Environmental Assessment
Volume C-5.3
Slurry Pipeline
Land Use
Alteration of Soils, Terrain and Vegetation
The impacts of the project on areas with a variety of potential land uses are
presented in Table 5.3-1. Land use areas along the slurry pipeline have been
mapped on the pipeline alignment sheets presented in Volume H, Appendix 11.
Table 5.3-1 Land Use Impact Areas for the Slurry Pipeline Local Study Area
Type of Area
Area Within
LSA (Baseline)
(ha)
Area
Impacted
(ha)
Proportion of Area
in LSA Impacted
(%)
degraded residual coastal woodland
0
0
0
azonal/transitional forest and scrub
268
5
2
primary zonal forest and marsh edge
1,429
23
2
degraded primary zonal forest
1,537
49
3
agroforest/secondary forest
0
0
0
plantation and woodlot
693
39
6
beach ridge complex
70
2
3
coastal shrubland/grassland complex
227
2
1
rice paddies
278
9
3
shrubland/herbaceous/pasture
308
2
1
tavy matrix
30,778
800
3
village/urban
120
2
2
wetlands
406
5
1
access corridor (road/rail)
9
0
0
industry (buildings or exploration areas)
13
0
0
canal
0
0
0
quarry
12
0
0
river/water
127
0
0
seasonal pond
0
0
0
total
36,275
938
3
Within the LSA, 6% (39 ha) of current woodlot and plantation areas will be
impacted by the development, including eucalyptus woodlots and parts of an oil
palm plantation south of Toamasina. Three percent of rice paddy (9 ha) and tavy
agriculture (800 ha) areas in the LSA will be impacted by the project. About 2%
(2 ha) of the village areas in the LSA will be affected, and less than 1% (2 ha) of
potential grazing lands along the pipeline will be impacted. At the time of final
pipeline route fine tuning, efforts will be made to reduce all of these levels
(where possible, to zero) by routing the pipeline around these key land use areas.
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