Rosedale clean landfill to continue
A 'clean fill' site currently operated by EnviroWaste at Rosedale is to continue for another two years.
North Shore City Council says there are significant cost advantages in allowing the company to continue to use the site
to dump such "clean fill" materials as soil, glass, plaster, clay and rocks.
It will also mean the site will be available to the public as a park and recreational area sooner and at less cost.
North Shore City's council's community services and parks committee has agreed that the company should continue to use
the site, as it will help level the area and save ratepayers more than $300,000 if the council had to do the work
itself.
Committee chairperson, Margaret Miles, says if the city were to take over the site as it is, within two years the
council would have to do a lot of work to level the area, especially the upper part. This work would include earthwork
consents, contracts for removing and relaying topsoil, turning the gas system on and off, stormwater control and project
management.
EnviroWaste proposes to increase the amounts of clean fill going into the site to 250,000 sq m a year, and will meet the
cost of stripping the topsoil, re-laying and grassing.
The council's only involvement will be to meet half the cost of surveying, which will be $20,000.