NSW EPA
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined EESI Contracting for allegedly accepting and storing asbestos contaminated waste at their contaminated soil treatment facility at Cootamundra.
EESI Contracting are permitted by their licence to receive contaminated soils and treat the soil to reduce contaminant levels and beneficially re-use the soil off-site under certain conditions.
EPA Executive Director Regulatory Operations Carmen Dwyer said on this occasion it is alleged EESI Contracting received asbestos contaminated soil rather than soil which can be recycled.
“Samples taken by EPA officers indicated this waste contained asbestos, which the premises is not permitted to accept,” Ms Dwyer said
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NSW EPA
Western Sydney company BSV Tyre Recycling Australia Pty Ltd has been ordered to pay $20,000 for dangerously and excessively stockpiling waste tyres following prosecution by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA).
EPA Executive Director Regulatory Operations Carmen Dwyer said stockpiled tyres were a potential fire hazard and strict conditions applied to their storage to minimise risk of fire danger and to keep the community safe.
“Once alight, rubber tyres are extremely difficult to extinguish. They generate a large amount of heat and a large volume of smoke, both of which pose a risk to the community, environment and to firefighters,” Ms Dwyer said.
EPA
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has ruled out pesticide as causing the recent deaths of beach worms at beaches on the NSW Mid North Coast.
Commercial fisherman reported dead beach worms on Yagon Beach, near Seal Rocks, on 3 June 2021.
Laboratory testing of beach worms, pipis, sea water and sand from this location has found no evidence of pesticide or algal toxins.
The Department of Primary Industries laboratory has also ruled out disease as a cause of the deaths.
The EPA was informed that National Parks and Wildlife Service had sprayed bitou bush at Yagon Beach with pesticides in May and June, however a review of tidal conditions, groundwater and beach recession has led the EPA to conclude that the beach worm mortality was caused by natural events.
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