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Return to DOE Reports Table of Contents - C Coal to Methanol Feasibility Study, Beluga Methanol Project Table of Contents Coal to Methanol Feasibility Study Beluga Methanol Project - Volume IV. Environmental, Final Report - September 1981.
Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
Table of Contents Purpose of Report 1-1 Project Location 1-2 Project Description 1-2 2.0 Summary of the Study 2-1 Methodology 2-1 General 2-1 Field Programs 2-2 Summary of Major Issues 2-7 Fisheries 2-7 Water Sources 2-8 Wetlands 2-8 Erosion and Sedimentation 2-9 Tyonek Village 2-9 Air Quality 2-9 Environmental Acceptability of the Project 2-10 Affected Environmental (Baseline Data) 3.0 Geotechnical 3-1 The Cook Inlet Region 3-1 Geologic History 3-1 Formation of Coal Bearing Units 3-4 Surficial Soils 3-7 The Beluga Area 3-8 Topography 3-8 Geology 3-10 Site Characterization 3-14 Methanol Plant Site 3-14 Town Site 3-26 Topography 3-26 Subsurface Conditions 2-26 Groundwater 3-28 Construction Feasibility 3-28 Dock Site 3-31 Topography 3-31 Subsurface Conditions 3-32 Dock Construction 3-32 Transportation Corridor and Mine Areas 3-36 Topography and Mine Areas Surficial Conditions at Mine Areas 3-36 Transportation Corridor 3-36 Traffic ability 3-38 Construction Materials 3-38 Surficial Geology 3-38 Concrete Aggregates 3-43 Asphalt Concrete Aggregates 3-48 Crushed Base Course 3-49 Railroad Ballast 3-50 Geologic Hazards 3-52 Seismicity 3-52 Aleutian Megathrust 3-52 Castle Mountain Fault 3-55 Bruin Bay Fault 3-55 Lake Clark-Lone Ridge Fault 3-56 Border Ranges Fault 3-56 Seismic Design Considerations 3-57 Ground Failure 3-60 Landslides 3-60 Volcanoes 3-61 Tsunamis 3-60 Permafrost 3-63 Additional Geologic Hazards 3-63 4.0 Hydrology 4-1 Groundwater 4-1 Introduction 4-1 Available Supply 4-3 Nikolai Creek Flats 4-3 Plant Site 4-5 Existing Uses 4-9 Lakes 4-9 Streams and Rivers 4-14 Possible use of Surface Waters 4-31 5.0 Ecosystems 5-1 Freshwater Aquatic Ecology 5-2 Existing Habitats (Populations) 5-2 Habitat Characterization 5-2 Beluga Drainage 5-2 Chuitna Drainage 5-9 Nikolai Drainage 5-21 Conga Buna Drainage 5-21 Fishes 5-22 Invertebrates 5-28 Terrestrial Ecology 5-28 Existing Vegetation 5-28 Wetlands 5-38 Existing Mammal Populations 5-40 Brown Bear Denning 5-43 Brown Bear Movement and Activity Patterns 5-46 Black Bears 5-47 Moose 5-48 Other Mammals 5-49 General Sensitivity to Changed Conditions 5-53 Existing Avian Populations 5-54 Amphibians 5-55 Marine Ecology 5-61 Inter-tidal and Shallow Subtidal Habitats 5-61 Mud Flats 5-61 Gravel and Cobble Substrate 5-63 Granite Point Intertidal and Shallow Subtidal 5-66 Marine Species 5-66 Fisheries 5-66 Commercial Fisheries 5-75 Sport Fishery 5-78 Subsistence Fisheries 5-79 Birds 5-80 Mammals 5-83 Trading Bay State Game Refuge 5-89 6.0 Climatology and Air Quality 6-1 Climatic Conditions 6-1 Existing Ambient Air Quality 6-6 Atmospheric Emission Sources 6-7 7.0 Oceanography 7-1 Physical Oceanography of Cook Inlet 7-1 Tides and Currents 7-3 Circulation 7-4 Upper Cook Inlet 7-4 Middle Cook Inlet 7-6 Lower Cook Inlet 7-6 Water Chemistry 7-6 Salinity 7-6 Temperature 7-7 Suspended Sediments 7-7 Nutrient 7-8 Sea Ice 7-11 Ports 7-13 8.0 Archaeological & Historic Sites 8-1 Ethanol history and Settlement Patterns 8-1 Settlement Patterns 8-1 Dwellings 8-2 Caches 8-3 Burial 8-4 Material Culture 8-4 European Contract and Trade 8-6 Historic and Prehistoric Sites 8-8 Archaeological Sites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||