Ballaghveny Landfill Enabling Works
Circular Economy
Ballaghveny Landfill is owned by Tipperary County Council and has been used accept municipal solid waste in unlined and engineered non-hazardous waste cells. Waste acceptance ceased in February 2011 at which time there was a remaining void space of circa 300,000 tonnes.
Tipperary County Council sought and received approval from the Agency to re-open the site to fill in the remaining void and waste filling is planned to commence in September 2021.
Responsibilities
The enabling works carried out under public works contract condition PW-CF5 for minor building or civil engineering works designed by the Employer required:
- Waste licence compliance and preparation of specified engineering work submissions
- General site clearance
- Modifications to groundwater monitoring
- Cell remediation works to fix holes in basal cells liners in remaining cells and leak detection testing in advance of waste acceptance in all cells lagoons and tanks
- Landfill gas management works to replace well heads and pipework on an existing cap and upgrade flare plinth for future Lo cal flare installation
- New bunded leachate storage tank and upgraded leachate pumping system
- Converting old leachate storage lagoon to a storm water attenuation lagoon
- Upgrading site access roads and exit/entry ramps into remaining cells
- New sub-station building
- Upgrades to site M&E installation (air, power, water, telemetry, leachate pumping) and SCADA system
- Development of a site asset register
Project Statistics
225,000m³
Empty space in the landfill that needed to be filled before the closure of the landfill can commence
10
Years landfill closed temporarily (2011)
€2.4 M
Overall project value
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