FEIR for Boitshepi Landfill Site .pdf - Zitholele.co.za

107August 2010 8848Safety• Access control and improving the fencing and security of the site are critical. This mayalleviate many of the current challenges.• Road safety talks should be held in the community and posters should be erected invisible places. This should be done in conjunction with the traffic department.• Site management should be improved to manage health impacts.• Registered re-claimers should be provided with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)such as gumboots, gloves, safety vests and masks to protect their health. They shouldnot be allowed on site without their PPE. The principle of no PPE no work should applyand be enforced.• The public should not have free access to the site in order to protect them against healthrisks.Residual ImpactRe-claimer LivelihoodThis is a positive impact and the residual impact will remain as assessed with additionalimpact.Health and NuisanceThere will be a MODERATE impact experienced, especially by the residents within a 500mradius. (i.e. Boipatong, 60 metres to the immediate east of the site, Boipatong, 240 metres tothe immediate south east of the site and Tshepiso 70 m away). They would experience adaytime noise at a level typical of an urban district with commercial premises and mainroads.Mitigation measures prescribe that access control and fence improvement and security etcbe imperatively attended. Due to the mitigation measures implementation, safety impacts willbe reduced, and therefore the community will be at ease. The impact shall therefore have aLOW significance, occurring in the long-term. After proper implementation of mitigationmeasures, the reduction of the safety impact will happen.Because the increase will occur only during the daytime, this will affect only a few residents,and last for the relatively short- term period only, the significance of the noise-nuisanceimpact is rated as MODERATE to LOW.TrafficPrior to the mitigation measures being implemented, there will be no further deterioration ofroads due to the absence of heavy construction vehicles; therefore, the probability is that theimpact on traffic will be reduced. The impact will be reduced from MODERATE to LOW. Theimpact on safety risk for pedestrians will be reduced, as the most concern is of youngstersbeing of habit of jumping on the vehicles going to the waste disposal site, and therefore, theZITHOLELE CONSULTING