Appendix L

Statistics on Complaints, Notifications of Summons and Successful Prosecutions

	Date Received	Subject	Status	Total no. followed up by ET in this month	Total no. followed up by ET since project commencement
Environmental complaints	6 November 2012	EPD referred a complaint (from a resident of The Paragon) about the suspected construction noise generated from the suspected construction activities at Tolo Highway on 4 November 2012 at 3:00 a.m.	Closed	4	24
	8 November 2012	EPD referred a telephone complaint from the complainant (a resident of Ma Wo at Tai Po) about no improvement on the dust nuisance from the road widening construction works by Gammon Construction Ltd. Despite repeated request of frequent water spraying at the entrance of the construction site, such measures were only implemented during senior site staff inspections, while fugitive dust were generated for the rest of the time, causing serious nuisance to the complainant’s dwelling. The complainant thereby strongly requested the EPD to monitor the status of water spraying of the construction site.	Closed
	13 November 2012	EPD referred a complaint about construction noise generated from breaking activities at the construction site of Gammon Construction Ltd. nearby Lot no. 450 of Wai Tau Tsuen at Lam Tsuen of Tai Po. The complainant expressed that the noise from the breaking activities began between 8:00am and 9:00am on 30 October 2012 at the construction site of Gammon Construction Ltd. nearby Lot no. 450 of Wai Tau Tsuen at Lam Tsuen of Tai Po, caused nuisance to nearby residents. The complainant requested EPD to follow-up as soon as possible. The complainant expressed that the complainant would call the police for help, if the problem of construction noise could not be handled by the day after the complaint received. The reply had been communicated to the complainant. However, the complainant expressed that construction activities were still carried out by the Contractor after 7:00pm and noise was still generated from construction works. The complainant thereby requested the EPD to follow-up and reply again.	To be followed-up in the next Monthly EM&A Report (December 2012)
	29 November 2012	EPD referred a complaint from a resident of Shek Kwu Lung Village about the construction of Widening of Tolo Highway at the foot of the hill slope. According to the complainant, the construction works have been conducted by Gammon Construction Ltd. for a year and the works had been conducted until 20:00 at night in recent months. Due to the short distance of the complainant's premises from the construction site, the nuisance was very annoying. The complainant requested EPD to follow up.	Closed
Notification of summons	-	-	-	0	0
Successful Prosecutions	-	-	-	0	0