Public Meeting

Anaerobic Digester Waste Processing Plant

Regeens Ballough Lusk

Round Towers GAA ClubhouseJune 5, 2014.

Agenda

• Lusk Still Fighting Waste

• What is being proposed ?• Where and and how big is it ?• What are the issues ?• What can be done about it ?

Lusk – Everybody’s Dumping Ground.

Balleally Closed in 2012

Lusk – Everybody’s Dumping Ground.

Balleally Closed in 2012

Nevitt

Annsbrook

Gracedieu

Superdump Landfill

Rejected 2011

Lusk – Everybody’s Dumping Ground.

Balleally Closed in 2012

Nevitt

Annsbrook

Gracedieu

Superdump Landfill

Rejected 2011

Rejected 2013

Lusk – Everybody’s Dumping Ground.

Balleally Closed in 2012

Nevitt

Annsbrook

Gracedieu

Superdump Landfill

Rejected 2011

Rejected 2013ANAEROBIC DIGESTER WASTE PROCESSING

REGEENS BALLOUGH LUSK

Anaerobic Digester

Anaerobic Digester

Regeens, Ballough, Lusk

Proposed Location

Regeens, Ballough, Lusk

0.5KM• Regeens• Rathmooney• Quickpenny Road• Edge of Oberstown

Regeens, Ballough, Lusk

1.0 KM• GAA Club• Edge of Dun Emer• Ballough• Oberstown• Rathmooney

Regeens, Ballough, Lusk

1.5KM• Main Street Lusk• Dun Emer & Kelly Park• Lusk National School• Motorway

Regeens, Ballough, Lusk

2KM.• All of Lusk• New Secondary School• Corduff • Baldrumman• Jordanstown

Anaerobic Digester Regeens, Ballough

Anaerobic Digester Regeens, Ballough

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DigestateStorageStorage

Tank29.1m Dia.8.3m High

Digesters 1 & 2 22m Dia.11m HighReceptionBuilding22.4m x 24.4m11m High

1,000 Tonnes

5,000 Tonnes

10,000 Tonnes

2.5 GAA Pitches

Scale - Brown Bin Waste10,000 Tonnes

Brown Bin Waste 36,223 Tonnes = Total Brown Bin Waste produced in the Greater Dublin area in 2010.

• Fingal• Dublin City Corporation• Dub Laoghaire Rathdown• South DublinRef: Waste Management Plan for the Dublin Region 2005 – 2010. Page 16.

At 10,000 tonnes, the proposed facility will take and process almost one third of all the brown bin waste produced in the Greater Dublin Area

Scale – Cattle Slurry 50 KM Slurry Area

Lusk

1,000 Tonnes

Scale – Cattle Slurry 50 KM Slurry Area

Blackrock, Co. Louth.

Kells, Co. Meath.

Naas, Co. Kildare

Newtown Mount KennedyCo.Wicklow.

Lusk

1,000 Tonnes

Why this is not right for Lusk

• Commercial development in RU Zone

• Too close to too many people• Offensive Odours• 7x24 Plant noise and

emissions• High risk of pollution

(Watercourses)

• Waste produced by others

“Protect & promote in a balanced way the development of agriculture and rural-related enterprise, biodiversity, the rural

landscape and the build and cultural heritage”

The “Brown Bin” waste to be processed here will be generated by almost 400,000

people. The population of Lusk is just over 7,000.

The experience of other communities

• Farington Lanscashire– “…before it was built, there were three things they told us: ‘It won’t be an eyesore, your

property won’t be affected, and it won’t smell.’ Categorically all of them have been affected in a big way”

• Cannington Summerset– “Odour described in the area as a ‘mix of dog dirt and burnt plastic’ (BC World News, June 2013)

• Cannock Chase Staffordshire– “Persistent Complaints. Bad smell affecting residents 800 metres away”

• Holsworthy, Wales– “On summer days, depending on wind conditions, the smell could be detected 1.5 miles from

plant”

• Osnabruck, Germany– “It stinks to high heaven...”

CALL TO ACTION

• Inform yourself. (F14A/0187)• Make your views known• Object (Deadline = June 16)– Individual & Personal Objection– Individual Objection using standard objection letter– Group Objection using standard objection letter– Make your views known to your Public Representatives

and request they reflect them in the Council Meetings• Prepare and stand-by for the likely appeals.

Anaerobic Digester

Anaerobic Digester