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Ballinclare Quarry / Kilsaran Concrete: quarry landfill site in Wicklow

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Intake capacity of approximately 6,165,000 tonnes

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https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/309991

Documents

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Environmental Impact Assessment Report
Inert Landfill and Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Recovery Facility
Ballinclare Quarry, Kilbride, Co. Wicklow
Prepared for : Kilsaran Concrete Unlimited Company

Click to access Ballinclare_InertWasteFacility_EIAR_NON_TECHNICAL_SUMMARY.pdf

Trade effluent discharge licence recently issued by Wicklow
County Council (Ref. WPL116)

Flooded pit will first need to be emptied of water and discharged via the Ballinclare Stream to the Potters River during the initial site establishment / construction phase

The existing approved water treatment system to be installed at Ballinclare Quarry prior to quarry dewatering comprises a bespoke Siltbuster treatment system and is necessary to treat naturally elevated levels of arsenic in the groundwater collecting in the quarry void prior to discharging it off-site to the Potters River via the Ballinclare Stream. As well as reducing arsenic concentrations, the unit will also remove suspended solids from the water. This treatment system will remain in service for the duration of the dewatering activities and for the subsequent landfilling operations

Leachate treatment would be an on-site (passive) wetland treatment system

Kilsaran Concrete : Ballinclare Quarry, Kilbride, Co. Wicklow
Inert Landfill and C&D Waste Recovery Facility
EIAR Non-Technical Summary SLR Ref No: 501.00036.00080
April 2021

Based on the initial assessment and design, the proposed wetland treatment system at Ballinclare Quarry will comprise
(i) Leachate reception tank : up to 50m3, self-bunded storage tank with level controls.
(ii) Pump house : housed is a standard shipping container (6.0m x 2.4m x 2.6m) containing feed, discharge and chemical dosing pumps;
(iii) Wetland treatment system: comprising the following elements in series
(a) Anaerobic (biochemical reactor) wetland;
(b) Iron Sequestering Unit (ISU);
(c) Aerobic wetland.
(iv) Off-site discharge via existing ditch / drainage channel to Potters River.

Based on the assumption that the leachate flow rate is generated from a progressively capped inert landfill, the area of on-site wetland required at Ballinclare is assessed to be of the order of 3.8 hectares

The annual volume of waste envisaged is among the highest ever put forward for a landfill in the State and exceeds the 600,000 tonnes of municipal waste handled each year by the incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin.

The volumes envisaged work out at 28 to 30 individual HGV/truck movements in or out of the site every operating hour. They said the projected life of the facility would be between 8.2 years and 17.6 years.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/wicklow-locals-concerned-at-plan-for-six-million-tonne-landfill-1.4645690

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklow/wicklow-district/concerns-raised-about-plans-to-backfill-quarry/40568742.html

https://www.ballinclarequarryrestoration.ie/

Application Documents

ABP Application Form

Drawings / Plans and Particulars

Application Site

Local Road Improvements

Environmental Impact Assessment Report

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 3 ALTERNATIVES

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 4 POPULATION HUMAN HEALTH

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 5 BIODIVERSITY

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 6 LAND SOIL GEOLOGY

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 7 WATER

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 8 AIR QUALITY

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 9 CLIMATE

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 10 NOISE

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 11 MATERIAL ASSETS

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 12 CULTURAL HERITAGE

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 13 LANDSCAPE

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 14 TRAFFIC

Ballinclare Inert Waste Facility EIAR Chapter 15 INTERACTIONS

Natura Impact Assessment Report

Planning Statement

Consultation Report

List of Notified Bodies and Dates of Notification

Public Notice (Newspaper)

