Environmental Management Plan — HBM Nigeria Plc Depot, Onitsha

This report presents an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for the HBM Nigeria Plc Depot at Ogidi, along the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway in Anambra State. The depot, formerly operated as the Lafarge Depot, Onitsha and now identified as a member of the Huaxin group, sits on a rented plot of about 1,800 square metres and is used for the receipt, storage and truck-based dispatch of bagged building materials. The first three parts of the report covers the preliminary pages and Chapters One to Three: why the EMP is being prepared and under what legal authority, a description of the depot and its surroundings, and the baseline environmental and social conditions recorded during the May 2026 site visit.

The site visit, supported by a portable air quality monitor and a handheld sound level meter, found a facility that already has a fair number of environmental and safety controls in place: perimeter fencing topped with razor wire, a manned gate, fire extinguishers and a marked muster point, no-smoking signage, a borehole for water supply, a septic tank and soakaway arrangement, ten named fire marshals, three trained first aiders, and a standing arrangement with St. Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital, Onitsha for medical emergencies. Air quality readings taken on the day were within FMEnv reference limits, though taken while the yard was not in active loading, while three noise readings taken at the gated entrance, the middle of the yard and the extreme inner end of the compound (LAeq 68.9, 64.2 and 57.5 dB(A) respectively) show the entrance and mid-yard points above the lower bound of the indicative daytime range for a commercial and light industrial corridor, with the highest reading at the road-facing entrance confirming traffic as the dominant source. The visit also confirmed the two matters already flagged for immediate attention: the drivers/loaders rest house and its poorly ventilated convenience are too small for the numbers using them, and a fully paved section of the compound collects standing water with no outlet and needs a properly sited catchment pit.

This edition of the report carries the work a stage further still. Chapter Four sets out the mitigation and monitoring plan built on the Chapter Three findings: priority corrective action on the drivers/loaders facility and the catchment pit, ongoing management of dust, noise, water, sanitation and waste, an occupational health and safety programme that builds on what the depot already has in place, a monitoring schedule, and an indicative cost range and implementation timetable.

Chapter Five, to close with the institutional arrangements, consultation record and grievance mechanism.