Environmental impact assessment of Kasteli new airport
Environmental impact assessment of Kasteli new airport
Country: Greece
Region: Crete Island – Prefecture of Heraklion
Duration: January - February 2009
Client: HELLENIC REPUBLIC, Ministry of Infrastructures, Transportations and Networks, Special Service of Public Works, Construction Designs, Concession Projects of Peloponnese, Wide Patras Bypass
Main characteristics:
- Servicing of the domestic and international traffic that is currently serviced by the existing Heraklion airport as well as of the one developed in the future
- Securing comfort servicing for more than 5.5 million passengers per year
- Use by the aircraft types currently used in Heraklion airport as well as by bigger aircrafts either already used or to be used, such as Boeing 747 – 400, 747 – 8 and Airbus 380
- Contribution to the reduction of pressures by the anthropogenic environment currently affecting the city of Heraklion by the operation of N. Kazantzakis operation
- Contribution to the further development of all activities in Crete and the upgrading of its geopolitical position
Important environmental issues:
- Assessment of noise propagation from the aircrafts
- Assessment of the air pollutant dispersion from the aircrafts
- Assessment of changes of the land uses
- Solid and liquid waste management
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