WP-3: Extraction and Demolition Site Level Activities

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WP-3 Extraction and Demolition Site Level
Activities
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Emilia Romagna Region Environment, Soil and
Coast Defence Department ERDF partner 6
Parma Province Territorial Planning Service ERDF
partner 8
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Emilia Romagna Region Environment, Soil and
Coast Defence Department ERDF partner 6
Emilia-Romagna Region
Type of institution Government at Region level /
Regional public authority
Surface 22.000 km2 Population 4 million people

• Geology, Seismic and Soil Survey
• ( cooperation of Technical Survey of Reno River
  Basin)
• Support of Region and Provinces in planning
  actions for geologic knowledge and background
• Development of Territorial Informative Systems
  (GIS platform) for geologic resources and risks

Environment, Soil and Coast Defence Department
600 people staff 15 surveys

• Soil and Coast Defense Survey
• Coordination of Extraction Activity Planning (at
  Province scale in ER)
• Development of quarries data base
• Improvement of best practices in post-quarrying
  restoration

Structures actively operating in SARMa 3
technical surveys

• Park and Forest Survey
• Promotion and development of protected areas for
  their environmental value
• Control of compatibility of territorial planning
  with protected areas distribution and laws

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Activity 3.1 Environmentally friendly extraction
practices (TUC) Duration 05/2009-10/2010

• Objectives
• a) collect information on best practices and
  failures for aggregates extraction, e.g.
  environmental management, assessment of aggregate
  resource/uses information
• b) develop guidelines for post quarrying
  restoration/land use
• c) determine impediments to best practice, e.g.
  lack of knowledge, regulatory blocks
• d) prepare recommendations for industry and
  government actions to encourage best practice
  e.g. LCA study approaches (?)

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The ER experience on post quarrying restoration
for SARMa
Developing guide lines for post quarrying
restoration finalized to territorial safety, land
use improvement and social acceptance.
Landscape restoration
Post-quarry restoration interventions to favour
the achieving of a new natural equilibrium and a
good level of social acceptance
realization of recreational areas or geological
parks from quarries
The restoration has to be part of the excavation
activity design starting from the first steps of
the quarry project
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Activity 3.1 Environmentally friendly extraction
practices Pilot sites - Geographic location

• GR Laka, Mandalos,Araxos,
• IT Lanca dei Francesi,
• SP Fruska gora,
• RO Iacobdeal, Luminita-Tasaul,
• HR Terstenik

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Activity 3.1 Environmentally friendly extraction
practicesDescription of pilot sites/Lanca dei
Francesi

• Type of aggregate Fluvial sand
• Peculiarities The quarry is located within the
  Po River overbanks, in a flat land that can be
  occasionally submerged during river floods. The
  quarry started to operate in 2003. The amounts
  extracted during five years were1.000.000 m3 of
  sand and 290.000 m3 of clay. Restoration
  included the creation of humid zones. Sand is
  used in foundries and clay in tiles. No aggregate
  processing at quarry location. Sand goes to the
  local or provincial market. There is no waste

• Justification why is this site interesting for
  the project In 2007 Parma Province applied
  restoration projects of quarries at the Po River
  banks according to the regional guide lines. This
  concerns about 1.250.000 m3 of sand 250.000 m3
  of clay

• Objectives reconstruction of a natural
  near-fluvial area with a lake,
  tourist-ecological routs, low-impact agricultural
  use

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Activity 3.1 Environmentally friendly extraction
practices Deliverables/Outputs

• Best practices collected from the pilot areas and
  elsewhere will become fully operational towards
  resource efficiency.
• Best practise manuals will be printed and
  disseminated
• Operational guidelines and recommendations for
  industry and government
• Manual on environmentally friendly practises for
  the industry aiming to implement tools for
  sustainable extraction of aggregate resources

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3.2. Illegal quarrying (IGR)Objectives
(07/2009-12/2010)

• a) case studies (5 regions) on illegal quarrying
  identify incentives and problems,
• b) legal and illegal quarrying workshops
  interested groups can share preferences,
  knowledge and experiences, and develop
• c) recommendations on socially acceptable, life
  cycle quarrying
• d) database of illegal quarries (pilot action),
  and
• e) high-efficiency techniques for quarry
  monitoring

The benefit of improving the knowledge base at a
local level should be highlighted
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3.2. Illegal quarryingPilot sites - Geographic
location

• RO Gostavatu,
• GR Laka,
• IT Taro River,
• AL Fushe Kruje,
• HR Terstenik

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3.2. Illegal quarryingMethodology

• Effective and regular dissemination of
  information to particular stakeholder groups.
• Developing mechanisms to increase communication
  and discussion between stakeholders.
• Training courses and quarry visits.
• Remote monitoring of illegal quarrying

Good communication, capacity building and
stakeholder consultation to achieve social
license to operate
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ER activities for monitoring illegal quarrying
in SARMa
Illegal quarrying
Partial illegal quarrying authorized quarry but
activity not consistent with excavation plan
River diggings excavation activities in the
river bed is forbidden in ER
Total illegal quarrying unauthorized
quarry
illegal excavation surface
illegal extracted volume
illegal excavation modalities
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Identification and monitoring of illegal
quarrying Remote sensing techniques
The monitoring of total and partial illegal
quarrying from 1km2 to 100s km2 survey scale
Laser scanning survey by plane for 3D modeling of
land surface - LIDAR
Air photograph or satellite land images
Digital Terrain Model from LIDAR
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Identification and monitoring of illegal
quarrying topographic/GPS techniques
Monitoring of partial illegal quarrying

• 0,1km2 to 1km2 survey scale
• Direct site access
• High precision
• 3D output
• Low cost technology
• High time consuming

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3.2. Illegal quarryingDeliverables/Outputs

• Report on 5 case study areas ALB, ROM, HR, GR,
  IT
• Creation of database framework of legal and
  illegal quarries
• Provision of recommendations for socially
  acceptable quarrying
• Action plan for social licence to mine
• Validation of implementation rules for avoiding
  illegal quarrying