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Heritage Impact Assessment Proposed Afrisam Cement Plant, Mine and Associated Infrastructure in Saldanha, Western Cape HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROPOSED AFRISAM CEMENT PLANT, MINE AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE IN SALDANHA, WESTERN CAPE As part of the Environmental Impact Assessment Prepared for Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd On behalf of Afrisam (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd September 2011 Prepared by: David Halkett ACO Associates cc 8 Jacobs Ladder St James 7945 Phone 0731418606 Email: [email protected] 1 DECLARATION by the independent person who compiled a specialist report or undertook a specialist process I …David John Halkett…………………………………, as the appointed independent specialist hereby declare that I: act/ed as the independent specialist in this application; regard the information contained in this report as it relates to my specialist input /study to be true and correct, and do not have and will not have any financial interest in the undertaking of the activity, other than remuneration for work performed in terms of the NEMA, the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2010 and any specific environmental management Act; have and will not have no vested interest in the proposed activity proceeding; have disclosed, to the applicant, EAP and competent authority, any material information that have or may have the potential to influence the decision of the competent authority or the objectivity of any report, plan or document required in terms of the NEMA, the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2010 and any specific environmental management Act; am fully aware of and meet the responsibilities in terms of NEMA, the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2010 (specifically in terms of regulation 17 of GN No. R. 543) and any specific environmental management Act, and that failure to comply with these requirements may constitute and result in disqualification; have provided the competent authority with access to all information at my disposal regarding the application, whether such information is favourable to the applicant or not; and am aware that a false declaration is an offence in terms of regulation 71 of GN No. R. 543. Note: The terms of reference must be attached. Signature of the specialist: ACO Associates cc Name of company: 28th June 2012 Date: 2 1. INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................... 4 2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................................... 4 2.1 The Project .......................................................................................................................................... 4 2.2 The site and project components ........................................................................................................... 4 2.2.1 Proposed cement factory .............................................................................................................. 4 2.2.2 Proposed limestone and clay quarries............................................................................................ 4 2.2.3 Proposed Haul road and/or Conveyor routes.................................................................................. 6 2.3 Project phases...................................................................................................................................... 6 2.3.1 PHASE 1: (approximately 2014 – 2021) ......................................................................................... 6 2.3.2 PHASE 2: (Approximately 2022 – 2112)......................................................................................... 7 3. SPECIALIST HERITAGE REPORT SUMMARIES ........................................................................................ 8 3.1 Palaeontological Impact Assessment - John Pether ................................................................................ 8 3.2 Archaeological Impact Assessment - Dave Halkett ................................................................................. 10 3.3 Draft Visual Impact Assessment - Steven Stead ..................................................................................... 12 4. INTEGRATED HERITAGE CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................... 17 APPENDIX 1: NID Comment ......................................................................................................................... 19 APPENDIX 2: Palaeontological Impact Assessment ..................................................................................... 21 APPENDIX 3: Archaeological Impact Assessment ........................................................................................ 33 APPENDIX 4: Draft Visual Impact Assessment ............................................................................................. 43 3 1. INTRODUCTION The following is a short integrated summary of the findings of specialist heritage studies undertaken as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed Afrisam cement plant, mine and associated infrastructure in Saldanha (Figure 1). Only the specialist heritage related reports identified in the NID comment from HWC (see Appendix 2) have been included in the HIA, with the addition of the Visual study. While not specifically requested, it appears to be a significant component of the project. The full unedited specialist reports including Palaeontology, Archaeology and Visual can be found in Appendices 2 - 4. 2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2.1 The Project AfriSam (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd (hereinafter referred to as AfriSam) proposes to construct a cement plant and associated infrastructure in the Saldanha region, in order to re-enter the cement market in the western Cape. The project components are shown in local geographical context on Figure 1. The proposed project includes the mining of limestone and clay by its wholly owned subsidiary company, National Portland Cement Company (Pty) Ltd (hereinafter referred to as NPCC). The limestone and clay would then be transported to the cement plant by road or by conveyor. Initially, quarrying is planned to proceed by expansion of the two existing quarries in the Southern Limestone Quarry mining area. ACO Associates were appointed by Aurecon on behalf of AfriSam to investigate the proposed quarry sites, the proposed cement plant site, and a proposed haul road and conveyor system routes. The Archaeological assessment was undertaken and compiled by Mr D Halkett and will form an appendix to the overall Integrated Heritage Impact Assessment which will also include summaries of the conclusions of the other Heritage related studies. An EIA was previously conducted in 1997 for a similar project (Alpha Saldanha Cement Project). For various reasons however, the project was never carried through to finality. Both Archaeological and Palaeontological Specialist Assessments were undertaken at that time and included in an EIA report compiled by Mark Woods Consultants (Avery and Kaplan 1997, Roberts 1997 in Wood 1997). Both specialist reports remain highly relevant to this project, but have been re-assessed due to changes in legislation and knowledge. More archaeological work took place recently (Sept 2011) when fieldwork was undertaken as part of the current project to assess prospecting drilling locations which were required to assess the limestone ore body, and the observations from that study have been integrated into this report. 2.2 The site and project components The project comprises a number of components located in the Saldanha Bay area (Figure 1). 2.2.1 Proposed cement factory Located on Farm 1139, approximately 4km north-east of the town of Saldanha. The site is surrounded on 3 sides by existing heavy industrial activity including Saldanha Steel, Duferco, the Sishen Saldanha railway, port iron ore stockpile and loading facilities. 2.2.2 Proposed limestone and clay quarries The southern area of the limestone quarry (hereafter referred to as southern limestone quarry): Located on Portions 8, 15 and 23 of Kliprug 282, approximately 1 km to the north west of the town of Saldanha, and directly north of Diazville, approximately 6.8km south west of the proposed cement factory site. 4 Figure 1: The Location of the project components in local geographical context. Factory site (magenta polygon), Clay quarry (purple polygon), Primary mining areas/quarries (red polygons), Maximum mining area (brown shaded polygons), Possible Haul road (light green line), Possible Conveyor (yellow line), Afrisam owned farms, outer boundaries (blue, pink and dark green polygons). A servitude is registered over the transport corridor between mine and factory site. The green bounded farms are proposed conservation areas if the project goes ahead. 5 The northern area of the limestone quarry (hereafter referred to as the northern limestone quarry): Located on Portion 9 of Kliprug 282 and Portion 7 of Jacobs Bay 109, north of the southern limestone quarry, approximately 3 km east of Jacobs Bay and approximately 7.8km west of the proposed cement factory site. Holvlei clay quarry: Located on Portion 4 of Holvlei 120, north of Portion 9 of Kliprug 282 and Portion 7 of Jacobs Bay 109, approximately 3 km inland of the western coastline, 2km north of the Jacobs Bay Road and approximately 9km north-west of the proposed cement factory site (this quarry will only be used if other sources of clay are not available within the proposed mining footprint). A number of the farms are already owned by Afrisam. The farms outlined in blue
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