Application for Environmental Clearance (u/s 7(ii) of EIA Notification, 2006 & O.M. dated 19.12.2012 & 07.01.2014) OF Naheriya UG Expansion Pench Area, WCL (One Time Capacity Expansion for incremental production from 0.36 MTPA to 0.54 MTPA within the existing EC ML area of 300.0 ha) ADDENDUM EIA & EMP JANUARY - 2016 Prepared by:- Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (Accreditation as EIA consultant vide NABET No/EIA/01/12/002 Dt.31.01.2012) CMPDI/Form - I /WCL/2015-16/Dec/23/02 1 Contents S. No. Particular Description Page 1 Brief of Project Report 01-21 2 EIA/EMP Addendum 3 Chapter-I Anticipated environmental impacts 24-81 & Mitigation measures 4 Chapter-II Environmental Monitoring Programme 82-84 5 Chapter -III Additional Studies 85-90 6 Chapter-IV Project Benefits 91-91 7 Chapter -V Environmental Management Plan 92-93 8 Chapter -VI Disclosure of Consultant Engaged 94-10 5 ANNEXURES ANNEXURE-I COMPLIANCE REPORT FROM MOEF REGIONAL OFFICE ANNEXURE -II ATR SUBMITTED TO MOEF ANNEXURE-III ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE OF 0.36 MTPA ANNEXURE-IV MINUTES OF PUBLIC HEARNING ANNEXURE -V STATUS OF CSR ACTIVITY ANNEXURE-VI SCHEME APPROVAL LETTER ANNEXURE -VII SUBSIDENCE REPORT ANNEXURE -VIII TOPO PLAN 2 BRIEF OF PROJECT DETAILS 1. INTRODUCTION The Naheriya Geological Block forms eastern to north – eastern contiguous part of Urdhan Block and Thesgora Block “B” of Pench – Kanhan Valley Coalfield, District- Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. Naheriya UG Mine falls under Naheriya Geological Block. Naheriya UG mine is under Pench administrative area of Western Coalfields Limited. The area is enclosed by Gunor river and Dhankasa nullah from all the sides except in the southeastern part. The block is situated about 32 km east of Parasia, the main town in Pench Valley. Initially Project report has been prepared with target capacity of 0.36 MTY with an capital investment of Rs. 46.1708 Crores. Naheriya UG mine was operational since year 2000, obtained Ex-Post –Facto Environmental Clearance vide Lr.No. J- 11015/35/2001- IA.II(M) dated 15.11.2001 for capacity of about 0.36 MTPA, with land area of 300.0 ha comprising 206.562 ha of forest land for which forest clearance has been obtained vide vide letter no F-5/3/2000/10/3 – dated 03.01.2001 and agriculture land Now it is proposed for production enhancement from 0.36 MTPA to 0.54 MTPA by deployment of 4 nos. of LHDs additionally in 4 development Panels and 2 depillaring panels to produce 0.54 MTPA with an additional capital of 8.62 Crores, without increase in land area. The Scheme for This Environmental Management Plan has been prepared and approved by WCL dated 12.01.2016 to apply for prior Environmental Clearance for enhancement under u/s 7(ii) of EIA Notification, 2006 &O.M. dated 19.12.2012 & 07.01.2014. 1.1.2 LOCATION & COMMUNICATION Naheriya Block named after Naheriya village falls in Pench – Kanhan Valley Coalfield. It is located in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. The block is bounded by latitude 22⁰ 16’32” to 22⁰ 12’ 53” and longitude 78⁰ 57’ 58” to 78⁰ 59’ 50” E. it forms a part of SOI Topo Sheet No 55/J (Scale 1:50,000) The approach from Parasia to Naheriya Block is via Shivpuri OC Mine on BT weather road. The mine is also approachable from Amarwada, a Tahsil town on Chhindwara – Narsinghpur road. The distance between Amarwada and Naheriya is about 35 km and it is fully black topped road. The convenient rail head for the block currently used for coal dispatch is EDC siding which is approximately 37km from Naheriya Block. 1.2 TOPOGRAPHY & DRAINAGE: The entire area of geological block is occupied by basalt which on differential erosion has formed rugged terrain comprising of hills and valleys. The maximum elevation is noticed in the south-eastern part with the contour value of 782 m. In central and south- eastern part a continuous relatively flat high ground is formed with contour values between 1 760 m to 782 m. In the north-eastern past between boreholes PU- 93 & PU-151, an isolated ridge is seen with maximum contour value of 756 m. The lowest elevation is seen in the south-western past around PU-186 & PU-188 where contour value is 700 m. The drainage in the block is mainly controlled by the perennial Gunor river (together with Dhankasa nullah) which almost encircle and form the western, norther, southern (Partly) and eastern boundary of the block. Number of nullahs flow in the block in different directions guided by local topography and ultimately meet Gunor river. 