EIS 1457 B AA068 131 Cedar Point Quarry
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EIS 1457 B AA068 131 Cedar Point Quarry I NSWI EPT PRIMARY INUS1RIES I I I I I Balanced Systems I Planning Consultants P.O. Box 36 Bangalow 2479 I Phone & Fax 066 895301 Email: [email protected] I I I I I I I I I I C E DAR POINT QUARRY I L'ECEMBER 1996 I Gég Aide son &:Aácités Pt..ud: .:Biatced Sysi 1s:.Pt nhi . Cons itt ts : I Form 2 I Submission of a Environmental Impact Statement (ElS) Development Application: Establishment and operation of an extractive I industry with an average extraction rate of up to 50,500 cubm. per annum. I Applicant Name: Balanced Systems Planning Consultants Applicant Address: P0 Box 36, Bangalow 2479 I Subject Land Address: Edenville Road and Omagh Road, Kyogle. I Property Description: Lot 1 DP 366036 Parish of Stratheden, I County of Rous EIS prepared by: Balanced Systems Planning Consultants & I Greg Alderson and Associates Pty. Ltd. with the listed study team. I Name: Rob Doolan I Qualifications: B.R.T.P. (University of Queensland, 1976) I Address: P0 Box 36, Bangalow 2479 I certify that I have prepared the contents of this statement and to the best of my I knowledge: - it is in accordance with clauses 51 and 52 of the Environmental Planning & I Assessment Regulation 1994, and - it is true in all material particulars and does not, by its presentation or omission of I information, materially iinslead. - - I Signature :'-- Name: I Date: I I I I Greg AId&so .& Assóciates•Pty Ltd. Baan.ced Systems Planning onsIants I Executive Summary I This report contains the Environmental Impact Statement accompanying a development application to Kyogle Shire Council for the following: I Development Application: Establishment and operation of an extractive industry with an average extraction rate of up to I 50,500 cubm. per annum. I Applicant Name: Balanced Systems Planning Consultants on behalf of Kyogle Shire Council I Subject Land Address: Edenville and Omagh Road, Cedar Point Via Kyogle. I II Property Description: Lot 1 DP 366036 I Parish of Stratheden, I County of Rous. Resource - type: Basalt suitable for road construction and_ I maintenance, concrete aggregate I Resource - quantity: Estimated at up to 5 million cubm (subject to further drilling). I Proposed Annual usage: 50,500 cubm per annum I Estimated number of Fulltime - 5 days per week I operating days: Service Area: Approximately 50 kms. from the quarry I I I I Environmental Impact Statement - Extractive Industry Quarry Name Cedar Point Quarry Site Description: Lot 1 DP 366036 April 1997 I Site Location: Edenville Road, Cedar Point, Kyogle Page 2 Greg Akierson & Associates Pty Ltd Balanced Systems Plannrng Corsu!farts Typical activities associated with the proposed quarry. Use of the quarry will generate the following typical activities I - establishment phase - the initial phase of establishment, likely to occur over about one month, will strip topsoil from the first stage area and form the quarry pit shape, build earth wall barriers for noise buffering, and commence I tree planting for visual screening. - blasting - blasting to loosen the raw product material to allow the formation of a' pit. Blasting is likely to occur on average three times per year. - ripping - ripping of the material from within the quarry pit with a bulldozer or excavator will then be the principal method of moving the quarry material. - crusher - a mobile crusher would operate within the pit excavation and would I crush and screen the raw product ready for stockpiling. The crusher may be I loaded by a dedicated quarry truck or a front end loader. - load and haul - a rubber tyred loader will load road haulage trucks within the I quarry pit. Traffic generation would typically average at 15 (15 cubm.) truck movements per day, which would typically occur on about 250 days in the I average year. Using larger trucks, would result in less truck movements. I Typical program of implementation The following provides a typical program for establishment and ongoing operation of I the quarry. I Year Activity I Year 1 - fence perimeter of the Cell 1 and stage 1 of the quarry area. Also isolate, by fencing, the landscape areas. - placing stockpiles or bunds of overburden on perimeter for I screening and planting on bunds plus perimeter landscaping as I per the Plan of Management. XXXXX I Environmental Impac t Statement Extractive Industry Quarry Name: Cedar Point Quarry Site Description: Lot I DP 36036 April 197 I Site Location: Edenville Road, Cedar Point, Kyogle Page 3 . I Greg Alderson & Associates Pty Ltd Balanced Systems Planning Consultants - construction of access road, entrance, sealing and landscaping - construction of sediment ponds. ' - initial stripping and excavation of the quarry works area and the commencement of the pit excavation. I - establishment of access or entry to the pit for trucks, crusher and other work area equipment. I Year 2 - continue the excavation of the pit - create a product stockpile area within the pit I - carry out further landscaping and replace any landscaping that has died or been damaged. Year 3 and after - continue excavation and winning of material as per I management plan - commence progressive rehabilitati6n of the earlier I extraction area if sufficient extraction has occured Summary of Likely Impacts of the proposed quarry I Noise - The potential noise impacts will be ameliorated by the pit type I opperation of the quarry and the restriction of distance in the south west corner of the site. Traffic impacts will be reduced by the upgrading of the road I Traffic - system by the payment of a heavy haulage levee and the carrying I out of works. Water discharge - The plateaux nature of the site tends to shed water away from the work area. Stormwater within the work area will be treated in 1 settlement ponds and an artificial wetland filter prior to its reentry to the existing water system. Wastewater reuse on the site is to be I maximised. Visual - Potential visual impacts are minimised by the plateaux location of I the quarry and the pit type extraction method. Tree planting is also to be carried out around the site. I Dust - Use of wastewarter for dust control will be a feature of the management plan for this quarry to ensure good control over dust potential. I Environmental Impact Statement Extractive Industry Quarry Name: Cedar Point Quarry Site Description lot I DP 366036 April 1997 Site Location: Edenville Road, Cedar Point, Kyogie . Page 4 . ...... I Pty Ltd Balanced Systems Planning CorsuItants Greg Alderson & Associates I CONTENTS I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................6 1.1 PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE OF THIS REPORT......................................................................................... 6 I 1.2 TYPE OF APPLICATION...................................................................................................................... 7 1.3 THE PROPONENT.............................................................................................................................. 7 1.4 THE STUDY TEASI ............................................................................................................................ 8 I 2. THE SITE AND LOCALITY..........................................................................................................9 2.1 THE REGION .................................................................................................................................... 9 I 2.2 IMMEDIATE LOCALITY..................................................................................................................... 9 2.2.1 Locality Context...................................................................................................................... 9 2.2.2 Locality Settlement Pattern ..................................................................................................... 10 2.2.3 LocaiTh.' Zoning Pattern .......................................................................................................... 10 I 2.2.4 Locality Road Network........................................................................................................... 11 2.3 THE SITE ...................................................................................................................................... 12 2.3.1 .VaiuralSvstems ..................................................................................................................... 12 I 2.3.1.1 Climate............................................................................................................................... 12 2.3.1.2 Flora and fauna systems ........................ ............................................................................. 13 2.3.1.3 Waler Systems ............................................................................... ...... ............................... 14 2.3.1.4 Soil Systems ......................................................................................................................... 15 I 2.3.2 Human Sy..ctems...................................................................................................................... 15 2.3.2.1 Site History ......................................................................................................................... 15 2.3.2.2 .4rchaeological assessment ................................................................................................ 16 I 2.3.2.3 .lgricultural Capahili .4.ssessment....................................................................................