Site Notice

Notification to EIA Portal

EPA Licence

https://epawebapp.epa.ie/terminalfour/waste/waste-view.jsp?regno=W0311-01

Notification to Applicant Accepted Application – LACT00012993
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Circulation of Register of Licence to Wicklow County Council
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Notification to Wicklow County Council Register of Licence – LACT00012994
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Register of Licence
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Specified Bodies Notifications – LA009988
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Enter Consultations with Wicklow County Council Re Observations on EIAR
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Notification to Wicklow County Council – Request for Information/Observations
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Application Form – Application Form – LA009988
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Application Form – Fit and Proper Declaration – Attach-2-5-1-BallinclareWMF-FinancialDeclaration
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Application Form – Technical Knowledge – Attach-2-5-2-BallinclareWMF-TechKnowledge
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Application Form – Additional Townlands – Attach-3-2-Townlands
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Application Form – Site Plan – Attach-3-2-SiteMaps
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Application Form – Site Map – Attach-3-2-SiteLocationMap
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Application Form – Merchant Waste Operator – Attach-4-8-1-BallinclareWMF-OperationalReportALL
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Application Form – R and D Activity Capacity – Attach-4-3-3-BallinclareWMF-ActivityCapacityCalcs
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Application Form – Waste Acceptance Procedure – Attach-4-3-4-BallinclareWMF-WasteIntakeProcess
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Application Form – Waste Activity Calculations – Attach-4-3-5-BallinclareWMF-MaxWasteAccepted
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Application Form – Max Waste Storage – Attach-4-3-2-BallinclareWMF-StorageWasteNon-Waste
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Application Form – Waste Capacity Calculations – Attach-4-3-6-BallinclareWMF-WasteCapacityCalcs
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Application Form – Waste Conversion Calculations – Attach-4-3-8-BallinclareWMF-LandfillCapacityCalc
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Application Form – Landfill Controls – Attach-4-3-1-BallinclareWMF-Landfill-Emissions
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Application Form – Water and Energy Usage – Attach-4-6-1-BallinclareWMF-Water-Energy-Use
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Application Form – Materials Used or Generated – Attach-4-6-2-BallinclareWMF-RawMaterial-Products
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Application Form – BAT Assessment – Attach-4-7-3-BallinclareWMF-BATCompliance
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Application Form – Operational Report – Attach-4-8-1-BallinclareWMF-OperationalReportALL 1
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Application Form – Signature and Company Stamp – Attach-10-BallinclareWMF-SignCompanyStamp
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Application Form – Financial Application Section – Attach-5-1-Financial
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Application Form – Fee Payment Evidence – Attach-5-1-LicenceApplicationCheque Redacted
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Application Form – Stakeholder Engagement Section – Attach-6-1-BallinclareWMF-Stakeholder-Engagement
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Application Form – AA Screening – Attach-6-2-1-BallinclareWMF-NIS
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Application Form – Planning Decision – Attach-6-3-1-BallinclareQuarry-WCCGrantPermission
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Application Form – Planning Decision – Attach-6-3-2-WCCPlannersReport
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Application Form – Planning Decision – Attach-6-3-3-BallinclareQuarry-AAScreeningReport
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Application Form – NIS – Planning – Attach-6-2-2-BallinclareWMF-NIS
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Application Form – Planning under Consideration – Attach-6-3-4-BallinclareWMF-ABPAcknowledgement
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Application Form – Planning under Consideration – Attach-6-3-5-BallinclareWMF-ABPPlanningNIS
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-1-2-BallinclareWMF NonTechSummary
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIAR-C3-Alternatives
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC1-Introduction
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC10-Noise
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC11-MaterialAssets
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC12-CultHeritage
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC13-Landscape
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC14-Traffic
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC15 Interactions
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC2-PriojectDesc
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC4-PopulationHealth
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC5 Biodiversity
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC6-LandSoilGeology
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC7 Water
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC8 AirQuality
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Application Form – EIS – Planning – Attach-6-3-6-BallinclareWMF-EIARC9-Climate
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Application Form – Project and Threshold – Planning – Attach-6-3-7-BallinclareWMF-EIARScreenThreshold
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Application Form – Evidence of Notices – Attach-6-7-1-BallinclareWMF-SiteNotice
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Application Form – Evidence of Notices – Attach-6-7-2-BallinclareWMF-NewspaperNotice130223 Redacted
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Application Form – Evidence of Notices – Attach-6-7-3-BallinclareWMF-NoticeLocationMap
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Application Form – Evidence of Notices – Attach-6-7-4-BallinclareWMF-PANotification
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Application Form – Emissions Overview Section – Attach-7-1-2-BallinclareWMF-Emissions-Overview
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Application Form – Receiving Environment Report – Attach-7-1-3-2-RecievingEnvironmentReport
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Application Form – Emissions Impact Assessment – Attach-7-1-3-3-EmissionsImpactAssessment
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Application Form – Emissions – Surface Water Section – Attach-7-2-Emissions-to-Surface-Water
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Application Form – Emissions – Air Section – Attach-7-4-1-Emissions-to-Air-Main
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Application Form – Emissions – Noise Section – Attach-7-5-Noise-Emissions
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Application Form – Emissions – Ground Section – Attach-7-6-1-EmissionsGroundLandspreading
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Application Form – Sanitary Effluent Compliance – Attach-7-6-2-SanitaryEflluentCompliance
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Application Form – Emissions to Ground Controls – Attach-7-6-1-EmissionstoGroundControls
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Application Form – Strorm Water Section – Attach-7-7-Storm-Water-Discharges
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Application Form – Waste Generated Section – Attach-8-1-Waste-Generated
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Application Form – Waste Hierarchy – Attach-8-2-1-BallinclareWMF-WasteHierarchyAspects
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Application Form – EMT Section – Attach-9-1-BallinclareWMF-Env-Mgmt-Techniques
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Application Form – ELRA – Attach-9-2-1-BallinclareWMF-ELRA
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Application Form – Site Closure – Attach-9-2-2-BallinclareWMF-CRAMP
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Application Form – Certificate of Incorporation – Attach-2-1-BallinclareWMF-CertIncorporation
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Application Form – Waste Hierarchy Consideration – Attach-4-3-7-BallinclareWMF-WasteHierarchyAspects
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Application Form – 0388 – Attach-1-2-BallinclareWMF NonTechSummary 1
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Letter to Third Party – EIS EIAR – Enter Consultations with PA A
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Notification to Planning Bodies Request for Observations
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Letter from An Bord Pleanála – EIAR observations
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Submission No S011065 – Joanna Troughton
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S011065 Submission Notice
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Notification to Applicant Refund Request – LACT00015181
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AA Screening – Public Notice – LACT00013416
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AA Screening Determination – LACT00013304
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AA Screening – Notification – Submitters
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EIA Screening Determination – LACT00013839
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Submission No S011331 – Michael Dwyer
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S011331 Submission Notice
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Submission No S011341 – Amanda O Sullivan
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S011341 Submission Notice
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Submission No S011346 – Mary Kavanagh
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S011346 Submission Notice
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Submission No S011349 – Christian Osthoff
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S011349 Submission Notice
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Submission No S011366 – Terry Hughes
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S011366 Submission Notice
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S011372 Submission Notice
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Submission No S011391 – Chris Mitchell
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S011391 Submission Notice
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Submission No S011393 – Keith Hutchinson
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S011393 Submission Notice
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AIE Request to Wicklow CoCo, 9/1/23

