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    This document is an environmental impact assessment report for a proposed desalination plant at the Trou aux Biches Hotel in Mauritius. The plant would produce 450 cubic meters per day of potable water to meet the hotel's needs. It would use reverse osmosis on saline water from a borehole, producing a brine waste stream. The report evaluates impacts of the plant on air, noise, wastewater and the marine environment. It concludes that with mitigation measures, such as diluting the brine before injection into the aquifer, the plant would have no significant negative environmental impacts and would provide benefits by improving the hotel's water supply reliability.

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    This document is an environmental impact assessment report for a proposed desalination plant at the Trou aux Biches Hotel in Mauritius. The plant would produce 450 cubic meters per day of potable water to meet the hotel's needs. It would use reverse osmosis on saline water from a borehole, producing a brine waste stream. The report evaluates impacts of the plant on air, noise, wastewater and the marine environment. It concludes that with mitigation measures, such as diluting the brine before injection into the aquifer, the plant would have no significant negative environmental impacts and would provide benefits by improving the hotel's water supply reliability.

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    This document is an environmental impact assessment report for a proposed desalination plant at the Trou aux Biches Hotel in Mauritius. The plant would produce 450 cubic meters per day of potable water to meet the hotel's needs. It would use reverse osmosis on saline water from a borehole, producing a brine waste stream. The report evaluates impacts of the plant on air, noise, wastewater and the marine environment. It concludes that with mitigation measures, such as diluting the brine before injection into the aquifer, the plant would have no significant negative environmental impacts and would provide benefits by improving the hotel's water supply reliability.

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    New Mauritius Hotels Ltd

    Installation and Operation of a


    Desalination Plant at Trou aux
    Biches Hotel
    Environmental Impact Assessment
    EIA/2685/DPTAB/001
    Issue | J une 2011


















    This report takes into account the particular
    instructions and requirements of our client.
    It is not intended for and should not be relied
    upon by any third party and no responsibility is
    undertaken to any third party.

    J ob number 2685
    Arup SIGMA Ltd
    19 Church Street
    Port Louis
    Mauritius
    www.arup.com
    New Mauritius Hotels Ltd Installation and Operation of a Desalination Plant at Trou aux Biches Hotel
    Environmental Impact Assessment

    EIA/2685/DPTAB/001 | Issue | 23 J une 2011
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    FINAL.DOCX Page i
    Executive Summary
    NEW MAURITIUS HOTELS Ltd (herein after referred to as NMH) proposes
    to install and operate a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant for
    its newly reconstructed Trou aux Biches Hotel (TAB). The reconstruction of the
    Hotel was the object of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study in
    2007.
    The amount of potable water demand for the hotel was estimated at an average
    480m
    3
    /d, this demand is the same to the demand from the previous TAB Hotel
    before its demolition.
    Potable water supply from the public network has been very erratic, particularly
    during the dry season. The water supply deficit from the public networks is
    exacerbated by the ongoing rapid urban and tourism development in the northern
    districts.
    Mobilisation of additional water resources to meet the growing local demand in
    the northern districts is not foreseen in the short to medium term.
    NMH proposes to install and operate a desalination plant of the reverse osmosis
    type using saline water from a drilled borehole. The plant will have a design
    production capacity 450m
    3
    /d of desalinated water. The water intake will be from
    one drilled bore hole located within the premise of the hotel.
    The operation of the desalination plant will produce a waste brine stream with a
    salinity of about 66 000mg/l. The brine stream will be injected in the aquifer after
    dilution through an injection borehole located on the sea ward side of the hotel
    and about 900metres from the intake borehole.
    The SWRO desalination plant will be located in the Technical Yard of TAB
    Hotel. Location of this site is due to its close proximity to electricity supply and
    standby power plant.
    Chemicals will be used in the desalination plant and some of which will reappear
    in the concentrated brine. These chemicals are added in very low concentration
    and reported evidence from overseas plant indicate that these have no adverse
    effects on the environment.
    Low Electricity Consumption
    Based on a flow of desalinated water 18.75m/h (450m
    3
    /d), this gives an expected
    specific consumption of 4.5 kW/m (including borehole, raw water feed pumps
    and brine rejection pumps). For the RO plant alone, the specific consumption
    2.9kWh/m.
    The Environmental Impact Assessment reviews the probable impacts of the
    proposed desalination plant on the natural and built environments. The main
    conclusions are:
    No Impacts
    The Project will have no or minimum impacts on the Built Environment for traffic
    and electricity supply. As the desalination plant infrastructure has already been
    constructed during hotel reconstruction, there will be no impacts associated with
    the construction phase of the desalination project.
    New Mauritius Hotels Ltd Installation and Operation of a Desalination Plant at Trou aux Biches Hotel
    Environmental Impact Assessment

