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Last updated: January 20, 2011
The proposal is to establish a silica sand mining operation at Gnangara, approximately 20 km north-east of Perth. Approximately 80% of the proposed project area is located over State Forest No 65 with the remaining 20% of the area covering private land. The area of State Forest which would be affected by the proposal is zoned 'State Forest' under the Northern Forest Region-Regional Management Plan 1987-1997. This allows for multiple land use including water production. The proposal is... Read more...Last updated: December 3, 2010
Inquiry under s46 into changing the conditions of Ministerial Statement 549 . Read more...Last updated: November 4, 2010
Identification of potential corridors and areas for future installation of water and waste water pipelines and associated infrastructure throughout the southern suburbs of Perth. Read more...Last updated: October 15, 2010
Lot 21 Webster Road, Forrestfield has an area of 1.84 ha and is located in the Shire of Kalamunda. It is zoned Industrial in the Metropolitan Region Scheme and Light Industry in the Shire of Kalamunda District Planning Scheme No. 2. Lot 21 is adjacent to, but not included in, Bush Forever Site 319. An application to subdivide Lot 21 Webster Road, Forrestfield into seven industrial lots was initially referred to the EPA pursuant to Section 38 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, (EP Act)... Read more...Last updated: October 3, 2010
Construction of warehouse and transport depot on Lot 46 Tomah Road, Welshpool and the provision of an environmental offset by protecting 21.2 hectares of significant wetland and native vegetation at Lot 23 Ioppolo Road, Chittering. Read more...Last updated: July 14, 2010
The proposal is for the subdivision of approximately 32 hectatres of land being a portion of Lot 4 bounded by Underwood Avenue to the north, Selby Street to the east, UWA's agricultural field station and research centre to the west, and the Water Corporation Workshop Depot Training Centre and Royal Perth Rehabilitation Hospital in the south. The Subiaco Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) is located immediately to the south west of the site. The subdivision proposes 260 lots for residential... Read more...Last updated: June 28, 2010
The construction and operation of a seawater desalination plant at a site in the Kwinana / East Rockingham area, and associated seawater intake, concentrated seawater discharge pipelines, and product pipeline to Tamworth Hill or Thomson’s Reservoir. Upgrading of the capacity of the plant to 45 Gigalitres per year at the Kwinana site will include increasing the production of potable water, use of seawater, and discharge of concentrated seawater and further options for combining intake seawater... Read more...Last updated: March 23, 2010
Inquiry under s46 into a proposed change to environmental conditions for the construction and operation of a brick making facility on Lot 1 on Plan 16479 Military Road, Bellevue, the subject of previous Ministerial Statements 002 and 012. Since the original assessment in 1987, more has become known about brickwork emissions and cumulative impacts in the Swan Valley. Read more...Last updated: December 4, 2009
The management and abstraction of groundwater for public and private water supply from the Gnangara Mound, with provision for environmental water requirements In response to the Minister for Environment’s request to review the environmental monitoring sites in light of changes in environmental values and the predicted influence of climate variability the DoW has proposed to remove some criteria sites from the current environmental approval and to rationalise other conditions and commitments of... Read more...Last updated: November 25, 2009
The proposal is the industrial subdivision of Lots 300-303 and 14 & 15 Beringarra Avenue, Malaga. The lots total an area of 11.6 hectares (ha). The proposal area is bounded by Victoria Road to the north, the proposed Hepburn Avenue extension to the east, Reid Highway to the south and an existing industrial estate to the west. Lot 300, part of the proposed development, is separated from the other lots by a power line and includes the site of a former scrap metal yard. Read more...Last updated: November 19, 2009
This proposal is for the first of two stages of long-term shellsand dredging, involving the continuation of shellsand extraction from specific locations on Success Bank, Parmelia Bank and West Success Bank, Owen Anchorage. Stage 1, as proposed, would create a 1.5km wide by 15m deep seaway through Success and Parmelia Banks by 2014. This stage would require the removal of 168.5ha of seagrass and 264.5ha of shallow bare sand, which can be potential seagrass habitat, to recover 30 million tonnes... Read more...Last updated: November 2, 2009
Midland Brick Company Pty Ltd (Midland Brick) referred a proposal to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) on 3 May 2002 to indefinitely extend the time limit of its environmental approval for its clay excavation operation at Hallet and Copley Roads, Upper Swan and to expand the environmental approval to include Lot 19 Copley Road, Lots 19, 45 and 46 St Albans Road and Lot 100 Great Northern Highway, Upper Swan for further clay excavation operations. The new areas to be included in the... Read more...Last updated: October 11, 2009
The proposal is to extend Roe Highway from South Street in Canning Vale to connect to Kwinana Freeway in Leeming over a distance of approximately 4.5 km. The highway is planned as a four-lane dual carriageway (two lanes in each direction), with provision for future upgrading to three lanes in each direction. The land required for any future upgrading will be provided in the median strip. The total footprint of the project area represents 62 hectares (ha). Approximately 53.9 ha of this area will... Read more...Last updated: February 13, 2009
The proposal for the brick and tile works at Malaga was initially assessed by the EPA in 1987. In 1994 an amendment to the proposal was assessed. This amendment related to the subdivision of part of the brickworks site and did not alter the operation of the brickworks in any way. Since 1987 more has become known about brickwork emissions. As a result the conditions imposed on the proposal in 1987 were out-dated. This inquiry under s46 is to determine whether to change the conditions of... Read more...Last updated: January 19, 2009
The expansion of the Rehoboth Christian School in Kenwick on part of Lot 107 and Lot 105A to allow for additional education facilities to accommodate a primary school. Read more...Last updated: November 13, 2007
This report provides the advice and recommendations of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to the Minister for the Environment on the environmental factors and principles relevant to the proposal by the Water Corporation to construct, operate and maintain a new Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) and ocean outfall at Alkimos. The proposal is to develop the plant in stages up to an operational capacity of 160ML/day beyond 2050. There are two proposed sites for the WWTP, Site A and Site B... Read more...Last updated: November 12, 2007
The proposal is for the construction and operation of a wastewater treatment plant, and associated ocean outfall, on the Alkimos-Eglinton Dunal System, with an ultimate processing capacity of 160 megalitres per day. Read more...Last updated: July 12, 2007
The proposal is for the construction and operation of an ethanol bio-refinery on a 19 hectare site in the Kwinana Industrial Area. Read more...Last updated: June 6, 2007
The remediation of approximately 17 hectares of land, known as the Helena East Precinct and the Southern Embankment located centrally in the former Railway Workshops area, which includes relocation of contaminated soil to an area immediately east of the Police Operations Support Facility known as the Meat Industry Association Containment Cell. Read more...Last updated: December 4, 2006
Inquiry under section 46 of the, Environmental Protection Act 1986, on the proposal to develop a residential subdivision in the north-west sector of Herdsman Lake (Floreat Lakes) approved in 1989. Read more...