Community Consultative Committee November 2016
Agenda item 3 - Correspondence Environment Protection Licence – Annual return paperwork issued Notice Response to Notice Issued 2013 and 2014 AEMR to Department of Planning Independent Audit issued to Department of Planning Modified conditions of consent for modification 4 received Management plans for air, water, noise, aboriginal heritage, environment management strategy and monitoring to be issued 30th November 2016 2
Agenda item 4 – Operations Safety Achieved zero LTI’s throughout the last 3 months including zero harm to our employees and contractors in both August and October. Overburden No further overburden works until July/August 2017 Pit update Commenced additional hours of operation for the pit Commenced development of the drop cut with target of April for completion Processing Continue to increase output with October being a record output month Projects in place to further increase plant availability Started to develop the scalpings market People Commenced the Enterprise Agreement bargaining process 3
Agenda item 5 – OH&S Performance No loss time injuries Zero Harm across the quarry business for October – no injuries Audiometric testing for employees conducted Testing of Clean space air respirators Personal dosimetry dust testing Internal audit and testing of fire suppression systems 4
Agenda Item 6 - Environmental Performance Incidents (EPL period June 2014 – July 2015) Aug (2) PN hose failure and Fuel spillage onto ground Sept (1) oil spill Oct (2) pit excavator oil spill, Notice of intent 5
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Complaints Aug (3) noise Sept (7) Noise queries in association with trains (4), rock to the surge (1), in pit crusher (1) and blast (1) Oct (4) Noise queries in association with rock to the surge (1), in pit crusher (2) and blast (1) 6
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air Annual Average goal of 4gm2/month Not In compliance at Site 1 (5.22 ) and 3 (4.04) 7
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air Annual Average goal of 4gm2/month In compliance 8
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air Annual Average goal of 4gm2/month Not In compliance due to dust recorded in July and October 2015. However of the insoluble solids Ash content is nearly 50%. 9
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air – Particulate Matter <10 microns (EPL period July 2016 – July 2017) PM10 below annual average goal 10
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air - Total Suspended Particulates (EPL period July 2016 – July 2017) TSP below Annual average goal 11
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Noise - quarterly noise monitoring July (august) 2016 All sensitive receiver sites monitored In compliance – daytime Receiver Date Predicted Site Noise Level Contribution Operational Criteria (dB(A)) EPL ID Name LAeq, 15 minute (dB(A)) daytime 16 Pace 16th August 2016 22 41 6 Bartolo 29 35 2 Ordasi 24 39 5 Cooper 32 17th August 2016 25 30 31 26 12
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Noise - quarterly noise monitoring July (August) 2016 All sensitive receiver sites monitored In compliance - evening Receiver Date Site Noise Level Contribution Operational Criteria (dB(A)) EPL ID Name Leq, 15 minute (dB(A)) evening 2 Ordasi 18th August 2016 32 35 5 Pace 21 33 24 20 6 Bartolo 17th August 2016 34 Cooper 13
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Noise - quarterly noise monitoring July (August) 2016 All sensitive receiver sites monitored In compliance – evening 1min Receiver Date Site Noise Level Contribution Operational Criteria (dB(A)) EPL ID Name LA1, 1 minute (dB(A)) evening 5 Cooper 17th August 2016 34 45 33 Pace 18th August 2016 21 20 6 Bartolo 14
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Noise - quarterly noise monitoring October2016 Monitoring was conducted in October 2016 New conditions of consent in place for Modification 4 Site #2 no longer to be monitored as property now owned by Boral 2 new additional sensitive receivers to be monitored on a regular basis They will be included in the quarterly monitoring and were monitored in October 15
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Blast monitoring (EPL 2016-2017) All in compliance 16
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Blast monitoring (EPL 2016-2017) All in compliance 17
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Surface water surface water samples taken quarterly from 3 sites and after large rainfall events U1 – upstream / dam – pump in the main dam / T1 – Tangarang creek Quarterly monitoring round undertaken on 5th September 2016 All sites sampled. Analyses compared to ADWG (health )guideline value, ADWG (aesthetic)guideline value, ANZECC (ecosystem)guideline value, ANZECC (primary contact)guideline value For this quarter, results are in compliance with the exception of fecal coliforms and turbidity (aesthetic). This was at all sites sampled and will be due to the rain (28mms) in the previous days. 18
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Ground water Ground water Elevation – sentinel well (MW05) 19
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Ground water 12 groundwater monitoring wells installed Monitored quarterly by consultant 4 rounds monitored to date Results compared to ANZECC guidelines Last round of monitoring conducted 20th October 2016. All results are in compliance with some exceptions 20
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Ground water 21
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Environmental flow 22
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Heritage Management plan revised and issued for approval 23
Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Ecology Rehab maintenance work ongoing Review of the success and replacement plantings to be undertaken in December with proposed planting in March 2017 24
Agenda item 6 – Stakeholder Engagement HASP project CVA schools program – Tallong Marulan Kite festival Bloody Long walk Outward Bound projects Next program February 2017 Movember 25
Agenda item 7 – Plans for the next three months Safety Maintain zero harm to our employees and contractors Overburden No further overburden works until July/August 2017 Pit update Continue to develop the drop cut with target of April for completion Processing Continue to increase output to achieve 2.5 million tonnes per annum Continue to grow the scalpings market People Completion of Enterprise Agreement Continuation of training and development of our people 26
Agenda item 8 – General Business Weather station update Review of data provided for the last 12 months Marulan South Limestone update Still being prepared Next meeting dates – February 2017 27
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