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DRAFT SCOPING REPORT: WILD COAST ABALONE EXPANSION DRAFT Scoping Report WILD COAST ABALONE EXPANSION, MARSHSTRAND, EASTERN CAPE DEDEAT REF: TBC DRAFT SCOPING REPORT Prepared for: Wild Coast Abalone (Pty) Ltd Prepared by: CES EAST LONDON 39 Harewood Drive Nahoon, East London 043 726 7809 Also in Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Maputo (Mozambique) www.cesnet.co.za DECEMBER 2020 CES Environmental and Social Advisory Services Wild Coast Abalone Facility Expansion ii DRAFT Scoping Report REVISIONS TRACKING TABLE CES Report Revision and Tracking Schedule Document Title: Wild Coast Abalone Facility Expansion Client Name & Wild Coast Abalone (Pty) Ltd Address: Richard Clark Portion 1 Farm 259, Haga Haga, Eastern Cape Status: Draft Issue Date: Lead Author: Caryn Clarke Robyn Thomson Reviewer: Greer Hawley Study Leader/ Registered Environmental Assessment Practitioner – Approval: No. of hard No. electronic Report Distribution Circulated to copies copies DEDEAT 1 1 IAPs 1 Report Version Date 9 December 2020 This document has been prepared in accordance with the scope of CES’s appointment and contains intellectual property and proprietary information that is protected by copyright in favour of CES. The document may therefore not be reproduced, used or distributed to any third party without the prior written consent of CES. This document is prepared exclusively for use by CES’s client. CES accepts no liability for any use of this document other than by its client and only for the purposes for which it was prepared. No person other than the client may [email protected] copy (in whole or in part) use or rely on the contents of this document, www.cesnet.co.za without the prior written permission of CES. The document is subject to all confidentiality, copyright and trade secrets rules, intellectual property law and practices of South Africa. CES Environmental and Social Advisory Services Wild Coast Abalone Facility Expansion iii DRAFT Scoping Report TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 SCOPING REPORT REQUIREMENT CHECKLIST ................................................................. 1 1.2 STRUCTURE OF THIS REPORT ......................................................................................... 3 1.3 ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS ................................................................................. 5 2 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PRACTIONER ............................................................ 6 2.1 DETAILS OF THE EAP ...................................................................................................... 6 2.2 EXPERTISE OF THE PROJECT TEAM ................................................................................. 7 2.3 EAP DECLARATION ........................................................................................................ 8 3 PROPERTY DESCRIPTION AND ACTIVITY LOCATION .................................................... 9 3.1 PROJECT LOCATION ....................................................................................................... 9 3.2 PROPERTY DESCRIPTION.............................................................................................. 11 3.3 LAND OWNERSHIP ...................................................................................................... 11 3.4 SITE PHOTOS ............................................................................................................... 11 4 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................. 12 4.1 BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW OF THE WILD COAST ABALONE FACILITY ...................... 12 4.2 PROPOSED EXPANSION ............................................................................................... 12 4.2.1 CONSTRUCTION OF MANAGERIAL DWELLING UNITS AND ASSOCIATED SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE 16 4.2.2 CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PUMPHOUSE AND ADDITIONAL SEAWATER INLET AND OUTLET PIPELINES ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 4.2.3 SERVICES INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................................................................... 19 5 LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................... 23 5.1 RELEVANT ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION .................................................................. 23 5.1.1 RELEVANT POLICY AND PLANS ........................................................................................................ 30 5.1.2 LISTED ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................................................... 31 6 NEED AND DESIRABILITY .......................................................................................... 38 7 ALTERNATIVES ......................................................................................................... 39 7.1 Types of alternatives ................................................................................................... 39 7.1.1 FUNDAMENTAL ALTERNATIVES ...................................................................................................... 39 7.1.2 INCREMENTAL ALTERNATIVES ........................................................................................................ 40 CES Environmental and Social Advisory Services Wild Coast Abalone Facility Expansion iv DRAFT Scoping Report 7.1.3 NO-GO ALTERNATIVE ...................................................................................................................... 40 7.2 ALTERNATIVES ASSESSED FOR THE WILD COAST ABALONE FACILITY EXPANSION .......... 40 7.3 ALTERNATIVES FOR FURTHER ASSESSMENT ................................................................. 49 8 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ............................................................................................ 50 8.1 SITE NOTICE ................................................................................................................ 50 8.2 NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT ..................................................................................... 50 8.3 I&AP AND STAKEHOLDER NOTIFICATIONS .................................................................... 51 8.4 STAKEHOLDER IDENTIFICATION AND REGISTERED I&APS .............................................. 51 8.5 ISSUES RAISED BY I&APS ............................................................................................. 52 9 DESCRIPTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ...................................................................... 53 9.1 CLIMATE ..................................................................................................................... 53 9.2 TOPOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................. 54 9.3 GEOLOGY AND SOILS ................................................................................................... 56 9.4 HYDROLOGY ............................................................................................................... 58 9.4.1 SURFACE HYDROLOGY .................................................................................................................... 58 9.4.2 GROUNDWATER ............................................................................................................................. 60 9.5 VEGETATION ............................................................................................................... 60 9.5.1 SA VEGMAP (MUCINA AND RUTHERFORD, 2018) .......................................................................... 60 9.5.2 FOREST CLASSIFICATION (NFA) ....................................................................................................... 63 9.6 FAUNA ........................................................................................................................ 65 9.6.1 MAMMALS ...................................................................................................................................... 65 9.6.2 BIRDS ............................................................................................................................................... 65 9.6.3 AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES ............................................................................................................ 65 9.7 LAND USE .................................................................................................................... 65 9.8 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION .................................................................................... 67 9.8.1 PROTECTED AREAS .......................................................................................................................... 67 9.8.2 NEMBA THREATENED ECOSYSTEMS ............................................................................................... 69 9.8.3 EASTERN CAPE BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION PLAN (ECBCP) ....................................................... 69 9.8.4 PLANT SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN ............................................................................... 74 9.8.5 ALIEN INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES ...................................................................................................... 75 9.8.6 GREAT KEI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (SDF) AND STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL FRAMEWORK (SEA)

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