ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT “M/S VITTHAL REFINED SUGARS LTD.”
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (WITH ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN) FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF INTEGRATED SUGAR INDUSTRY (Sugar 5000 TCD, Co-generation 29.5 MW, Grain based distillery 45 KLPD & Molasses/sugarcane juice/ Sugar Beet based distillery 60 KLPD) AT A/p – Pande, Taluka – Karmala, District – Solapur, Maharashtra PROJECT PROPONENT “M/s VITTHAL REFINED SUGARS LTD.” PREPARED BY SGM Corporate Consultants Pvt. Ltd NABET/QCI Accredited Consultant An ISO 9001:2008 Certified. 206,207 Sai Chambers, Wakadewadi, Pune E-Mail: [email protected] FOR THE PERIOD 1st DECEMBER 2014 – 28th FENRUARY 2015 CONTENTS Sr. No. Particulars Page No. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1-17 CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND 1.1 Brief Description of the Project Proponent 18-19 1.2 Brief thoughts on project 19-20 1.3 Justification and Need of the project 20 1.4 Brief summary of the peculiarities 20-21 1.5 Sugar industry scenario in Solapur District 21-22 1.6 Environmental Policy 23 1.7 Track Records 23 1.8 Chapter Conclusion 23 CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION 2.1 Objectives of Environment Impact Assessment 24 2.2 Materials, Method and Approach 24-26 2.2.1 Material 24-25 2.2.2 Method 25 2.2.3 Approach 25 2.2.4 Technique 25-26 2.3 Indian Environmental Laws 26-27 2.3.1 Environmental Protection Rules, 1986 26 2.3.2 Environmental Guidelines 26 2.3.3 Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 26 2.3.4 Hazardous Site Guidelines 26-27 2.3.5 Government Notification 27 2.4 Intended Use of this EIA 27-29 2.5 Scope of Document 29-30 2.6 Brief Description of Nature, Size, Location of the project 30-32 2.7 Need and importance of the project to the Country & Region 33-34 2.7.1 Need & Importance to the Country 33 2.7.2 Need & Importance to the Region 33-34 2.7.3 Employment generation due to the project 34 2.8 Terms of References (ToR) from MoEF and their Compliances 34-41 CHAPTER 3 – PROJECT DESCRIPTION 3.1 Introduction 42 3.2 Need for the project 42-43 3.2.1 Demand Supply Gap 43 3.2.2 Domestic/ Export market & Export possibility 43 3.3 Location of the project 43-46 3.3.1 General Location 43 3.4 Basis for selecting the site 47 3.5 Size and Magnitude of Operation 47-54 3.5.1 Land Requirement 47-50 3.5.2 Manpower 51 3.5.3 Housing facilities 51 3.5.4 Civil works during construction phase 51 3.5.5 Resources consumed 51 3.5.6 Sugarcane cultivation area 51 3.5.7 Traffic Density and its Impacts 51-53 3.5.8 Bulk Storage Facilities 53 3.5.9 Waste Generation 53 3.5.10 Employment Generation due to the project 54 3.6 Technology and Process Description 54-68 3.7 Raw Materials and Products 69-70 3.8 Power and Steam Requirement 71 3.9 Source and Utilization of Water 71-76 3.10 Power Requirement 77 3.11 Green Belt Development 77 3.12 Socio- Economic Benefit 77 3.13 Pollution Mitigation Measures 77-78 3.13.1 Built in Pollution Control Mitigation Measures 77-78 3.14 Assessment of New and Untested Technology for the risk of technology failure 78 CHAPTER 4 – BASELINE ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS 4.1 Introduction 79 4.2 Study area, period, components & methodology 79-80 4.3 Establishment of