up, up and away all three falcon chicks successfully take off alcoa anglesea 2008 environment report november ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2008 air Air Monitoring Stack Monitors Average Maximum Opacity g/m3 10-minute average 0.074 0.228 Stack SO2 kg/min 1-hour average Licence limit 100kg/min 66.17 80.26 SO2 1 hour ppb Average Maximum Community Centre 1 20 Primary School 2 172 Mt Ingoldsby 2 71 Scout Camp 3 106 Camp Wilkin 2 156 Camp Road 1 81 Ambient Monitors 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 3 2 2 3 2 3 20 3 2 3 2 3 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Primary School 0 108 1 0 94 0 15 2 0 0 5 18 172 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 14 0 0 0 1 6 1 0 0 4 Mt Ingoldsby 0 71 0 0 31 0 52 0 0 0 29 17 20 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 7 5 3 2 3 Scout Camp 1 6 1 7 0 4 0 0 1 0 1 66 1 1 0 2 8 19 2 0 79 Camp Wilkin 0 119 0 0 156 1 65 2 1 0 156 3 28 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 1 1 0 0 Camp Road 0 0 17 3 0 0 41 58 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 70 0 0 0 2 6 43 1 0 19 EPA Air Quality Objective 200 Alcoa Local Standard 170 0 81 0 49 4 106 50 - 28 1 5 10 12 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2008 water Water Storage Barwon Water storage levels for the Geelong system at 26.8% capacity. Stage 4 Water Restrictions Daylight Savings are now in force until April 5, 2009. Garden watering limited to 7PM-8PM twice weekly. Water Discharge ML November Total Ashponds (SP1) 131 1515 Mine (SP4) 0.98 1.1 Water Monitoring SP1 SP4 SP3 24/11/2008 Ashpond Mine Final EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result pH 4-10 8.4 3-9 no 5-9 7.4 Susp. Solids 100 <4 100 discharge 30 <4 Colour 50 4 50 at 50 5 Aluminium 10.00 0.29 10 time 5.50 0.11 Iron 10.00 0.13 20 of 4.00 0.05 Zinc 0.40 < 0.02 2.0 sampling 0.30 0.02 WATER WATER USAGE PER MONTH (ML) Date JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV Town Water 1.4 0.9 0.9 2.2 1.0 0.9 1.7 2.2 1.0 1.3 0.9 14.4 Bore Water 279 304 305 254 292 265 252 196 272 282 275 2976 Mine Water 53 24 45 26 45 44 69 51 41 53 57 508 DEC TOTAL 3 0 0 .0 3000 2 5 0 .0 2500 2 0 0 .0 2000 1 5 0 .0 1500 1 0 0 .0 1000 5 0 .0 0 .0 500 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2008 peregrine falcons In the last edition of the Environment Report, our Peregrine Falcon chicks were downy white. But they sure do grow up fast! With the webcam at www.alcoa.com/falcons we have been able to watch them gradually lose their down, get their juvenile plumage, take their first flights and eventually leave the nest. All in a month! The chicks work up to the big ‘first flight’ with hours of wing pumping at the edge of the nest and venturing further out on the perch until they finally take off. Stan was the first to take the plunge, albeit a little prematurely. Concerned emails came in from across the globe to ask where the little fella had gone. Pt Henry security were even honoured with a phone call from China asking of Stan’s whereabouts. After several days had past with no recent sighting, there were grave concern’s for Stan’s welfare. But six days later and no worse for wear, Stan was back in the nest box sharing his story of adventure with his two big brothers. As our fledglings have become more competent in flight, they have moved away from the nest box to learn how to hunt with their parents. Peregrine chicks learn this in part through ‘playing’ - diving and swooping each other in mid air. You may have been lucky enough to see this activity around the Power Station in the last two weeks. The parents also capture prey for the fledglings to teach them how to snatch it from them in mid air replicating the hunting technique of the Peregrine. This ‘playing’ can be deadly - able to reach speeds of up to 380 km/h, the mix of high speed and inexperience leads to high collision and mortality rates in fledglings. Juvenile mortality is quite high in Peregrine Falcons with 90% of Peregrines dying in their first year. Here at Anglesea, Jet, Tess and Dash were all lost within weeks of fledging from the nest. Good news is, if they get through the first 