CLUSTER

ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN

For

ROAD METAL AND BUILDING STONE & M.SAND (Lease Area 5.40 Ha.)

of

M/s. VEERRAJU AND COMPANY

Sy. No.378 Karidikonda Village,

Gooty Mandal, Anantapuram District,

Andhrapradesh

Proposed By

Sri. A. Muni Koteswara Rao D No: 24 -14-6, R.V. Nagar

Rajahmundry Andhrapradesh

S.No Contents Page.No 1. Introduction

a. Location details

b. Legal status of the quarries in cluster

c. Approach and accessibility

d. Infrastructure available

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2. Details of the quarries in the cluster 2

3. Production details of the independent quarries and cluster as a

whole

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4. The peak production scenario

a. Total production quantities of the cluster,

b. Waste handling for the cluster as a whole during peak

production

c. Water utilization for the cluster as a whole including for

sprinkling on common roads

d. Power requirement for the cluster

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5. Environmental impact of the cluster as a whole

a. Impact on air environment

i. Dust due to dispatch trucks

ii. Exhaust fumes due to equipment in the cluster

b. Impact on water environment

c. Impact due to noise on persons working

d. Impact due to vibration

e. Land degradation

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6. Environmental Management

a. Management of air environment

b. Management of water environment

c. Reduction of impacts due to noise and vibration

d. Recovery and rehabilitation of land degraded

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7. Environmental budget 7

8. Conclusion 7

1. INTRODUCTION: The present road metal & building stone quarrying over an extent of

5.40 Ha. in Sy.No.378 of Karidikonda Village, Gooty Mandal, Anantapuram District,

Andhra Pradesh State was granted vide F.No.574/Q3/2017, dated 10.03.2017 in favor of

M/s. Cherukuri Veerraju and Company for a period of 10 years from 2017 to 2027. The

mining plan was approved by Deputy Director of Mine& Geology, Kurnool vide their letter

No. 1187/MP-ATP/2017, dated 09.05.2017. As per MOEF&CC notification No. SO.141

(E) dated 15.1.2016. The present area falls under purview of definition of cluster as per

the SO. Hence the present environment management plan for the whole cluster area is

prepared.

a. Location details: The cluster of leases contains five quarries. The cluster area

is located at a distance of 1.4 km due N direction from karidikonda Village. The

cluster is located in Sy. No. 378 of Karidikonda Village, Gooty Mandal, Anantapur

District, Andhra Pradesh.

b. Legal status of the quarries in cluster: No lease in the cluster has got the

Environmental Clearance. The present quarry of M/s Veerraju & Company has

got the approved quarry plan which is to be regularized after getting

Environmental clearance and CFE & CFO. The M/s Veerraju & Company has a

lease period of 10 years and the same proponent has an adjoining lease of 9.00

hect on the same firm name which is also awarded lease of 10 years. Thus the

operations in the cluster will be continuing for a period of 10 years.

c. Approach and accessibility: The cluster is located at a distance of 1.4 km due

North of Karidikonda village and the Gooty is the mandal head quarter situated

towards SW at 6.5 km. this area is approachable by buses run by State

Government from Gooty which will lead to the cluster site.

d. Infrastructure available: The details of the infrastructure available for the cluster

as a whole are given in the following table.

Infrastructure / Resource

Details

Water The ground water level is at a depth of 30 to 40 meters. The agricultural fields in the surrounding of the cluster are irrigated by the ground water and the crops are seasonal. There are no perennial water sources in the vicinity.

Electricity Available in the nearby villages. For the proposed operations in both the quarries the electricity is not needed.

Communication Net work communications are available in the area Roads The cluster area can be approached by Hyderabad-

Bangalore NH which is at a distance of 1.6 km from the

cluster site. Nearest rail head Gooty at a distance of 7.0 km Nearest Port Chennai port is at a distance of 365 km Education Primary school at Karidikonda village. Higher education at

Gooty. Medical facilities RMP available at village. Gooty & Guntakal town has good

multi-specialty hospitals.

