 50 m from the boundaries of constructional plants will be 57~70dB, which may affect the households at the foot of Fushan Hill, on both sides of Fuzhijie Street, Pianmenzhijie Street, the northern side of shiqian, and the northwestern side of Dajiaochangyan (byside of the Big Drill Ground) in the Historic Zone.

·Select and apply low noise constructional plants and methods (for instance, use bored piles and/or static pressing piles to replace striking piles) .

·No nighttime construction should be carried out. In case of necessity, an application shall be submitted for approval and the Notice posted.

·When especially near a sensitive point (<20m), sound insulation barrier (for instance, enclosure wall) shall be erected.

Solid wasteDomestic

solid waste·If not timely cleaned and transported away, the domestic solid waste of constructors will affect the city appearance and health of the masses.

·Domestic solid waste should be collected at designated places, and timely cleaned and transported out, which shall not be mixed with construction soild waste.

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Stage



Construction

Solid waste

Residues of ground surface

·The residual printing ink may remain in the concrete ground and the surficial soil at the printing ink stacking place of the Xinglian Printing & Packing Co., Ltd., which will be harmful to the health of the masses.·The residual pollutants in the concrete ground and surfacial soil of the solid waste transfer station and toilet of the Sanitation Station will be harmful to the health of the masses.

·After being cleaned up, the residues in the concrete ground and surfacial soil of the the company and the solid waste transfer station shall be transported in sealed truncks to a landfill, diposed by categories.

Constructional solid waste

·Under the Project, 72 693m2 of buildings will be demolished, including workshops, office buildings, housing, etc. If not cleaned up timely, the construction solid waste will affect the city appearance, causing dust in windy days and blocking sewers in rainy days. If recyclables are not recycled, the resources will be wasted

·Timely clean up constructional solid waste.·Recycle the recyclables and deliver them to the market of used construction materials.·Transport non-recyclables to a landfill. The nearest landfill is Dawa Landfill, 18 km away.

Construction

Eco-environment

Land occupation

·The Project will not occupy cultivated land. Original green land will be recovered after project completion.

·Occasionally greenbelts may be occupied temporarily land.

·Temporarily occupied landshall be cleaned up to recover vegetations after completion.

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Stage



Construction

Eco-environment

Vegetation transformation

·In the transformation of vegetations and construction of scenic spots, species of plants will be changed, which may bring about interferences to the existing eco-system, if the disposition is not appropriate.

·Erect rails to protect old and/or rare trees.·At sensitive locations, such as steep cliff, etc., the existing vegetation of hilly woods should be avoided destruction as far as possible.

·In putting trees in order,pay attention to protection of other species under the trees. It is forbidden to “shave them bareheaded”.

·Where appropriate, preferably select local tree species.·When big trees are introduced, attach importance to protection of the vegetations of their habitats. Some should be eliminated reasonably and some renewed suitably.·Pay attention to seasons for planting vegetations;

Strengthen maintenance to raise survival rates. It is not allowed to violate the order of nature for accelerating the progress.

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Quarry and sand ground

·Stone exploitation in disorder will afftect the vegetations of hilly woods, making the hill body exposed to influence sights or even trigger a debris flow.

·Sand exploitation in disorder will affect hydrology and channel, bringing about hidden troubles of safety to affect flood control.

·Stone, gravel, spoil and sand will all be purchased from outside.·Select sand/stone suppliers which meet the engineering conditions and environmental requirements of the Project


Stage



Operation

Social environment

·Improve the historical features and style of the scenic spots in CYK including Fushan Hill and raise the city grade.·Promote the development of tourism.·Improve the urban insfrastructures in the HP.·Resolve the conflict between conservation and development of the renowned historic city.·The residential conditions of 2873 residents in CYKHZ will be improved, their living standard raised.

Water environment

·Annually, 213 000 m3 of domestic sewage will no longer be discharged into the Huanshan Canal (COD 74.5 tons and BOD 31.9 tons). The water quality of the canals will hopefully be improved.

·At present, Phases I and II projects of the Shaoxing Municipal WWTP, which is situated in Sanjiang Town, The total capacity of the WWTP is 650,000 m3/d. Currently, the WWTP receives 520 000 m3/d of wastewater. Therefore it can admit the sewage (583 m3/d) from this Project.

