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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Registration and Water Supply Source Assessment (WSSA): Irishview Estates Subdivision, Irishview Estates Ltd., Irishtown, New Brunswick Prepared for: Irishview Estates Ltd. 31 Cooke Drive Moncton, NB E1E 0J1 Prepared by: Stantec Consulting Ltd. 115 Harrisville Boulevard Moncton, NB E1H 3T3 Project No. 121811426 January 5, 2015 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) REGISTRATION AND WATER SUPPLY SOURCE ASSESSMENT (WSSA): IRISHVIEW ESTATES SUBDIVISION, IRISHVIEW ESTATES LTD., IRISHTOWN, NEW BRUNSWICK TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 NAME OF THE UNDERTAKING AND PROJECT PROPONENT ....................................................... 1 1.2 PURPOSE/RATIONALE/NEED FOR THE PROJECT .......................................................................... 1 1.3 PROJECT OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................................... 2 1.4 CONTEXT ........................................................................................................................................... 2 1.4.1 Provincial Environmental Assessment ........................................................................ 2 1.4.2 Federal Environmental Assessment............................................................................ 5 1.5 FUNDING ........................................................................................................................................... 5 1.6 REGULATORY PURPOSE, AND ORGANIZATION OF THIS EIA REGISTRATION ............................ 5 2.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................ 6 2.1 GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION .............................................................................................................. 6 2.2 PROJECT SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 6 2.3 PROJECT COMPONENTS AND ACTIVITIES .................................................................................. 11 2.3.1 Construction ................................................................................................................ 11 2.3.2 Operation ..................................................................................................................... 14 2.3.3 Decommissioning and Abandonment ................................................................... 16 3.0 SUMMARY OF EXISTING CONDITIONS AND POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS ........................................................................................................................... 17 3.1 GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING .......................................................................................... 17 3.1.1 Physical Setting ............................................................................................................ 17 3.1.2 Topography and Drainage ....................................................................................... 17 3.1.3 Surficial Geology ......................................................................................................... 17 3.1.4 Bedrock Geology ........................................................................................................ 17 3.2 METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSING POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE PROJECT AND THE ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................... 18 3.3 POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PROJECT ....................... 21 3.3.1 Project-Environment Interactions ............................................................................. 21 3.3.2 Atmospheric Environment ......................................................................................... 21 3.3.3 Water Resources ......................................................................................................... 24 3.3.4 Aquatic Environment ................................................................................................. 26 3.3.5 Terrestrial Environment ............................................................................................... 28 3.3.6 Heritage Resources ..................................................................................................... 44 3.3.7 ABORIGINAL LAND AND RESOURCE USE ................................................................. 48 3.3.8 Socio-economic Environment .................................................................................. 48 3.3.9 LAND USE ...................................................................................................................... 50 3.3.10 ROAD TRANSPORTATION ............................................................................................ 55 4.0 ACCIDENTS, MALFUNCTIONS, AND UNPLANNED EVENTS ...................................................... 59 4.1 HAZARDOUS MATERIAL SPILL ........................................................................................................ 59 4.2 EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL FAILURE ............................................................................ 60 4.3 FIRE ................................................................................................................................................... 60 4.4 VEHICLE COLLISION ....................................................................................................................... 61 January 5, 2015 i ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) REGISTRATION AND WATER SUPPLY SOURCE ASSESSMENT (WSSA): IRISHVIEW ESTATES SUBDIVISION, IRISHVIEW ESTATES LTD., IRISHTOWN, NEW BRUNSWICK 4.5 WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS.................................................................................................................. 61 5.0 PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT ............................................................................................................... 62 5.1 PUBLIC AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT ............................................................................... 62 5.2 ABORIGINAL INVOLVEMENT ......................................................................................................... 62 6.0 CLOSING REMARKS ................................................................................................................... 63 7.0 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................... 64 LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1 Potential Interactions of the Project with the Environment ....................................... 21 Table 3.2 Overview of the General Water Quality Characteristics of the Shediac River (1999-2002) (DFO 2009) .......................................................................................... 27 Table 3.3 Habitat within the PDA ..................................................................................................... 33 Table 3.4 Avifauna SOCC Recorded in the PDA or Surrounding Area ..................................... 36 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1 Project Location .................................................................................................................. 3 Figure 2.1 Proposed Subdivision .......................................................................................................... 7 Figure 2.2 Project Phases ...................................................................................................................... 9 Figure 3.1 Site Topography ................................................................................................................ 19 Figure 3.2 Habitat ................................................................................................................................ 31 Figure 3.3 Land Use ............................................................................................................................. 53 Figure 3.4 Transportation .................................................................................................................... 57 LIST OF APPENDICES Appendix A Additional Information Requirements Appendix B Step One – WSSA Application ii January 5, 2015 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) REGISTRATION AND WATER SUPPLY SOURCE ASSESSMENT (WSSA): IRISHVIEW ESTATES SUBDIVISION, IRISHVIEW ESTATES LTD., IRISHTOWN, NEW BRUNSWICK 1.0 INTRODUCTION This document is an Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) Registration for the Irishview Estates Subdivision (“the Project”) proposed by Irishview Estates Ltd. (“the Proponent”) in Moncton, New Brunswick. The Project is an “undertaking” under the New Brunswick Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulation–Clean Environment Act, under item (t) of Schedule “A” (“all major residential developments outside incorporated areas”), and therefore must be registered under Section 5(1) of the EIA Regulation. A review of the Project-related information will be coordinated by the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government (NBDELG). Because of the water requirements for the Project, a Water Supply Source Assessment (WSSA) is required as part of the EIA review of the Project. NBDELG have provided Water Supply Source Assessment (WSSA) guidelines as part of the EIA process and this includes the evaluation of the water use for large subdivision