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Veolia Environnement Sa — Veolia — Corporate Update (November 2023)
35 slides from Veolia Environnement Sa's corporate update, Nov 9, 2023
Slide 1: Woodlawn Eco-Precinct Community Liaison Committee Meeting
Woodlawn Eco-Precinct Community Liaison Committee Meeting November 2023 NSW Woodlawn Eco-Precinct 619 Collector Road / Tarago / NSW 2580 Australia off.: +61 2 8588 1360 www.veolia.com/anz
Slide 2: Introductions / Welcome
Introductions / Welcome
Slide 3: Welcome
Welcome Veolia acknowledges Ngunnawal people as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters in which we live and work and their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and any first nations people present here today. Welco
Slide 4: Meeting Agenda
MEETING AGENDA Item Topic 1 Introductions / Welcome/Agenda 2 Present/Apologies Actions from last meeting 3 ARC Project Update 4 Woodlawn Eco-Precinct Operational Update 1. Woodlawn Bioreactor & Leachate Treatment Plant - tonnage 2. Water Management 3. Leachate Management 4. Bioenergy - gas capture &
Slide 5: Present / Apologies
Present / Apologies
Slide 6: Meeting Attendance
MEETING ATTENDANCE Date Thursday 9th November 2023 Time 5:00pm to 7.30pm Location Woodlawn, Conference Room, 619 Collector Road, Tarago Name Present Name Present Justin Houghton (JH) (Veolia) Yes Raymond Choy (RC) (Veolia) Yes Cr Andy Wood (AW) (GMC Councillor) No Mark Quinlan (MQ) (Community Rep) Y
Slide 7: Actions from Last Meeting
Actions from Last Meeting
Slide 8: Meeting Actions
MEETING Actions Action Status Include summary status of pending Independent Environmental Audit actions in next Complete - in CLC presentation Move ’Present / Apologies’ section up to before ARC update. Move ‘Actions’ recap up Complete front. CLC to agree on how to do minutes. Use a presentation for
Slide 9: ARC Project Update
ARC Project Update
Slide 10: Veolia ARC Next Steps
VEOLIA ARC Response to Submissions Report NEXT STEPS Report is 80% complete and will be submitted for adequacy check next month. Expect to lodge the RTS toward end Q1/early Q2 2024. We want to ensure we are adequately addressing all submissions. We will continue to update the community via the ARC w
Slide 11: Eco-Precinct Operational Update
Eco-Precinct Operational Update
Slide 12: Operational Update: Woodlawn Bioreactor & Woodlawn LTP
ECO-PRECINCT OPERATIONAL UPDATE WOODLAWN BIOREACTOR & WOODLAWN LTP Bioreactor Landfill - Licence tonnage YTD Waste Processed (7 Sep 2023 - Current) ➢ Regional Waste 23,579t - (licence 125,000t) ➢ Sydney Waste 95,290t - (licence 900,000t) ○ Both were within limits for Sep 2022- Sep 23 period Mechanic
Slide 13: Water Management: Storage status and location
Water Management Storage status and location (End of Oct 2023) Coffer Dam #2 Below Freeboard ED1 Below Freeboard ED3N 1-4 Coffer Dam #1 Office area Leachate Above Freeboard Below Freeboard Treatment Plant Plant collection catchment ED3S Below Freeboard Western Ridge catchment Bioreactor Void catchme
Slide 14: Water Management: Freeboard Management - compliance
Water Management Evaporation capacity ED1 once all installed Freeboard Management - compliance 120 L/sec = 10.4 ML/day ● ED1 - Below freeboard 20% = 2.1 ML/day loss ○ 60 L/sec mechanical evaporation installed ○ Additional 36 L/s evaporation throughput to install by early Nov 2023 ○ Additional 48 L/s
Slide 15: Water Management: Liquid Storage change - Trends
Water Management Liquid Storage change - Trends ED1 ED3N and ED3SS ED3S Stormwater Coffer dam #1 Coffer dam #2 Nom de la présentation * Note: Storage volume in ML ● 4 of the 5 main dams now back under freeboard. ● Question was asked what is freeboard. Freeboard is the volume a dam can be used to dur
Slide 16: Operational Update: Leachate Management
Coffer #1 April 2023 ECO-PRECINCT OPERATIONAL UPDATE LEACHATE MANAGEMENT ➢ All Treated Leachate is going into approved and lined dams as per compliance ➢ Monitoring of ED1 downstream groundwater system continues - no changes to water quality recorded (no TARP trigger) ➢ Lined Coffer Dam 2 (for treat
Slide 17: Operational Update: Bio-Energy
ECO-PRECINCT OPERATIONAL UPDATE BIO-ENERGY Bioenergy 2023 Biogas Capture ➢ Gas collected till Oct/2023 40,586,096 m3 ➢ Increased by 8,487,230 m3 (26%) compared to same time last year ➢ Energy Generation 48,472 MWh till Oct/2023 ➢ Increased by 5,231 MWh (12%) compared to same time on last year ➢ In 2
Slide 18: General discussion on level of detail and trust
● General discussion around whether providing too much detail opens up scrutiny and can be manipulated and used against Veolia and in that case does it actually build trust? ● Overarching conversation about role of EPA. ● FJ - clarified that all questions she receives come from residents living in t
Slide 19: Visual of Gas captured YTD Woodlawn
Visual of Gas captured YTD Woodlawn Gas collection YTD 2023 - 40,586,096 m3 The equivalent of taking 94,088 cars off the road. if they were to be lined up bumper to bumper, they would stretch a distance of 400km (from Tarago to Newcastle)!! As per slide
