Environmental Impact Assessment Study Report for Proposed Residential House

This report outlines the results of the EIA process for the proposed construction of a one floor two residential house each at its own piece of land but adjacent to each other, and are situated at Gorman street, Marrickville NSW 2204. The report covers the objectives, scope, terms of reference, and adverse effects of the project, as well as mitigation measures and restoration plans. The report also includes floor plans and location details.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY REPORT FOR PROPOSED
RESIDENTIAL HOUSE [GORMAN STREET, MARRICEVILLE NSW 2204]
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The core objective of the proposed project is the construction of a one floor two residential house
each at its own piece of land but adjacent to each other, and are situated at Gorman street,
Marrickville NSW 2204 an area that is sandwiched between Gorman Street, Thompson Street
and Edward Street, at a specific address of Gorman. ( Carmona, Heath, Oc and Tiesdell, 2012)
The project activities will comprise of the following:
 Site clearing
 Excavating the proposed area
 Construction work or building work
 Plumbing work
 All external works
 Finishes.
The proposed project is projected to occupy an area 191 m2 on one piece of land and 183.8 m2 on
the other piece of land the residential houses are luxurious and comprehensive, the two plots of
land are adjacent to three streets of Gorman and Edward and both intersecting to Thomson street,
depending on direction one will follow he or she can access the area easily (Conzen, 1960).
The two residential one floor houses each consists of four bedroom with dining room and kitchen
at the ground floor, and three bedrooms at the first floor, the site too has a car parking area and a
green spaces too.
In order to avoid land use conflict with the neighboring zone, the proponent will have to
undertake an EIA study (Act, 1979 ) and fused fundamental environmental concerns as adviced
by the proponent. The objective of the EIA study ( Tetlow and Hanusch, 2012) is to recognize
potential and significant environmental impact that are probably going to happen if the project is

implemented. In particular, the scope of the study is to identify impacts likely to be caused to the
environment, public health and socio-economic well-being (Glasson and Therivel, 2013). The
advantages of leading an EIA include:
 Screening out projects that are not environmentally sound
 Proposing improved designs to decrease negative ecological impacts
 Identifying possible site and technology alternatives
 Predicting substantial adverse effects
 Identifying moderation measures to lessen, offset, or wipe out real effects
 Engaging and informing conceivably influenced communities and people
 Influencing basic leadership and the advancement of terms and conditions
1.1 Project Overview and Location
The proposed project is projected to occupy an area 191 m2 on one piece of land and 183.8 m2 on
the other piece of land the residential houses are luxurious and comprehensive, the two plots of
land are adjacent to three streets of Gorman and Edward and both intersecting to Thomson street,
depending on direction one will follow he or she can access the area easily.
The two residential one floor houses each consists of four bedroom with dining room and kitchen
at the ground floor, and three bedrooms at the first floor, the site too has a car parking area and a
green spaces too (Relph, 2016).
1.2 Floor Plans
• Features of the first residential houses
 Size: 142.9 SQM
 Closed kitchen
 Four bedroom en-suite

 Cloak Room
 Terrace with a view of the Gorman street
• Features of the second residential houses
 Size: 126.4 SQM
 Closed kitchen
 Four bedroom en-suite
 Cloak Room
 Terrace with a view of the Gorman street
1.3 Adverse effects of the project and mitigation measures
The adverse effects radiating from the construction development and consequent utilization of
the projected residential houses and conceivable decommissioning as explained below

1.3.1 Construction phase impacts
At construction phase we expect following negative environmental impacts.
 Impact from change of client,
 Impact of sourcing for crude materials for the improvement,
 Destruction of the physical condition,
 Increased interest for water and vitality assets,
 Solid waste and emanating age,
 Air contamination,
 Noise contamination,
 Increased movement,
 Occupational wellbeing and security dangers for the workers
1.3.2 Operational phase impacts
 Landscape changes and increment in population,
 Effluent generation,
 Solid waste generation,

 E-squander generation,
 Water and vitality asset utilize,
 Fire and wellbeing dangers potential.
 Traffic management
1.3.3 Potential decommissioning effects
Three main effects are anticipated at potential decommissioning.
 Financial loss on the proponent
 Wastes which are solid,
 Insecurity.
Negative impacts of the project
1.3.4 Construction phase
 Impacts that is associated with the source point of the raw material from the
environment,
 Impacts that is associated with site activities involved in preparation, that is uncovering
and clearing of any vegetation on location
 Occupational wellbeing and security risks postured to the specialists at the development
site,
 Workforce profluent,
 Production of waste which are solid,