    EIA/2685/DPTAB/001 | Issue | 23 J une 2011
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    Air Pollution
    There will be no additional gaseous emissions associated with the operation of the
    SWRO Plant due to the operation of the existing standby generator located in the
    technical building. The gaseous emissions rate for standby plant takes into
    account the electricity demand of the proposed desalination plant. Furthermore the
    sand by plant will operate only during failure in the national grid. It is estimated
    that the plant will operate 10days (continuously) over one year. Gaseous
    emissions and ambient air quality standards will not be exceeded.
    Potential Negative Impacts and Mitigating Measures
    Noise Pollution
    During the operational phase, noise generation will be from the operation of the
    high pressure pump principally. As the desalination plant will be inside a closed
    building, the noise level shall not exceed those prescribed by regulations.
    Furthermore inside the building, the high pressure pumps will be enclosed inside
    canopies to reduce noise emissions.
    Waste waters
    Wastewaters from the process, namely cleaning of the RO membranes will be
    generated at a rate of about 300litres every month. This wastewater contains low
    load of pollutants and will be sent to the existing wastewater treatment plant
    (design capacity: 450m
    3
    /d). This load will have no impact on the wastewater
    treatment plant.
    Discharge of brine
    To produce 450m
    3
    /d of potable water, the desalination plant will generate
    700m
    3
    /d of brine at a concentration of 65 076mg/l which is approximately 63%
    greater than that of the aquifer saline water.
    Water with higher than normal salt concentrations could potentially affect marine
    biota not tolerant of elevated salt levels.
    Three options were considered for the disposal of the concentrated brine:
    Option 1: An outfall in the lagoon;
    Option 2: Injection of the concentrated brine into the underground water
    through an injection borehole; and
    Option 3: Dilution of the concentrated brine prior to its disposal through an
    injection borehole
    It was concluded that option 3 is associated with the least negative impacts.
    Chemicals Use at Operational Stage
    The desalination plant will require four types of chemicals:
    Sulphuric acid for pH adjustment of feed water to the desalination plant
    Anti scalant for RO process
    Sodium/calcium hypochlorite as disinfectant
    Calcium carbonate for stabilisation of desalinated water
    Assessment of the chemicals used during the operation of the desalination plant,
    knowing their fate and breakdown, indicates that there should not have any
    New Mauritius Hotels Ltd Installation and Operation of a Desalination Plant at Trou aux Biches Hotel
    Environmental Impact Assessment

    EIA/2685/DPTAB/001 | Issue | 23 J une 2011
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    significant effect on the water quality of the aquifer saline water including nitrate,
    nitrogen or phosphate levels of these waters. Furthermore these chemicals do not
    have the potential for bioaccumulation in nearby sediments of both aquifer and
    lagoonar waters. The described chemicals are not a threat to the underground
    seawater and marine biota. Moreover the quantities of their usage are low.
    Positive Impacts
    Positive impacts associated with the proposed desalination plant are summarised
    below:
    The desalination plant will alleviate the shortage of potable water supply to
    the Trou aux Biches Hotel;
    Reliability in the water quality and quantity for the Hotel;
    Significant decrease of water demand by TAB Hotel to the public networks;
    Avoidance of traffic induced by lorry tankers supplying water to the hotels to
    meet potable water shortfall from the public network.
    The Project will enable Trou aux Biches Hotel to meet its potable water
    requirements all year round and simultaneously allows CWA, the parastatal
    organization responsible for water supply to the public, to improve potable water
    supply to the local inhabitants. A do-nothing policy therefore, does not appear to
    be justified.


    J ean-Pierre WAN
    Project Manager
    New Mauritius Hotels Ltd




    Dr. Alan SAM-SOON
    BSc (Chem Eng), Ph.D
    Water & Wastewater Management
    Specialist
    Consultant
    Dr. Patrick HAREL
    M.Sc Eng, Ph.D.
    ArupSIGMA Ltd

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