AngleseaEIP nov 2006

action on the coast
tackling coastal weeds in anglesea
anglesea environment report
NOVEMBER 2006
Inside the ‘Best Practice’ Environment Report:
Air Emissions
Water Monitoring
ACTION event at the Anglesea coastal reserve
Plants of the Anglesea Heath: Dianella revoluta
Updates on Rainfall, Town Water Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Environmental improvement - progress towards 2006 targets
Plus we talk to an employee about their contribution to improving the environment
ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2006
air
Air Monitoring
Stack Monitors
Average
Maximum
Opacity g/m3 10-minute average
0.071
0.292
Stack SO2 kg/min 1-hour average Licence limit 111.34kg/min 67.46
88.49
Ambient Monitors
SO2 1 hour ppb
Average
Maximum
Community Centre
2
19
Primary School
1
115
Mt Ingoldsby
2
197
Scout Camp
2
98
Camp Wilkin
1
115
Camp Road
4
96
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 4 3 4 3 3 2 3 9 3 4 15 3 2 2 3 3 2 8 2 10 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 19
Primary School
5
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
17 1
1
0
0
0
0 101 1
74 2
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0 115
Mt Ingoldsby
6
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
22 1
1
1
1
3
1
6
1
76 37 2
2
1
3
1
2
1
0 197
Scout Camp
3
18 43 1
1
1
1
10 1
2
18 87 16 98 7
3
1
-
-
-
Camp Wilkin
4
1
2
1
1
1
1
5
1
4
13 1
1
1
1
1
1
Camp Road
7
4
5
4
3
3
3
10 3
6
15 14 4
4
5
4
3
EPA Intervention Level
210
Alcoa Local Standard
170
-
0
2
3
3
2
1
1
2
14
34 1
18 2
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
1 115
96 4
72 52 4
4
3
2
1
1
1
0
-
ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2006
water
Water Storage
Barwon Water storage levels for Geelong at 24.7% capacity. Stage 4 restrictions apply December 9.
Water Discharge
ML
November
Total
Ashponds (SP1)
112
1543
Mine (SP4)
0
0.8
Water Monitoring
SP1
SP4
SP3
14/11/2006
Ashpond
Mine
Final
EPA limit
Lab Result
EPA limit
Lab Result
EPA limit
Lab Result
pH
4-10
8.3
3-9
-
5-9
7.3
Susp. Solids
100
4
100
-
30
<2
Colour
50
4
50
-
50
4
Aluminium
10
< 0.1
10
-
5.5
< 0.1
Iron
10
0.3
0
-
4.0
< 0.1
Zinc
0.4
< 0.1
2.0
-
0.3
< 0.1
WATER WATER USAGE PER MONTH (ML)
Date
JAN
FEB MAR APR
MAY JUNE JULY AUG
SEPT OCT
NOV
Town Water
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.5
1.6
0.8
1.0
1.1
0.9
1.6
1.8
13.3
Bore Water
279
243
285
237
210
218
238
240
236
262
252
2770
Mine Water
81
82
81
92
106
88
93
101
104
51
56
935
DEC
TOTAL
300.0
3000
250.0
2500
200.0
2000
150.0
1500
100.0
1000
50.0
0.0
500
0
ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2006
ACTION event
Alcoa Anglesea and local volunteer environmental
group Anglesea Coast Action worked together to
tackle coastal weeds in the area opposite Four
Kings carpark on the Anglesea foreshore during
November. A range of range of woody
environmental weed species were removed
including mirror bush, cypress, box thorn, coast
tea-tree and polygala.
Alongside employees from the Great Ocean Road
Coastal Committee (GORCC), who manage the
local foreshore area, Alcoa Anglesea participants
on the day were Chris Rolland, Mike Allden, Phil
Stafford, Ben Craig, Barry Knight, Elise Jeffery and
Anthea Daley with Ron McRae, Greg Lewis and
Peter Thompson providing assistance with heavy
machinery later in the week.
Since the Ash Wednesday bush fire in 1983 the
Coastal Reserve at Anglesea has become infested
with environmental weeds. At this particular site,
it’s important to remove environmental weeds to
restore the sand dunes to their original condition
and prevent weed infestations into the adjacent
Moonah (Melaleuca lanceolata) Woodland
Community that is listed under the Flora and Fauna
Guarantee Act as a threatened community.
Anglesea Coast Action were delighted with the
large amount of progress made at this site with
Alcoa’s help and will continue improvement works
here in the months ahead. These working bees
were part of Alcoa’s ACTION grant program
where the Alcoa Foundation donates US$3000
and a number of volunteer hours towards a
community improvement project. This particular
activity certainly put us to the test as it’s been one
of the most physically challenging we’ve
undertaken!