1.3 DEMAND , MARKETABILITY & JUSTIFICATION In the view of Vision 2020 of CIL and constant pressure on WCL mines to meet the increasing demand of non-coking coal for power houses and other bulk consumers from Western as well as Southern part of country. The existing Naheriya UG project is located in Pench-Kanhan coalfields of WCL. The justification of this mine for proposed expansion has been studied in the light of estimated demand for non-coking coal from power sector in Madhya Pradesh and production forecast from existing, completed and ongoing projects of WCL. Moreover this mine is in operation and having potential, the reserve of the mine supports for enhancement, there will be no problem in marketing because existing customers may continue to lift coal from this mine. By enhancing the production from 0.36 MT to 0.54 MT will help in reducing the losses from 1169/te to 565/te. Scheme for enhancement of production in Naheriya UG mine form 0.36 MT to 0.54 MT per year has been approved with an additional capital of 8.62 Crores by WCL dated 12.01.2016. Naheriya UG is linked to Power sector and partially fed to MPPGCL Sarni, PTPS Panipath, UPPGCL Paricha, MSPGCL Bhusaval, MSPGCL Nasik, KTPS Dholpur. It is, therefore, essential to enhance the production capacity of Naheriya UG to reduce the gap between the requirement and availability. Keeping this objective in view, Naheriya UG mine is planned for a target capacity of 0.54 MTPA. 2. REGIONAL GEOLOGY The mine under consideration has been projected in Naheriya Geological Block. The detailed exploration in Naheriya Block has been carried out by MECL intermittently when the borehole sites were approachable and hence, the drilling in the block has spread over a span of about 5 years from January, 1989 to May, 1994. The present geological assessment of the proposed mine area is based on the data of 52 boreholes involving a total meterage of 7416.20 m in an area of around 3.00 Sq. km. and forms a part of Naheriya Geological Block. The density of boreholes works out to 17 boreholes per Sq.km 2 2.1 GEOLOGY OF THE BLOCK The entire area is covered with the flows of Basalt which on differential erosion has formed rugged terrain comprising hills and valleys. The general elevation ranges from 706.89 m (PU – 186) to 769.84 (PU-180). The geological succession in the proposed mine area is as given below in Table 2.1 GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION Age Formation Lithology Thickness Range (m) From To Sub-recent to Soil Sandy & Clayey Soil 0.50 5.5 recent (PU-102, 160, (PU-172) etc.) Up cretaceous Deccan Trap with Flows of Basalt with 23.00 (PU- 103.66 to Eoceone inter-trappean beds beds of clay/ clay – 160) (PU-201) stone of variaged colours UNCONFORMITY Jurassic Jabalpur Gritty sandstones and 1.26 30.96 clays with jasper (PU-186) (PU-97) pebbles UNCONFORMITY Permian Motur Clays / Claystones of 9.59 (PU-165) 74.64 brick red, purple and (PU-187) grey colour with lenses / bands of sandstones at places. Permian Barakar Sandstones with 9.32 74.64 kaolinised feldspars, (PU-129) (PU-165) interbanded with shales and coal seams. Talchir Fine grained 0.75 (+) 2.85 (+) argillaceous (PU-188) (PU-186) sandstone and green shales 2.2 SEQUENCE OF COAL SEAMS The seams in the block under report have been designated as Seam I (Topmost), II, III, IV and V (bottom most). Seam-I occurs in 3 sections: IA, IB, IC designated form top bottom. The Section – IA is very thin, impersistent and very poorly developed within the block. It has not attained workable thickness of more than 0.90 m anywhere in the block. Seam – I cannot be 3 considered from exploitation point of view, as such, it has not been considered for mining in this report. The Seam – II ranges in thickness from 0.31 m to 3.13 m (Average thickness 2.20 m) whreas Seam –III ranges in thickness from 0.18 m to 2.34 m (Average of 1.70 m) Both the seams have a parting of 3 m in whole mine field except at the boundary of the dip side property, as such, both the seams namely Seams – II & III are to be mined out contiguously in the rest of the area. Beyond fault F6(N) upto Fault F8 (N), only Seam – II has developed whereas the thickness of Seam – II is less than 1.2 m and the parting between Seam – II and Seam – III in this sector [F6(N) & F8 (N)] is by and large less than 3 m. As such, in this area, only Seam-II will be worked, by driving drifts across Fault F6 (N). From the perusal of seam folio plan of Seam-II it is clear that the panels 3 & 5 will not be worked, as the coal thickness in these panels is in between 1.2 m to 1.5 m, which is difficult to work by mechanized method, as such, their extractable coal reserves have not been considered in the report.