China - ZheGanLine Railway Electrification Speedup Renovation Project : environmental assessment (Vol. 2 of 3) : Environmental impact report

World Bank Financed E884 VOL. 2 ZheGanLine Railway Electrification Speedup Renovation Project Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Impact Report (3rd Edition) Beijing OASIS Environment Protection Technology CO, Ltd Second Railways Survey & Design Institute January, 2004 Chengdu FIL COPYn  Table of Contents 1. General .........................................1 1.1 Project Background .........................................I 1.2 Basis ..................................................2 1.3 Rating of evaluation .4 1.4 Assessment factor .4 1.5 Scope of assessment.5 1.6 Evaluation period .6 1.7 Evaluation Criterion.6 2. Project Description . . . 1 3 2.1 Overview of existing project .1 3 2.2 Newly built works .1 5 3. Evaluation on general situation of the environment . . .2 2 3.1 General situation of the natural environment ...................................... 2 2 3.2 Natural reserves and key points of interest.2 3 3.3 General situation of the ecological environment .................................. 2 3 3.4 Noise ......................................... . . . 2 8 3.5 Present Status of Water Environmental Quality ...................................... 102 3.6 Ambient Air Quality ...................................... 113 3.7 Electromagnetic Environment ........... ........................... 118 3.8 Underground water resources .......... ............................ 128 3.9 Engineering geology ...................................... 129  3.10 Unfavorable geology ......................................................... 129 3.11 Soil and water loss ......................................................... 130 3.12 Present situation of social environment .................................................. 136 4. Environment impact assessment and environment protection measures .......... 141 4.1 Environment impact assessment and environment protection measures. 141 4.2 Soil and water loss ......................................................... 168 4.3 Forecast on influence of acoustic environment and mitigation measures 192 4.4 Assessment of the Impact on Aquatic Environment and Protection Measures ......................................................... 255 4.5 Air quality .296 4.6 Electromagnetic environment .302 4.7 Solid waste .314 4.8 Social impact analysis .316 4.9 Landscape Impacts and Mitigation Measures .324 5. Alternative Proposal ..326 5.1 Comparison of railway proposals (alternative proposal) .326 5.2 Comparisons of the railway and highways (alternative railway proposal) 327 5.3 Comparison of local route-selection proposals .329 6. Environment Management, Supervision and Monitoring Schedules... 340 6.1 Environment management organizations .340 6.2 Environmental supervision plan .347 6.3 Environment Monitoring Plan .349  6.4 Personnel training ............................................... 358 7. Public participation ............................................. 360 7.1 Overview .360 7.2 Composition of Public Participation .360 7.3 Public opinion .361 7.4 Opinions from local governments and experts .368 7.5 Summary .369 7.6 Feedback and practice of public participation information .369 7.7 Information Disclosure .369 8. Conclusion ............................................. 373 8.1 Rationality of Line Selection ............................................... 373 8.2 Assessment Conclusion of Present Environment Status ......................... 373 8.3 Assessment Conclusion of Environment Impact .................................... 374 8.4 Estimated Investment on Environment Protection .380  EA Report on Reconstructed Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Electrification Speedup Renovation Project 1. General 1.1 Project Background The ZheGanLine Railway is a state-level main-line railway, and the most important, westward running artery that runs east-to-west to the south of Yangtze River. The line is an important component of a multidirectional framework system, in which, 8 state trunk lines going down from the north to the south and another 8 extending from the east to the west. It is also an important component of an express passenger transport system of China, in which 4 lines going down from the north to the south and another 4 extending from the east to the west. The two systems are also handle most part of material and personnel interchange in the regions of East, South and Southwest China. The ZheGanLine Railway, together with the Beijing to Kowloon Railway, forms the fastest and most convenient landway route between the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. The engineering feasibility study and preliminary design of the Project were completed in October, 2001 and November, 2003 respectively while the final elaborative design of contraction drawing is expected to be finished by April, 2004. The environmental impact assessment of electrification speedup renovation project for reconstructed Zhejiang - Jiangxi Railway is presided over by China Academy of Railway Sciences(CARS) and compiled by Second Railways Survey & Design Institute (SSDI). The evaluation group submitted the outline of environmental impact assessment in April, 2002 and it was reviewed and approved by SEPA on May 28, 2002. In Dec., 2002, the Environmental Impact Report was completed and passed the review performed by SEPA on Jan 26 and 27, 2003. Because of changes in technical norms and part of line proposal of the project, the revised environmental impact assessment report was worked out in Nov., 2003 and reviewed and approved by SEPA on Dec. 6 and 7, 2003. EA Unit furnished to the World Bank the first edition of the Report in May, 2003. It passed the pre-evaluation by the delegation of the World Bank in June, 2003. EA Unit amended the report and presented the second edition in Nov., 2003 according to the changes in technical norms and part of line proposal for the Project. It again passed the pre-evaluation of the delegation of the World Bank. Based upon the memorandum for the pre-evaluation, the third edition of the Report and compilation of Environmental Management Plan and summary on Environmental Impact were amended and completed by EA Unit in Dec., 2003. This Project is a renovation to the existing railway. Part of sections on the railway was renovated and rebuilt due to updated technical norms. The renovation in this Project will lead to such problems as noises increase, land occupation, interference with biological system, division of community, soil and water loss and resettlement. Therefore, it belongs to a construction project, Category A. 1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TE la SV; -& EI NSitE OF RIL WAYS TIIE .F.COND SURVER & DESIGN INSTITUTE OF IRAILWAYS  EA Report on Reconstructed Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Electrification Speedup Renovation Project 1.2 Basis In the process of preparation of environmental impact assessment document, relevant domestic laws, regulations and environmental impact assessment guide rule as well as safety policies issued by the World Bank all serve as the basis of compilation, which are listed as followed: 1) Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China; 2) Environmental Impact Evaluation Law of the People 's Republic of China; 3) Law of the People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation; 4) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution From Environmental Noise; 5) Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution; 6) Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution; 7) Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste; 8) Forestry Law of the People's Republic of China; 9) Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics; 10) Decree of Agricultural Land Protection 11) State Council Order No. 253; Ordinance of Environmental Managementfor the Construction Projects; 12) State Environmental Protection Administration of China Order No. 18; Environmental Proteclion Management Procedures for Electromagnetic Radiation tk 0- m - Vffi i