Under the AIE Regs to request any monitoring data / inspection reports / site visit reports by or on behalf of Wicklow CoCo related to Ballinclare Quarry

In particular any records in relation to dewatering, water treatment, water pumping and/or discharges to ground water and/or surface water

For the purposes of this AIE please consider date from site closure (believed to be 2016) to current date

similar to request to EPA, on 9/1/23 for similar data

EPA: Various records provided under AIE, including EPA Advisory Committee meeting minutes, Committee End of Term Report, Fingal CoCo waste derogations, and EPA request to Dept for additional drinking water enforcement powers

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OCCS AIE 2023 02

AIE Grant Letter

Decision-Letter-OCCS-AIE-2023-02 Download

7th meeting of the 8th EPA Advisory Committee was held on Friday 28th October 2022

Record-1-28th-October-2022-Adv-Comm-Minutes Download

8th meeting of the 8th EPA Advisory Committee was held on Wednesday 11th January 2023

Record-2-11th-January-2023-Adv-Comm-Minutes Download

Report of the 7th Advisory Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Record-3-Advisory_Committee_Report_October2019-End-of-Term Download

Licence Register No.: W0183-01
Licensee: Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd
Facility: Millennium Business Park, Grange, Ballycoolin, Dublin 11

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Licence Register No.: W0261-02
Licensee: Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd
Facility: Cappagh Road, Finglas, Dublin 11

Record-5-Section-56-Notice-Starrus-Eco-Holdings-W0261-02 Download

Letter from EPA CEO to Graham Doyle, Secretary General, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Subject: Enforcement Powers under the Drinking Water Regulations (S.I. 122 of 2014, as amended)

