The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) is a government department in the portfolio of the Minister of the Environment. DEC has responsibilities under Part V of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (the Act) for the licensing of prescribed buildings. If your property has been assessed under Part IV of the Act, there may be conditions imposed by the Minister of the Environment.
The site is located approximately 4km north-east of the Bridgetown town site, on crown land vested in the Shire for the purpose of waste disposal. 34;ASINZS 5667" means the most recent version and relevant parts of the Australian and New Zealand series of guideline standards on water quality sampling. 34;ASINZS 4439" means the most recent version and relevant parts of the Australian and New Zealand series of guidance standards on sampling and analysis of waste water, soil and waste;.
Department of Environment and Conservation on 17 December 2009 under items 63, 64 65 and 66 of Schedule 1, Part 1 of the Environment Protection Regulations 1987;. 34;NATA accredited" means, in relation to the analysis of a sample, that the laboratory is NATA accredited for the specified analysis at the time of the analysis. 34;Local" means the area defined in the site map in Schedule 1 and listed as the address of the premises on page 1 of the licence;.
34; disposal area" means an active area of premises where waste is disposed of; and.
4 Improvements
Improvement programme
5 Information
- Records
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- Reporting & notification forms
Any changes to site boundaries, internal buffer zones, disposal area for clinical waste and asbestos-containing materials, location of groundwater monitoring pits, surface drainage channels, and on-site or off-site impacts or contamination. Summary of any failure or malfunction of any pollution No control equipment specified or any incident that occurred. If any fire is not extinguished within two hours of being notified of a fire in the premises.
These forms are made available to the proponent to report monitoring and other data required by the license.
Annual audit compliance report
This AACR may only be signed by a person(s) with legal authority to sign it as defined below. Check the box next to the category that describes how this AACR is signed. If you are not sure who has the right to sign or which category to check, please contact the licensing authority for your location.
0 by the individual license holder, or an individual. by a person approved in writing by the Chief Executive Officer. 0 affixing the common seal of the Licensee in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001; or. 0 of two directors of the Licensee; or. 0 by a director and a company secretary of the Licensee, or a corporation.
0 if the licensee is a proprietary company having a sole director who is also the sole company secretary, of that director, or. 0 of the licensee's managing director; or. 0 by a person authorized to sign on behalf of the licensee as approved in writing by the DEC Executive Director. A public authority 0 of the licensee's chief executive officer; or. other than a local 0 by a person authorized to sign on behalf of the licensee as approved in writing by the DEC Executive Director.
It IS an offense under section 112 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 for a person to give information on this form which to their knowledge is false or misleading in a material particular. 1/We declare that the information in this AACR is correct and not false or misleading in any material detail. Notification of detection of violation of a limit or any failure or malfunction of any pollution control equipment or any incident that causes, causes or may cause pollution.
The units of measurement used in the information provided under the requirements of Part A and Part B must be appropriate to the conditions of the emission.
Part A
Measures that have been or will be taken to rectify, limit or prevent any pollution of the environment that has been or may be caused by the emission.
PREMISES DETAILS
LICENSEE AND OCCUPIER
SHIRE OF BRIDGETOWN GREENBUSHES 1-3 Steere St
PREMISES
PRESCRIBED PREMISES CATEGORY
LICENCE NUMBER
LICENCE FILE NUMBER
LICENCE EXPIRY DATE
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
6818/1997/11 DEC10218
5 000 tonnes per
5 000 tonnes per
BACKGROUND
- General Company Description
- Location of Premises
- Background
- Process Description
- Waste Collection
- Recycling
- Landfill operations
- REGULATORY CONTEXT
- Part IV Environmental Protection Act 1986, Environmental Impact Assessment
- Part V Environmental Protection Act 1986, Environmental Management
- Rights in Water Irrigation Act 1914
- Guidelines I Codes of Practice
- Water Quality Protection Notes
- STAKEHOLDER AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
- EMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES RISK ASSESSMENT
It is situated on top of a ridge that divides the site into two catchments, west and east of the site. Landfill operations have predominantly taken place on the western side of the watershed in the center of the property, which is well buffered by jarrah forest; However, there is limited potential for the area's expansion in order to maintain adequate separation distances to residential areas. The site was conditionally approved as a landfill by the Department of Health (DoH) in 1988, as a trade-off for the closure and rehabilitation of the existing landfills at Bridgetown and Greenbushes.
The report acknowledged the limited life left in Bridgetown and that the community is likely to reject any expansion of the site. By 2002, the site had reached capacity underground and disposal operations above ground began. Significant site upgrades were also carried out to ensure compliance with the license conditions, including sealing traffic areas within the site, introducing a recycling area, refined waste disposal areas and installing two groundwater monitoring boreholes downslope of both catchments.
In 2004 the Shire began negotiations to extend the site to the east, taking into account the maintenance of buffer distances to residential areas to the west and north. The Shire estimates the site currently accepts approximately 2,600 tonnes of municipal waste per year; based on the assumption that the annual volume of waste generated in rural communities is 800 kg per person, without considering recycling. Collected curbside waste is transported to the site; Recyclable materials are transported to a material recycling facility in Manjimup.
The council is in the process of proposing a transfer station at the front of the landfill that would collect incoming waste for on-site transfer to the disposal area in the short to medium term and eventually transport the waste to another site. when the site reaches its long-term landfill capacity. The landfill is fully occupied during working hours, and users are charged according to the type and amount of waste. Disposal of municipal waste at the location takes place via an above-ground cell, which is approaching capacity.
The site also contains separate areas for the temporary storage of scrap metal, wood (eg wooden pallets), C&D and other inert waste. Operations on the site have been assessed as a "prescribed site", category number 64 (Class II or Ill perishable landfill), under Schedule 1 of the Environmental Protection Regulations 1987. In order to determine the site's applicable environmental regulation, an emissions and exhaust gas risk -assessment was carried out of the facility using the environmental risk matrix set out in Appendix A.
Government of Western Australia
The complaints received Shire required approval of work related to evacuation for the new area, prior to a 12 evacuation order issued in the past.
REPORT
GENERAL SUMMARY AND COMMENTS
OFFICER PREPARING REPORT
ENDORSEMENT