2. DETAILS OF THE QUARRIES IN THE CLUSTER: There are only five quarries in the

cluster including the one in reference that is of M/s Veerraju & Company. The details are

given below.

Sl Lessee Extent Mineral Lease period

EC granting details

1 M/s Veerraju & Company 9.00 ha Road metal 10 years Applied for EC

2 M/s Veerraju & Company 5.40 ha Road metal 10 years Applied for EC

3 M/s Vidhura Chowdary 4.00 ha Road metal 10 years Yet to granted

4 M/s Manikanta metal stone crusher 4.36 ha Road metal 10 years Yet to granted

5 M/s Manikanta metal stone crusher 1.00 ha crusher 10 years Yet to granted

TOTAL 23.76 ha

3. PRODUCTION DETAILS OF THE INDEPENDENT QUARRIES AND CLUSTER AS A WHOLE: The present quarry is in principle granted to produce 2,96,407 tonnes of road

metal per year. Since the quarries produce identical material it can be summed up.

Sl Lessee Extent Production in TPA

Waste in cum per annum

Dump area in

ha 1 M/s Veerraju & Company 9.00 ha 6,39,098 12783 1.0 2 M/s Veerraju & Company 5.40 ha 2,96,407 5926 0.5 3 M/s Vidhura Chowdary 4.00 ha -- -- - 4 M/s Manikanta metal stone crusher 4.36 ha 30,000 4000 0.6 5 M/s Manikanta metal stone crusher 1.00 ha 1,20,000 1500 0.09

TOTAL 23.76 ha 10,85,505 26675 2.19

4. THE PEAK PRODUCTION SCENARIO: a. Total production quantities of the cluster: The mine of M/s Veerraju & Company

is proposed to produce a quantity of 2,96,407 tonnes of Road Metal & Building

Stone per year. And approximately 10,85,505 TPA of Road Metal & Building

Stone is proposed to generate from this cluster. The waste recovery of M/s

Veerraju & Company is taken as 5%.

b. Waste handling for the cluster as a whole during peak production: The operations

of M/s Vidhura Chowdary will not produce any waste. Thus during peak

production periods the total waste to be handled is taken as 26675 cum per year.

c. Water utilization for the cluster as a whole including for sprinkling on common

roads: Thus the total quantity of water consumption for internal consumption of

Mines in the cluster is 18.0 KLD. However additional water requirement is

envisaged for sprinkling on the common roads that will be used by the quarries in

the cluster. The enclosed plate shows that the total road length outside the lease

areas is 1.61 km. Out of this road outside the lease area, a span of 0.3 km will

exclusively used by M/s Veerraju & Company mining operations. The remaining

length of 1.3 km is the common road on which both the trucks plying out of the

quarries will ply. The projected water requirement is a rough estimate and around

3 KLD of water is needed per day for the common road span.

d. Power requirement for the cluster: The operations in the cluster do not need

electricity except for M/s Vidhura Chowdary which is a crushing unit. Moreover

the operations are limited to only daylight hours and street lighting is also not

needed.

5. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE CLUSTER AS A WHOLE:

a. Impact on air environment

i. Dust due to dispatch trucks: It is estimated that from M/s Veerraju &

Company a daily production of 988 tonnes will be produced with a

working of 300 days a year. For this purpose around 40 trips will be

needed per day. Thus during peak production 40 trucks per day or 3 to 4

trucks a hour will be moving out from the quarry.

Sl Lessee Extent Production in TPA

Production in TPD

1 M/s Veerraju & Company 9.00 ha 6,39,098 2130 2 M/s Veerraju & Company 5.40 ha 2,96,407 988 3 M/s Vidhura Chowdary 4.00 ha --

4 M/s Manikanta metal stone crusher 4.36 ha 30,000 400

5 M/s Manikanta metal stone crusher 1.00 ha 1,20,000 100

TOTAL 23.76 ha 10,85,505 3618

In total cluster area the annual production is 10,85,505 tonnes. And daily

production is 3618 tonnes have to move out. It means that around 144

trucks are required to move out the product daily or 12 to 13 trucks will

move during the peak hour. This will generate dust which cannot be

readily quantified but we can arrive at the fact that around one truck for

every 5 minutes will move out.