Record-6-Letter-to-Sec-Gen-DHLGH-15th-March-2022-re-Enforcement-powers Download

Audit Report for: EPA Headquarters
Surveillance Audit – Management System Certification

Record-7-EPA-EMS-Audit-Report Download

Spending Review 2022: Landfill Remediation Grant Scheme

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Feb 2023

Available Data and Data Limitations

All of the available performance and financial data of this scheme, was provided for the completion of this report.
This is managed through the national steering group for the programme which was established in 2019. The steering group, which is chaired by DECC, meets quarterly and allows for both the allocation and re-allocation of funding in response to project progress and allows for standardised data collection on project progress for every site in receipt of funding, annually.

Site data includes the following variables

Site ID, remediation status, risk rating (if available), site type, region, local authority/payee, project name, amount in euro (nominal terms), purpose of payment, source of funds (Vote or EF), year incurred, invoice date, subhead, and additional notes

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Note submitted from DECC to PAC on Landfill Remediation Programme

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Further details of the 494 sites in the landfill remediation programme to include their location, what are the outstanding issues, and what actions are being taken to minimise costs being borne by the State

The Regional Waste Management Plans are being updated and consolidated with a view to publishing a single National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy in Q1 2023. This will set out the renewed roadmap for delivery of the national policy for the landfill remediation grant programme for the next 7 years.

Attached at Appendix I is a spreadsheet which provides the current position on the status of all 494 sites.

The term ‘commenced’, as referenced in Appendix I, has been used to broadly include sites where local authorities have sought funding under the grant programme e.g., some level of works has commenced; ‘authorised’ means sites now regulated under the Waste Management Act (as amended), 1996; and ‘resolved’ means sites addressed by local authorities without drawdown of grant funding and no further works are envisioned.

Details of the landfill remediation programme in Coolock/Darndale

See Appendix for lists of sites

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Notes

“Closed landfill register (formerly Section 22 register) now revised with ICT support in place to utilise the database to track progress” – what does this mean exactly and where is the data published ?

“Sites of Concern Programme” DECC anti dumping project ? no details online aside from this report to PAC

2019 Anti-Dumping Initiative: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/e27ac-anti-dumping-initiative/

Kildare County Council Silliot Hill, Private/illegal dump (remediated historic landfill, Euro 6.42m costs)

Kildare Kerdiffstown, Illegal dump (not on closed landfill register, €14m costs – Kerdiffstown was a licensed site which invoked waste enforcement intervention due to operating outside of its licensing conditions)

Coolock/Darndale landfill remediation programme. Large scale illegal dumping site on a green space between the R139 road and a
residential area in Moatview, Darndale. Managed via National Waste Enforcement Steering Committee (NWESC). Enforcement actions at the site have included the prosecution of individuals under the Waste Management Act and the revocation of the waste collection permit of a local resident. Specialist Environmental Consultants have been engaged by DCC to undertake Environmental Assessments to gauge both the scale and type of waste involved and to advise on the subsequent means and level of clean up required.

High Risk Sites

S22-02664 SR Kerry County Council, Ahascra (High, Commenced)

S22-02170 SR Cork County Council Ballymagooley (High)

S22-02487 EMR Longford County Council Ballymaurice (High, Commenced)

S22-02324 SR Cork County Council Blacksticks (High, Commenced)

S22-02512 SR Tipperary County Council Brittas road (High, Commenced)

S22-02489 EMR Longford County Council Cartron big (High, Commenced

S22-02423 CUR Roscommon County Council Castlerea (High, Commenced)

S22-02465 SR Limerick City and County Council Churchtown (High, Commenced)

S22-02237 CUR Galway County Council Clifden – Tullyvoheen (High, Commenced)

S22-02305 SR Cork County Council Clonakilty (High, Commenced)

S22-02310 SR Cork County Council Clountreem (High, Commenced)

S22-02564 SR Tipperary County Council Connawarries (High, Commenced)

S22-02634 SR Tipperary County Council Coole, Knocklofty (High, Commenced)

S22-02432 EMR Kildare County Council Digby Bridge, Barrettstown, Sallins (High, Commenced)

S22-02662 SR Kerry County Council Dingle (High, Commenced)

