November 2004 (PDF 11.6 MB) - Barrick Gold Corporation

Cowal Gold Project – Noise Management PlanIf, at any time during the monitoring programme, a suitably qualified person determines that Projectnoise emissions are impacting on threatened fauna, the DEC (including EPA and NPWS) will beinformed as soon as possible, in accordance with the FFMP. Barrick will survey and investigate noisereduction measures as detailed in Section 9.9 SURVEY AND INVESTIGATION OF NOISE REDUCTION MEASURESConsent Condition 8.4(a)(ii) states that:(ii)if required from condition 8.4(a)(i) or if wildlife is significantly impacted as identified bymonitoring actions undertaken in accordance with condition 3.4(a), survey andinvestigate noise reduction measures from plant and equipment at the conclusion of thefirst 12 months of ore processing operations in consultation with NPWS or as directed bythe EPA;The survey will be conducted if monitoring during the first 12 months of ore processing indicates anexceedance of noise criteria, bird breeding disturbance or other wildlife disturbance as determined bymonitoring under Consent Condition 3.4(a) (Section 8).The survey and investigation of noise reduction measures for plant and equipment will be conducted(where required) in consultation with DEC or as directed by DEC.10 NOISE REDUCTION STRATEGIES AND PROCEDURESIn accordance with Consent Condition 6.4(a)(ii) and 6.4(b), in the event of exceedance of noise levelcriteria, exceedance of criteria during temperature inversions (Section 6) or disturbance of birdbreeding or other wildlife (Section 8), review and responsive strategies and procedures will be appliedto reduce noise levels.Review and responsive strategies and procedures are outlined below and are consistent with thegeneral principles of Chapter 11 of the INP (Appendix A). It will be the responsibility of the OperationsManager in consultation with the Environmental Manager to implement the strategies and procedures.Review StrategyThe review strategy will involve review of construction or operational activities that may havecontributed to the noise level criteria exceedance and/or bird breeding or wildlife disturbance andcorrelation with any monitoring results. The strategy will aim to characterise noise associated with theProject and provide a process for identifying appropriate remedial measures.The review strategy will involve:• review of construction and operational activities to identify any simple explanation for theexceedance of criteria, exceedance of criteria during a temperature inversion or birdbreeding/other wildlife disturbance;• review of temperature inversion data to determine if temperature inversions contributed to theexceedance of criteria or bird breeding/other wildlife disturbance; and• review of noise and meteorological monitoring results to identify whether other meteorologicalconditions may have contributed to the problem.HAL-02-07/1/NMP01-P/17/11/04 28 BARRICK