Have your say on remediation planning for Tarago Rail Corridor
A Remediation Options Assessment (ROA) has been prepared for Tarago Rail Corridor (including the former Station Master’s Cottage). It describes the options considered by Transport to remediate the site and how each option was assessed.
The assessment process enabled Transport to determine a preferred remediation option for the site, followed by a second preferred option.
For more information about the project, go to Tarago rail yards lead contamination.
Transport’s preferred remediation option is to remove the contaminated waste from the site and take it to the containment cell at Lake George Legacy Mine in Captains Flat. This option will cost approximately $2.3 million dollars in total to deliver.
If this preferred option cannot proceed, Transport’s second preferred option is off-site disposal at a suitably licensed waste facility, possibly in Sydney or Queensland. This option would be delivered at an additional cost of around $3.9 million dollars (approximately $6.2 million dollars in total).
Transport have seriously considered all social, economic and environmental impacts of the preferred option and have invested a considerable amount of time and resources in assessing all of the feasible and permissible options and their impacts.
Social outcomes for the Tarago community have been placed at the forefront of the analysis for the remediation options. We have also considered the Captains Flat community in the process for social outcomes.
The preferred option has been identified as providing the best outcome for the state of NSW and would enable the site to be remediated towards the end of 2025.
Tell us what you think
The community may make a written submission online for the Tarago Rail Corridor Remediation Options Assessment. The feedback period is 10 April – 7 May 2024.Upload a submission
Background
Transport for NSW has identified lead contamination along the Tarago Rail Corridor (the Site), including an adjacent residential property at Tarago. The lead contamination is related to a historical mining load-out facility.
Transport notified the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) of the lead contamination in November 2019 and is working with the relevant government agencies to develop and implement a remediation plan.
In March 2022, the EPA approved an amended Voluntary Management Proposal (VMP) for the rail corridor.