S22-02639 EMR Wicklow County Council Fassaroe 2 and 1 (High, Commenced)

S22-02633 EMR Wicklow County Council Fassaroe 3A (High, Commenced)

S22-02623 CUR Sligo County Council Finisklin (High, Commenced)

S22-02198 EMR Meath County Council Fletcherstown Bog (High)

S22-02166 EMR South Dublin County Council Friarstown (High Commenced)

S22-02244 CUR Galway County Council Glenamaddy (High Commenced)

S22-02236 CUR Galway County Council Gort (High Commenced)

S22-02444 SR Waterford City and County Council Kilbarry municipal landfill (High)

S22-02528 CUR Monaghan County Council Killycard – Castleblayney (High Commenced)

S22-02296 CUR Monaghan County Council Killycronaghan (High Commenced)

S22-02443 EMR Kildare County Council Knocknagarm Refuse Depot, The Curragh (High Commenced)

S22-02321 SR Cork County Council Little island (High Commenced)

S22-02479 SR Limerick City and County Council Rathbane south (High Commenced)

S22-02656 SR Kerry County Council Rockfield (Killarney) (High, Commenced)

S22-02172 SR Cork County Council Sallys cross (High)

S22-02303 SR Cork County Council Skibbereen (High)

S22-02565 SR Tipperary County Council Tipperary Town (High Commenced)

S22-02663 SR Kerry County Council Tralee (High Commenced)

S22-02246 CUR Galway County Council Tuam (High Commenced)

S22-02167 EMR South Dublin County Council Waterstown (High Commenced)

S22-02502 SR Clare County Council Whitegate (High Commenced)

2374 CUR Donegal County Council Rossbracken (Commenced High)

2758 EMR South Dublin County Council Woodtown Map Ref A 205 Commenced High

2834 EMR Kildare County Council Wolfestown, Eadestown, Naas Commenced High

2838 EMR Kildare County Council Pollardstown (Thomas & Patrick Munnelly) Commenced High

2164 SR Waterford City and County Council Mulrooneys site along tramore rd st johns river Commenced High

2775 EMR Wicklow County Council Brownfield Restoration Irl Ltd Under Remediation High

S22-02593 CUR Galway City Council Southpark Resolved High

S22-02399 EMR South Dublin County Council Cruagh, rockbrook Resolved High

S22-02247 SR Cork City Council Carrigrohane Road Commenced High

S22-02490 EMR Longford County Council Longford town no. 1 Commenced High

Inagh Landfill

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W0109-02 Clare

Ballyduff Beg, Inagh, Clare

The site is a closed landfill site with an operational bring centre

Tank 1 is a covered lagoon area that stores collected surface water runoff from the main site yard and green waste processing area. Tank 2 is an above ground storage tank containing a combination of leachate collected from the main landfill body via the leachate collection and pumping system and overflow water from Tank 1.

All water within Tank 1 is transferred to Tank 2 before being transported off site for treatment at the Clare Co. Co. Wastewater Treatment Plant

Ray Whelan Ltd

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W0158-01 Laois

https://epawebapp.epa.ie/licences/lic_eDMS/rss/W0158-01.xml

Ray Whelan Ltd operates a waste transfer station handling domestic and commercial waste prior to segregation and bulking for off-site disposal and recycling.

Ray Whelan Ltd intends to apply to the EPA for a review of the existing licence to allow for an increase in the amount of waste that is accepted at the facility to 70,000 tonnes per year.

Vehicle and bin wash water is diverted to a blind sump prior to tankering off site for disposal at Athy Waste Water Treatment Plant. In 2021, 295,000 gallons of waste water were tankered from the site for disposal at Athy Waste Water Treatment Works

Original CRAMP was submitted to the EPA on 24th August 2005

ELRA submitted to EPA on 5th Nov 2018

Arthurstown Historic Landfill, Co. Kildare

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2021 Annual Environmental Report (AER) https://epawebapp.epa.ie/licences/lic_eDMS/090151b280828d7c.pdf

Ballymurtagh Historic Landfill, Wicklow

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Waste Licence: W0011-02

Ballymurtagh Landfill closed for waste acceptance in 2002. The capping of the landfill was complete in 2006. It is located on a previously used open cast copper mines. Today, the landfill is on aftercare and a small recycling centre operates adjacent to the landfill

There have been no complaints arising from the activities at Ballymurtagh for over 20 years.

