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Lessons in nature: Brianna and Charlie of St Macartan’s Catholic Primary School in Mornington were among 120 primary school children at last week’s Kids Teaching Kids event at Point Nepean. See Page 6. Picture: Yanni
EPA rejects quarry tip By Mike Hast THE Environment Protection Authority has knocked back an application for a rubbish tip, or landfill, in the old Pioneer quarry on the Arthurs Seat escarpment at Dromana. It was announced on Friday morning with the EPA saying the proposal did not comply with “threshold issues
around groundwater, construction design and management�. The decision is a blow to tip proponent Peninsula Waste Management and its owner R E Ross Trust as well as Mornington Peninsula Region Waste Management Group of which Mornington Peninsula Shire is the sole member. The waste group earmarked the quarry
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as a potential tip site in the late 1990s. PWM wanted the old quarry on Boundary Rd for up to 150,000 tonnes of municipal waste a year for up to 20 years. Less than one-third of the waste would have come from the peninsula. The proposal generated massive opposition and the formation of a highpowered lobby organisation called
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Peninsula Preservation Group. It was formed soon after the plan became public in late January (“Arthurs Seat tip plan�, Southern Peninsula News, 24/1/13) and members included successful business people, lawyers, scientists, doctors and teachers. More than 20,000 peninsula residents and others had signed paper and electronic petitions objecting to the tip.
Thousands had attended protest meetings and a rally in Dromana, and an EPA conference in Mornington. In the decision posted on the EPA’s website on Friday, it stated the tip did not comply with the state government’s Waste Management Policy 2004 on “the siting, design and management of the landfill�.
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