ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN Of GRAVEL QUARRY For Sri Aamudala Pitchaiah alias Isaac, 0.741 HA GRAVEL QUARRY Sy No: 382, Ramanakkapeta (V), Musunuru Mandal, Krishna (DT), ANDHRA PRADESH Prepared By P.V.SATYANARAYANA Consultant Geologist & RQP Regn.No. RQP / DMG/ AP/ 34/ 2017 Lattice Bommasani Sadhan, 2nd Floor, Near One Center,Gollapudi, Vijayawada -521225 Ph No-8610692941 INTRODUCTION Sri Aamudala Pitchaiah alias Isaac has filed an application for grant of quarry lease for Gravel over an extent of 1.83 acres (0.741 Hects) in Sy. No. 382 of Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, for a period of 5 years was received by the Asst. Director of Mines and Geology, Vijayawada on 10-05-2019. The Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Vijayawada has made proposals on application filed by Sri Aamudala Pitchaiah alias Isaac duly recommending for grant of Quarry lease for Gravel an extent of 1.83 Acrs / 0.741 Hectares in Sy. No. 382 of Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, for a period of 03 years. After careful examination of the proposals of the Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Vijayawada, it is agreed in principal to grant of Quarry Lease for Gravel over an extent of 1.83 Acrs / 0.741 Hectares in Sy. No. 382 of Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, for a period of 03 years in favour of Sri Aamudala Picthaiah alias Isaac subject to submission of approved mining Plan as required under Rule 7A (i) of APMMC Rules, 1966. Along with Environment Clearance as per the procedure mentioned in the Notification S.O.No 1533 (E) Dt: 14.02.2006 and subsequent amendments issued there from time to time and also S.O.N141 (E), Dt.15.01.2016 of the Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change and CEF from APPCB. The Mining Plan was approved by the Deputy Director Of Mines & Geology, Vijayawada vide letter No. 220/03 /2019, Dated: 28.08.2019 The mine lease area falls under the Toposheet No. 65D/14 bearing following Toposheet details: B.P No. LATITUDE LONGITUDE OS1 N16°52'54.58575" E080°52'54.43305" 2 N16°52'54.22470" E080°52'54.31332" 1 N16°52'53.91611" E080°52'54.71743" a N16°52'52.71120" E080°52'54.13064" b N16°52'54.21974" E080°52'50.08251" 8 N16°52'55.13133" E080°52'50.29632" 7 N16°52'55.54220" E080°52'50.84150" 13 N16°52'56.12282" E080°52'51.20283" 2 LOCATION OF THE MINE The applied area falls in the Toposheet No. 65D/14. The quarry lease area is spread over in Survey No. 382, of Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. State Transport bus services ply from Ramanakkapta-Nuzivid. Primary & Upper primary school education is available at Nuzvid & Vijayawada. Higher education is available at Vijayawada . Introduction of the Project Land The Quarry Lease for Gravel over an extent of 0.741 Hectares in Sy. No. 382, of Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. Location 0.741 Hectares of Gravel Quarry, Sy.No. 382, Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal, Krishna Dt, Andhra Pradesh. The present mining lease area falls in the Govt. land from Ramanakkapeta village at a distance of 850 m from the Quarry Lease Area. 3 Boundaries: North Hill Area & Agricultural Lands South Hill Area & Agricultural Lands East Hill Area & Agricultural Lands West Agricultural Lands The Salient Features of the proposed project Nature of the project Sri Aamudala Pitchaiah alias Isaac Mining of Gravel Quarry Size of the Project 0.741 Ha Production 11,073 M3 /annum (27,682.5 Tons/annu,) LOCATION OF PROJECT District & State Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh Village & Mandal Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal Land Availability 0.741 Ha. Nearest Village Ramanakkapeta village at a distance of 850m from the Q.L. area Ownership Govt Land Toposheet No. 65D/14 GENERAL CLIMATIC CONDITIONS Annual rainfall 1,000 mm Min and max temp. 25 C and 48 C Avg. relative humidity 75% Predominant wind direction SW to NE HISTORICAL / IMPORTANT PLACES Nearest human settlement The Nearest Village Ramanakkapeta is situted 850m due E of the quarry lease area. Nearest town musunuru is located at the distance of 18.3 km due SW of the Quarry Lase applied area Nearest railway station Nuzvid is the nearest Railway Station is about to 12 km towards South of the Q.L. applied area Archaeological /Historically None within 10 km radius of the site Important Site Sensitive Places Hospitals, schools and community facilities are available at Nuzvid & Vijayawada Towns Sanctuaries / National parks None within 10 km radius of the site. 4 GOOGLE MAP AROUND 10 KM RADIUS 5 TOPO MAP AROUND 05 KM RADIUS DETAILS OF THE MINE Mine Area: This mine lease (ML) area is located in Govt. land and the Quarry Lease applied for Gravel over an extent of 0.741 Hectares in Sy. No. 