go for gold! Alcoa’s VicOps achieve a gold level of Waste Wise accreditation alcoa anglesea 2009 environment report july ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPOR T JULY 2009 REPORT air Air Monitoring Stack Monitors Average Maximum Opacity g/m3 10-minute average 0.052 0.125 Stack SO2 kg/min 1-hour average Licence limit 100kg/min 59.56 70.80 SO2 1 hour ppb Average Maximum Community Centre 2 118 Primary School 2 134 Mt Ingoldsby 1 105 Scout Camp 10 148 Camp Wilkin 2 113 Camp Road 5 127 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 31 Community Centre 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 6 118 20 11 1 15 0 1 43 12 16 15 1 0 3 7 20 0 0 0 0 0 Primary School 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Mt Ingoldsby 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 50 39 105 11 2 148146 2 0 0 36 4 8 Scout Camp 1 5 0 5 - - - 0 134 51 1 0 17 20 8 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 12 2 0 2 1 1 0 65 104 49 18 1 3 0 0 20 14 130 0 0 0 4 4 0 47 8 73 29 55 - 0 1 Camp Wilkin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 61 95 113 17 3 Camp Road 71 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 EPA Air Quality Objective 200 Alcoa Local Standard 170 2 2 0 0 - 2 7 0 0 0 31 83 109116100 65 0 11 0 1 5 0 0 0 1 0 63 72 7 28 0 0 82 127116 39 14 0 111107 15 3 4 0 2 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPOR T JULY 2009 REPORT water Water Storage Barwon Water storage levels for the Geelong system at 21.5% capacity. Stage 4 restrictions apply with a Winter exemption to permit limited residential garden watering. Water Discharge ML July Total Ashponds (SP1) 148 865 Mine (SP4) 0 0 Water Monitoring SP1 SP4 SP3 08/07/2009 Ashpond Mine Final EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result pH 4-10 7.9 3-9 no 5-9 7.0 Susp. Solids 100 <4 100 discharge 30 <4 Colour 50 4 50 at 50 4 Aluminium 10 0.44 10 time 5.5 0.29 Iron 10 0.40 20 of 4.0 0.013 Zinc 0.4 0.021 2.0 sampling 0.30 0.025 WATER WATER USAGE PER MONTH (ML) Date JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG Town Water 2.5 1.0 1.5 1.5 2.9 1.6 0.6 11.6 Bore Water 288 270 281 237 76 233 231 1616 Mine Water 46 53 54 65 27 66 79 390 SEPT OCT NOV DEC TOTAL ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPOR T JULY 2009 REPORT Waste Wise - Gold Accreditation! Alcoa has taken its waste management to a new level, achieving gold status on its re-certification with the Sustainability Victoria Waste Wise program. Alcoa’s waste reduction achievements span the four VicOps locations, including the Anglesea Power Station, Point Henry Smelter, Portland Aluminium and Alcoa Australia Rolled Products Point Henry. There are three levels of accreditation - bronze, silver and gold. Alcoa has demonstrated that the Waste Wise principles have been implemented throughout all areas of the business, as well as implementing Waste Wise at community events and engaging with the broader community. This has earned us the highest level of accreditation gold! The Waste Wise Program is more than just a ‘feel good’ program. It has been operating for nearly ten years and provides tangible, measurable outcomes. Participation in the program involves assessing our current waste streams and costs. Following this, an action plan is developed that identifies actions to reduce waste, allocates responsibilities and sets targets. It is then up to all levels of the organisation to implement the action plan, which is updated annually. Our association with the program started with our certification in 1999/2000 when we became the first industry to join the Ecorecycle Waste Wise Program. Since then we have developed a strong partnership with Anglesea Primary School helping them to develop a waste collection system to separate recyclables and non-recyclables. Alcoa Anglesea civil maintenance personnel collect the recyclables