Aggregate planning in Emilia-Romagna Region methods and data Stakeholder consultation, SNAP-SEE project Zagreb (HR), 25 th October 2013 Christian Marasmi, Massimo Romagnoli, Anna Rita Rizzati Emilia-Romagna Region Directorate General Environment, Soil and Coast protection Soil and Coast protection and land reclamation service Poggio Berni (Rimini) quarry restored as geological park
Summary mining planning in Italy the Regional Law 17/91 province mining plan (PIAE) a quarry exploitation project new Regional Law on mining activities Regional DB on mining/aggregates
Before starting some data % of aggregates extracted in 2011 in Emilia-Romagna 4% 1% 13% 1% floodplain sand & gravel mountain aggregates 15% silicate sand marl 66% clay gypsum
Before starting some data extracted volumes from 2007 to 2011 m 3 x 1.000 14000,0 12000,0 10000,0 8000,0 6000,0 4000,0 2000,0 gypsum clay marl silicate sand 0,0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 mountain aggregates floodplain sand & gravel
Before starting some data sand & gravel volumes extracted in Emilia-Romagna from 2006 to 2011
Before starting some data Total aggregates imported through the Ravenna Port 8.000.000 6.000.000 4.000.000 2.000.000 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Vol total The import fall is strictly related to the ceramic industry crisis
Before starting some data aggregates company in Emilia-Romagna (2010) 147 companies 1.439 employees 9,8 % of employees for company since 2007-11,4 % companies -17,2 % employees In the last 3 years the situation is getting worse In italy, since 2005, the mining sector lost the 14,8%
Aggregates/mining plan in Italy National law on mining activities subdivides raw materials on relevance (1 st category material are defined as strategic, for ex. Iron, Kaolin, Copper) Regions are responsible for the planning of II category material Emilia-Romagna Region (as many of the others) has delegated provinces keeping the supervision of the planning process Municipality gives exploitation authorization (materials own by the private) after the approval of the quarry exploitation and restoration project
The Regional Law 17/91 R.L. 13/78 Introduced the municipality mining plan (PAE) as an annex of municipality spatial plan The exploitation and restoration project became compulsory Introduced the authorization for the exploitation activities giving the responsibility to the municipality Introduced the province mining plan (PIAE) to which PAE has to uniform R.L. 17/91 Introduced the study for environmental balance (SBA) that help the localization of exploitation pole and define measures for the impact mitigation Imposed a royalty for each m 3 extracted (the amount changes in relation to the material) Blocked river bed excavations (except for hydraulic security works)
The Regional Law 17/91 Strengthen elements of the law Introduction of exploitation pole (concentration of quarries in a specific area) The quarry restoration becomes the starting point for the exploitation project Promotion of the environmental, social and public use of the quarry restoration
Over-hierarchical spatial plans Regional Spatial Plan PTR: among other aspects, identify rules and criteria for the mining sector Regional landscape spatial plan PTPR defines the regulation for the environmental and landscape analysis Province spatial plan - PTCP
Over-hierarchical spatial plan PTCP: Province spatial plan defines the regulation framework and establish the performance targets PIAE province mining plan identifies needs and exploitation poles on territory, verifying them through the study of environmental balance (SBA). Defines criteria and rules for the use and restoration of a quarry activity PAE: municipality mining plan transfers the exploitation poles at the municipality level and defines criteria, rules and concrete actions to reduce the activities impacts
PIAE: preliminary phase Availability of secondary aggregates
PIAE: sharing of information
PIAE: approval Expires after 10 year. Each 5 years it must be updated
PIAE: individuation of exploitation poles State of art of exploitation activities Overlay mapping Lithological maps of available resources Protection and binding rules coming from over-hierarchical spatial plans Individuation of exploitation poles after study for environmental balance Other relevant aspects on province territory Actually some PIAE (like Piacenza province one) foresees that the sleeping area (area not exploited during the last 5 years) comes back to the previous status
PIAE: Strategic Environmental Assestment SEA (2001/42/CE) gives: Justification of plan choices in relation to the possible alternatives Description of modification induced by choices and related mitigation actions Measure to adopt to monitor the plan
Secondary aggregates Transformation plants C&D waste By-products Recycled Secondary aggregates It s the reason why Province Mining plans (PIAE) estimate the quantity of secondary aggregates in the knowledge framework We know how many material goes to transformation plants but not how many reach the market as secondary aggregates this lack of information will end when the Waste Regional Plan will be approved
Secondary aggregates Secondary aggregates estimation in Province Mining Plans 8.000.000 7.000.000 6.000.000 5.000.000 4.000.000 3.000.000 2.000.000 Recycled R&S excavation By-products C&Dw 1.000.000 m 3 0
A quarry exploitation project Restoration project must be the starting point of the exploitation one Geomorphology Landscape Biological Socio-Economic Internal pressure External pressure Quarry owners Extractors People P.A s Restoration project Exploitation project
A quarry exploitation project To obtain the authorization is needed (by R.L. 17/91) Availability of the land Geologic and Hydrogeologic study Exploitation and restoration project Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Economic & financial plan
An ex. of a restoration of a quarry: Lanca dei Francesi PO river From quarry to a wetlands through a environmental, hydraulic security and landscape quality improvement
An ex. of a restoration of a quarry: Lanca dei Francesi Project of environmental restoration using local species propagated in regional greenhouse.
An ex. of a restoration of a quarry: Lanca dei Francesi Project of environmental recover aimed to re-built the complex wetland system previous existing in the PO river land (differential water level: low for birdlife and high to help the water oxygenation) previous quarry basin
An ex. of a restoration of a quarry: Lanca dei Francesi a multi-purpose restoration connected to other protected area to set-up a green network
The new Region Law on mining The new regional law aims to introduce A unique planning level and a less time-consuming procedure for the plan approval Longer life for exploitation project authorization (up to 10 years) Automatic update of royalty Regional vision based on a quarry/aggregate DB build to support Province during the planning process
The new Region Law on mining Main goals Reduction of soil consumption Sustainable use of non-renewable primary resources (primary aggregates) Re-use of materials coming from land transformation (secondary aggregates) Promotion of right use of quarry material (right material for right work!)
quarry/aggregates DB Relational DB on Plans (administrative acts, needs, etc) exploitation pole(dept, quantities, residue, etc.) Quarries (authorization, propriety, etc) Treatment Plants (source, destination, etc) Cartographic DB on exploitation poles quarries treatment plants
Paul Cézanne - Bibemus Quarry thank you for your attention cmarasmi@regione.emilia-romagna.it