The complaints about Cebeci̇ quarries that have been notified to İstanbul Metropoli̇tan Municipality

Abstract

In the district of Sultangazi Borough Cebeci Quarries, 16agregate quarries are in service. It has been detected that the areas, in which the quarries of Cebeci district are operating, are getting closer to each other in general, some of them are nested, production actions of the quarries are usually taking place in vertical axis, in the majority of the quarries stair,bench system's can not be formed, in terms of slope stability some kind of risks occured and because licensed areas are small, there are not enough or no quarry area, areas where excess earths and stones from excavations are dumped and storage for pruducts, and also with the rise of settlement in the area, quarries are placed in Cebeci village and Cebeci neighborhood and these causes local people to complain about noise because of the irregular blasting. All the complaints that have been notified to Istanbul Municipality since 2008 were compiled and the result of statistics revealed that nearly %50 of complainers have been negatively effected by quarries close to settlement areas, without neccesary permissions, illegal and not working suitable to mining ethics. That the noise and ground vibration complaints caused by blasting are increased in summer months (April-October) and that this was caused by dense operations of the sites in these months were also observed. Observations are conducted as on-field researches in Cebeci region.Negative effects on local people and damages to environment created by blasting operationsin quarries were examined through a survey research. With the changes in explosive material and blasting system and measuring the blastings with 2 ground vibration measuring device and reporting, noise and vibration complaints caused by blasting were overcome to a large extent. © SGEM2012 All Rights Reserved by the International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM Published by STEF92 Technology Ltd.