Consultancy Services for Baseline Data Collection for Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of proposed new and up-gradation of Cargo and Passenger River Terminals. Landing Ghats and Vessel Storm Shelters (RFP No: BRWTP S6)

The Government of Bangladesh (the Government) has received a loan from World Bank (WB) for the proposed new and up-gradation of Cargo and Passenger River Terminals, Landing Ghats and Vessel Storm Shelters (RFP No: BRWTP-S6) under Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), and TYPSA Consulting Engineers & Architects & KS Consultants Ltd.  is awarded as Consultant for the Project.

For the purpose of data collection for preparing an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) Report for the proposed project, Development Solutions Consultant Limited (DSCL) has been engaged by KS Consultants Ltd. as a sub-contractor to perform the baseline environmental quality tests for the project.

Services included:

·      Ambient Air Quality Monitoring at 6 locations in 8 hours duration. Carbon Monoxide, Nitogen Di-oxide, Sulphur Di-oxide, Ozone, PM10, PM2.5, Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed and Wind Direction.

·      Ambient Noise Level Measurement at 6 locations in day and night-time (60 minutes duration in each time).

·      Surface Water Quality Monitoring at 6 locations. The parameters are pH, Temperature, Turbidity, Electric Conductivity (EC), Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Salinity, Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Organic Carbon (TOC), Total Dissolves Solids (TDS), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Sulphate and Oil and grease.

·      Riverbed Sediment Quality at 6 locations. The parameters are are Total Organic Carbon, Total PO43‐, Total As, Total Cd, Total Hg, Total Pb, Total Cr, Total Zn and Total Ni.

·      Soil Quality at 6 locations: The Parameters are pH, Organic Carbon, Bacterial Count and Phosphate.

·      Preparation of an environmental quality (air, noise, surface water, riverbed sediment and soil quality) test report.