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Mine Development Water Management Guide

This document discusses the engineering and environmental considerations for surface water management at a mine site. It addresses components like site drainage, dewatering, diversion channels, tailings and waste rock piles, ore piles, road infrastructure, haul roads, water supply, and monitoring. The key priorities are controlling and treating surface water runoff to minimize impacts on water quality and flows, ensuring long-term water coverage of tailings after mining, and monitoring performance to confirm hydraulic structures and covers function as designed over time.

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Mine Development Water Management Guide

This document discusses the engineering and environmental considerations for surface water management at a mine site. It addresses components like site drainage, dewatering, diversion channels, tailings and waste rock piles, ore piles, road infrastructure, haul roads, water supply, and monitoring. The key priorities are controlling and treating surface water runoff to minimize impacts on water quality and flows, ensuring long-term water coverage of tailings after mining, and monitoring performance to confirm hydraulic structures and covers function as designed over time.

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MINEDEVELOPMENT
SURFACEWATER
ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTALIMPACTS
Design/Construction
MineEngineeringPlan
SurfaceWaterComponents
Site Drainage
Mine Site
Dewatering
(If covered by
water body /lake
or river)
Diversion
Channel
Tailings
Waste Rocks
Piles
Ore Piles
Road
Infrastructure
HaulRoad WaterSupply
WaterCovered DryStack
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Design/Construction
MineSiteDewatering
Open Pit
Lake
Drainsite/Water
Disposal
MineSiteRunoff
Dikes
Seepage
Underground
Mine
Rivers/Lakes
UnderWaterBody
PitDrainage
OpenPit
Seepage
Design/Construction
Diversionchannel
Designcapacity
Temporary
Risk
Fishpassage
Designcapacity
Permanent
Climatechange
Risk
Fishpassage
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Tailings
Submerged
Lake Diked
WaterCover
(1.5m)
EnsureLongTerm
WaterCover
Dam/Hydraulic
Structure
ClimateChange
DrySack
SurfaceDrainage
ImpermeableCover
Pond/Treatment
Design/Construction
WasteRockPiles
Runoffcontrol
NAG
Pond
Treatment
Release
Runoffcontrol
PAG
Pond
Treatment
Release
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Design/Construction
OrePiles
ContainSurfaceRunoff
EstimateRunoff
Pond
Treatment
Release
Design/Construction
RoadInfrastructure
SiteDrainage
WaterCrossingDesigns
Control
Treatment
Release
DustControl(watersource)
SnowControl
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Design/Construction
HaulRoad
WinterIceRoad
WaterSource
IceMaking
(lakesandground)
SnowControl
IceStrength
AllSeasonRoad
WaterCrossing
Design
DustControl
FishPassage
Design/Construction
WaterSupply
OreProcessing DustControl Potable
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MineOperation
MonitoringPerformance
WaterQuality WaterQuantity
EndofMinePlan
1. Longtermconfidencethattailingswillremaincoveredwithwater(climate
change)
2. Abilityofremaininghydraulicstructurestoperformwithoutmaintenance
3. Abilityofimpermeablecoversonwastepilesandstackedtailingstoperformin
thelongterm
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EnvironmentalImpacts
ValuedComponent(VC)SurfaceWater;quantityandquality
Identifyprojectimpacts
Identifyimpacts
Mitigateimpacts
Residualimpacts
Monitor
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Table31IdentificationofProject EnvironmentInteractions
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