Post Date: December 2014

Mitchel Hanlon Consulting was engaged to supervise the remediation of a disused service site at Tamworth.

The implementation of the Protection of the Environment Operations (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulation 2008 required owners of sites possessing underground storage tanks suitable for the storage of petroleum based products to implement a series of environmental protection measures by key dates. The measures relate to mandatory environmental safeguards such as leak detection, secure onsite management practices and suitable environmental compliance monitoring for operational tanks.

The site had a long history of use as a service station and had since been disused. As the site was had not been used for a period of 2-years, the Regulation required decommissioning and validation of the petroleum storage systems. Our environmental scientists supervised the removal of the storage systems and associated infrastructure and undertook the necessary soil and groundwater sampling to determine the integrity of the site. Remediation works were subsequently undertaken and an Action Plan developed and implemented to ensure the site was suitable for future commercial use.