Services Waste Mgt

Waste Management & Landfill

All societies generate waste. It’s an unavoidable fact of life. The problem is coming up with sustainable ways to manage waste and mitigate business risks and risks to the environment and human health.

The ultimate disposal of waste represents one of the most significant waste-management challenges. Past landfill practices of dumping waste in un-engineered holes in the ground have left a legacy of contamination and environmental impact. Landfilling practices have progressed significantly in the past 30 years, and despite various alternative methods to dispose of waste, landfills and their legacy will continue to play an important role across Australia for many years to come.

What We Do at EHS Support

EHS Support provides specialised consulting services for legacy and operational landfill sites, including audits, site assessments (risk assessments, hydrogeological assessments, landfill gas risk assessments) and monitoring and regulatory reporting.

An Extension of Your Team

EHS Support’s waste management team is an experienced, knowledgeable group of environmental auditors, hydrogeologists, engineers, environmental scientists and risk assessors. Our team comprises experts who bring forward-thinking solutions to our clients and other stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. We are a dedicated group of industry experts who pride ourselves in our professionalism and knowledge. Most of all, we are committed to your success and serve as your steadfast partner every step of the way.

Your trusted partner today and for the long run — that’s EHS Support.

For more information, contact William Dillon or David Ife.

Our Project Experience

Landfill Gas Risk Assessment

Landfill Gas Risk Assessment

Landfill Gas Risk Assessment, including evaluating the landfill cap to identify fugitive gas emissions, assess gas migration potential, and determine associated risks.
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Environmental Audit of the Rehabilitation of a Former Landfill for Hawthorn Football Club at Dingley, Victoria

Environmental Audit of the Rehabilitation of a Former Landfill for Hawthorn Football Club at Dingley, Victoria

EHS Support is providing Statutory Environmental Auditor services to the Hawthorn Football Club at this former landfill site that the club plans to redevelop as a destination precinct for elite athletes and the community and their future long-term home.
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Landfill Siting & Approvals

Landfill Siting & Approvals

At EHS Support, we assist clients in siting new landfill development, paying attention to physical and legislative constraints, as well as aiding in the preparation of works approval and development applications for new facilities. Potential sites are assessed on the basis of a matrix comparison of factors including availability of appropriate buffers, waste-management planning context, hydrogeological conditions, ecological considerations, appropriate sizing, community concerns and design factors.

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory agencies require increased compliance and approvals for a range of risk management and mitigation processes, including auditing of landfills during their operational life and regulating closed landfills in a variety of forms, such as legacy sites that are often not engineered and have not effectively contained wastes or may have diminished buffers as a result of encroachment from surrounding land development. Our team specialises in all aspects of landfill approvals.

Landfill Operations

Landfill Operations

Operational landfills have strict regulatory requirements for ongoing development, monitoring and progressive rehabilitation. We provide expertise in the development of new landfill stages (cells), monitoring of compliance against licence conditions, risk assessment, progressive rehabilitation, and ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements. Our services include master planning, financial assurance estimates, landfill-gas risk assessments, hydrogeological risk assessments, monitoring, auditing and more.

Landfill Rehabilitation & Post-Closure Strategies

Landfill Rehabilitation & Post-Closure Strategies

We help clients respond to increasingly stringent regulatory requirements for rehabilitation and for the closure and post-closure management and monitoring of closed landfills. From geotechnical investigations of landfill-cap integrity, to hydrogeological risk and landfill gas risk assessments, to rehabilitation and aftercare management plans and environmental monitoring programs, we provide cost-effective, responsible environmental and social outcomes to meet regulatory and societal requirements.

Management of Legacy Landfills

Management of Legacy Landfills

EHS Support manages liabilities posed by legacy landfills, which often generate large volumes of low-strength leachate and landfill gas. Using specialist landfill hydrogeology skills, and the management of landfill gas generation and off-site migration and associated risks, we work to minimise and manage leachate generation and impact. Our clients benefit from our vast experience in working on former landfill sites, and the proportionate response to the risk profile these sites present to the environment.