The rubble mountain at the Burwood Resource Recovery Park is set to get larger.
The Burwood Resource Recovery Park (BRRP) was opened after the quakes to take demolition waste and was due to close in 2017 but the slower than expected pace of demolition, coupled with higher than expected volumes of building demolition material have forced a re-think of the park's future.
BRRP Ltd and the Christchurch City Council will soon apply for new resource consents so the park can continue operating until 2021. The consents will also seek permission to extend the park's existing waste cell to provide for the disposal of up to 160,000 tonnes of earthquake waste and to create a new earthquake waste cell for the disposal of up to 540,000 tonnes of material.
As the resource consent proposal includes "controlled activities", the consent applications cannot be declined under the Resource Management Act but the council is seeking feedback from the community.
Council acting city water and waste unit manager Tim Joyce said the proposed new waste cell was within the existing landfill zone and recovery park area and would not extend into the Bottle Lake Forest Park. The site had been chosen because it was the only viable and legally available option open.
Truck movements would not increase as a result of the proposal to extend operations.
"While we are proposing to extend operations, rehabilitation of the site and landscaping will take progressively over the next five years in accordance with the landscape plan already developed following community input," Joyce said. "The activities being applied for, and rehabilitation of the site from these activities, will be completed by December 31, 2021."
Christchurch has had an unprecedented amount of construction and demolition waste to deal with following the earthquakes. So far the BRRP has sorted, processed and recycled 350,000 tonnes of building rubble.
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