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21 February – 6 March 2013 Your fortnightly community newspaper covering Safety Beach to Portsea For advertising and editorial needs, call 1300 MPNEWS (1300 676 397) or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au
Waste plan: Peninsula Waste Management’s David Maltby, left, and Vince Latham in the old Pioneer quarry pit on Arthurs Seat near Dromana, which the company wants to use for a landfill, or tip. Picture: Yanni
$20m to start quarry tip By Mike Hast THE proponent of the Arthurs Seat quarry tip will spend about $20 million to set it up. Peninsula Waste Management CEO Vince Latham said most of the money would be spent on “protecting the environment�. About 250 megalitres (166 Olympic
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lel with the shire application is PWM’s request to the Environment Protection Authority for a works approval permit. Mr Latham said the company had hired an independent auditor accredited with the EPA to prepare its submission and meet stringent environmental protection criteria. Continued Page 13
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ity of developing a waste management business at a disused quarry owned by the trust�. The plan for the quarry tip was revealed by The News last month (“Arthurs Seat tip plan�, 24/1/13). PWM is expected to submit to Mornington Peninsula Shire an application to turn the old quarry into a landfill, or tip, in about two weeks. Running paral-
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ing an inspection of the old quarry on Tuesday morning. The pit sides would be lined with a 2.1-metre thick gravel wall, which would be built up as the tip filled. The trustees of the R E Ross Trust, which owns Hillview Quarries in Dromana, set up Peninsula Waste Management in 2008 “to explore the possibil-
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