12 months, they have a high rate of survival to approximately 12 years of age. PLANTS OF THE ANGLESEA HEATH LONG PURPLE FLAG (Patersonia occidentalis) Patersonia.... Patersonia....after Colonel William Paterson, LieutGovernor of New South Wales, 1800-1810 occidentalis occidentalis...from the Latin meaning of or from the West, referring to it’s distribution in south western Australia Size: Habitat: 20-40cm H x 30-60cm W valley sclerophyll forest, swamp and wattle tea-tree scrub Distribution: widespread in southern Australia Form: compact clumping perennial herb Foliage: long, flat leaves to 60cm x 5mm, convex on one surface Flowers: the tube of the bluish-purple flower is almost hidden by the bracts, flowering stems are as long as, or longer than, the foliage, up to 85cm long September to January Did you know? each flower only opens for just one day LONG PURPLE FLAG ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2008 LAND RAINFALL (mm) Month JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV 2008 Rainfall 19.8 35.8 15.2 17.3 32.5 43.8 75.8 61.6 40.0 12.4 40.0 394.2 1968-2007 Average 44.5 42.7 41.1 52.5 61.0 59.9 62.2 65.3 67.7 70.9 54.3 622.1 DEC TOTAL 100 7 00.00 90 6 00.00 80 5 00.00 70 60 4 00.00 50 3 00.00 40 30 2 00.00 20 1 00.00 10 0 .0 0 0 WATER TOWN WATER USE (ML) FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV Process 23.9 12.8 1 3 . 0 1.3 0.8 0.8 2.1 0.8 0.8 1.5 2.0 0.8 1.2 0.9 Amenity 11.6 1.5 1.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 2000 2007 2008 JAN 0.1 DEC 4 0 .0 3 5 .0 2 .0 3 0 .0 1 .5 2 5 .0 2 0 .0 1 .0 1 5 .0 1 0 .0 0 .5 5 .0 0 .0 0 .0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 2 0 0 8 JA N F E B M A R A P R M A Y JU N JU L A U G S E P O C T N O 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 2008 1.42 1.23 1.27 1.50 1.45 1.47 1.31 1.49 1.40 1.41 1.34 1.24 1.19 1.21 1.21 1.20 1.21 1.20 1.18 1.20 2 1600000 1 .8 1400000 1 .6 1 .4 1 .2 1200000 1000000 1 800000 0 .8 600000 0 .6 400000 0 .4 0 .2 0 200000 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2008 environmental improvement Environmental Management Targets November 2008 YTD Forecast 2008 Target Reportable Environmental Incidents 0 0 0 0 Monthly EHS ASAT Audit Completion (%) 100 100 100 90 Air Emission Targets November 2008 YTD Forecast 2008 Target Ambient SO2 ( no. readings > 200ppb) 0 0 0 0 Stack SO2 (no. hrs > 100kg/min) 0 0 0 0 SO2 Load Reductions (lost MWh) 2269 21279 23213 N/A GHG Efficiency (t CO2 e/MWh) 1.21 1.20 1.20 1.20 Opacity (10 min av > 0.25g/m normal operation) 0 0 0 0 Water Targets November 2008 YTD Forecast 2008 Target Town Water (ML) 0.9 14.4 15.7 14.2 Bore Water (ML) 275 2976 3247 2370 Waste Targets November 2008 YTD Forecast 2008 Target Waste to Landfill (t) 4.46 12.54 13.7 8.0 Solid Prescribed Waste to Landfill (t) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3 Mine Rehabilitation Targets 2008 YTD 2008 Target 2008 Area to Clear (ha) 0.0 0.0 2008 Area to Rehabilitate (ha) 0.0 0.0 2007 Mine Rehabilitation Species Richness (%) N/A 100 OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR EMPLOYEE Hi Lisa - so what are you doing here at Anglesea? I am backfilling the Environmental Scientist’s role part-time. Currently I am working on Anglesea’s EREP plan and a Hydrogeological Assessment Gap Analysis Where have you been working previously? I have previously worked at Anglesea, Portland and Point Henry as part of the Graduate Program. Most recently I have returned from maternity leave. Can you explain a little about EREP? EREP is an Environment and Resource Efficiency Plan. Any industry which exceeds thresholds of 120 ML water use or 100 TJ energy use per annum is required to report to EREP, which is a department of the EPA. Alcoa Anglesea meets both of these thresholds. How is it important to what we do here? EREP aims to encourage industry to minimise water and energy use, as well as minimising waste production. It doesn’t change what we do here at Anglesea very much, as we have already done a lot of work in these areas. EREP will help us to maintain the focus on minimising our resource use, particularly in to the future when planning projects. ...LISA MILLS