Page 1841 - Week 06 - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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heavy duty tarpaulin. As a comparison, a light duty blue tarpaulin is 80gsm with an approximate thickness of 0.06mm and medium duty silver tarpaulins are approximately 200gsm with an approximate thickness of 0.25mm.
(4) (a) No, the Tarpomatic Trail Methodology (Methodology) is a proprietary product and as such is Commercial in Confidence.
(b) No, plans are not required to be submitted. The trial is managed in accordance with the Methodology.
The trial has not been completed. A final report on the trial is due to the EPA by 30 September 2020.
(c) There has been no change to Environmental Authorisation (EA) No. 0375. Under clause 25.8 of the EA, Remondis must cover and uncover the active tipping face on a daily basis using soil or another material as approved by the EPA.
On 12 June 2019, Remondis applied to the EPA to use an alternate daily cover (ADC), the Tarpomatic system, instead of using soil. Final EPA approval was issued on 16 July 2019.
(5) Since the beginning of 2016, Access Canberra received 124 odour complaints alleging the source to be Mugga Lane Resource Management Centre (MLRMC) as follows:
• 2016 – 83
• 2017 – 28
• 2018 – 7
• 2019 – 3
• 2020 – 3
For 2016, of the 83 complaints, 58 of these were from your office, with 50 of these being anonymous.
For the period 2016 to 2020, there has been a significant decrease in the number of odour complaints received alleging the source to be the Mugga Lane Resource Management Centre. 70% of complaints received for the period 2016 to 2020 have come from your office, 86% of which have been anonymous.
(6) Please refer to the response to question 5.
(7) (a) All complaints received by the EPA and other parts of Access Canberra are managed initially by the Access Canberra Complaints Management Team.
In response to previous odour complaints, the activities at the MLRMC have been investigated by the EPA with operations being found compliant with their approvals and operations being undertaken to minimise odour.
As a result of previous investigations all complaints received by the EPA from the Complaints Management Team are handled as a desktop exercise. On receiving a complaint, the EPA contacts the operators on the site to ascertain if there have been any significant operational events (planned or unplanned) which would impact on odour generation.
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