The Otago Regional Council has rejected the Dunedin City Council’s claim it does not need to reassess the location of its proposed landfill above Brighton Beach. With the Green Island landfill consent due to expire in 2023, the city council responded in May, halving the footprint of its original proposal to address environmental concerns about the site. Other questions the ORC wanted answered included the amount of waste the city council expected to go into the landfill, and whether the city council thought the landfill would attract more pests to the area. The Tonkin + Taylor report said the council’s application lacked detail on landfill design. On the DCC’s website, it said it expected the Brighton landfill to start operating in 2026, and it had budgeted $56million to make that happen.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 08, 2021 16:30 UTC