Anglesea Coast Action volunteers meets regularly
to perform working bees on the Anglesea and
Point Roadknight foreshores. New volunteers are
always welcome. Interested people can contact
Carl Rayner at: [email protected]
PLANTS OF THE ANGLESEA HEATH
BLACK ANTHER FLAX-LILY (Dianella revoluta var. revoluta)
Dianella....Diminutive form of Diana, goddess of Greek
Dianella
mythology
revoluta
revoluta... from the latin revolutus meaning rolled back
from margins referring to the recurved leaf margins
Size:
Form:
Foliage:
Flowers:
Habitat:
0.3 - 0.8m H x 0.5 - 1 m W
robust open tufted perennial, spreading by
vigorous, branched rhizomes
dark green linear leaves to 70cm long with
recurved leaf margins with are finely serrated
loose to dense panicles of blue to violet
flowers with yellow filaments on the stamens
on branched stems to 1 m high followed by
small, shiny dark blue berries
September to January
widespread in plains grassland, box and red
gum woodland, dry, valley and damp
sclerophyll forest, tea-tree heath
DIANELLA REVOLUTA
ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT NOVEMBER 2006
LAND
RAINFALL (mm)
Month
JAN
FEB MAR APR
MAY JUNE JULY AUG
SEPT OCT
NOV
2006 Rainfall
46.2
19.6 7.3
37.1
129.4 17.0
40.8
26.0
32.8
15.8
15.4
387.4
1968-2005 Average
44.6
43.9 42.5
53.5
59.3 60.8
61.1
67.0
69.3
73.6
54.1
629.6
DEC
TOTAL
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)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Process
23.9 14.6 13.1 16.7 15.0 13.5 9 . 5 0.7
0.7
0.8
1.1
0.9
0.6
0.6
0.7
0.6
1.3
1.5
Amenity
11.6 6.6
3 . 7 0.3
0.3
0.2
0.4
0.7
0.2
0.4
0.4
0.3
0.3
0.3
2 .0
6.6
5.0
4.0
2.6
4 0 .0
1 .8
3 5 .0
1 .6
3 0 .0
1 .4
2 5 .0
1 .2
1 .0
2 0 .0
0 .8
1 5 .0
0 .6
1 0 .0
0 .4
5 .0
0 .2
0 .0
0 .0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
JA N
FE B
M A R
A P R
M A Y
JUN
JU L
A UG
S E P
O C T
NO V
D E C
AIR
GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) TOTAL (Mt) & GHG EMISSION EFFICENCY (t/MWh)
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
1.42 1.62 1.56 1.45 1.34 1.25 1.20 1.38 1.42 1.53 1.23 1.27 1.50 1.45 1.47 1.31 1 . 5 0
GHG Mt
‹ GHG
t/MWh 1.34 1.35 1.33 1.32 1.31 1.33 1.38 1.34 1.30 1.30 1.24 1.19 1.21 1.21 1.20 1.21 1 . 2 1
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 NOVEMBER 2006
environmental improvement
Environmental Management Targets
November
2006 Total
Forecast
2006 Target
Reportable Environmental Incidents
0
0
0
0
Monthly EHS ASAT Audit Completion (%)
100
94
94
90
Air Emission Targets
November
2006 Total
Forecast
2006 Target
Ambient SO2 ( no. readings > 210ppb)
0
4
4
0
Stack SO2 (no. hrs > 100kg/min)
0
0
0
0
SO2 Load Reductions
3
109
119
N/A
1.23
1.21
1.21
1.20
Opacity (10 min av > 0.25g/m normal operation)
0
0
0
0
Water Targets
November
2006 Total
Forecast
2006 Target
Town Water (ML)
1.8
13.3
14.5
17.2
Bore Water (ML)
252
2700
2945
2440
Waste Targets
November
2006 Total
Forecast
2006 Target
Waste to Landfill (t)
0
9.12
9.9
10.0
Solid Prescribed Waste to Landfill (t)
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
GHG Efficiency (t CO2 e/MWh)
3
Mine Rehabilitation Targets
2006 Total
2006 Target
2006 Area Cleared (ha)
3.3
3.3
2006 Area Rehabilitated (ha)
7.5
> 3.3
2005 Mine Rehabilitation Species Richness (%)
N/A
100
OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR EMPLOYEES..
Mike, what prompted you to volunteer your day to
a the community ACTION grant for Coast Action?
Wayne Pavletich asked me if I would like to lend a helping
hand. The impending weekend shutdown impacted upon
volunteer numbers and I was happy to oblige.
What did you do and did you enjoy getting out of
the office for a while?
Since the Ash Wednesday bush fires the coastal reserve at
Anglesea has become infested with environmental weeds. I
formed part of the team who removed the weeds that were
lopped with chainsaws and hand saws and presented it for
mulching. The work was fairly physical, but I did enjoy the
change and think the work was appreciated.
What other volunteering have you been involved
with?
This is the first ACTION grant I have been involved with. But
I’m willing to have a go when required.
...MIKE ALLDEN