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Metropolitan Coal Independent Environmental Audit
Condition
No.
METEOROLOGICAL
4/16 During the life of the project, the Proponent shall ensure that there is a
suitable meteorological station in the vicinity of the surface facilities
area that complies with the requirements in the Approved Methods for
Sampling of Air Pollutants in New South Wales guideline.
TRANSPORT
Parkes Street Intersection
4/17 By the end of 2010, the Proponent shall:
(a) undertake a road safety audit of the Parkes Street and
Condition Verification Compliance Comments
Siting Report Automatic
Weather Station, Novecom,
30 May 2011
Emails between the
Metropolitan Colliery, RTA,
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In progress
meteorological station at Robertson Street in
Helensburgh. The rainfall data is used as an
input to the surface facilities water balance
model.”
Surface Facilities Water Management Plan, S6,
p19
Note: The Surface Facilities Water Management
Plan (S7.4, p21) states that “The mine water make
water balance has been suitably integrated with the
Metropolitan Mine Catchment Monitoring Program
and the Metropolitan Mine Long-walls 20-22 Water
Management Plan”. Both the Construction
Management Plan (S5.4.4. p71) and Water
Management Plan (S7.6, p76) include details of the
monitoring program to assess mine water make that
reflect the monitoring specified in the Surface
Facilities Water Management Plan.
The location of the automatic weather station
installed at the Metropolitan Colliery at Robertson
Street Helensburgh was assessed by Novecom in
May 2011 and considered representative of the
receiving environment. The weather station includes
wind speed and direction, temperature, (2m and
10m), relative humidity and rainfall.
The main automatic meteorological station is
supplemented with additional weather monitoring
locations:
SentineX 90 Module Type Description
M1
M2
D1
D2
J1
J2
J3
Primary meteorological monitoring system
Stockpile wind monitoring system
TEOM ambient particulate monitoring
system
Portable dust monitoring system
Stockpile level monitoring system
Camps Creek discharge
Camps Creek extraction
Stage 5 Road Safety Audit & Recommendations
Report - Parkes Street & Colliery Road Intersection,
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