NEMA approved the ESIA for the Orom-Cross Graphite project on 3rd March 2025 and issued CERT/1657/2025/3. Condition No. 3.0(iv) of the approval is to undertake the ESIA for waste management infrastructure.
Facilities
- Waste Management Facility/ Shed
- Class 2(ii) Landfill.
- Worm-based Sewage Treatment Units
- Incinerators (Medical + Turbo-burner high temperature incinerators)
- Phytoremediation system for oily waste.
ESIA Scope
- Scoping visit and submission of report + ESIA Terms of Reference to NEMA
- Environmental baseline surveys (building on/ updating what was done in 2023/24)
- Cultural heritage survey (cultural sites, etc.)
- Additional stakeholder engagements (villages, Sub County, District, MDAs in Kampala)
- Analysis of alternatives (sites, technologies, etc.)
- Compile ESIA report and submission to NEMA (could be multiple reports – to be confirmed after NEMA approval of Scoping Report)
Conceptual Design
At the conceptual level, the following will be the deliverables:
- Site masterplan (2D) showing all facilities within the 2-ha site
- 2D layouts and cross-sections of landfill cells, incinerator, shed, and outdoor facilities
- Conceptual process flow schematic for waste handling streams
- High-level cost estimate (ROM) for budgeting purposes
- Concise design report outlining assumptions, facility descriptions, compliance with
- NEMA, and conceptual costing
- 3D conceptual renderings of the site and key facilities, for client and stakeholder presentations.
Outputs
The outputs will be a conceptual design package comprising:
- 2D CAD drawings (layouts + sections)
- Conceptual report (Word/PDF)
- Rough order of magnitude cost estimate (Excel)
- 3D renders (images)
