Lighting Assessment WAI-985-000-REPLC-0019_Rev 0.Docx Waihi North Project Page 6 of 35 21/06/2022 Assessment of Environmental Effects: Lighting REVISION: 0 - Final 2.2 EXISTING LIGHTING ENVIRONMENT The Willows Road Surface Facilities Area (SFA) is set in the context of open farmland against the backdrop of the unilluminated Coromandel Forest Park. Existing lighting in the area is limited to that directly associated with the few farm buildings at the northern end of Willows Road. The existing mine site is bounded on the north/northwest by Waihi township and by farmland throughout the balance of its perimeter. Outside of the township, the site is circumnavigated by a series of rural roads at distances varying from a few hundred metres to a couple of kilometres from the mine perimeter. State Highway No. 2 passes north west /south east on the western side of the mine. On the rural roads, houses and farm buildings are generally located nearer to the roads. Lighting in the township of Waihi is characteristic of a small township in rural New Zealand. Lighting throughout the town includes traditional streetlighting luminaries providing higher illumination levels nearer the town centre and lower levels in the surrounding suburbs. Lighting associated with supermarket parking, service station forecourts, restaurants, and domestic housing is also typical. Tower mounted floodlighting is also provided to the tennis courts in Morgan Park, Clarke Street. Street lighting stops at the township boundary. The historical Cornish Pumphouse and headframe are illuminated at night using coloured lighting and upward directed floodlights. Whilst pole mounted street lighting is provided to some of the rural road intersections, predominantly those on State Highway No.2 and the Waihi Beach Road/Trig Road (North/South) intersection, most of the rural roads are not artificially illuminated. Artificial lighting away from Waihi township is predominantly associated with rural houses and farm buildings. Sections of the existing mine are illuminated at night for operational and/or safety reasons. Fixed artificial lighting is provided to the following main areas of the existing mine: • Kenny Street and Baxter Road entry gates • Processing Plant and central parking area, • Main conveyor structure Exterior lighting in these areas consists of a mixture of general street lighting luminaires, area floodlights, bulkhead luminaires, and task lights. Interior lighting spills outside through windows and open doorways.
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