The Environment Agency served an enforcement notice on WRG in February in relation to the management of leachates at its Arpley site after continued breaches of its licence. WRG has now built a treatment plant on the site and the Agency has said that no further action will be taken.
WRG was given six months from February to comply with the notice and substantially reduce the levels of leachate at its Arpley site which it acquired in April 1999. Leachate must be kept down to less than one metre but in February, levels were over ten metres in parts which saw WRG take leachate off the site at a rate of 100 tankers a week.
A spokesman for the Environment Agency said: “We recognise that considerable progress has been made to deal with leachate. A new treatment plant is in line and we are satisfied that WRG is working on a solution.”
He added: “We are still keeping a close eye on things, but it is a move in the right direction. The enforcement notice ran its course and we haven't taken any further action although leachate levels were still high when the notice ran out. If the treatment plant achieves what it's meant to achieve then there will be no further action.”
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