Groundwater Pollutants Identified:
Copper, Lead, Nickel, Sulphate & Ammonia.

The landfill is located in the area of the old Avoca Mines. Groundwater in the entire area shows excessively high levels of metals, which are detected in the quarterly analysis. At one location, Ammonia from the landfill leachate discharge is also detected. This level has been demonstrated to be decreasing over time.

EPA agreed financial provision is in place. CRAMP & ELRA last agreed by the Agency in 2017

Click to access 090151b280820b6e.pdf

The annual slope stability assessment was last undertaken in 2016. The most recent slope stability assessment report submitted to the Agency was on 03/12/2013 (ref. LR006371). This is a Non- Compliance with Condition 6.17.

The topographical survey for 2021 was not undertaken at the site. This is a Non-Compliance with Condition 6.18. It is noted that a topographical survey for 2022 has been partially undertaken at the site in 2022 in response to the landfill cap breach (ref. INCI022640).

Actions Required:

Comply with Conditions 6.17 & 6.18. With regard to the 2016 slope stability assessment, the Licensee shalloutline how and when the recommendations outlined in the report were implemented.

The Licensee shall ensure all future slope stability assessments shall investigate the slope integrity at bothsurface and subsurface levels.

The landfill gas collection infrastructure has not been maintained and is not fit for purpose – pipelines have sagged and become blocked with condensate and/or disconnected from the flare. This has resulted in a 50% loss of the landfill gas collection network, low volumes of landfill gas reaching the flare, higher volumes of oxygen being drawn into the gas field and difficulties in balancing the gas field and maintaining the run- time of the flare.

This is a Non-Compliance with Condition 3.6

On occasion the flare has been used to drain the pipework of leachate, which poses a risk of over-drawing the gas field and pulling oxygen into the gas collection network.

There are two functioning leachate wells at the site – Condition 6.15.2 requires five wells to be maintained at the site.

This is a Non-Compliance with Conditions 6.15.1 & 6.15.2.

The landfill gas collection system was disconnected from the enclosed landfill gas flare and connected to a low calorific high temperature open flare in 2020.

This was done in the absence of assessing the performance of the landfill gas collection network, and despite the Licensee being aware of issues in the network.

The Licensee failed to submit a Specified Engineering Works (SEW) proposal and obtain the written approval of the Agency prior to undertaking these works. This is a Non-Compliance with Conditions 1.4 and 3.3.1.

While the low calorific high temperature flare is being operated at temperatures around 1,020oC, the Licensee could not confirm the burn chamber residence time during the site visit, to demonstrate compliance with Condition 6.16.3.

The Licensee has undertaken one landfill cap performance assessment report since the licence was granted. The Licensee is required to undertake a landfill cap performance assessment once every three years and report to the Agency on each occasion. The Licensee has not submitted this report to the Agency in three years prior to 31/12/2021.

This is a Non-Compliance with Condition 6.20.

Monitoring of leachate levels is required to be undertaken monthly. Licensee return LR065199 shows the Licensee is undertaking this monitoring on a quarterly basis.

This is a Non-Compliance with Condition 6.1 & Schedule C.3.

Landfill gas balancing records are maintained on a monthly basis. However additional balancing undertaken more frequently at a smaller number of wells is not recorded.

The quality of balancing records does not allow for the interrogation of actions taken during the balancing exercise i.e. the balancing sheets do not record the:

• Existing state of the valve at the wellhead (for example, closed, 10% open, 100% open);
• Changes made to the valve during the balancing event;
• Gas concentrations prior to making changes and after making changes (if applicable);
• Any observations made during the balancing exercise, such as infrastructure repairs needed, condensate draining needed/undertaken, issues/odours noted/addressed

While it is noted the site is visited daily by Council staff, the flare is not connected to an out of hours call out/alarm system.

This is a Non-Compliance with Condition 6.1 & Schedule C.1.1.

The annual VOC monitoring was not undertaken at the landfill in 2021.

