Waste site slated for southern area
THE Toowoomba Regional Council hopes to start work on a new waste facility in a growth area south of the city in the new financial year, as part of its plan to revolutionise the sector.
Water and waste chair Nancy Sommerfield said the councillors determined a location for the facility, where waste would be dumped before being transferred to the main dump at Bedford St.
Cr Sommerfield said residents still needed to be notified about the additional centre before it was revealed.
“We have identified a site where we’re going to build a tier-two waste management facility,” she said.
“It will be large, not as large as O’Mara’s Rd, and it will be built to service the growing region in the south.
“We want to make sure we provide all the information necessary to people living near it before identifying the site.
“Initially we thought it would be somewhere else but we’ve surveyed this location because of huge growth.”
The new facility, discussed during a confidential session of council yesterday, is part of the TRC’s waste management strategy.
The council will open three new transfer facilities in Evergreen, Cecil Plains and Cooyar, replacing the rapidly-filling landfills at those towns.
Cr Sommerfield said the process had been complicated by undocumented waste.
“Two of them had undocumented waste, so they were more expensive to build. They are tier-five facilities, and they’re all replacing landfills (that) were nearing capacity.”