Sri C.M. Ramasudhakar Reddy at Survey No

Sri C.M. Ramasudhakar Reddy at Survey No

DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED EXPANSION OF LATERITE MINE IN AN AREA OF 14.714 HA BY SRI C.M. RAMASUDHAKAR REDDY AT SURVEY NO. 515/3 (P), RUDRAKOTA VILLAGE, KAVALI MANDAL, SPSR NELLORE DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH 1. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT 2. ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN 3. COMPLIANCE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 4. ANNEXURES Terms of Reference: AP/NLR/MIN/09/2020/2106, dt.14.09.2020 Monitoring Period : October, 2020 – December, 2020 Project Cost : 40 lakhs Project No. 0221-02-07 February, 2021 Studies and Documentation By Submitted By TEAM Labs and Consultants Sri. C.M Ramasudhakar Reddy NABET – Certificate No: NABET/ EIA/ No. 8/111, R.S Road, 1821/ SA 0114, dt.04.09.2020 R.S Kodur, Y S R Nellore District, B-115 to 117& 509, Annapurna Block, Andhra Pradesh - 516 101 Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Hyderabad-500 038 Mobile No. +91 94400 08434. Phone: 040-23748 555/616, Telefax: 040-23748666 Email: [email protected] SUBMITTED TO ANDHRA PRADESH POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD, REGIONAL OFFICE, NELLORE SRI C.M. RAMASUDHAKAR REDDY SURVEY NO. 515/3 (P), RUDRAKOTA VILLAGE, KAVALI MANDAL, SPSR NELLORE DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH 1. ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT Studies and Documentation By Submitted By Sri. C.M Ramasudhakar Reddy TEAM Labs and Consultants No. 8/111, R.S Road, B-115 to 117 & 509, Annapurna Block, R.S Kodur, Y S R Nellore District, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Andhra Pradesh - 516 101 Hyderabad-500 038 Mobile No. +91 94400 08434. Phone: 040-23748 555/616, Telefax: 040-23748666 Email: [email protected] SUBMITTED TO ANDHRA PRADESH POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD, REGIONAL OFFICE, NELLORE CONTENTS Section Chapter Page. No 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1-1 1.2 Purpose of the Report 1-1 1.3 Brief Background of the Project 1-2 1.4 Mining Method 1-2 1.5 Mine Location 1-2 1.6 Environmental Impact Assessment 1-4 1.7 Scope of EIA Studies 1-8 1.8 Clearance requirement for the project 1-8 2.0 Project Description 2.0 Introduction 2-1 2.1 Land use pattern of the mine lease area 2-1 2.2 Geology of the area 2-2 2.2.1 Topography 2-2 2.2.2 Regional Geology 2-2 2.2.3 Local Geology 2-2 2.3 Reserves 2-4 2.4 Conceptual Mining plan 2-6 2.5 Mining Technology 2-8 2.6 Development and production 2-8 2.7 Machinery Requirement 2-10 2.8 Employment Potential 2-10 2.9 Site Services 2-11 2.10 Fire Fighting Facilities 2-11 2.11 Water Requirement 2-11 2.12 Effluent generation and groundwater 2-12 2.13 Crushing and Screening Plant 2-12 2.14 Reclamation and Rehabilitation 2-12 2.15 Details of Cluster Projects 2-12 3.0 Description of the Environment 3.1 Introduction 3-1 3.2 Land Environment 3-1 3.2.1 Physiography 3-1 3.2.2 Geology 3-7 3.2.3 Hydrogeology 3-7 3.2.4 Soils 3-10 Section Chapter Page. No 3.3 Water Environment 3-15 3.3.1 Surface Water Resources 3-15 3.3.1.1 Surface Water Quality 3-15 3.3.1.2 Ground Water Resources 3-17 3.3.1.3 Quality of Ground Water 3-17 3.4 Air Environment 3-21 3.4.1 Meteorology 3-21 3.4.2 Meteorological Station at Mine Lease area 3-24 3.4.3 Ambient Air Quality 3-27 3.4.4 Scope of Field Study 3-30 3.4.5 Description of Sampling Locations 3-31 3.4.6 Ambient Air Quality Status 3-32 3.4.7 Noise Environment 3-34 3.4.8 Traffic Study 3-37 3.5 Socio Economic Environment 3-37 3.5.1 Demography 3-37 3.5.2 Population Distribution 3-37 3.5.3 Literacy 3-38 3.5.4 Employment/Occupation 3-39 3.5.5 Living Standards and Infrastructure 3-42 3.5.6 Land Utilization 3-43 3.5.7 Project Economy 3-44 3.6 Ecology 3-45 4.0 Anticipated Environment Impacts and Mitigation Measures 4.0 Identification of Impacts 4-1 4.1 Environmental impacts from mining and associated infrastructure 4-1 4.1.1 Impact Networks 4-4 4.2 Prediction and Assessment of Impacts 4-8 4.2.1 Methodology of Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix 4-8 4.2.2 Air Environment 4-12 4.2.3 Details of Mathematical Modeling 4-15 4.2.4 Emissions from Mining activity and transportation 