Baseline 81-86 4.3.1 Meteorological data 81-85 4.3.2 Baseline Monitoring 86 4.4 Ambient Air Quality 87-91 4.5 Noise environment 92-93 4.6 Water environment 93-99 4.7 Study Area – Geographical Aspects 99-105 4.7.1 Hydrology and hydrogeology 99 4.7.2 Soil & Geology 100 4.7.3 Soil Sampling 100-103 4.7.4 Land Use Pattern 104-105 4.7.4.1 Land Use Pattern of Solapur District 104 4.7.4.2 Land Use Pattern of Operational Area i.e. Karmala Taluka 104-105 4.8 Ecology 105-109 4.8.1 Flora in the Study Area 105-107 4.8.2 Fauna in the Study Area 107-109 4.9 Socio – Economic Environment 110-111 4.10 Social Infrastructure Available 111-112 4.11 Connectivity from the Project Site 112-113 4.12 Surrounding Sugar Industries 114 CHAPTER 5: ANTICIPATED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES 5.1 Introduction 115 5.2 Control Measures (Natural Environment) 115-123 5.2.1 Air Environment 115 5.2.1.1 Key Control Legislation 116 5.2.1.2 Ambient Air Quality at VRSL core zone 116-117 5.2.1.3 Emission Control Equipment 117 5.2.1.4 Air Pollution Control Facilities 118-119 5.2.1.5 Impact on Air Quality 119-122 5.2.1.6 Fugitive Measures 121-122 5.3 Water Environment 122-124 5.3.1 Water Quality & Quantity 124-125 5.3.2 Brief Description of Cleaner Technology 125-135 5.3.2.1 Treatment of Sugar & Co-gen effluent 125-128 5.3.2.2 Molasses based distillery spent wash Treatment 128-130 5.3.2.3 Stillage treatment of Grain based distillery unit 130-135 5.4 Solid Waste Management 136-137 5.4.1 Non hazardous solid waste 136 5.4.2 Hazardous waste 136-137 5.5 Noise Environment 137-139 5.6 Odour Environment 139-140 5.7 Socio Economic Environment 140-142 5.8 Work Environment 142 5.9 Disaster Management Plan 142-148 5.10 Chapter Conclusion 148 CHAPTER 6 : ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES FOR TECHNOLOGY AND PROJECT SITE 6.1 Alternatives 149 6.2 Raw Material Alternative 149-150 6.2.1 Sugar Production Unit 149 6.2.2 Co-generation Unit 149 6.2.3 Molasses/ cane juice based distillery 149 6.2.4 Grain based distillery 149 6.2.5 CO 2 Recovery Plant 149 6.2.6 Malt Spirit 149 6.2.7 Grape Spirit 149 6.2.8 Cyclo dextrin 149 6.2.9 Country Liquor 149 6.2.10 Indian made foreign liquor 150 6.3 Technology Alternatives 150 6.4 Engineering & Hardware options 150 6.5 Site Alternatives 150-152 6.6 “No – Project” Option 152 6.7 Conclusion 152 CHAPTER 7 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PROGRAM 7.1 Introduction 153 7.2 Monitoring Plan 153-154 7.2.1 Air Pollution & Meteorological Aspects 153 7.2.2 Water & Wastewater Quality 154 7.2.3 Noise Levels 154 7.3 Sampling Schedule & Locations 154 7.4 Laboratory Facilities 154-155 7.5 Compliances to Environmental Statutes 155 7.6 Monitoring of Compliances to Statutory Conditions 155 7.7 Success Indicators 155 CHAPTER 8 ADDITIONAL STUDIES 8.1 Public Hearing and Consultation 156 Risk Assessment for the storage & handling of alcohol & mitigation measures due to fire 8.2 156-157 & Explosion & handling 8.3 Disaster management plan 157 8.4 Hazard analysis 157-161 8.5 Occupational health & safety 161 8.6 Heat radiation 162 8.6.1 Distance from the fire 162 8.6.2 Effects of pool fire 162 8.7 Risk assessment for 60 KLPD Molasses based distillery unit 163-166 8.7.1 RS/ENA leakage through catastrophic failure 163 8.7.2 RS/ENA leak. 164 8.7.3 Unconfined Vapour cloud Exposure 165 8.7.4 Domino