from the school and process them through our own Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). Through this partnership, the school reduced its waste to landfill and waste management costs by 50% in one year. The school has saved this money in consecutive years to re-invest into sustainable waste management strategies. PLANT OF THE ANGLESEA HEATH TINY SUNDEW (Drosera pygmaea) Drosera...from the Greek droseras, meaning with dewy referring to the glistening glandular hairs pygmaea... dwarf, or very small Size: Habitat: Form: Foliage: Flowers: up to 3 cm tall low nutrient, often wet or water logged, sandy soils in heathlands and woodlands small herb circular, covered on the upper surface with long sticky gland-tipped hairs white, to 4 mm wide, with four petals September to February An insectivorous species with sensitive hairs on the leaves which contain a gland that can release digestive enzymes. As the plant is so small it can only catch the smallest of invertebrates. DROSERA PYGMAEA ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPOR T JULY 2009 REPORT LAND RAINFALL (mm) Month JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG 2009 Rainfall 5.0 5.8 33.4 63.8 47.2 43.8 1968-2008 Average 43.9 42.5 40.4 51.6 60.2 59.5 62.6 SEPT OCT NOV DEC TOTAL 278.2 79.2 298.1 WATER TOWN WATER USE (ML) FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL Process 23.9 15.5 1 0 . 1 2.5 0.8 1.2 1.3 2.3 1.5 0.5 Amenity 11.6 1.5 1.5 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.1 2000 2008 2009 JAN 0.0 AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC AIR GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) TOTAL (Mt) & GHG EMISSION EFFICENCY (t/MWh) GHG Mt GHG t/MWh 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 1.23 1.27 1.50 1.45 1.47 1.31 1.49 1.40 1.42 1.29 1.24 1.19 1.21 1.21 1.20 1.21 1.20 1.18 1.20 1.23 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPOR T JULY 2009 REPORT environmental improvement Environmental Management Targets July 2009 Total Forecast 2009 Target Reportable Environmental Incidents 0 1 1 0 Env Near Miss vs Env Incident Run Rate (ratio) 1 2.4 2.4 2.5 Monthly EHS ASAT Audit Completion (%) 100 91 91 90 Air Emission Targets July 2009 Total Forecast 2009 Target Ambient SO2 (no. readings > 200ppb) 0 2 2 0 Stack SO2 (no. hrs > 100kg/min) 0 0 0 0 SO2 Load Reductions (lost MWh) 5285 14639 25096 N/A GHG Efficiency (t CO2 e/MWh) 1.21 1.23 1.23 1.20 Opacity (10 min av > 0.25g/m normal operation) 0 0 0 0 Water Targets July 2009 Total Forecast 2009 Target Town Water (ML) 0.6 11.6 19.2 14.2 Bore Water (ML) 231 1616 2770 4000 Waste Targets July 2009 Total Forecast 2009 Target Waste to Landfill (t) 0.0 7.2 10.5 8.0 Solid Prescribed Waste to Landfill (t) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3 Mine Rehabilitation Targets 2009 Total 2009 Target 2009 Area to Clear (ha) 0.245 0.0 2009 Area to Rehabilitate (ha) 0.658 0.0 OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR EMPLOYEE Hi Richard, I understand you are replacing Dale Fuller. Tell me a little about your role and its interaction with our environment. I have recently moved to Anglesea from Bright, where I worked in the Alpine and Mount Buffalo National Parks. My role will focus on four areas of service delivery for the Anglesea Heath and Great Otway National Park (1)Threatened Species Management, (2) Information, interpretation and education, (3) Marine National Park Management and (4) Asset validation. What are your first impressions of the partnership between Alcoa and Parks Victoria? The establishment of a land management cooperative agreement between the two bodies is very interesting. The Anglesea Heath is an extraordinary patch of land with such high biodiversity and this agreement is vital in protecting the long term future of the Heath. Thanks Richard, we look forward to seeing you around! ...RICHARD FOSSETT