Environmental Impact Analysis: Power Plant, Sea Defence, Poultry Farm

This report assesses the environmental impacts of a new power plant, sea defense strategies, and a poultry processing plant. It examines mitigation strategies for air and noise pollution from the power plant, including fuel selection and emission controls. The report also evaluates hard versus soft sea defense options, considering soil erosion, habitat loss, and bird attractiveness, ultimately recommending hard defenses. Finally, it critiques the environmental assessment of a poultry farm, highlighting deficiencies in meteorological data and traffic analysis, and proposes improvements for a more comprehensive evaluation. The report emphasizes the importance of proactive mitigation and detailed environmental analysis across various industrial and infrastructural projects to minimize negative impacts.

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New Power Plant:
There are various methods by which we can mitigate the impacts of the new power plant.
There are various impacts associated with the development of the new power plant like the air
pollution due to emission of different air pollutants, noise pollution, congestion in the traffic,
water pollution, effects on the historical monuments, safety related issues, waste management
and, employment related issues many more (Drbal Westra and Boston 2012). The various ways
of mitigating this risks are listed below:
a. The power plant should aim at reducing the different the different air pollutants that causes
harm to the environment. These pollutants include SO2, NO2, different particulates and carbon
monoxide (CO). the power plant should aim at improving their efficiency on the production so as
to reduce the pollutant emissions along with that they should also aim at shifting to the use of the
nuclear power plant as there is no emission of sulphur oxide from this type of plants (Phoenix et
al. 2012). They can also use fuels with low sulphur content rather than using fossil fuels.
Emission of these harmful elements can be avoided by the use of solar energy or pipeline grade
gas made from coals.
b. The best way of reducing noise pollution is to contact the manufacturers of the turbine so as to
reduce the problem. The manufacturers of the turbine are able to change the turbines operating
parameters so as to mitigate the problem. The plant should hire experts capable of evaluating the
problems and can suggest certain ways so that a potential solution is obtained (Goto Yogo and
Higashii 2013). They can introduce baffles so that changes can take place in the acoustical
resonance modes. Stiffening elements can also be added to strategic locations so that the changes
take place and the resonant frequency is taken away from the problem frequency.

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c. The plant has to look into the matter of dumping their waste water into the river. They have to
check that the water coming out from there is plant is not too much hot. Along with that they
have to check that there are no harmful pollutants present in the water which can affect the
aquatic life and the peoples residing near the plant. They should adopt a proper way of removing
the pollutants from the water or any type of liquid that they are dumping into the river (Sueyoshi
and Goto 2012). Pre-treatment needs to be done of any type of liquid coming out from the plant.
d. Avoiding the problems with the traffic should be done by the plant. They should limit the
number of cars entering and leaving the plant (Drbal Westra and Boston 2012). The plant should
consider the making of new parking slots for the cars entering and leaving the plant. Proper
timings should be fixed for the cars to enter or leave the plant like allowing the heavy vehicles to
enter the plant only at night time or in the early morning so that the busy timings of the day are
not affected due to the plants.
Sea Defence:
Option A or the hard defence can be recommended as the best option. According to the
two development solution for the problems faced in a seashore has been compared on the basis
of the magnitude and the significance. The actions or factors and the impacts of the costal
defence system has been provided below.
Identification of
Impacts or
factors
Impact areas
Soil erosion The beaches , mudflats or saltmarshes are affected.

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Loss of site for
specific scientific
interest
as the materials of the project will be coming by roads and Parkston Quay
port so it will lead to loss of 1.4HA of the SSSI (Abanades Greaves and
Iglesias 2014).
Change of
character and
particle size of
the mudflats
the plan of pumping the water together with the degraded material will
typically carry the finer materials away from the point of deposition and
then deposits those around the surrounding (Temmerman et al 2013)
leading to the change in the character and the particle size of the mudflats.
less
attractiveness of
the site for birds
the attraction of the birds feeding on the invertebrates present on the
mudflats decreases with change in character of the mudflats (Perkins et al
2015).
Out of rating 10 the ascribed scores are listed below for the identified impacts:
Identification of Impacts or
factors
score according to the impacts
out of 10
for soft defence
score according to the impacts
out of 10
for soft defence
Soil erosion 7 7
Loss of site for specific
scientific interest
4 6

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Change of character and
particle size of the mudflats
5 8
less attractiveness of the site
for birds
4 8
The plan A or the hard defence can be considered as the best option rather than
considering the hard defence. The authority should also look into the betterment of the
environmental conditions. The hard defence can be used for the purpose of creating energy and
there is also less harm to the environment if implantation of the hard defence takes place. The
traffic conditions during the construction of the hard defence is also less (Hsu 2013). The natural
habitat of the place is also less affected. This type of defence can be used for the benefit of the
society as well by providing additional energy using the tidal energy. According the scores of the
impacts the best option is chosen. The total score for the severe impacts are high for the soft
defence therefore indicating that the hard defence can be more advantageous and will have less
impacts. Mitigation of the impacts should be taken into account after and before the
implementation of the project. Necessary mitigation techniques need to be done before the
starting of the project as well as after the implementation of the project.
Poultry Processing Plant:
The environmental conditions which has been briefly discussed over here are:
1. The site proposed for the new poultry farm has been properly described here that is for what
purpose the areas around the site are used for, what are the adjoining waterbodies and the cities
present around the site. Along with this it also provides with the information if the places around

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the site are of any ecological, historical, scientific or cultural interest or not. The river present
near is the site is of Grade 1B which means it also provides the information that the river is
slightly contaminated.
2. The air quality has also been properly discussed over here that means every reason for which
the air has attained a good quality is provided over here. The air quality of the new site is
expected to be almost similar to that of the existing poultry farm.
The environmental conditions which has not been described over here properly are:
1. The meteorological data is not provided properly. Only the presence of airport near the site is
produced over here. The other information regarding the meteorology has been provided over
here that means the atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics of the new site has not been
provided (Stull 2012). The weather forecasting of the new site is also not provided over here. The
previous weather conditions of the place are also unknown.
2. The traffic: The basic traffic conditions of the roads around the site has not been described.
Only the number of cars using the road is provided whereas the daily conditions of the road are
not provided. Only a low number of heavy vehicles travel through the roads near the new site.
information about the accessibility of the roads by heavy vehicles are also not provided (Abdalla
2016). Only the direction and the speed of the wind are provided over here in the report.
All details regarding the traffic and the metrological conditions of the new site. the details
regarding the wind conditions of the site needs to be provided in this report. All the traffic
conditions like if the road is accessible by heavy vehicles or not and if yes then what is the
capacity that the road can bear. Along with this the information is also required if the road can be
used in all type of weathers or not (Mueller et al 2015). The information should also be provided

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about the weather conditions of the site so as to determine if the weather is appropriate for the
rising of the animals in the poultry or not.

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