❓ Hon Jim Scott questions the suitability of the Brookdale facility for treating solvent wastes from the Waste Control site, given its apparent lack of appropriate equipment. The answer clarifies that the facility only repackaged solvents for interstate treatment.
AnsweredQoN 265Legislative Council
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Further to my Question without Notice of September 20 2001 on the hazardous waste facility in Brookdale -
(1) Did Brookdale have large capacity stills to treat solvent wastes when solvents were sent there from the Waste Control site?
(2) If not, on what planning and scientific criteria or basis was the Brookdale site chosen to treat solvent wastes?
(1) Did Brookdale have large capacity stills to treat solvent wastes when solvents were sent there from the Waste Control site?
(2) If not, on what planning and scientific criteria or basis was the Brookdale site chosen to treat solvent wastes?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
14 November 2001
Responded by
Minister for Housing and Works representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage
Response time
22 days
(1) The Brookdale Liquid Waste Treatment Facility is not equipped to treat solvent wastes. Solvent wastes from the Waste Control site were only repackaged for treatment at facilities interstate.
(2) N/A.
(2) N/A.
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