The Mugga Lane waste landfill is to be improved to deliver cleaner air quality in the area and reduce the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Announcing the works, City Services said residents in neighbouring suburbs may be affected for the rest of the year as the work also improves the ACT’s landfill gas-to-power plant network.
City Services said the improvements will see new pipes installed to expand the gas collection network which would increase gas recovery from the site, reduce the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and improve the Territory’s air quality in the longer term.
“Additionally, a trial will commence looking at better ways to rehabilitate the landfill,” City Services said.
“The landfill rehabilitation trial aims to confirm that a new burial process requires less maintenance, is less expensive to construct and provides better durability to handle extreme weather and a changing climate,” it said.
“A better rehabilitated landfill will provide healthier environmental outcomes when the land is eventually protected as a nature reserve.”
City Services said operations for the projects were scheduled to take place periodically until the end of 2022 and may at times cause odour to impact neighbouring suburbs.
“Residents in Chisholm, Fadden, Gowrie and Macarthur have been advised that these improvements are about to commence,” the Directorate said.
“Waste management operators will operate under agreed protocols with the ACT Environment Protection Authority to minimise odours where possible through measures such as covering disrupted landfill at the end of each day.”
Further information can be accessed in City Service’s two-page Landfill Gas-to-Energy fact sheet at this PS News link.
