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Wetherill Park Resource Recovery Facility Project SSD15_7267PAC Briefing
6 September 2017
• Project Outline
• Project Needs and Benefits
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Traffic
• Comments on Condition of Consent
Agenda
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Project Overview
SUEZ Recycling & Recovery is seeking consent to increase the licence capacity of the
Wetherill Park Transfer Station from the existing 10,000 tpa of general solid waste
(putrescible) to 140,000 tpa of general solid waste (putrescible)
This would increase the total waste accepted at the transfer station from 100,000 tpa to
230,000 tpa
The Wetherill Park Transfer Station is strategically located within an industrial area with
limited sensitive receptors, and purpose built with sufficient capacity to process the proposed
waste throughput with no significant environmental impacts
This proposal presents an opportunity to invest in existing waste management infrastructure
in response to a changing waste landscape following the closure of a significant piece of
waste infrastructure – Eastern Creek landfill
SUEZ finds smart and reliable resource management
solutions to make the best use of water and waste for
towns, cities, business and industry
Water & Treatment Solutions
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Recycling & Recovery
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Project Needs
• The Eastern Creek landfill located within the
Eastern Creek Resource Recovery Park closed
on 31 August 2017
• This marks the end life of a significant piece of
waste infrastructure servicing the Sydney basin
• There are only two putrescible landfills remaining
servicing the Sydney basin:
‒ Lucas Heights Resource Recovery Park
‒ Woodlawn Landfill located in Goulburn and
accessed by rail
• Wetherill Park, located less than 5 kilometres
from Eastern Creek RRP, is identified to be most
suitable location to provide the additional capacity
required for putrescible waste management in the
region
Veolia Woodlawn Landfill
(Goulburn, located ~200 km
south of Sydney)
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Project Benefits
Continuity of waste services - Ensure that Sydney’s waste disposal arrangements are not interrupted by the closure of the Eastern Creek landfill
Less environmental impacts - Developing an existing, purpose built facility in an industrial location has less environmental impacts than constructing and operating an entirely new facility
Low environmental footprint - The environmental assessment concludes the upgrade would meet relevant assessment criteria including odour (< 2OU at closest residential receptor) and noise requirements
Employment – additional jobs in the Fairfield region and construction jobs
Proven environmental performance - the Wetherill Park Resource Recovery Facility has a sound environmental record, with no records of odour or other complaints and no non-compliances since 2011
Invest in critical waste infrastructure and resource recovery – Upgrade of facility to contemporary fire standards as well as improved traffic manoeuvring and environmental protection
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Stakeholder Engagement
Department of Planning and Environment publicly exhibited the EIS and encouraged
feedback on the project.
In addition, SUEZ actively engaged stakeholder prior to EIS exhibition through:
• A dedicated proposal website: http://www.sita.com.au/developments/wetherill-park-
resource-recovery-facility-upgrade/
• Deliver project information flyer and feedback forms to neighbours, as well as door
knocking and visitations
SUEZ received comments from:
• Two community members
• NSW EPA
• Transgrid
• Fairfield City Council
• Fire and Rescue NSW
All comments were addressed through various rounds of response to submissions
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Traffic – road network & queuing
EXISTING
• PeopleTrans undertook vehicle counts at key intersections during peak hour (6am – 9pm, 2pm
– 4pm) and Tube surveys on roads to determine baseline “existing” traffic generation (delivery
vehicles and transfer trailers)
• PeopleTrans undertook intersection analysis (SIDRA) to determine the baseline “existing” level
of service (LOS)
PROPOSED
• Review real Eastern Creek weighbridge data to determine average load per vehicle (5.94 t)
• Additional 20% vehicles that does not use weighbridge eg. staff and visitors (conservative)
• Traffic impact assessment to review the impact on intersection LOS as well as weighbridge
capacity
To provide a conservative future assessment of the traffic impact of the development, it is
assumed that the existing peak hours for the site coincide with the road network peak hours
To provide a conservative assessment, it is also assumed that all additional vehicles to the site will
all be heavy vehicles. For the purposes of our assessment, a heavy vehicle is 10m long with a
queuing space of 13m. This is also considered conservatively high as there are many light
vehicles that are only 4.5m long that will access the site.
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Traffic
Findings
• There is sufficient capacity in the existing surrounding road network to cater for the
anticipated traffic generated by the proposed development during the operational phase
• Weighbridge capacity is sufficient
• Commitment to no parking / queing on Davis Road - relocating the existing stop line / speed
hump forward by approximately 1.5m
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Comments on Condition of Consent
1. Condition A8 – from NSW EPA EPL recommendation - the wording is limiting
operationally and inconsistent with EPA requirements
“The Applicant must not receive or process on site more than 575 m3 or 402.5 tonnes
of putrescible waste in any 24 hour period.
2. Condition B6 – suggest remove requirement for installation of meteorological station.
This is an unusual requirement for a transfer station and the EIS concluded insignificant
odour impacts.
Questions and site tour
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