ii. Exhaust fumes due to equipment in the cluster: The exhaust fumes will be

generated due to the above trucks due to cluster operations apart from

the in-quarry operations. The impact due to in-quarry operations were

already described in the respective EMP. Since there is lot of gap

between each truck’s movement the accumulation of exhaust fumes in

one place will not take place.

b. Impact on water environment: The area does not fall under any major catchment

of any river or water course. Therefore the impact of cluster on water

environment is not envisaged.

c. Impact of noise on persons working: The additional impact apart from that of the

in-quarry impact is only due to trucks plying on the common roads. As explained

above there will be only one truck that will move in every 20 minutes which will

carry dispatch material of all the quarries. There may not be any major impact of

noise on persons working in the quarries due to the trucks moving out.

d. Impact due to vibration: Apart from the vibration impacts predicted in the

respective EMPs there will not be any additional impact due to vibrations due to

cluster operations conducted at the same time. Only precaution to be taken is

that, if any blasting operations are planned on the same day in all the quarries,

they shall not be conducted at the same time. This may cumulate the vibrations

effect.

e. Land degradation: Apart from the land degradation that is envisaged in the

respective quarry plans, there will not be any additional land degradation due to

cluster operations.

f. Safety of persons: Due to increase in movement of trucks on the common road,

the accident proneness will increase to the persons moving on the road for

quarry works.

6. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT a. Management of air environment: From the above it can be seen that major

impact is only of dust during cluster operations. Apart from the in-quarry

measures proposed to be taken it is proposed to sprinkle 3 KLD of water on the

common road portion which will be used by the moving trucks outside the quarry

for carrying out the dispatches.

In this context it is pertinent to mention that the plate attached shows a road

length of 1.9 km on which the most of truck traffic can be seen during peak

production scenario. The section A-A’ shows the area outside the lease area

used by the quarry 1.2km, and B-B’ shows the area used by the quarry 0.4 km.

The portion of C-C’ shows the common patch of road within 500 meters radius

where the trucks travel. Thus the total road outside the lease areas that needs

sprinkling is 1.2 +0.4+0.7 = 2.3 km. The total water requirement is 3000 liters.

b. Management of water environment: No additional measures are needed for

management of water environment for the cluster operations.

c. Reduction of impacts due to noise and vibration: One precaution needed to be

taken for reduction of noise and vibration is that, the blasting if needs to be

conducted on the same day, the timings should be staggered. This will not only

prevent the cumulative effect of the noise and vibrations, but also will ensure

safety of workers.

d. Recovery and rehabilitation of land degraded: Since no additional land will be

degraded due to cluster operations, special precautions need not be taken for

any rehabilitation of the land.

e. Safety of persons: For ensuring safety of persons moving on the common road

the following measures are proposed.

i. To post sign boards for caution about trucks moving,

ii. To post one person at vulnerable places to caution persons moving,

iii. To form speed breakers on road at important places, and

iv. To lead the long trucks carrying the Dimension Stone with a light vehicle

to caution persons.

7. ENVIRONMENTAL BUDGET: The environment budget needed for the cluster

operations is as given in the table below.

Sl Environmental work Periodicity Budget needed per anum in Rs 1 Water sprinkling Once in two hours

making 5 trips, i.e. 3KLD

Estimated to be Rs.200/- per trip. Daily Rs.1000. For 200 days Rs.200000/- per year. (Leaving monsoon)

2 Posting sign boards etc

As and when needed Around Rs.10000/- per year.

3 Environmental monitoring on common roads

Three times a year (Pre monsoon, post monsoon, and summer)

Rs.70000/- per year

Total m, Rs.280000/-

8. CONCLUSION: From the above it can be seen that the total EMP budget needed is

Rs.280000/- per year and both the quarries have to share the same.

Encl: i) The drawing showing the common roads used by the quarries,

ii) Quarry plan of M/s Veerraju & Company

max. traffic point5.4 ha

9.00

Manikanta

Vidhura chowdary

1.2 km

0.7 km

0.4 km

1.4 km