Tamworth Regional Council manages and operates 11 Waste Management Facilities including Somerton Landfill. Current operations at Somerton Landfill allow for on-site burial of domestic waste and partial infrastructure for collection of resource recoverable items, such as e-waste, batteries, gas bottles, motor oil, mixed recyclables, greenwaste and scrap metal.

Council secured a $192,620 in Landfill Consolidation and Environment Improvement Grant from the NSW Environmental Trust towards the cost of upgrading Somerton Landfill to a Small Vehicle Transfer Station.

This project was supported by the Environmental Trust as part of the NSW Environment Protection Authority's Waste Less, Recycle More initiative, funded from the waste levy.

What?

The upgrade will bring the Somerton Landfill in line with the industry’s current best practice.

When completed, the Small Vehicle Transfer Station will allow residents to dispose of household waste into skip bins rather than through direct access to an open landfill cell.

It will also ensure Council is able to continue to provide waste disposal services to the Somerton and surrounding rural community into the future, while also improving safety for staff and community members, reducing environmental impacts, increasing opportunities for recycling and resource recovery and improving site aesthetics.

Somerton Landfill Plan

Plan - Drive over small vehicular transfer station area

When?

Construction of the Small Vehicle Transfer Station should commence by July 2019 and is expected to be completed before the end of September 2019.

The site’s opening hours will not be affected.