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WEST AFRICAN POWER POOL (WAPP) PÖYRY ENERGY LTD.
Mount Coffee HPP ESIA and RAP 2012-09-18
ESIA Report Page 98
13.5 Proposed Mitigation Measures
The mitigation measures hinge on noise and health. For the land take and crops lost,
compensation will have to be paid to the PAPs. The costs will be worked out in the
Resettlement Action Plan.
For noise:
� Ensure that the use of heavy machinery is limited to normal working hours,
especially if a quarry is to be set up near any of the settlements. Excavation of
stones, rocks and other construction materials during the night hours should not
take place and during the day this should start when the surrounding population
normally start their daily chores.
� Ensure that use of heavy machinery at the site is also during normal working
hours so as not to disturb the population unnecessarily.
For health:
� Ensure screening of new workers arriving from other areas so as to contain
spread of any communicable diseases such as TB, HIV/AIDs, etc. and provide
preventative medicine.
� Ensure general hygiene standards are kept and this might be learnt by the
surrounding population.
� Improve the medical facility existing to cater for immediate accidents and other
medical issues as hospitals are far from the area and they are also ill-equipped.
� During dry season, sprinkling of dirt roads to cut down on dust that would
irritate neighbouring settlements and population.
� Ensure that surrounding population is taught and is aware of increased traffic
danger and workers especially the drivers have been trained in traffic safety and
look out for the local surrounding population, in particular children and women.
Particular attention should be paid to children going and leaving schools. Signs
should be put up to indicate where schools are and speeds should be kept at 30
km per hour on the exit road passing through the project area.
For surrounding populations and PAPs:
� Give first priority to people in the project area when employing labourers
and other unskilled workers, e.g. vegetation clearance, stone crashing in
quarries, guards, etc. Should additional skilled workers also be required, take
on workers from the area should they have the skills.
� Carry out some information dissemination and teaching of local population
on traffic safety, especially among young people, to curtail traffic accidents.
� Upgrade the public security system to cope with the influx of population
coming from outside the area.