Surface water drainage and infrastructure used to divert surface water away from the landfill waste body has not been maintained – these include the:

• Surface water drains and swales (which were not sufficient to divert surface water away from the cap, evident by the cap being wet underfoot, rushes growing and swales had long grass growing in them);
• Landfill cap depressions (allowing ponding of water on the cap); and
• Surface water retention pond (which was overgrown and inaccessible, and fencing around the pond was damaged).

The failure to maintain surface profiles, water collection drainage infrastructure and the storm water retention pond at the site is a Non-Compliance with Conditions 3.17 & 10.4.1.

The failure to demonstrate the integrity of the surface water retention pond is in Non-Compliance with Condition 6.9.

T.E. Labs monitor surface water, groundwater and leachate.

In compliance with Condition 6 of Waste Licence W0011-02, Wicklow County Council is required to carry out environmental monitoring at Ballymurtagh Landfill at such locations and frequencies as set out in Schedule C: Control & Monitoring of the licence.

Schedule C.5 details the requirements for the monitoring of receiving water, Schedule C.4 details the requirements of groundwater monitoring and C.3 the leachate monitoring.

Quarterly reports are submitted in line with the requirements set out in the licence.

Groundwater in the immediate area of the landfill and beyond is heavily polluted from the workings associated with Avoca mines. Specifically, extremely high levels of metals and resulting conductivity are observed along with low pH.

The groundwater-monitoring programme includes monitoring wells:
 Twin Shafts
 G1/04
 G1/05
 G2/05
 RC6
 SW3 (Ballymurtagh Road Adit)
and at five private wells.

Click to access 090151b280830151.pdf

Current landfill gas collection infrastructure on the facility

There is a total of 42 vertical wells and 2 pumped condensate knock out pots on the facility. Horizontal and Vertical landfill gas abstraction is employed in the facility. There is one operational installed landfill gas enclosed flare (500 m3/hr).

Click to access 090151b28083a74b.pdf

Leachate Monitoring:

TelLab undertake leachate monitoring on a quarterly basis. Leachate analysis is undertaken at all wells that are not dry.

Click to access 090151b280830153.pdf

Click to access 090151b28081c85f.pdf

AIE Request: GIS data for historic landfill boundaries (otherwise known as the Unregulated Waste Disposal Sites Register)

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AIE 04/22

Mapping data was not transferred from EPA to NWCPO

NWCPO are now the competent authority for register of historic landfills / unregulated waste disposal sites in Ireland

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Number of records does not match number of records forwarded via EPA (272 records, vs 494 on EPA Register)

Sample data

Identification and assessment of landfill sites

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The 1996 Waste Management Act provided for local authorities to identify sites within their jurisdictions at which waste disposal or recovery activities had been carried on, to assess any risk of environmental pollution and to identify remedial measures.

As well as municipal landfills, this included unregulated waste disposal sites. However, this requirement was generally not actioned as there was no national standard for the local authorities to follow in assessing risk and in identifying the necessary remediation works. That deficit was addressed in 2007 with the publication by the EPA of a code of practice for environmental risk assessment of unregulated waste disposal sites.

The legal obligations on local authorities for landfills were expanded in 2008.1 In addition to having to register sites they themselves had operated in the period between July 1977 and March 1997 (at which time the EPA became responsible for licensing and regulating landfill operations) and to carry out an environmental risk assessment, local authorities now had to make applications to the EPA for approval and authorisation of any proposed remediation works.

At July 2020, the total number of identified landfill sites was 611.

This included 117 sites licensed and regulated by the EPA since March 1997, and which it continues to monitor — consisting of 64 sites operated by local authorities and 53 operated privately.

494 unregulated sites registered by local authorities on a web-based register established by the EPA.

Over 70% of the sites are former local authority-operated landfills.

Around 21% were privately operated sites, while just over 8% were illegal dump sites.

Landfill sites on the Section 22 register, as at 31 December 2019

Assessment

The environmental risk assessment of the sites on the Section 22 register involves three progressive stages.

Tier 1 assessment — development of a conceptual site model and risk assessment — this allows for the categorisation of sites into low, moderate and high risk.
Tier 2 assessment — more detailed site investigations and testing.
Tier 3 assessment — refinement of the conceptual site model and completion of a quantitative risk assessment for all moderate and high risk sites.

On completion of the three-tier risk assessment process, local authorities are required to prepare remediation plans to address the risks identified for a site.

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