Effect 165 8.7.5 RS/ENA leakage through 50 mm pipe line failure 165-166 8.8 Risk assessment for 45KLPD Grain based Distillery unit 166-169 8.9 Estimation of plant risk assessment 169 8.10 Risk Assessment for Product Bagasse 170-172 CHAPTER 9: PROJECT BENEFITS 9.1 Availability of Quality Power and Alcohol 173 9.2 Improvement in the Physical Infrastructure 173 9.3 Improving the Economy of farming community 173 9.4 Improvement in the Social Infrastructure 173-174 9.5 Employment Potential 174 CHAPTER 10: ENVIRONMENTAL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS 175 CHAPTER 11: ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN 11.1 Corporate Environmental policy (CEP) 176 11.2 Environment Components 176-177 11.2.1 Air Environment 176 11.2.2 Water Environment 177 11.2.3 Aesthetic (Noise and Odour) Environment 177 11.2.4 Biological Environment 177 11.2.5 Work-zone Comfort Environment 177 11.2.6 Socio-Economic Environment 177 11.3 Environment Management Hierarchy 177-178 11.4 Checklist for Statutory Obligations 179-181 11.5 Environmental Organization 181-185 11.5.1 Environment Management Cell (EMC) 182 11.5.2 Monitoring System 182-183 11.5.2.1 Schedules 183 11.5.2.2 Daily Compliance 183 11.5.2.3 Monthly Compliance 183 11.5.2.4 Quarterly Compliance 183 11.5.2.5 Yearly Compliance 183-184 11.5.3 Watch-dog committee 184 11.5.4 Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism 184-185 11.5.4.1 Construction Phase Management 185 11.6 Green Belt Development 185-186 11.7 Rain Water Harvesting System 187 11.8 Storm Water Management 187-188 11.9 Cost Provision for Environmental Measures 188-189 11.10 Chapter Conclusion 189 CHAPTER 12: EPILOGUE 190 CHAPTER 13: DISCLOSURE OF CONSULTANTS ENGAGED 191-207 TABLES Page No. Table no. Particulars 1.1 Sugar Factories & cane crushed in Solapur District (Season 2014- 2015, Up to May 5, 21-22 2015) 1.2 Highlights of Distilleries in Solapur District 22 1.3 Various activities under Chairman and his Directors 23 2.1 Summary of Sampling 24 2.2 Present status and permissions available 30 2.3 Salient features of the project 30-32 2.4 Terms of Reference (TOR) 34-40 3.1 List of proposed units 42 3.2 Location features of the project 44 3.3 Detailed breakup of the land 48 3.4 Transportation of raw materials and products 52 3.5 List of liquid, gaseous and solid wastes generated from co-gen sugar and distillery units 53 3.6 Project Investment 53-54 3.7 Design parameter of the proposed sugar plant 57 3.8 Brief design parameters for the co-generation power plant 58 3.9 Raw materials and products for sugar unit 69 3.10 Raw materials and products for Co-generation unit 70 3.11 Raw materials and products for distillery units 70 3.12 Source and quantity of water, m3/day 71 3.13 Water requirement and waste generation in 45 KLPD grain based distillery unit & 72-73 IMFL bottling m3/day 3.14 Water requirement and waste generation in 60 KLPD distillery unit & country liquor 73-74 m3/day 3.15 Details of entire project in brief 75-76 4.1 Temperature Data of Karmala Taluka for year 2014 81 4.2 Micro- meteorological data of Project site during study period from December 2014 to 82 February 2015 4.3 Measured wind direction % of time (for study period December 2014 to February 2015) 84-85 4.4 Sampling and Analytical Techniques 86 4.5 Air Quality Monitoring Stations 87 4.6 Ambient Air