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    SECOND SEMESTER 2019 – 2020


    EC 1 - Assignment – I (Open Book)
    Course No: SSTMZG528 Date: 04-04-2020
    Course Name: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND RISK ASSESSMENT Due date: 18.04.2020 11:59 PM
    Format : Name_ID.doc/ or Name_ID.pdf

    Assignment 1
    Instructions
    Go through the reference books (given below) / other online documents/ books in similar subject area to solve
    answer the following problems.

     Davis, M. L. & Cornwell, A. D., 2014. Introduction to environmental Engineering. New Delhi: McGraw
    Hill Education.

     Masters, G. M. & Ela, W. P., 2008. Introduction to Environmental Engineering Science. New Delhi: PHI.

     Punmia, B. C., Jain, A. K. & Jain, A. K., 2013. Environmental Engineering - II :Wastewater Egineering
    (including Air Pollution). Secoond Edition ed. New Delhi: Laxmi Publications.

    Some of the parameter values in the questions have YZ corresponding to your ID numbers. If we consider
    2019HT065XY as a generic ID number, XY is the last two digits of your ID. If your ID is 2015HT06510
    then X=1; Y=0; Please use the Corresponding Values at the corresponding places in the Questions.

    1.
    a. Suppose ambient lapse rate measured is as in table given below. What would be the mixing depth?
    Now if a chimney, XY m (if X=1; Y=0, then 10m) high releases smoke having temperature of
    34.5oC at exit and it rises at DALR how high would the plume rise? What would be plume behavior?

    b. For the same ambient lapse rate if the day time temperature is 35.0 oC and an anemometer at a height
    of 10 m shows an average measurement of 4 m/s. What would be the ventilation coefficient if the
    wind speed at half the mixing depth is used? The coefficient corresponding to surface roughness and
    atmospheric stability is 0.2.
    Altitude(m) 0 50 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
    Temp (0C) 30 29 28 27 26 24 23 24 26 27

    2. The town of Edankki has filed a complaint with the SPCB that the city of Kumta is restricting its use of the
    Umang River because of the discharge of raw sewage. The water quality (DO levels) to be maintained for
    the Umang River is 5.00 mg · L-1 of DO. Edankki town is 1Y.XY km downstream from Kumta City.
    a. What is the DO at Edankki?
    b. What is the critical DO and where (at what distance) downstream does it occur? Is the assimilative
    capacity of the river restricted? The following table pertain to the 7-year, 10-day low flow at Kumta.
    c. What is the significance of 7-year, 10-day low flow?
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    Umang

    3.
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    5.
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    6. Read the following brief description of a proposal to extend a waste disposal landfill site and then think
    about the possible impacts of the proposal.

    Proposal
    The extension of the existing Olradyful landfill site will provide an extra capacity of 700 000 cubic metres,
    which will provide sufficient tipping capacity to meet the landfill disposal requirements of the Barstink city
    until 2020. The site is located to the south-east of the city, approximately 8 km from the city centre. The
    location is typically urban fringe in character; a mixture of informal open spaces, agricultural land,
    residential development, and some minor industrial uses typify the surrounding area. The open spaces to the
    west and the east of the site are the dominant surrounding land use. The tract of land to the west, much of it
    in public ownership, is managed by the Barstink City Development Nature Conservation Authority as being
    important for Ecology and sensitive flora and fauna. The major local centres of population surround landfill.
    A stream called Hardleenit stream is already passing under the waste site through a large covered drain
    (something like a box or pipe culvert). In order to link the extension with the existing site it is proposed to
    construct a culvert (put in a covered channel or pipe) the Hardleenit stream for a further 225 metres; it is
    already culverted throughout the existing waste disposal site. (The details of the site are only indicative not
    a necessity for this problem)
    For each impact you identify, think about just one piece of baseline information (or indicator) which you
    feel it would be necessary to collect before a full impact prediction could be carried out.
    The purpose of this activity is to illustrate the kinds of problems encountered in scoping and it should be
    noted that the background of whoever tries this exercise can have a profound effect on how the priorities for
    the impacts are perceived.

    For example, an ecologist may be most concerned with the potential impacts on flora and fauna. Note also
    that more than one piece of baseline information would be required in order to predict each potential impact
    properly. Please provide upto 5- 10 major impacts. Please give your answers in the format :
    Impact:
    Baseline

    7. Briefly Discuss Salient features of any 5 recently notified Environmental Laws (200 words each).
    Example: CRZ Notification 2019, E-waste (Management) Rules, 2016, Plastic Waste
    Management (Amendment) Rules 2018 etc..

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