❓ Hon. Barbara Scott questions the Minister for Environment regarding the Woodman Point wastewater treatment plant's odour control works, alleging non-compliance with EPA guidelines. The Minister acknowledges the issue and indicates a decision is pending due to an appeal against the EPA's initial decision not to assess the project.
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WOODMAN POINT WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT
(1) Is the minister aware that the Water Corporation has lodged a works approval application for the Woodman Point waste water treatment plant sludge amplification and odour works without meeting the requirements of the Environmental Protection Authority’s “Guidance State No. 47 Assessment” of odour impacts for new proposals, and the Department of Environment and Conservation’s air quality and air pollution modelling guidance notes DEP 2000; and, if so, what action is the minister able to take? (2) Will the minister request the EPA to formally assess the Woodman Point waste water treatment plant sludge amplification and odour works project? (3) If not, why not? Hon JON FORD
(1) Is the minister aware that the Water Corporation has lodged a works approval application for the Woodman Point waste water treatment plant sludge amplification and odour works without meeting the requirements of the Environmental Protection Authority’s “Guidance State No. 47 Assessment” of odour impacts for new proposals, and the Department of Environment and Conservation’s air quality and air pollution modelling guidance notes DEP 2000; and, if so, what action is the minister able to take? (2) Will the minister request the EPA to formally assess the Woodman Point waste water treatment plant sludge amplification and odour works project? (3) If not, why not? Hon JON FORD
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I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(2) Will the minister request the EPA to formally assess the Woodman Point waste water treatment plant sludge amplification and odour works project? (3) If not, why not? Hon JON FORD replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(3) If not, why not? Hon JON FORD replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
Hon JON FORD replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
[See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(2) Will the minister request the EPA to formally assess the Woodman Point waste water treatment plant sludge amplification and odour works project? (3) If not, why not? Hon JON FORD replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(3) If not, why not? Hon JON FORD replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
Hon JON FORD replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The Minister for the Environment has supplied the following answer. It is of some length and I therefore table the answer and seek to have it incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
Leave granted. [See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
[See paper 2556.] The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
The following material was incorporated - The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
The Environmental Protection Authority provided its strategic advice on the proposed buffer for the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in November 2006 to the then Minister through Bulletin 1240. As part of the review, the Water Corporation’s Odour Improvement Plan was considered and the EPA recommended that “the Water Corporation begin their program of odour reduction immediately with the aim of completing all three stages, or alternative measures to reduce odours, in the shortest time feasible”. The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
The strategic advice in Bulletin 1240 provides the EPA’s current position regarding the Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant buffer requirements. (i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(i) The Water Corporation has recently made application for a Works Approval to the Department of Environment and Conservation and it also referred the proposal for the sludge amplification and odour works to the EPA. The EPA decided that the proposal is not so significant as to warrant formal environmental assessment. (ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
(ii-iii) One appeal has been lodged against the EPA’s decision to Not Assess the Water Corporation’s proposed works. As a consequence I will need to determine whether the proposal should be formally assessed by the EPA.
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