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DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT OF THE PROPOSED GRAVEL QUARRY IN AN AREA OF 8.00 Ha BY SRI P. R. VENKATESAN AT SURVEY NO. 93/4 (OLD SURVEY NO. 93), KADIRIVEDU VILLAGE, SATYAVEDU MANDAL, CHITTOOR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH Terms of Reference: SEIAA/AP/CTR/MIN/04/2020/1791-734, dt.08.12.2020 Monitoring Period : October, 2020 – December, 2020 Project Cost : 60 Lakhs Project No. 0221-02-04 February, 2021 Studies and Documentation By Submitted By TEAM Labs and Consultants Sri P. R. Venkatesan NABET – Certificate No: NABET/ EIA/ No. 104, Mahakavi Bharath Street, 1821/ SA 0114, dt.04.09.2020 Poorivakkam Post, B-115 to 117& 509, Annapurna Block, Perumudivakkam Village, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Chennai – 601 103 Hyderabad-500 038 Mobile No. +91 94447 67487. Phone: 040-23748 555/616, Telefax: 040-23748666 Email: [email protected] SUBMITTED TO ANDHRA PRADESH POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD, REGIONAL OFFICE, TIRUPATHI SRI P. R. VENKATESAN SURVEY NO. 93/4 (OLD SURVEY NO. 93), KADIRIVEDU VILLAGE, SATYAVEDU MANDAL, CHITTOOR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH 1. ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT Studies and Documentation By Submitted By TEAM Labs and Consultants Sri P. R. Venkatesan NABET – Certificate No: NABET/ EIA/ No. 104, Mahakavi Bharath Street, 1821/ SA 0114, dt.04.09.2020 Poorivakkam Post, B-115 to 117& 509, Annapurna Block, Perumudivakkam Village, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Chennai – 601 103 Hyderabad-500 038 Mobile No. +91 94447 67487. Phone: 040-23748 555/616, Telefax: 040-23748666 Email: [email protected] SUBMITTED TO ANDHRA PRADESH POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD, REGIONAL OFFICE, TIRUPATHI CONTENTS Section Chapter Page. No 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1-1 1.2 Purpose of the Report 1-1 1.3 Brief Background of the Project 1-2 1.4 Mining Method 1-2 1.5 Mine Location 1-2 1.6 Environmental Impact Assessment 1-4 1.7 Scope of EIA Studies 1-7 1.8 Clearance requirement for the project 1-8 2.0 Project Description 2.0 Introduction 2-1 2.1 Land use pattern of the mine lease area 2-1 2.2 Geology of the area 2-2 2.2.1 Topography 2-2 2.2.2 Regional Geology 2-2 2.2.3 Local Geology 2-3 2.3 Reserves 2-4 2.4 Life of mine 2-5 2.5 Conceptual Mining plan 2-5 2.6 Mining Technology 2-7 2.7 Development and production 2-7 2.8 Machinery Requirement 2-10 2.9 Employment Potential 2-10 2.10 Site Services 2-10 2.11 Fire Fighting Facilities 2-11 2.12 Water Requirement 2-11 2.13 Wastewater generation 2-11 2.14 Waste Generation and management 2-12 2.15 Reclamation and Rehabilitation 2-12 2.16 Details of Cluster Projects 2-12 3.0 Description of the environment 3.1 Introduction 3-1 3.2 Land Environment 3-1 3.2.1 Physiography 3-1 3.2.2 Geology 3-6 3.2.3 Hydrogeology 3-6 3.2.4 Soils 3-9 3.3 Water Environment 3-15 Section Chapter Page. No 3.3.1 Surface Water Resources 3-15 3.3.1.1 Surface Water Quality 3-15 3.3.1.2 Ground Water Resources 3-17 3.3.1.3 Quality of Ground Water 3-17 3.4 Air Environment 3-21 3.4.1 Meteorology 3-21 3.4.2 Meteorological Station at Mine Lease area 3-24 3.4.3 Ambient Air Quality 3-27 3.4.4 Scope of Field Study 3-29 3.4.5 Description of Sampling Locations 3-30 3.4.6 Ambient Air Quality Status 3-32 3.4.7 Noise Environment 3-34 3.4.8 Traffic Study 3-37 3.5 Socio Economic Environment 3-37 3.5.1 Demography 3-37 3.5.2 Population Distribution 3-37 3.5.3 Literacy 3-38 3.5.4 Employment/Occupation 3-39 3.5.5 Living Standards and Infrastructure 3-42 3.5.6 Land Utilization 3-44 3.5.7 Project Economy 3-44 3.6 Ecology 3-45 4.0 Anticipated Environment Impacts and Mitigation Measures 4.0 Identification of Impacts 4-1 4.1 Environmental impacts from mining and associated infrastructure 4-1 4.1.1 Impact Networks 4-4 4.2 Prediction and Assessment of Impacts 4-8 4.2.1 Methodology of Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix 4-8 4.2.2 Air Environment 4-12 4.2.3 Details of Mathematical Modeling 4-14 4.2.4 Emissions from Mining activity and transportation 4-16 4.2.5 Air Quality Predictions 4-17 4.3 Occupational Health Hazards Due to Dust Pollution 4-23 4.4 Noise Environment 4-23 4.4.1 Prediction of Impact on Noise Quality 4-24 4.4.2 Occupational Health Hazards of Noise Pollution 