taking on the world tree planting for world environment day alcoa anglesea 2007 environment report june ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT JUNE 2007 air Air Monitoring Stack Monitors Average Maximum Opacity g/m3 10-minute average 0.063 0.337 Stack SO2 kg/min 1-hour average Licence limit 111.34kg/min 48.08 74.75 Ambient Monitors SO2 1 hour ppb Average Maximum Community Centre 2 51 Primary School 1 47 Mt Ingoldsby 1 18 Scout Camp 4 80 Camp Wilkin 2 12 Camp Road 3 50 Ambient Monitors SO2 Maximum 1 hour averages (ppb) Date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Community Centre 8 3 3 4 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 51 47 3 2 2 3 3 Primary School - - - Mt Ingoldsby 6 1 Scout Camp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 47 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18 16 1 1 1 2 2 14 4 8 14 3 3 3 3 3 5 4 5 5 4 6 5 4 4 5 39 7 4 11 11 7 80 5 5 33 53 Camp Wilkin 12 4 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 9 1 1 1 Camp Road 50 47 23 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 24 5 3 2 14 3 EPA Intervention Level 210 EPA Air Quality Objective 200 Alcoa Local Standard 170 11 2 4 2 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT JUNE 2007 water Water Storage Barwon Water storage levels for the Geelong system at 16.5% capacity. Stage 4 restrictions apply. Water Discharge ML June Total Ashponds (SP1) 140* 841 Mine (SP4) 0 0 * average value based upon data from year to date. June data not available due to equipment repair. Water Monitoring SP1 SP4 SP3 ??/06/2007 Ashpond Mine Final EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result pH 4-10 8.6 3-9 - 5-9 7.6 Susp. Solids 100 3 100 - 30 <2 Colour 50 5 50 - 50 5 Aluminium 10.00 0.23 10 - 5.500 0.052 Iron 10.00 0.45 0 - 4.00 0.17 Zinc 0.400 0.015 2.0 - 0.300 0.006 WATER WATER USAGE PER MONTH (ML) Date JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG Town Water 0.7 0.7 0.9 1.1 0.9 2.3 6.6 Bore Water 274 253 280 241 246 182 1476 Mine Water 81 71 76 83 80 86 477 SEPT OCT NOV DEC TOTAL 30 0.0 3000 25 0.0 2500 20 0.0 2000 15 0.0 1500 10 0.0 1000 5 0.0 0.0 500 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT JUNE 2007 world environment day World Environment Day (WED), commemorated each year on June 5, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and community action. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972, WED gives a human face to environmental issues. It empowers people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development and promotes an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues. World Environment Day is a community event with colourful activities such as street rallies, bicycle parades, green concerts, essays and poster competitions in schools, tree planting, as well as recycling and clean-up campaigns. Here at Alcoa, tree planting is certainly becoming a WED tradition. This year Alcoa Anglesea employees and Parks Victoria Rangers again joined students from Anglesea Primary School, members of ANGAIR and the Anglesea Green Corps crew to celebrate World Environment Day with a tree planting activity and BBQ lunch. An estimated 500 trees were planted at the corner of Forest Road and the Great Ocean Road to rehabilitate an area degraded by poor drainage and inappropriate recreational use. As part of their co-management of the Anglesea Heath, Parks Victoria and Alcoa Anglesea devote much time to rehabilitating vegetation destroyed by off-track riding of motorbikes, 4WD vehicles and mountain bikes. Whilst these users are welcome to recreate in the heath, they are legally required to remain on the existing track network. With recent rains, the previously dry areas were sufficiently boggy for the tree planting day with all participants receiving their fair share of mud on their boots and clothes – much to the delight of some of the Grade Six students from Anglesea Primary School!! Thanks to all participants for a really enjoyable day and we hope you also had a Happy World Environment Day! ANIMALS OF THE ANGLESEA HEATH SPOTTED PARDALOTE (Pardalotus punctatus) Size: Description: Voice: Distribution: Habitat: Food: 10cm the wings, tail and head of the male are black and covered with