Broadpath Landfill

Broadpath Landfill Site
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Waste Licence	RP3530BC (RP3530BC)
Operator	Valencia Waste

Void

Year	Total Void
2018	348288
2019	211743
2020	211743

Summary site information collated from a variety of sources
including: Monksleigh, Ellard Associates, EA, WasteDataFlow,
SEPA, NRW, DEFRA, BEIS and owner and developer websites

Summary

Broadpath landfill is a modern site, engineered to standards appropriate for the Landfill Directive era. The site was developed from 1995 onwards by Viridor (at the time known as Haul Waste Ltd). It was the company's first in-house developed landfill after the acquisition of the company by Pennon in 1993.

History

Broadpath landfill was developed in a sand and gravel quarry excavated by Aggregate Industries (at the time known as ECC Quarries Ltd) and is located approximately 1km to the north of the village of Uffculme. A previous scheme to develop a dilute and disperse landfill in a different part of the quarry complex was brought forward by ECC Quarries in the 1980s and failed to achieve planning consent.

Broadpath landfill was granted planning permission in 1997 and a waste management licence in 1998. Construction of the site infrastructure and the initial cell took place in 1998 and the site opened in October 1998.

The waste management licence was changed to an Environmental Permit in 2003/4.

The capacity at the site as originally granted planning permission was circa 2.5M m3; this was subsequently increased upon approval of revised surcharge and settlement contours to around 3.8M m3.

Description

The quarry is excavated into Triassic age Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds. These constitute a major aquifer, although due to the morphology of the deposit, locally they are not water-bearing to any significant degree. The Pebble Beds are underlain by clays of the Keuper Marl.

The landfill is constructed as a containment facility, utilising the underlying clay materials as the principal barrier. The lining system is augmented with a flexible membrane liner of HDPE on the base and the lower part of the sidewalls. The sidewalls are steeply graded and require buttressing to enable construction within the 30m deep quarry void.

There is landfill gas power generation with electricity export to the local distribution system.

Viridor have been unable to secure a connection to the local sewerage system, principally due to a lack of local treatment capacity at the receiving sewage works. Consequently, leachate removed from the site is tankered away to appropriately permitted sewage treatment facilities.

Elsewhere within the quarry complex, Viridor also developed an In-vessel Composting (IVC) facility to deal with some of Devon County Council's separately collected green waste. This facility is no longer in operation as an IVC and the site is used as a transfer station.

Tonnage Handled

Only Waste Codes receiving over 5,000t are shown.

Waste Tonnage, EWC List

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit RP3530BC, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data used is the most current. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: t.

EWC Code	Description	Tonnes In