4-17 4.2.5 Air Quality Predictions 4-19 4.3 Occupational Health Hazards Due to Dust Pollution 4-25 4.4 Noise Environment 4-25 4.4.1 Prediction of Impact on Noise Quality 4-26 4.4.2 Occupational Health Hazards of Noise Pollution 4-29 4.5 Ground Vibrations 4-29 4.6 Water Environment 4-30 4.7 Land Environment 4-34 4.8 Biological Environment 4-37 Section Chapter Page. No 4.9 Socio-economic Environment 4-42 4.10 Prediction of Impact on Vehicular Traffic 4-45 5.0 Analysis of Alternatives 5.0 Introduction 5-1 5.1 Alternative Sites 5-1 5.2 Alternatives in Technology 5-1 6.0 Environmental Monitoring Program 6.1 Introduction 6-1 6.1.1 Objectives 6-1 6.1.2 Methodology 6-1 6.1.3 Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Monitoring 6-2 6.1.4 Water Quality Monitoring 6-3 6.1.5 Noise Level Monitoring 6-7 6.1.6 Responsibility of Monitoring and Reporting System 6-8 6.2 Environmental Monitoring Budget 6-8 7.0 Additional Studies (Risk Assessment) 71 Introduction 7-1 7.2 Objectives and Scope 7-1 7.3 Mining Activity 7-1 7.4 Hazard Identification 7-1 7.5 Hazard Analysis 7-3 7.6 Disaster Management 7-3 7.6.1 Clearance 7-4 7.6.2 Construction of Services 7-4 7.6.3 Failure of Pit Slopes 7-4 7.6.4 Transportation 7-5 7.6.5 House Keeping 7-5 7.7 Disaster Management Plan 7-5 7.7.1 Objective of Disaster Management Plan 7-6 7.7.2 Communication System 7-6 7.7.3 Facilities 7-6 7.7.4 Personal 7-6 7.7.5 Operating Procedure 7-6 8.0 Project Benefits 8.0 Introduction 8-1 9.0 Environment Cost Benefit Analysis Section Chapter Page. No 9.0 Introduction 9-1 10.0 Environment Management Plan 10.0 Introduction 10-1 10.1 Sources of Pollution and Control Measures 10-1 10.2 Air Pollution and its Control 10-1 10.3 Greening program 10-2 10.4 Occupational Health and Safety Measures to Control 10-2 10.5 Noise pollution and its control 10-3 10.6 Occupational Health and Safety Measures to Control Exposure 10-3 10.7 Water Quality Management 10-3 10.7.1 Water Resources 10-3 10.7.2 Rain water Harvesting Plan 10-3 10.8 Soil Conservation Measures 10-5 10.9 Afforestation / Greenbelt Plan 10-6 10.10 Waste Management 10-8 10.11 Environmental Management System (EMS) 10-8 10.12 Environment Policy 10-9 10.13 Socio- Economic Development 10-10 10.14 Corporate Environmental Responsibility Action Plan 10-10 10.15 Environment Management Cell 10-11 10.16 Other Management Aspects 10-12 10.17 Occupational Health and Protective Measures 10-13 10.18 Cost proposed for Environmental Protection Measures 10-14 11.0 Summary and Conclusion IV ANNEXURES A-1 Copy of Mining Lease, AMP Letter and Google Earth Map A-1 List of Tables 1.1 Salient features of the study area 1-2 1.2 The Geo coordinates of the mine lease area 1-4 1.3 Required Approvals and Applicable statutes 1-9 2.1 Details of the Lease Area 2-1 2.2 Land use Pattern of the Mine Lease Area 2-2 2.3 Geological reserves 2-5 2.4 Year wise production 2-8 2.5 List of Machinery 2-10 2.6 Employment Potential 2-11 2.7 Water Requirement 2-12 3.1 Details of the mine lease location and Study Area 3-1 3.2 Soil Analysis Data 3-13 3.3 Soil Test Results – Reference Tables 3-14 3.4 Surface water Analysis Data 3-16 3.5 Locations of groundwater sampling 3-17 3.6 Groundwater analysis data 3-20 3.7 Normal climatological table 3-22 3.8 Frequency Distribution of Wind Speed and Wind Direction 3-25 3.9 Locations of Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations 3-31 3.10 Ambient Air Quality Data status 3-32 3.11 AQI Index Showing the Results of Ambient Air Quality 3-34 3.12 Effects on Human Beings at Different Noise Levels 3-36 3.13 Equivalent Noise levels in the Study Area 3-36 3.14 Population Distribution – Study Area 3-39 3.15 Literacy - Study Area 3-40 3.16 Employment - Study Area 3-40 3.17 Main Workers - Study Area 3-41 3.18 Land Utilization Pattern 3-44 3.19 List of ecologically important plant species observed 3-54 3.20 List of agricultural crops & commercial crops 3-56 3.21 List of plant species Recorded 3-57 3.22 List of Fauna and Their Conservation Status 3-64 3.23 listed birds are Least Concern under IUCN and Schedule - IV 3-65 3.24 List of Reptiles either spotted or reported from the study area 3-67 3-25 List of Amphibians either spotted or reported from the study area.

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