Clover Meats Pty Ltd purchased a partly completed abattoir on a 200 ha rural site at North Dandalup in 1983. It proposes to finish construction of the abattoir in the near future and to operate the abattoir initially at a slaughter rate of 200 cattle/day with upgrading to 400 cattle/day at a later stage.

The major potential environmental impact with this proposal is that it would discharge phosphorus to Peel Harvey catchment area. Given the present phosphorus problem in the estuary, very strict criteria need to be applied to new discharges, including this proposal, so that no further unacceptable impacts occur.