Current issues at the South Fremantle landfill site, Western Australia
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AuthorDunnet, Samantha C.DescriptionThe South Fremantle Landfill site operated between the years of 1931 and 1986 and received a wide range of domestic, industrial and other hazardous waste. Remediation was inadequate at the time of closure, consisting only of covering the waste with a thin capping layer of sand. A caravan park was then built in the southeast corner of the site. Investigations over the last 20 years have highlighted a number of problems with the site including landfill gas production with the potential for explosion, groundwater contamination, settlement of the waste and otherhealth hazards associated with hazardous waste. The recent Contaminated Sites Bill has focused renewed attentionon the potential options for the rehabilitation of the site, all of which are likely to involve significant expense. A feasible management option employing the use of a geomembrane to cap the waste and act as a gas blanket to create a preferred migration path for the gas into a collection system is proposed. It is asserted that the site is unsuitable for residential development, although this is an option being considered by the Council to raise funds for the remediation work.; Article was published in "Journal of rural and remote environmental health", 3(1): 40-51 (2004)Imprint[Townsville, Qld] : Warwick Educational Publishing Inc., 2004Collation12 p. : map ; 30 cmLanguageEnglishDate Published2004Dewey Class363.7394 DUNPublication FormatReport
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Dunnet, Samantha C., Current issues at the South Fremantle landfill site, Western Australia. City of Fremantle Local History Centre, accessed 18/03/2026, https://history.fremantle.wa.gov.au/nodes/view/23848
