EIS 746
ABO 19414
Baal Bone Colliery environmental impact statement: coal lease
application no. 192 NS DEPT PR1PRT INDUSTRIES 11111 lllll~ ABO19414 ......
WALLERAWANG COLLIERIES LTD
BAAL BONE COLLIERY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
DECEMBER 1989
PREP &RED BY BRIAN STONE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES NSVt I :pJ\RIMk OF
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BAAL BONE COLLIERY I WALLERAWANG COLLIERIES Proprietary Ltd Coalex Proprietary Ltd
1 I 1 I STkTE\I ENT I I Coal Lease Application No.192 I December 1989
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BRIAN STONE Environmental Services
Brian Stone BA., (i-ions) [Macqj M,A.I.BI., M.E.IA. I Consultant Ecologist & Environmental Scientist I EIS 27 Lawrence Street, I 746 BLACKHEATh NSW 2785
I I Environmental Impact Statement, Baal Bone Colliery I December 1989
n ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT, 19799 I SECTION 77(3)(D) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT I This Statement has been prepared on behalf of The Wallerawang Collieries Propriety Limited, being the applicant and accompanies the development I application made in respect of the following development:
The continuation of underground mining by Baal Bone Colliery, as per Coal Lease Application No. 192.
I The development application relates to the land described as follows:
Portion 29, Land Grant of 30th October, 1853, "Old System" Land. I Part Portion 4, Portions 30, and 31, "Old System" Land. Lot 2, Folio Identifier 2/235194 Portion 33, Volume 5042, Folios 182 & 183. Portion 78, Volume 4911, Folio 10. I Portion 39, Crown Land Parish of Ben Bullen I County of Roxburgh Locality, Cullen Bullen I City of Greater Lithgow
The contents of this statement, as required by clause 34 of the Environmental I Planning and Assessment Regulation, 1980, are set out forth in the accompanying pages.
Name, Qualifications and Address Brian Stone B.A.(Hons) [Macq.] of person who prepared 27 Lawrence Street I Environmental Impact Statement BLACKIIEATH NSW 2785
I CERTIFICATE:
I I, Brian Stone of Brian Stone Environmental Services hereby certify that I have prepared the contents of this Statement in accordance with clause 34 and 35 of the I Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation, 1980. F Siature Thuday, 30 November 1989 I Li Environmental Impact Statement, Baal Bone Colliery I December 1989 I Abbreviations I
$Mlannum ...... Million dollars per year I Al ...... Aluminium AS...... Volatile Solids BBC...... Baal Bone Colliery CLA 192...... Coal Lease Application No. 192 CWA...... Clean Waters Act, 1970, and Regulations dB(A) ...... Sound pressure level, A weighted decibel r DC...... Development Consent DME ...... Department of Minerals and Energy DWR...... Department of Water Resources EIS ...... Environmental Impact Statement I ETA ...... Environmental Impact Assessment F Fe...... Filtrable Iron FR...... Filtrable Residue I G&O...... Grease and Oil GLCC ...... Greater Lithgow City Council ha...... hectare J...... Joule km ...... kilometre km2...... square kilometre I KWH ...... Kilowatt hour L ...... Litre LAO. 1...... Maximum noise level I LO ...... Noise level exceeded 90% of the time LAeq...... Equivalent continuous noise level m ...... metre I mg/L...... milligrams per litre MPL...... Mining Purposes Lease tS/cm ...... microSiemens per centimetre I Mt...... Million tonne Mtpa ...... Million tonne per annum Mpa ...... Million per annum I NFR ...... Non Filtrable Residue (mg/L) NPWS ...... National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales NTU ...... Nephelometric turbidity unit I ROM ...... Run-of-mine SC...... Specific Conductance (uS/cm) SO4 ...... Sulphate I SPCC...... State Pollution Control Commission STREIS ...... Supplementary Technical Report to ETS, August 1981 T Fe...... Total Iron I t...... tonne TDS...... Total Dissolved Solids tpa...... tonnes per annum H Zn...... Zinc H I Ll I CONTENTS I I <