382, of Ramanakkapeta Village, Musunuru Mandal, Krishna Dt, Andhra Pradesh. The quarry lease applied area is located southern part of plain land, over the gravel outcrop with a maximum elevation of 4 M above ground level. The lowest & highest contours is 127 M and 131 M. Regional Geology The subject area is physiographical hillock area. The applied area is constituted of naturally occurring gravel. The area constitutes southernmost part of Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt (EGMB), where the belt is tapering to less than 20 km width. EGMB is trending in NNE – SSW in the area. They consist of Gollanapally sandstone, fluvial geological formation, quartz, k-feldspar, garnet, silliminite, graphite ,with or without corundum. In the Northeastern part, a number of calc granulite and quartzite bands are present, within khondalite. Rocks of Upper Gondwana Group of the Gondwana Super group, comprising Tirupati Sandstone, Gollapalle/Chintalapudi Sandstone and Kamthi Sandstone are exposed north, northwest and east of Nuzivid. These rocks trend NE-SW with 200 dip towards SE Unconformably overlaying the Gondwana rocks is a small patch of Rajahmundry Sandstone, occurring NE OF Nuzividu. The sandstone is brick red in colour and contains nodules of clay. Major part of the district in the southern part is represented by the alluvial plains forming the Krishna delta. The river Krishna and its tributaries have contributed to the formation of this alluvial plain. There is no significant surface drainage in these alluvial plains. The delta is relatively a flat area. The alluvial plains along the major course of rivers form the flood plain deposits. The coastal and deltaic alluvial plain extends from Challapalli on the west to Kolleti Kota on the east and up to the coast line on the south. The main geomorphic units exist in these plains are palaeo-channels, beach ridges, lagoons, sand spits and sand barriers. The predominant soils in the district are black cotton soils/deltaic soils, red loamy soils and sandy soils. Red clayey soils with sandy loam to clayey loam in texture and occur in the northern part of the district. The deltaic alluvium is grey brown to black in colour with fine to medium texture and poorly permeable. They are fertile soils. The coastal sandy soils occur all along the coast, highly porous and lack of binding material. The rocks of Archean age are overlain by Proterozoic cover sequence of cuddapah super group and Kurnool group. The contacts between older crystalline and the younger sediment is marked by pronounced unconformity known as Eparchaean Unconformity. Local Geology: The Quarry lease applied area is fallen Eastern flack of hillock with 4 m above ground level which was trending to NE-SW directions of hillock with the lowest contour 127 m and highest contour 131 m. The gravel exposed on the surface of the hillock which was formed insitu weathering of Khondalite group of rocks of the eastern ghat super group of rock of Archean age. Especially in this applied area having good amount of Gravel has been available due to low height and gentle of slope of the hill and also the rock formation is Khondalite group of rocks, which has been semi consolidate nature i.e., Schist formation. The Khondalite schist is not formed fully rock due to low grade of metamorphism of sedimentary rocks. Hence it is considered (or) treated as Gravel of the weathered zone of Khondalite and semi consolidated rock material and if any hard rock of Khondalite/ Sillimanite quartzite will be arrived i.e Gneiss form of Khondalite/ Sillimanite quartzite it will be stocked at dumpy yard. The gravel utilized for formation of kaccha road & filling of low laying area formation layouts. Reserves and Average Production The deposit is found to be irregular in shape. Hence cross sectional method adopted for Estimation of Geological Reserves. 2 Sections A-A1 & B-B’ were drawn at equal distance perpendicular to the strike direction of the formation to estimate the reserves (Plate – III). The cross sections were drawn perpendicular to the strike direction, the cross sectional area (i.e., Length & Depth) of the individual sections are calculated to arrive at sectional area, the area thus arrived is multiplied by the sectional influences (width) to arrive the volume of deposit. Therefore, the length, Depth and Sectional Influence (width) of Section A-A’ is 131.7M, 7.88M & 30M respectively. Similarly the length, Depth and Sectional Influence (width) of Section B-B’ is 111.5M,6.56M & 31M respectively. TOTAL GEOLOGICAL RESERVES Sectional Area Sectional Influence S.No Cross Sections Volume in (M3) (M2) (M) 1. A-A’ 1039 30 31,170 2. B-B’ 732 31 22,692 TOTAL 53,862 RESERVES BLOCKED UNDER 7.5 M BUFFER ZONE Sectional Area Sectional Influence S.No Cross Sections Volume in (M3) (M2) (M) 1.