Cleanaway manages and oversees the rehabilitation and post closure works at various landfill sites in Victoria including Carroll Road, Clayton, Deals Road, Fraser Road, Ryans Road and Victory Road.
Cleanaway manages and oversees the rehabilitation and post closure works at various landfill sites in Victoria including Carroll Road, Clayton, Deals Road, Fraser Road, Ryans Road and Victory Road.
The Fraser Road Landfill rehabilitation project reached an important milestone with the complete installation of the geosynthetic cap lining system. These caps ensure surface water is captured and managed and does not leach into the soil. Over 1,500,000m2 of geosynthetics have been installed to date, the equivalent of 75 football fields.
Fraser Road landfill was closed in June 2017 and work began to rehabilitate the site in June 2019.
Earlier on in the rehabilitation process, approximately 650,000m3 of ‘cut to fill’ was performed to achieve final top of waste contours. This involves excavation and placement of materials to create a foundation for the capping layers and geosynthetics that was recently completed.
As part of the rehabilitation of the site, water that comes into contact with waste, called leachate was extracted, collected, and treated. Leachate is stored in ponds and treated before being disposed of offsite. Fraser Road has six dedicated leachate ponds with a total capacity of approximately 65 million litres.
With the cap liner placement complete, subsoil placement will continue along with constructing stormwater drains and an attenuation basin to catch water that runs off the landfill after rain. Topsoil will be placed on the capped landfill to encourage vegetation growth at the final stage of the rehabilitation process.
Rehabilitation works are on track for completion later this year.
Pictured: Fraser Road Landfill geosynthetics placement, dam wall construction
Pictured: Fraser Road Landfill geosynthetics placement
Pictured: Fraser Road Landfill Geosynthetics placement, final section 16 South
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Read our previous updates on the rehabilitation of Fraser Road Landfill here and here.
Cleanaway manages and oversees the rehabilitation and post closure works at various landfill sites in Victoria including Carroll Road, Clayton, Deals Road, Fraser Road, Ryans Road and Victory Road. In January 2021, we successfully completed the rehabilitation at Deals Road Landfill.
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