Southern Cross Operations Annual Environmental Report 2008 - 2009

2009 Annual Environmental ReportSouthern Cross Operations• Hydrocarbon management at the Hampton’s Transport Services yard waspoor, particularly in relation to miscellaneous small hydrocarbon bunding,waste oil bunding and the workshop oil trap;• Controlled waste tracking forms or receipts were not kept on site andavailable for Inspectors request;• The site landfill is not being covered in accordance with the EnvironmentalProtection (Rural Landfill) Regulations 2002;• Abrasive blasting is not being carried out in accordance with theEnvironmental Protection (Abrasive Blasting) Regulation 1998. DECsuggested that some of the material is generally small enough to be donewithin a chamber;• Non-compliance in relation to Licence Condition W10 (Water Monitoring) is“only being gradually addressed”. Monitoring undertaken on 2 July 2008should have occurred in June 2008, and similarly for the March 2008sampling;• Construction of new monitoring bores to replace poorly constructedexisting bores has not yet commenced. DEC understood that installationhad not occurred as St Barbara is seeking to establish a more strategicoverview of its monitoring requirements in line with future TSF needs; and• DEC requires St Barbara to provide a detailed discussion of the conditionof the Banker Lake system and provide proof necessary to demonstratethe existing trends in the lakes progress, in accordance with Condition W8(Photo Monitoring).St Barbara submitted a response to the DEC Annual Audit report on 3 September2009, which it described actions taken to rectify issues raised during the DEC audit.These are listed below:• Miscellaneous drums with residual hydrocarbons have been removed fromthe Hampton’s workshop area and are now stored within a containmentbund;• The oil trap and collection sump have been modified to transfer collected oiland water to the wash down bay via a double skinned pipeline. Similar39