Browsing: <a href="/tag/vic">Victoria</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/site-contamination">Site contamination</a>

A Victorian tribunal has rejected a Council's attempt to shift the responsibility for investigating and managing a PFAS-contaminated site to the state's Country Fire Authority.

Victoria today gazetted classification criteria that specify when soils containing extremely low levels of PFAS will be considered suitable for use as fill.

A tribunal has put on hold an EPA notice that would require a council to disclose information on a contaminated site that it owns to developers proposing to build a hotel next door.

A company's Remediation Action Plan for managing asbestos contamination will satisfy the requirements of OHS improvement notices, a tribunal has ruled, but EPA concerns are yet to be resolved.

EPA Victoria has conceded to the state's Supreme Court that it treated a company part-owned by Orica unfairly in its decision-making on a contaminated site.

EPA Victoria has rescinded its approval for three landfills to accept PFAS-contaminated wastes from the West Gate Tunnel project.

The Victorian Supreme Court has made an important ruling on the circumstances in which companies need to obtain planning permits for works they undertake in response to EPA clean-up notices.

Victoria's EPA has approved a third option for disposal of PFAS-contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel project.

Transurban must fight legal battles on two fronts over PFAS contamination on Victoria's West Gate Tunnel project, after failing to secure a Supreme Court injunction that would have put on ice arbitration of its dispute with contractor CPB.

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