4-27 4.5 Water Environment 4-28 4.6 Land Environment 4-31 4.7 Biological Environment 4-34 4.8 Socio-economic Environment 4-38 4.9 Prediction of Impact on Vehicular Traffic 4-41 Section Chapter Page. No 4.10 5.0 Analysis of Alternatives 5.0 Introduction 5-1 5.1 Alternative Sites 5-1 5.2 Alternatives in Technology 5-1 6.0 Environmental Monitoring 6.1 Introduction 6-1 6.1.1 Objectives 6-1 6.1.2 Methodology 6-1 6.1.3 Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Monitoring 6-2 6.1.4 Water Quality Monitoring 6-2 6.1.5 Noise Level Monitoring 6-2 6.1.6 Responsibility of Monitoring and Reporting System 6-3 6.2 Environmental Monitoring Budget 6-4 7.0 Additional Studies (Risk Assessment) 71 Introduction 7-1 7.2 Objectives and Scope 7-1 7.3 Mining Activity 7-1 7.4 Hazard Identification 7-1 7.5 Hazard Analysis 7-3 7.6 Disaster Management 7-3 7.6.1 Clearance 7-4 7.6.2 Construction of Services 7-4 7.6.3 Drilling 7-4 7.6.4 Blasting 7-4 7.6.5 Failure of Pit Slopes 7-5 7.6.6 Transportation 7-5 7.6.7 Magazine 7-5 7.6.8 House Keeping 7-5 7.7 Disaster Management Plan 7-5 7.7.1 Objective of Disaster Management Plan 7-6 7.7.2 Communication System 7-6 7.7.3 Facilities 7-6 7.7.4 Personal 7-7 7.7.5 Operating Procedure 7-7 8.0 Project Benefits 8.0 Introduction 8-1 Section Chapter Page. No 9.0 Project Benefits 9.0 Introduction 9-1 10 Environment Management Plan 10.0 Introduction 10-1 10.1 Sources of Pollution and Control Measures 10-1 10.2 Air Pollution and its Control 10-1 10.3 Greening program 10-2 10.4 Occupational Health and Safety Measures to Control Dust Inhalation 10-2 10.5 Noise pollution and its control 10-2 10.6 Occupational Health and Safety Measures to Control Exposure to 10-3 Noise 10.7 Water Quality Management 10-3 10.7.1 Water Resources Water Resources 10-3 10.7.2 Rain water Harvesting Plan 10-5 10.8 Soil Conservation Measures 10-5 10.9 Afforestation / Greenbelt Plan 10-6 10.10 Waste Management 10-8 10.11 Environmental Management System (EMS) 10-8 10.12 Environment Policy 10-9 10.13 Socio- Economic Development 10-10 10.14 Corporate Environmental Responsibility Action Plan 10-11 10.15 Environment Management Cell 10-11 10.16 Other Management Aspects 10-12 10.17 Occupational Health and Protective Measures 10-13 10.18 Cost proposed for Environmental Protection Measures 10-14 10.19 Environmental Management for the Cluster 10-15 11 Executive Summary 11 -1 12 Disclosure of Consultants 12-1 IV ANNEXURES A-1 Copy of Mining Lease National Ambient Air Quality Standards Is 10500: 2012 (RA:202020) The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 Team Labs NABET accreditation Certificate Section Chapter Page. No List of Tables 1.1 Details of Mine Lease Area 1-2 1.2 The Geo coordinates of the mine lease area 1-4 1.3 Required Approvals and Applicable statutes 1-9 2.1 Details of the Lease Area 2-1 2.2 Land use Pattern of the Mine Lease Area 2-2 2.3 Geological reserves 2-4 2.4 Year wise production 2-8 2.5 List of Machinery 2-10 2.6 Employment Potential 2-10 2.7 Water Requirement 2-11 2.8 Mine leases within 500m radius 2-12 2.9 Total Reserves, production and life of the mine in the cluster 2-13 2.10 Details of mining Area Utilized for Mining in the Cluster 2-13 2.11 Water Requirement in the cluster 2-13 2.12 Details of Transportation 2-13 3.1 Details of the mine lease location 3-1 3.2 Soil Analysis Data 3-12 3.3 Soil Test Results – Reference Tables 3-14 3.4 Surface water Analysis Data 3-16 3.5 Locations of groundwater sampling 3-17 3.6 Groundwater analysis data 3-20 3.7 Normal climatological table 3-22 3.8 Frequency Distribution of Wind Speed and Wind Direction 3-25 3.9 Locations of Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations 3-30 3.10 Ambient Air Quality Data status 3-32 3.11 AQI Index Showing the Results of Ambient Air Quality 3-33 3.12 Effects on Human Beings at Different Noise Levels 3-35 3.13 Equivalent Noise levels in the Study Area 3-36 3.14 Population Distribution – Study Area 3-38 3.15 Literacy - Study Area 3-39 3.16 Employment - Study Area 3-40 3.17 Main Workers - Study Area 3-41 3.18 Land Utilization Pattern 3-44 3.19 List of plant species recorded 3-50 3.20 The listed birds 3-57 3.21 List of Mammalian species in the Study Area 3-58 3.22 List of Reptiles either spotted or reported from the study area 3-59 3.23 List of Amphibians either spotted or reported from the study area 3-39 Section Chapter Page.