Wetherill Park Resource Recovery Facility Project SSD15 7267

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

Wetherill Park Resource Recovery Park Project SSD-72672 I


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


Recycling & Recovery


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)


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


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

http://www.sita.com.au/developments/wetherill-park-resource-recovery-facility-upgrade/


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.


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


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


Wetherill Park Resource Recovery Facility Project SSD15 7267

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