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Protranz has applied to regional councils for consent to excavate a 4-hectare landfill at White Rock Quarry for contaminated soil, asbestos and building waste.
White Rock Community Incorporated is opposing the landfill proposal to protect the Karetu river, our drinking water, and the local environment for generations to come.
Protecting Our Community
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We Expect To Have To Spend Over $250,000 To Keep The ProTraNz Landfill Out Of White Rock.
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The characteristics of the proposed landfill site at White Rock contradict ‘best practice’ recommendations for selecting landfill sites. It is close to a river and is a limestone area, increasing the environmental risks of the proposal.
From www.environment.govt.nz | Landfill Guidelines Handbook by The Centre for Advanced Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand:
In order to minimise future risk to the environment from landfilling […] Suitable geology is important to ensure containment of leachate in the long term, or in the case of failure of engineered containment systems.
[…] Because engineered liner systems have a finite lifetime, the ability of the underlying materials to minimise the potential for liquids to migrate out of the landfill into the environment should the liner either degrade, tear, or crack needs careful consideration.
[I]t is generally undesirable to site a landfill in areas with the following characteristics:
• high permeability soils, sands, gravels, or substrata;
• high permeability seams of faults; and/or
• Karst geology — regions with highly soluble rocks, sinks and caverns (for example, limestone areas).
