Residents in Kealba and Sunshine have described smelling “rotting corpses” from the McIntyre Road dump site since a fire started there in November 2019.
has had its licence permanently cancelled, and it has revealed it will take up to another 18 months to extinguish the fire.
Last October, Barro Group told a community meeting it was nearing 90 per cent completion of the mop-up job, which involves digging up hundreds of cubic metres of hot rubbish each day to try to reach the fire burning at the bottom. “As recently as last October, they suggested they were about 90 per cent of the way to extinguishing the hotspots and expected to be complete by the end of 2022.“So, it is inconceivable that they should suddenly have discovered this huge additional amount of waste and the apparent need for another year and a half to remove it,” he said.Photos taken of the landfill in February 2020.
Miezis said the cancellation of the licence didn’t let Barro off the hook and the group was still obligated to clean up the site and extinguish the fires. “We have worked so hard just to get their licence cancelled and that was our main focus because we assumed the fires would be out by now,” she said.
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