Enviros Consulting Return to Wexford County Council’s Killurin Landfill Site for Restoration Works

August 2nd, 2007 by admin

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Summer 2007 saw the environmental engineering consultants Enviros Consulting return to Wexford County Council’s Killurin Landfill Site, for further capping and restoration works.

This year sees the penultimate stage, of a 4 year involvement of Enviros with local authority Wexford County Council at this active domestic waste Landfill site.
Wexford originally commissioned Enviros back in 2004 to carry out extensive extension earthworks works to stabilise slopes and increase the existing landfill capacity. Over the following two years, further works were carried out to place the final cap on completed sections of the site, install surface water management systems, place restoration soils to a finished profile and grass seed the area .
Steve Last, Principal Engineer and Project Manager heads up the project, with Rowe Environmental providing CQA supervsion.

Outstanding Beauty
Killurin Landfill which has been operational since the early eighties lies some 8 miles outside of Wexford Town, and bordered by the River Slaney to its south, in what is a most outstandingly beautiful part of Southern Ireland.
The views across the surrounding areas, from within the site are extraordinarily beautiful.

Walking around the site again this year, you get a real feel for the necessity and value of the restoration works which were done last year, as the grass seeding is well established, it looks green and very natural, and fits in with the local existing environs.

The views across the River Slaney are undoubtedly superb.

2007 Capping and Restoration Programme
This year a further 10,000 sq,m of landfill area will be capped with clay restoration soils placed and hydro seeded. Capping materials, being a locally won “marl” type clay, that meets specification limits on density and compaction, found within 1000 metres of the site, has been most fortunate indeed, given the scarcity of suitable materials.

A Geo-drainage layer is to be incorporated in the above-cap drainage system linked to a surface water collection system, along with the construction of surface water outfall points.

Erosion control matting will be veneered between the sub-soil and top-soil layer. Improvements to the gas management systems are also required.
An initial twelve week programme is on a two week break just now, but continues in the second week in August 2007 and all of works are hoped to be complete by mid- September. weather permitting…………………….. of course !!