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Air environment

Waste gas of carport

, parking lot

·The tail gas at the access(es) of the underground carport will affect the households within 20 .

·Tail gas from parking lots on the ground will affect the households a certain distance away from the boundaries: 30 m from small parking lot, 50 m from large parking lot.

·It is required that in siting, the distances between the access(es) of the underground carport and the households, and between the boundaries of parking lots on the ground and the households be longer than the protective distances mentioned at the left side,


Stage



Operation

Air environment Fume waste gas of restaurant cookroom

· The fume of cookroom contains some grease, organic substances and decomposed or cracked products generated in the process of food processing and cooking, which are harmful to people’s health.

·The waste gas of oily fume shall be collected by the exhaust sytem and treated by oily fume purifying device and emitted after meeting the standard.

·It is not allowed to set up food and drink trades beneath residents’ apartments.

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Sound environment

Carport, parking lot

·Noise may be at 52~58dB at 50 m from the boundaries of 4 parking lots, possible to exceed the standard limit, 55 dB).·Noise will exceed the standard limit, 55 dB at within 20 m from the access(es) of the underground carport.

·In siting of parking lots and accesses of underground carport, it shall be ensured there are no households within a certain distance.; for the underground carport, 20 m from the access, small parking lot, 30 m, large parking lot, 50 m.

·In case that the requirement is not satisfied, measures shall be taken for treatment: parking lot on the ground will not be constructed, instead, underground carport or enclosed multi-storied parking carport will be built. Low noise ramps shall be employed; sound insulation and absorption ceiling used (transparent materials).

Exhaust blower, outdoor unit of air conditioner

·The noise will exceed the standard limit, 55 dB, within 50 m from the exhaust blower of the cookroom of the Tourist Service Center.·The noise will exceed the standard limit (nighttime), 45 dB, within 20 m from the outdoor units of air conditioners.

·The cookroomof the Tourist Service Center should be more than 50 m from residents houses; Unless otherwise, a muffler shall be mounted on the blower.·None of the outdoor units of air conditioners of buildings is allowed to face right against the windows of residents houses; Unless otherwise, mufflers shall be installed.


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Operation

Sound environment

Yarn Washihg Pool

Water pumping house

·If set up on the ground, the pumping house will affect tourists.

The pump house should be set underground as far as possible. Pumps shall be installed in a sound insulation house and low noise pumps selected for use and sound dampers used on the foundation. In case set up on the ground, the pumping house should be sound insulated with low noise pumps installed for use The pipeline should be embedded underground with streamlined elbows.

Solid wasteSolid waste

transfer station

·Because of inappropriate siting of the new location of the soild waste transfer station of the Environmental Sanitation Station, the factors of offensive smell, etc. are likely to cause disputes.

·The transfer station shall be arranged within the plot planned for public facilities.

·30 m or farther away from residents houses.·Shielded by landscaping wood belt.

Eco-environment

Water and soil conservation

·Inappropriate treatment of such ecologically sensitive points as steep cliffs, slopes, etc. is likely to destroy the existing vegetations in the hilly woods to cause soil erosion.

·The original status shall be kept as far as possible.·Avoid exposure of soil.

Eco-environment

·If introduced in indiscriminately, the external species may intervene the original ecosystem.

·Attention should be paid to selection of species harmonious with the surrounding environment and to the range of local tree species.

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The Public Participation Survey indicates that the public within the project area have adequately understood the significance of the project construction, holding positive attitudes to the project construction.

To ensure the environmental safeguard measures to be put into effect, the environment management must be intensified Under the Project Construction Headquaters, there shall be an “Environment Management Division” set up to manage and supervise the environmental work in different stages of the Project. In addition, a monitoring plan should be worked out to monitor environment impacts in different construction stages. In the course of project implementation, training shall be conducted for the related environment management staff.

The CYKHZ Project of Shaoxing is consistent with the Urban Master Planning of Shaoxing City. The implementation of the Project will be conducive to improving the ecosystem, tourist environment and residents’ living conditions and conserving urban sights and cultural relics in the historic city-center of the old Shaoxing, having obvious social, economic and environmental benefits. Negative influences produced during the periods of construction and operation should be mitigated by means of necessary measures. It is of the opinion of this EIA Report that the Project is environmentally feasible.

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