small, distinct white spots; males have a pale eyebrow, a yellow throat and a red rump; females are similar but have less-distinct markings the Spotted Pardalote is a tiny bird that is most often high in a eucalypt canopy, so it is more often detected by its characteristic call; repeated three note whistle, the second two notes higher than the first coastal areas of eastern and southern Australia from Cooktown, Qld to Perth, WA eucalypt forests and woodlands, occurs in parks and gardens with a eucalypt canopy forages on the foliage of trees for insects, especially psyllids (sap sucking insects) and sugary exudates from leaves and psyllids SPOTTED PARDALOTE ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT JUNE 2007 LAND RAINFALL (mm) Month JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC TOTAL 2007 Rainfall 40.0 20.2 25.6 7.3 31.0 37.1 129.4 52.8 17.0 69.2 40.8 26.0 32.8 15.8 15.4 29.0 238.8 1968-2006 Average 44.6 43.3 41.5 42.5 53.1 53.5 61.2 60.8 59.6 59.3 61.1 67.0 69.3 73.6 54.1 44.2 303.3 130 7 0 0 .0 0 120 6 0 0 .0 0 110 100 5 0 0 .0 0 90 80 4 0 0 .0 0 70 60 3 0 0 .0 0 50 40 2 0 0 .0 0 30 20 1 0 0 .0 0 10 0 0 .0 0 WATER TOWN WATER USE (ML) FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC Process 23.9 2000 2006 2007 JAN 11.0 6.0 0.6 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.1 0.8 0.9 0.6 2.2 0.6 0.7 0.6 1.3 1.5 1.5 Amenity2 . 5 11.6 3.8 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 40 35 2 .0 30 25 1 .5 20 1 .0 15 10 0 .5 5. 0 .0 0. 2000 2006 2007 JA N FE B M A R A P R M A Y JU N JUL A UG S E P O C T NO V D E C AIR GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) TOTAL (Mt) & GHG EMISSION EFFICENCY (t/MWh) GHG Mt GHG t/MWh 1990 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 1.42 1.23 1.27 1.50 1.45 1.47 1.31 1.49 1.36 1.34 1.24 1.19 1.21 1.21 1.20 1.21 1.20 1.19 2 1600000 1.8 1400000 1.6 1.4 1.2 1200000 1000000 1 800000 0.8 600000 0.6 400000 0.4 200000 0.2 0 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT JUNE 2007 environmental improvement Environmental Management Targets June 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Reportable Environmental Incidents 0 0 0 0 Monthly EHS ASAT Audit Completion (%) 100 100 100 90 Air Emission Targets June 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Ambient SO2 ( no. readings > 210ppb) 0 0 0 0 Ambient SO2 ( no. readings > 200ppb) 0 1 2 0 Stack SO2 (no. hrs > 100kg/min) 0 0 0 0 SO2 Load Reductions (lost MWh) 5.1 3850 7700 N/A GHG Efficiency (t CO2 e/MWh) 1.19 1.19 1.19 1.20 Opacity (10 min av > 0.25g/m3 normal operation) 0 0 0 0 Water Targets June 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Town Water (ML) 2.3 6.6 13.2 14.2 Bore Water (ML) 182 1476 2954 2667 Waste Targets June 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Waste to Landfill (t) 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 Solid Prescribed Waste to Landfill (t) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Mine Rehabilitation Targets 2007 Total 2007 Target 2007 Area Cleared (ha) 2.9 3.5 2007 Area Rehabilitated (ha) 5.0 > 3.5 2005 Mine Rehabilitation Species Richness (%) 103 100 OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR EMPLOYEES.. David, welcome to Anglesea....or should be say farewell? What was your role for your stint down here? I have been operating as the Maintenance coordinator working with all maintenance crews and control room shifts in scheduling and planning. It was a short term assignment from Point Henry to support the maintenance department as they prepared for the recent outages. Looks like you enjoyed the World Environment tree planting day? I enjoyed the tree planting with the school kids and also the adults from the different community groups. Every one had a good time making sure we planted correctly to give the plants the best chance to establish. There was certainly plenty of moisture on the day and it is good to see there have been follow up rains too. We hope you enjoyed your stay at Anglesea too? I have enjoyed my stay at Anglesea and that is because of the people. Anglesea represents a well balanced work force that are focused on safety, their areas of responsibility, the plant and the environment they operate in. ...DAVID EADES