 The demand increase of energy resources and water,
 Pollution of air
 Vibration and noise from running machines,
 Traffic increment - Water utilize
 Operational stage
 Impacts associated with water assets (Scarcity, utilize and contamination from squander
water transfer
 what's more, seawater interruption)
 Traffic increment and management
 Likely intrusion of the protection of adjoining neighbors
 Generation of profluent
 Generation of residential strong squanders

 Generation of E-squander
 Increased utilization of vitality assets,
 Safety perils radiating from potential for flame flare-ups, - Insecurity
 Possible decommissioning impacts
1.4 Measures of mitigation on the project's negative impacts
The listed ecological effect mitigation measures explained below are proposed for construction
of residential houses all through the whole project cycle.
1.4.1 Project design and construction phase ( Bentley, Dittman and Whitten, 2000)
1.4.2 Change of User
The neighbors of the proposed site have different variety of type of houses ranging from low rise
to high rise buildings and have been effectively militated against pollution and thus
improvements could be made on their measures, the proposed projects are in accordance original
master plan. The proponent will obtain the change of user approval from the municipal
Government of New South Wales and the Ministry of Lands and planning.

1.4.3 Sources of raw materials
 The construction raw materials will be obtained by the contractor from sources that are
compliant with New South wales environmental protection authority (EPA) Regulations.
 The quantity procured by the contractor will be sufficient for it to be used in planned
mechanisms only and reused as intended to reduce wastage.
 The contractor usage of raw material should be appropriate to the level that would not
compromise the safety of construction of the residential houses
1.4.4 Impact of site preparation activities
• Rebuilding of physical environment by shredding off compacted domains and
landscaping.
1.4.5 Noise pollution
•Noise pollution to the two neighbors and laborers at the building site will be diminished
in the going with ways;
•Construction work and movement of raw materials will be limited to day time hours as it
were.
•Delivery of raw materials excluding ends of the week.
•Concrete mixers will be arranged far conceivable from neighboring properties
•The contractual worker will inform neighbors in composing before commencement of
the development with the objective that they are prepared psychologically in any event at
the very least of the two weeks early.
•Employees utilizing equipment that create peak sounds will be outfitted with ear covers
•The contractor must comply with to consent to Noise Regulations (Legal Notice No. 61
of 2009)
•The contracor will enroll the site as a workplace with the Directorate of Occupational
Health and Safety (DOHS
 The contractor will utilize gear's with silencers in order to limit noise Emission

1.4.6 Pollution of air
Dust produced particularly throughout the construction stage will be mitigated in the following
ways (Freedman., 1995);
 -The contractor will secure the site using appropriate dust screens.
 Building materials that are probably going to deliver dusts, for example, ballast ought to
be sprinkled with water before utilize
 Access street and dust surfaces areas at the building site ought to be sprinkled with water
two times per day
 Workers will be given proper dusts veils
1.4.7 Employees safety and health at the workplace
Keeping in mind the end goal to deal with the possible injuries to workers during the
development stage, the temporary worker will guarantee the accompanying measures are
actualized Eldredge, Markham, Ruiter, Kok and Parcel., 2016);
 Providing satisfactory and suitable personal protective equipment (PPE) including
security shoes, caps, gloves and overalls.
 Workers to be provided with the right instruments and hardware for the occupations
doled out.
 Workers to be prepared in the utilization of all gear that they will use while working.
 Time to break and rest will be entirely watched.
 First aid administrations and a crisis vehicle to be promptly accessible at site.
 Moving parts of machines and sharp surfaces to be safely secured with gatekeepers to
stay away from superfluous contacts and wounds amid development stage.
 The contractual worker to actualize the arrangements of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act1.

1.4.8 Management of solid waste
- Wastes exuding from development activities (Qasim., 2017) will be disposed off at the
assigned dumpsites. Moving of squanders from the site will be finished by a New South wales
ecological security expert (EPA) enrolled strong waste handler who will utilize fitting vehicles
for movement of squanders from site to assigned destinations.
- Comply with the Waste Management Regulations, 2006
1.4.9 Effluent from workforce
Temporary toilets will be procured for use by the workforce
1.5.0 Restoration of habitant
In the completion of the whole development, measures should be embraced to reestablish
debased living spaces and biodiversity and check soil disintegration. This incorporates arranging
and planting of silt restricting grasses and cultivating.
1.5.1 Management of water
 The contractor will guarantee water preservation in all development exercises
 Water will be reused similarly as is hone without trading off on quality and health
 The proponent will supplement the reticulated supply by use of bowsers and from an
existing borehole on site.

