AIE Request: Rinaghan sand and gravel

AIE Request and Commissioner for Environmental Information case OCE-138766-B3N5M9

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3RWkfY6LMXC4moLRA

AIE Request: HSA records on Kilsaran / Ballinclare Quarry

AIE05-2024 Decision letter and schedule

AIE: Ballinclare (Wicklow CoCo) Monitoring Data

AIE 2024.01

Documents:

·         A water pollution licence, WPL110 had been applied for on the site , was never enacted and was revoked, memorandum to this effect.

·         New licence issued, WPL 116

·         Notice from Kilsaran stating commencement date of WPL116

·         Kilsaran water sample results

·         Wicklow Co. Co. water sample results

·         Monthly reports from Kilsaran

Discharge Licence

All Monitoring Data

All Wicklow CoCo Monitoring Reports

Commencement Notice

Ballinclare Quarry / Kilsaran Concrete: quarry landfill site in Wicklow

Intake capacity of approximately 6,165,000 tonnes

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aXjY846c4U13M3Xf7

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

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

  • Register of Licence
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  • Submission No S011065 – Joanna Troughton
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  • S011065 Submission Notice
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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
    This is a third party document. It relates to the registration number of the licence but comes from a third party – eg objections. The document has an Effective Date: 15/11/2023
  • 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

Corrib Community Association Company Limited by Guarantee -v- Killola Quarries LTD & Ors

Unauthorised development at Killola Quarry, Rosscahill, Oughterard, Co. Galway comprising unauthorised quarrying and associated activities including the blasting, extraction, processing, production, storage, distribution of any quarried and/or associated materials

Causing or permitting or continuing to cause or permit the entry and/or discharge of polluting matter and/or trade effluent into drains, watercourses and/or waters on and/or in the vicinity of the lands at Killola Quarry, Roscahill, Moycullen, Co. Galway