Identifying and Evaluating Impacts - Mining and the Environment: From Ore to Metal - page 422

TABLE 9.7
Prediction Techniques Applicable in EIA

Air Source description

Emission inventory
Emission factor technique
Effect on air quality
Box models
Gaussian plume (analytical models)
Single to multiple source dispersion models (numerical models)
High order effect
Receptor monitoring
Pathway models for human exposure
Others
Urban area statistical models
Monitoring from analogues
Air quality indices

Surface Water Source description

Point and non-point waste loads
Runoff models
Effect on water quality and quantity
Mathematical models
Segment box models
In situ tracer experiments
Statistical models for selected parameters
High order effect
Water usage studies
Pathway models for human exposure
Others
Waste load allocations
Water quality indices

Ground Water Source description

Pollution source surveys
Leachate testing (e.g. toxicity leachate characteristic procedure/TLCP)
Unsaturated fl ow models
Effect on water quality and quantity
Water/solute balance
Analytical approximation
Numerical fl ow and solute transport models
Others
Soil and/or ground water vulnerability indices
Pollution source indices

Noise Source description

Mobile sources
Stationary sources
Emission models
Noise statistical model

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