2.0 PROJECT BACKGROUND
2.1 Introduction
The EIA Study report outlines the results of the EIA process (Canter, 1996) for the proposed
project of the construction of a one floor two residential house each at its own piece of land but
adjacent to each other, and are situated at Gorman street, Marrickville NSW 2204 an area that is
sandwiched between Gorman Street, Thompson Street and Edward Street, at a specific address
of Gorman.
2.1.1 Objectives
The general goal of the investigation other hand is to guarantee that every single environmental
concern are incorporated in all the construction activities keeping in mind the end goal to add to
the supportable advancement. Particularly the objectives are (Boynton, A.C. and Zmud, R.W.,
1984) :-
i. To identify potential environmental impacts, both direct and in direct.
ii. To evaluate the significance of the effects
iii. To evaluate the relative significance of the effects of relative designs plans, and destinations

iv. To propose preventive moderating and compensative measures for the huge negative effects
of the undertaking on the earth
v. To produce benchmark information for checking and assessment of how well the alleviating
measures are being actualized amid the task cycle.
vi. To display data on effect of option
vii. To display the aftereffects of the EIA that can direct educated basic leadership.
2.2 Scope
at all times during project implementation and operation phases. The scope of the study was
mainly in the subject project and the immediate environs; and to some extent on the possible far
reaching effects of the proposed activities ( Lahdelma, Salminen and Hokkanen, 2000).
The following was therefore covered:
 Description of the proposed residential project
 Design of the proposed residential project construction materials and methodology
 Evaluation of the location, Land ownership and use
 Baseline information; biophysical and socio-economic impacts of the proposed project.
 A review of the policy, legal and administrative framework
 Potential environmental impacts during project implementation and operation phases
 Potential mitigation measures and future monitoring plans.
 Social Impact Assessment; involvement of neighbors/general public in the area.
 Environmental Management and Monitoring plans.
2.3 Terms of Reference (TOR) used in the environmental impact assessment Process
I was consulted with other consultants of the project and appointed as a Consultant with an aim
conducting an EIA study for the proposed project.

The objective of this assessment is to cover site preparation works, construction works of the
proposed improvement that included ground preparation, brick work and establishment of
service lines and in addition the utilities required by the occupants.
The yield of this work was an extensive report for the reasons for applying for an EIA
endorsement and authorizing.
The investigation incorporated the vital expert examinations to decide the ecological effects
identifying with the biophysical and financial viewpoints and to decide the issues or worries
from the pertinent specialists and intrigued or potentially influenced parties
.
The proper measures to guarantee conjunction of the proposed advancement with other social
and monetary exercises in the region are given as a major aspect of Environmental Management
Action Plan.
The behalf of the proponent the consultant conducted the study by incorporating but not limited
to the following terms of reference (Lynch, Lynch and Hack, 1984) :-
a. Location of the proposed residential house
b. A compact portrayal of the national ecological authoritative and administrative system,
standard data, and some other applicable data identified with the undertaking.
c. The targets of the undertaking.
d. The innovation, systems and procedures to be utilized, in the execution of the task.
e. The materials to be utilized as a part of the development and usage of the undertaking.
f. The items, by - items and waste to be produced by the undertaking. ( Brunner and
Rechberger, 2016)

g. A depiction of the possibly influenced condition.
h. The ecological impacts of the undertaking including the social and social impacts and the
immediate, aberrant, aggregate, irreversible, here and now and long haul impacts foreseen.
i. To prescribe a particular ecologically stable and reasonable wastewater administration
framework.
j. Provide elective advancements and procedures accessible and explanations behind
leaning toward the picked innovation and procedures.
k. Analysis of options including venture site, plan and innovations.
l. An natural administration design proposing the measures for killing, limiting or
moderating unfriendly effects on the environment, comprising the cost, timeframe and
accountability to implement the processes.
m. Provision of an action plan for counteractive action and administration of the predictable
mishaps and dangerous exercises in the reason for doing advancement activities.
2.4 Methodology and Approach
Having understood the scope of work presented by the Client, the experts undertook the task of
EIA for proposed project by clearly defining the assignment into a number of discrete activities.
These activities facilitated development of a workable framework for the speedy and timely
execution of the assignment. The EIA study was conducted in accordance with the Terms of
Reference provided in the Environmental in Environmental planning and assessment act 1979
Regulations.
To adequately address the environmental issues emanating from the implementation of the
proposed project, the Consultant carried out environmental study at the proposed site and also

the surrounding areas. The environmental study comprised the following activities: mobilization,
consultation with stakeholders, a scoping exercise, desk and field studies, data analysis, impact
identification, and analysis of health and safety issues associated with the proposed project
(Hurlimann, 2009).
2.5 Data collection procedures
To start with, the consultant embraced gathering of information, which was brought out through
polls/standard meeting plans, utilization of agendas, perceptions, site visits, work area ecological
investigations and logical tests, where important in the way determined in Part 5 of
Environmental arranging and evaluation of the Environmental (Impact Assessment and Audit)
Regulations.
At that point information gathered experienced ecological screening and scooping to maintain a
strategic distance from superfluous information
2.6 EIA Organization and Structure
The EIA was done to full culmination inside a time of multi week from the date of undertaking.
The Consultants composed the everyday activities and any related institutional help matters..
2.7 Documentation and reporting
The Environmental Impacts Assessment Study report from the discoveries was arranged as per
the rules issued by Environmental arranging evaluation 1979 for such works and was arranged
and presented by the advocate for thought and endorsement. The Consultant guaranteed steady
preparation of the customer amid the activity.
2.8 Responsibilities and Undertaking
The Consultants attempted to meet every calculated cost identifying with the task, including
those of generation of the report and some other applicable material. The advisors organized
claim transport and goes amid the activity. On the site of the proposed advancement, the
defender gave a contact person(s) to give data required by the Consultants.

The advocate likewise gave site plan(s) indicating streets, benefit lines, structures format and the
real sizes of the locales, subtle elements of crude materials, proposed process diagram, future
advancement designs, task allows and conditions, arrive proprietorship records and site history,
and evaluated venture costs.
• The yield from the specialists incorporates the accompanying:
• An Environmental Impact Assessment Study report involving an official outline,
appraisal approach, benchmark conditions, foreseen impacts and proposed moderation measures
(Stewart-Oaten, Murdoch and Parker, 1986),
• An Environmental Management Plan layout, which additionally frames some portion of
the report suggestions (Wales, 1980).
2.9 Methodology
The following are general steps carried out during the assessment (Therivel, Wilson, Heaney and
Thompson, 2013):
 Environment screening, in which the project was identified as among those requiring EIA
 Environmental scooping that provided the significant environmental issues
 Desk Stop educations and interviews
 Physical assessment of the site and neighboring areas
 Reporting.
Environmental Screening
In accordance with the Environmental arranging and appraisal act section 3(Environmental
arranging instruments), the accompanying contemplations were considered in deciding the
natural screening criteria.

• Ecological contemplations (Biological assorted variety, maintainability, environment
upkeep)
• Social contemplations (financial effects, social union and interruption, impact on human
wellbeing, correspondence, consequences for culture and protests of social esteem)
• Landscape impacts ( sees opened up or shut, visual effects, similarity with encompassing
territory)
• Land utilizes (impact of proposition on current land uses and land utilize possibilities in
the venture zone, probability of numerous utilization, impacts of proposition on encompassing
area uses and land utilize possibilities) (Baker, Wood, Carter, Short and Jay, 2005)
• Water (effect of proposition on water assets and seepage examples or frameworks)
Results of screening criteria
The following table summarizes the results of the screening criteria.
Criteria Results
Ecological impacts - Existing vegetation and trees at the site which
will be cleared to pave way for the
development
- No endangered species of either plants or
animals
- No endemic species reported on site
- Excavations will be undertaken and will
impact on soil profile
Social considerations - Project could have an impact on adjacent

property values
- Project will meet housing demand for a
growing urban
population
- Project will create employment
- Revenue to the government
- No cultural or heritage issues at the site
Landscape impacts -Views will be closed up for buildings that are
less than 4 storey
Land uses - The project necessitates change of user
- The immediate neighborhood is characterized
by either high rise or low rise
developments and relatively low density
settlement pattern
- The wider neighborhood has high-rise
developments
Water - Site will rely on water supply from the
municipal council Water and Sewerage
Company and supplemented with borehole
water.
- Water quantities and quality to be determined

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