• As far as possible all internal roads shall be constructed as tar roads and regular water sprinkling shall be carried out on all the rough roads for preventing fugitive dust emissions.
• Carry out tree plantation to the extent of 30% of area for minimising environmental impacts of the proposed activities over a period of time. Plantation program shall be designed and a budget should be allocated for this purpose every year. Initially plantation shall be carried out along the boundary wall of the plant and within the colony. Plantation shall be carried out perpendicular to wind direction on the down wind side of (CA1L) to check the flow of dust along with wind. Subsequently plantation activities may be undertaken in remaining area.
• Construction of speed breakers on roads at regular intervals all over the plant area and / or attachment of speed locking system to the accelerators of all vehicles used for maintaining a speed limit of 20 km/h.
• Construction of vehicle parking area having at least brick on edge flooring.
• No overloading of trucks used in transporting sugar cane from the agriculture fields to the plant area.

6.2      NOISE AND VIBRATION CONTROL  

Relevant noise emitters at (CAIL) are noise-making equipments such as Cutters, Crushers, Mixers, Compressors, Pumps, Centrifuges, Heat exchangers, Vacuum Filters, Boilers, and Turbines, D.G. Sets etc. All the equipments produce  continuous noise. As deliberated in Chapter -IV, noise level impacts of (CAIL) operations are significant only on the operators of machinery and are negligible within buffer zone. This is because the noise produced by these machinery gets dissipated due to wave divergence, atmospheric absorption and absorption by noise barriers before being even felt in the buffer zone.

The continuous hammering of noise on the ears of the staff working in the factory premises may lead to some health problem, it can be circumvented by having small cabins with polycarbonate, sheet or glass partition where in officers can carry out day-to-day work peacefulfy.

Following measures are proposed for controlling noise level impacts on machinery operators and within core and buffer zone of (CAIL).

Proper lubrication and regular maintenance of all the machinery used.

• Development of greenery / barriers / landscaping of trees/ bushes and shrubs.
• Reduced noise exposure to. the operators of machinery by work scheduling and by providing ear protective equipment.
• Use  rubber  packing  in  the foundations  of machineries  to  prevent  noise transmission to the surrounding.