China - Second Guangdong Pearl River Delta Urban Environment Project

Page 1 INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET CONCEPT STAGE Report No.: AC727 Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: March 17, 2004 I. BASIC INFORMATION A. Basic Project Data Country: China Project ID: P087273 Project Name: Guangdong Pearl River Delta Urban Environment Project 2 Task Team Leader: Hubert Jenny Estimated Appraisal Date: February 9, 2005 Estimated Board Date: June 16, 2005 Managing Unit: EASUR Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan Sector: General water, sanitation and flood protection sector (100%) Theme: Pollution management and environmental health (P) Safeguard Policies Specialists in the task team: Chongwu Sun, Youlan Zou Loan/Credit amount ($m.): IBRD: 200 Other financing amounts by source: Municipal & Central Government ($m) 500 B. Project Objectives [from section 3 of PCN] As a follow-up to the first Guangdong PRD Urban Environment Project, the development objective of the proposed project is to improve quality of the urban environment in the key city of Shenzhen through building urban infrastructure and improving access, controlling environmental pollution, and developing sustainable institutions for improved service delivery, in order to facilitate future local economic development and to protect the water resources. Higher level objective Improve PRD quality urban environment Improve disaster prevention Improve water resources management Develop sustainable institutions for urban service Project Development Objective (outcome) Reduce water pollution and improve service delivery Improve flood control Strengthen Water and Environment Pollution Monitoring Streamline wastewater operation Project O UTPUTS - Sewerage interceptors and WWTP - Safe river sediments disposal Flood prevention and control works - Water diversion works - River environmental flow and surface water quality - Autonomous and financially sustainable wastewater company. - Inter-Districts cooperation Page 2 C. Project Description [from section 4 of PCN] The total costs of the proposed project for Shenzhen are estimated at about US$700 million. The proposed project would cover: (i) Shenzhen catchment, consisting of Shenzhen river, bordering Hong Kong and Buji catchment, a tributary to Shenzhen river: