Data Needs - Mining and the Environment: From Ore to Metal - page 117

Responsibility Data Source
Client Consultant Exist To be
generated
● Patterns of erosion and sedimentation
● Bed/suspensa load (quantity and quality)
5.3 Ground water
● Aquifer system
● Potentially exploitable aquifers
● Groundwater recharge and discharge areas
● Groundwater levels
● Groundwater quality (physical, chemical, and microbiological
characteristics)
● List of known groundwater wells and springs
5.4 Oceanography
● Bathymetry
● Natural hydrodynamic patterns, including tides, currents, waves,
scour, accretion, and sediment transport
● Salinity, temperature, and density
● Stratii cation and thermocline
● Dissolved oxygen and concentrations of major ions and metals
● Sediment physical and chemical characteristics, including
metals content
5.5 Water availability
● Availability and exploitation of water for drinking and domestic use
● Availability and exploitation of water for agriculture, industry,
and other uses
● Existing water usage
5.6 Unique, special, and sensitive water bodies and/or wetlands
5.7 Magnitudes probabilities for geo hazards in the project area,
including:
● Floods including l ash l oods
● Droughts
● Tsunami
● Storm surges
6. AIR (METEOROLOGY AND AIR QUALITY)
6.1 Existing and planned sources of meteorological data for
the project site, including location, parameters, and period
of record for each station
6.2 Existing meteorological data on:
● Climatic type
● Temperature regime
● Humidity
● Rainfall and rainfall pattern
● Wind direction and speed
● Solar radiation
● Evaporation