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Lynwood Quarry Blast Management Plan

November 2016

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Table 1

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Table 2

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Quarry Blast Man

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te B

v

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ance

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2: Airblast O

ast OverpreP

nagement Plan 

baseline infooring for the

data for the

B1- Pipeline Ground vibration (mm/s)

1.5 1.35 4.61 4.3 7.96 2.18 5.35 2.69 1.96 2.8

4.74 0 0 0 0

0.89 1.09

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tions 7 andground vibr

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e ignimbrite

B2-DamGround

vibratio(mm/s

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2.88

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ment crit

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round vibra(mm/s)

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m/s for 5% annum Not

10mm/s

consent spent criteria

Criteria

Allowa

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of totalabove

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15mm/s fototal per ant above 12

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first year nce it is

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