Slide 20: Operational Update: Odour Management
ECO-PRECINCT OPERATIONAL UPDATE ODOUR MANAGEMENT Maintaining gas capture at high level Aeration in ED3N1 ● Completed ○ New waste surface design for better water management ○ Biofilter around the perimeter of the waste/rock face ○ Rock trench covers southern and western area of the void ○ ED3N Aerati
Slide 21: Operational Update: Odour Management
ECO-PRECINCT OPERATIONAL UPDATE ODOUR MANAGEMENT ● Odour complaints and events have been reducing since July ● October only 5 complaints and 3 odour events ● Middle of the year tipping reaching the end of the lift (south end) presented challenges with gas collection particularly in the area of the l
Slide 22: Operational Update: Container Management
ECO-PRECINCT OPERATIONAL UPDATE CONTAINER MANAGEMENT ● Containers ○ Currently have 381 containers in the system - 27,000 full container movements from Crisps creek to Woodlawn per year ● Container Design and Construction All containers are designed and constructed ○ New inspection and testing schedu
Slide 23: Environment Update
Environment Update
Slide 24: Independent Environment Audit Recommendations
Independent Environment Audit Recommendations Recommendation Action Status Undertake a review of the complaints response process and consider appropriate A review of the process and reporting templates have been completed. Completed corrective actions to ensure that the 24-hour report requirement is
Slide 25: PA Modifications & Post Approval Applications
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE PA MODIFICATIONS & POST APPROVAL APPLICATIONS Approval Type Description Status MP 10_0012 Modifications Modify the existing project approval for the Bioreactor and MBT to: Additional surveys AWT 06_0239 ● Construct an approximately 15 megalitre (ML) dam at the MBTF to
Slide 26: PA Modifications: Reverse Osmosis
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE PA MODIFICATIONS & POST APPROVAL APPLICATIONS - Reverse Osmosis ● Proposed modification to put in an additional water treatment step = ~50% ultra pure water for beneficial water e.g. for use in water carts, irrigation to the onsite farm, washdown processes, operationa
Slide 27: PA Modifications: Old mine processing area rehabilitation
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE PA MODIFICATIONS & POST APPROVAL APPLICATIONS - Old mine processing area rehabilitation ● RC- Have to remediate the land as part of our consent and this area is a large part of the catchment for evaporation dam 1. ● RC -Third party specialists, WSP, to approve site re
Slide 28: PA Modifications: FOGO Shed ergonomics extension
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE PA MODIFICATIONS & POST APPROVAL APPLICATIONS - FOGO Shed ergonomics extension ● Modification to Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) shed to extend it to North for ergonomics. No change to amount of material proposed to be processed this is simply for a more efficie
Slide 29: EPL Variations: Reporting of complaints and investigations
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE EPL VARIATIONS - Reporting of complaints and investigations ● RC - When we get odour complaints we do an R4 report. This is a report summarising investigations around odour. ● RC - We are seeking feedback to streamline reporting so community can see the reports to pro
Slide 30: Regulatory Enforcements
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE REGULATORY ENFORCEMENTS EPL/PA Date Facility Description Context Action EPL 11436 24/10/2022 Woodlawn Prevention Dam liner failure in Coffer Dam 1, and the Veolia has engaged experts to identify the best Bioreactor Notice pumping of leachate from Coffer Dam 1 to metho
Slide 31: Regulatory Enforcements
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE REGULATORY ENFORCEMENTS EPL/PA Date Facility Description Context Action EPL 11436 24/06/2022 Woodlawn Prevention Container transport to site - leaking Veolia has engaged experts to assist in rectifying Bioreactor Notice containers, requirement to leak test the contain
Slide 32: Gas characterization
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE UPDATE Gas characterization ● RC- Veolia responded immediately to the recommendation of the third party expert to perform a gas characterisation study on the source gas in the landfill and to examine if there was any off site migration of this gas. ● RC- Veolia took the deci
Slide 33: Community Q & A
Community Q & A Send out Q&A with the draft minutes. Question raised about vapes - full response to be shared with Q&A. Bungendore Road state road discussion. Suggestion it would be worthwhile contacting GMs of Councils and offering letters of support for Councils applications for the state road app
Slide 34: Community Action
Community Action ● Veolia to look into “Snap Send Solve” app. ● Veolia to look into “Snap Send Solve” app.
Slide 35: Next Meeting
Next Meeting The next Community Liaison Meeting will be held at the Woodlawn Eco-Precinct in 2024 Date TBC otherwise agreed.