Proposed ToR for Conducting Environmental Impact Assessment ( EIA) studies for the Proposed New Dry Dock Facility at Cochin Shipyard, Kochi, Kerala Prepared for Cochin Shipyard Limited Represented by Mr. A.N. Neelakandhan CONTENTS 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 1 2 The Project Setting ................................................................................................................. 1 2.1 General .............................................................................................................................. 1 2.2 The Project Setting ............................................................................................................. 1 3 Analysis of alternatives (review of existing studies) ............................................................ 2 4 Description of the Environment ............................................................................................. 2 4.1 Study Area ......................................................................................................................... 2 4.2 Land Environment .............................................................................................................. 2 Land ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Topography .............................................................................................................................. 2 Geology .................................................................................................................................... 3 Soil ........................................................................................................................................... 3 4.3 Water Environment ............................................................................................................. 3 Ground Water ........................................................................................................................... 3 Surface Water ........................................................................................................................... 4 4.4 Marine Environment ........................................................................................................... 4 Coastal Hydrology/Geomorphology .......................................................................................... 4 Bed Sediment Contamination ................................................................................................... 4 4.5 Biological Environment ....................................................................................................... 4 Coastal Ecology ........................................................................................................................ 4 Flora and Fauna in the Neighbourhood ..................................................................................... 4 4.6 Air Environment .................................................................................................................. 4 Meteorological Data .................................................................................................................. 4 Ambient Air Quality ................................................................................................................... 5 4.7 Noise .................................................................................................................................. 5 4.8 Socio-Economic and Occupational Health Environment ..................................................... 5 4.9 Existing Solid Waste Disposal Facilities .............................................................................. 5 4.10 Public Utilities .................................................................................................................. 5 5 Anticipated Environment Impacts and Mitigation Measures ............................................... 5 5.1 Land ................................................................................................................................ 6 Topography, Geology and Soil .................................................................................................. 6 5.2 Water Environment ........................................................................................................... 6 Ground Water ........................................................................................................................... 6 Surface Water ........................................................................................................................... 6 5.3 Coastal Environment ......................................................................................................... 6 5.4 Biological Environment ..................................................................................................... 6 5.5 Air Environment ................................................................................................................. 7 5.6 Noise Pollution ................................................................................................................ 7 5.7 Socio-Economic and Occupational Health Environment .................................................... 7 5.8 Solid Waste Management ................................................................................................ 7 6 Environmental Monitoring programme ................................................................................. 7 7 Additional Studies .................................................................................................................. 8 8 Project Benefits ...................................................................................................................... 8 9 Environmental Cost Benefit Analysis .................................................................................... 8 10 Management Plan (EMP) ..................................................................................................... 8 11 Summary and Conclusion ................................................................................................... 8 12 Disclosure of Consultants Engaged ................................................................................... 8 FIGURES Figure 1-1 Location of CSL ............................................................................................................................. 2 1 Introduction Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) is proposed to construct a new dry dock of size of 320 x 75 x 13 m. Cochin Shipyard has an area of 170 acres of land, of which about 30 acres are set aside for development of future expansion. The proposed development shall be constructed in maximum 15 acres of land within the existing Cochin Shipyard premises and no additional land shall be acquired. The existing two dry docks having sizes of 270 x 45x12 m and 255 x 43x 9 m respectively, are found insufficient to handle building/repair activities of large vessels namely LNG carriers, Air craft carriers, Jack up Rigs, semi-submersibles etc. Hence, CSL proposes to build a new dry dock, to meet the above requirement, within the existing premises. Being an “A” category project, this project attracts the provisions of EIA Notification 2006 and shall abide all the procedures to obtain Environmental Clearance from MoEFCC, New Delhi. 2 The Project Setting 2.1 General Going forward, CSL intends to diversify beyond its traditional ship-building/repair role into areas of repairs and maintenance of offshore drilling rigs/ships. Given the existing dry dock facility with a width of 45m, it would be insufficient to handle rigs with average beam upwards of 60m. Therefore CSL would require to augment its current capability to include dry-dock repairs of these drilling rigs and ships. This would require development of a new ship repair dry dock. The target customers for this facility are envisaged as the drilling rigs/ships which currently use Singaporean or yards at Middle East for repairs. In addition, ONGC is also envisaged as one of the key client. The long term vision of CSL includes development of repair facility capable of handling all types of rigs, Aircraft carriers, Capesize Bulk carriers & General cargo ships, Aframax & Suezmax tankers, Panamax & Post Panamax type container ships and LNG carriers. The dry dock will further cater to building of all the above types of vessels. In 2011-12, Cochin Shipyard undertook an exercise of formulating a business plan for the company for short, medium and long term strategic plan. The aim of the exercise was to draw up structured growth for the yard while ensuring that the company is able to tap all available opportunities to reduce and control risks in the long term. Ernst and Young were appointed as consultants for formulating the business plans and they submitted their reports in December 2011. Based on the business plan, the company has identified the construction of new dry dock to improve its growth prospects. 2.2 The Project Setting The shipyard is located on MG Road within the city. The road lies north-south with its boundaries at the Venduruthy bridge, Thevara in the south, and the Madhava Pharmacy Junction in the north, where it intersects the Banerji Road. The road was earlier part of the NH 47A (Old Highway) and was later handed over to the Corporation of Cochin. The highway