Vellore District Survey Report
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VELLORE DISTRICT TAMIL NADU DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINING GOVT. OF TAMIL NADU As per notification No. Prepared in collaboration with S.O. 141 (E) New Delhi, th The 15 January, 2016 of GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA Ministry of Environment, STATE UNIT: TAMIL NADU AND PUDUCHERRY Forest and Climate MINISTRY OF MINES Change, Govt. of India. GOVT. OF INDIA Page 0 of 93 DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT VELLORE DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU (As per notification No. S.O. 141 (E) New Delhi,The 15th January, 2016 of MoEF&CC, Govt. of India.) by DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINING GOVT. OF TAMIL NADU Prepared in collaboration with GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA STATE UNIT: TAMIL NADU AND PUDUCHERRY MINISTRY OF MINES GOVT. OF INDIA Table of Contents Page No. I. Introduction 1 II. Overview of Mining Activities in Vellore District 2 III. List of Mining Leases in District with Location, Area and Period of 5 - 37 Validity IV. Details of Revenue or Royalty Received in Last Three Years 38 V. Detail of Production of Sand and Minor Minerals in Last Three Years 38 VI. Process of Deposition of Sediments in Rivers of the District 38 - 41 VII. General Profile of the District 41 - 57 A. Administrative Details 42 B. Hydrology 43 i. Catchment 44 ii. Sub-catchment 45 iii. Watershed 46 C. Soils 47 D. Ground Water Scenario 48 E. Ground Water Quality 50 F. Industries 51 G. Sewage and Solid Waste 52 H. Agriulture 52 I. Seismicity 54 J. Geotechnical Characteristics 55 K. Forest 56 VIII. Land Utilisation Pattern in the District 58 - 59 IX. Physiography of the District 60 - 62 X. Rainfall 63 – 66 XI. Geology And Mineral Wealth 66 - A. Geology 66 B. Mineral Wealth 70 - 81 i Department of Geology and Mining, Govt. of T.N Geological Survey of India, Chennai DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT Vellore District C. River Sand 82 - 88 i. Sand Mining in Tamil Nadu 82 ii. Sand Mining in Vellore District 82 -88 XII. Summary & Recommendations 89 - A. Dimensional Stone and Rough Stone Quarries 89 B. Sand Mining 90 C. Guidelines and Methodology 91 D. Replenishment Study for Sand 91 XIII. Scope and Constraints 92 PLATE- 1 : Geological Map of Vellore District List of Figures Page no. Figure 1 Map of Palar Basin along with 10 sub basins of Palar 39 Photograph on the left bank of Palar near Sathampakkam indicating the Sand Figure 2 40 mining activity Multitemporal Satellite Image from Google Earth of different period shows the Figure 3 41 rampant in-stream sand mining in the Palar River Bed near Sathampakkam Figure 4 Taluk Map of Vellore District with taluk boundaries of adjacent districts 42 Figure 5 Catchment Map of Vellore District and adjacent areas 44 Figure 6 Catchment Map of Vellore District and adjacent areas 45 Figure 7 Watershed Map of Vellore District and adjacent areas 47 Figure 8 Ground Water Level of Vellore District from 1991- 2016 49 Figure 9 Ground Water Level in 2014 (Pre & Post Monsoon) 49 Figure 10 Ground Water Level in 2015 (Pre & Post Monsoon) 50 Figure 11 Ground Water Level in 2016 (Pre & Post Monsoon) 50 Figure 12 Crop pattern season wise 53 Figure 13 Area irrigation by crop types 53 Figure 14 Geo-seismological map of Vellore district and surrounding areas 54 Figure 15 Geotechnical Map of Vellore District 55 Figure 16 Forest Map of Vellore District 57 Figure 17 Land Use Land Cover Details of Vellore District 58 Figure 18 Land Use Land Cover Map of Vellore District 59 Figure 19 Shaded Relief Map of Vellore District 60 Figure 20 Lineament Map of Vellore District and surrounding area 61 Figure 21 Geomorphological Map of Vellore District 62 Figure 22 Rainfall in Vellore District 63 Figure 23 Change in Annual Rainfall for the period 2020s,2050s and 2080s 63 Figure 24 Rainfall Time series data for 20 years in Vellore District 66 Figure 25 View of active mining in TAMIN Vermiculite mines at Sevathur 71 Figure 26 TAMIN Vermiculite mines at Sevathur with practice of benching 71 Fox Brown/ Chikoo Brown (Colour Granite) Quarry of M/s. G.Achutan at Figure 27 74 Athanavoor Village in Yelagiri Hills, Tirupathur Taluk Active Mining at M/s. G.Achutan at Athanavoor Village in Yelagiri Hills, Figure 28 74 Tirupathur Taluk Dead carcass of a Python (photo taken on 5.7.2017) near M/s. Achuthan and Figure 29 Subash Colour Granite Quarry at Athanavoor, Elagiri Hills indicating 75 deterioration of wildlife Figure 30 Black Granite Quarry (not working) by TAMIN at Kodakkal near Sholingur 75 Figure 31 Black Granite Quarry (not working) by TAMIN at Mahimandalam 76 Figure 32 Black Granite Quarry (not working) by TAMIN at Rendadi 76 ii Department of Geology and Mining, Govt. of T.N Geological Survey of India, Chennai DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT Vellore District Black Granite Quarry (working) by M/s.Raymond Ruban at Vinnamangalam , Figure 33 77 Vaniyambadi Taluk Quartz Quarry (abandoned) - M/s.Saravanan Marimanikuppam , Vaniyambadi Figure 34 77 Taluk Figure 35 Stone Quarry (working) - M/s,A.B.Aiyyappan, Vinnamangalam, Ambur Taluk 78 Figure 36 Stone Quarry (working) - M/s,D.Gunalan, Vinnamangalam, Ambur Taluk 78 Figure 37 Stone Quarry (working) - M/s,Karthick, Vinnamangalam, Ambur Taluk 79 Figure 38 Stone Quarry - M/s,R.Mani, Vinnamangalam, Ambur Taluk 79 Stone Quarry (working) 12°56'17.74"N; 79°12'16.13"E- M/s,Radhakrishnan, Figure 39 80 Perumugai, Vellore Taluk Figure 40 Stone Quarry (working) - M/s,D.Parimala, Perumugai, Vellore Taluk 80 Figure 41 Stone Quarry (working) - M/s,J. Suresh Kumar, Kizhavanam, Arakkonam Taluk 81 Figure 42 Stone Quarry (working) - M/s,R.B.Raja, Thakkolam, Arakkonam Taluk 81 Figure 43 View of proposed sand quarry at Pattu 83 Multitemporal Satellite Image of the area covering proposed sand quarry at Figure 44 85 ARUMPARUTHI area Multitemporal Satellite Image of the area covering proposed sand quarry at Figure 45 86 NAVLOCK area Multitemporal Satellite Image of the area covering proposed sand quarry at Figure 46 87 PASUMATHUR-2 area Multitemporal Satellite Image of the area covering proposed sand quarry at Figure 47 88 PATTU area List of Tables Page no. Table 1 Overview of Mining Activities in Vellore District 2 Table 2 Abstract – List of Mining Leases In Vellore District 3 Table 3 Abstract - Area Of Mining Leases In Vellore District 4 Table 4 Detailed Mining Lease Particulars - Vermiculite 5 Table 5 Minor Minerals – Granite – Government Land 6 - 7 Table 6 Minor Minerals – Granite – Government Land 8 Table 7 Minor Mineral - Quartz 9 Table 8 Minor Minerals – Stone - Government Land – Vellore Taluk 10 - 12 Table 9 Minor Minerals – Stone - Patta Land – Vellore Taluk 13 - 14 Table 10 Minor Minerals – Stone - Government Land – Anicut Taluk 15 Table 11 Minor Minerals – Stone - Patta Land– Anicut Taluk 15 Table 12 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Katpadi Taluk 16 Table 13 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Gudiyatham Taluk 17 Existing Stone Quarries in Patta Lands - Existing Stone Quarries in Patta Lands - 18 Table 14 Gudiyatham Taluk Table 15 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Arcot Taluk 19 - 20 Table 16 Existing Stone Quarries in Patta Land– Arcot Taluk 21 Table 17 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Walajah Taluk 22 - 25 Table 18 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Arakkonam Taluk 26 Table 19 Existing Stone Quarries - Patta Lands– Arakkonam Taluk 27 Table 20 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Vaniyambadi Taluk 28 Table 21 Existing Stone Quarries in Patta Land – Vaniyambadi Taluk 29 Table 22 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Natrampalli Taluk 29 - 30 Table 23 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Ambur Taluk 31 - 32 Table 24 Existing Stone Quarries in Government Lands – Thirupattur Taluk 33 Table 25 Details of Existing Pwd Sand Quarries - Vellore District 34 Table 26 Functioning PWD Sand Quarries - Vellore District 35 Table 27 Details of Existing Sand Stockyards - Vellore District 36 iii Department of Geology and Mining, Govt. of T.N Geological Survey of India, Chennai DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT Vellore District Table 28 Details of Proposed Sand Quarries in Vellore District 37 Table 29 Production of commodities during 2015-16 in Vellore District 38 Table 30 Taluk and Village Details of Vellore District (old classification) 43 Table 31 Details of Basin and Area of coverage 45 Table 32 Details of Sub-catchment in Vellore District and adjacent areas 45 Table 33 Details of Watershed in parts of Vellore District and adjoining areas 46 Table 34 Soil type occurrence in different parts of Vellore Dist. 47 Table 35 Groundwater Potential as on March 2011 (as per CGWB) 48 Table 36 Results of Annual Survey Of Industries 2012-13 In Vellore District (Factory Sector) 51 - 52 Table 37 Agricultural activities in Vellore District 53 Table 38 Forest Division and Ranges in Vellore District 56 Table 38a Distribution of forest types in Vellore District in 2016 & 2017 56 Table 39 Land use classification and it’s coverage in Vellore District 58 Table 40 Geomorphic Units 61 Table 41 Percent change in Annual Rainfall 64 Table 42 Monthly Rainfall Data- Month wise and Season Wise 64 Table 43 Time Series Data Of Rainfall By Seasons (Last 20 Years) 65 Inventory of District Mineral Resources (Industrial Minerals) Commodity: 72 Table 44 Vermiculite Details of Vermiculite Mining in TAMIN Quarry at Sevathur, Kandili Block, 72 Table 45 Vellore District iv Department of Geology and Mining, Govt. of T.N Geological Survey of India, Chennai DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT Vellore District DISTRICT MINERAL SURVEY REPORT VELLORE DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU I. INTRODUCTION In pursuance of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India Gazette Notification No.S.O.141(E) dated 15.01.2016 and S.O.190(E) dated 20.01.2016 the District Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (DEIAA) and District Environment Appraisal Committee (DEAC) were constituted for the grant of Environmental Clearance for category “B2” projects for quarrying of Minor Minerals.