PEPPERTREE QUARRY COMMUNITY CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE September 2019 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

PEPPERTREE QUARRY

COMMUNITY CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE September 2019

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Agenda item 4 – Correspondence (June, July, August 2019)

• Department of Planning and Environment
• Waste management plan issued to the department and revised based on departments comments
• 2 requests for road transport of donated materials
• CCC Annual Report issued
• EPA
• Discussion on future licensing requirements for dust extraction units
• G Clark
• weather data reviews – weather station monthly reviews (May, June, July 2019)

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Agenda item 5 – Operations

• Safety
• Zero LTI’s since the last meeting
• Regulatory visits over past few months to review dust
• Additional dust monitoring conducted
• Overburden
• Overburden removal concluded in June 19
• Tree planting, top-soiling and hydro-mulching of these areas has been carried out
• Pit update
• Mine has progressing south.
• Work underway to prepare the next level down ready for access in 2020
• Processing
• Continuous improvement works have helped deliver a number of production records with 4 out of the

last 5 months delivering records

• The new store has been constructed and the fit out is well underway which is tidying the site up
• Approval has been granted for a new dust extraction plant
• People
• The workforce has remained relatively stable of the past few months

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Agenda Item 6 - Environmental Performance Incidents

June 2019 (2 spills) July 2019 (0) August 2019 (0)

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Complaints

June 2019 (nil) July 2019 (nil) August 2019 (1 - noise)

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air

Annual Average goal of 4gm2/month not in compliance at the site however majority of insoluble solid is organic Annual average below goal at the boundary

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air

Annual Average goal of 4gm2/month In compliance

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air

. Annual Average goal of 4gm2/month In compliance

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air – Particulate Matter <10 microns – annual average

In compliance with the annual average goal

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air – Particulate Matter <10 microns – 24 hour criteria

All in compliance since last meeting (May 2019) Note criteria is at the nearest residence and not the HVAS. Increase on the 16th August 2019. winds were predominantly westerly with Peppertree therefore downwind of the HVAS

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Air - Total Suspended Particulates

TSP below Annual average goal

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Noise - quarterly noise monitoring July 2019 daytime

All in compliance

Receiver Date Site Noise Level Contribution Operational Criteria (dB(A)) EPL ID LAeq, 15 minute (dB(A)) daytime R17 6/8/2019 20 35 R2 6/8/2019 30 35 R3 6/8/2019 23 35 R8 6/8/2019 22 41 R4 6/8/2019 23 35 R17 7/8/2019 32 35 R17 7/8/2019 31 35 R2 7/8/2019 28 35 R2 7/8/2019 31 35 R3 7/8/2019 27 35 R3 7/8/2019 30 35 R8 7/8/2019 29 41 R8 7/8/2019 28 41 R4 7/8/2019 26 35 R4 7/8/2019 26 35

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Noise - quarterly noise monitoring July 2019– evening

All in compliance

Receiver Date Site Noise Level Contribution Operational Criteria (dB(A)) EPL ID LAeq, 15 minute (dB(A)) evening R17 7/8/2019 26 35 R17 7/8/2019 26 35 R3 7/8/2019 20 35 R3 7/8/2019 23 35 R2 7/8/2019 31 35 R2 7/8/2019 31 35 R4 7/8/2019 23 35 R4 7/8/2019 22 35 R8 8/8/2019 34 35 R8 8/8/2019 35 35 R17 8/8/2019 29 35 R17 8/8/2019 28 35 R2 8/8/2019 26 35 R2 8/8/2019 25 35 R3 8/8/2019 22 35 R3 8/8/2019 23 35 R4 8/8/2019 22 35 R4 8/8/2019 22 35 R8 8/8/2019 18 35 R8 8/8/2019 27 35

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Noise - quarterly noise monitoring July 2019 evening 1min

All in compliance

Receiver Date Site Noise Level Contribution Operational Criteria (dB(A)) EPL ID LA1, 1 minute (dB(A)) evening R3 7/8/2019 23 45 R2 7/8/2019 31 45 R2 7/8/2019 30 45 R4 7/8/2019 23 45 R4 7/8/2019 21 45 R8 8/8/2019 39 45 R8 8/8/2019 41 45 R17 8/8/2019 36 45 R17 8/8/2019 31 45 R2 8/8/2019 27 45 R2 8/8/2019 25 45 R3 8/8/2019 22 45 R3 8/8/2019 23 45 R4 8/8/2019 22 45 R4 8/8/2019 22 45 R8 8/8/2019 18 45 R8 8/8/2019 31 45

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Blast monitoring

All in compliance

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Blast monitoring

All in compliance

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Surface water

Quarterly monitoring round undertaken in June 2019. Next sample round September 2019

Total Nitrogen for T1 is below the trigger. Levels in the dam fluctuate with rain Marulan south creek also fluctuates and may be due upstream pasture management

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Surface water

Total dissolved solids below trigger Turbidity below trigger for T1 and the dam.

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Surface water

pH within trigger levels Total phosphorus - T1 and the Dam are below the trigger level.

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Ground water

• No draw down of ground water from sentinel well .i.e. no impact on local groundwater.

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Ground water

• Monitoring conducted April and July 2019
• Review has been undertaken in regards to the trigger levels
• Due to the direction of flow of groundwater towards the pit, trigger levels are not
• relevant. Ie groundwater flow is very slow and not away from the pit.

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Environmental flow

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Heritage

• Celebration of NAIDOC week
• Welcome to country
• Rock painting
• Regular AHMC meeting established
• Pending works
• SWOB salvage
• Topsoil salvage
• Scar tree fencing
• Meridian park cultural heritage
• Collation of artifacts and return to country

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Agenda item 6 – Environmental Performance Ecology

• 20 000m2 area hydro mulched on the southern overburden since the last CCC
• Next planting proposed to commence mid September 2019
• Plan for future mulching and planting developed

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Agenda item 6 – Stakeholder Engagement

• CCAA 2019 winner of Community Engagement Leadership award for

engagement of youth in quarrying

• Outward Bound – May 2019
• Tallong Apple Day
• Kite festival September 2019
• CVA program associated with Koala survey in Bungonia national park being

planned for September 2019

• Marulan Village Plan – footpaths and gazebo over BBQ
• Support of Can Assist fund raiser
• Support of Tallong Public School fund raiser

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Agenda item 7 – Plans for the next three months

• Safety
• Maintain zero harm to our employees and contractors
• Communicate the dust monitoring results with the workforce and regulator
• Regulator audit on roads due this quarter
• Overburden
• No further works this quarter
• Pit update
• Continue to head South across the pit floor and develop the drop cut
• Processing
• Finish the store fit out and continue vehicle pedestrian management works
• People
• Find the next Peppertree Quarry Manager

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Agenda item 8 – General Business

• Real Time noise monitoring
• Real time noise monitoring is now in place. Waiting for upgrade of the weather station to be

able to set triggers for noise

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Agenda item 8 – General Business

• Marulan South Limestone update
• RTSE being prepared as per DPE direction. Aim to be submitted this week.
• Agency review to be undertaken
• IPC Hearing to be arranged assume December or more likely first quarter of 2020

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Agenda item 8 – General Business

• Peppertree Quarry Modification 5
• pending conditions of consent

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Agenda item 8 – General Business

• Next meeting dates –
• December 2019