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Canty regional landfill hearings open
The Canterbury Regional Landfill project is a step closer with the
Resource Consent hearing starting in Hurunui on 4 November. Transwaste, the company behind the project and resource consent
applications, is a joint venture between the Christchurch City
Council, five other Canterbury councils and two national waste
companies. The Canterbury Regional Landfill project came into being because
of the urgent need for Canterbury communities to improve the
standard of waste disposal in the region. The Resource Management
Act, in particular, signalled the end of old-style rubbish tips and dumps. The proposed Kate Valley site is in coastal hill country about 75km
north of Christchurch. The site is within the 2758ha Tiromoana
Station, a subsidiary of Canterbury Waste Services (CWS), which is
managing the project for Transwaste. Transwaste proposes to develop a modern municipal solid waste
landfill at Kate Valley to serve the region.Transwaste needs land use
consents from the Hurunui District Council and land consents and
water and discharge permits from Environment Canterbury. “A comprehensive and rigorous process of community
consultation has been carried out over more than two years,” says
Gareth James of CWS. “Transwaste has taken community views into consideration in
formulating the final proposal. The proposed landfill has been
designed to safely accommodate the maximum conceivable volume
of residual waste that Canterbury could produce over 35 years, but
with sufficient flexibility to enable early closure in the event of
greater waste reduction success than anticipated.” “A raft of technical evidence will be presented by experts during
the hearing that Transwaste is confident will support the resource
consent applications.” |