Broadpath Landfill

Broadpath Landfill is a modern landfill site developed by Viridor and first opened for waste in 1998.

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 set by the Landfill Directive. 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 (which is now not permitted under the Landfill Directive) in a different part of the quarry complex was brought forward by ECC Quarries Ltd in the 1980s and failed to achieve Planning Permission.

Broadpath landfill was granted Planning Permission in 1997 and a Waste Management Licence in 1998. Construction of the site infrastructure and the initial Landfill 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 as required by the changing legislation at the time.

The capacity at the site as originally granted Planning Permission was circa 2,500,000 cubic metres; this was subsequently increased upon approval of a revised Landfill Surcharge Allowance and set of Landfill Settlement Contours to around 3,800,000 cubic metres.

Geology

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.

Engineering and Environmental Controls

The landfill is constructed as a Containment Facility, utilizing the underlying clay materials as the principal barrier. The Landfill Lining System is augmented with a flexible membrane liner of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) on the base and the lower part of the sidewalls. The sidewalls are steeply graded and required buttressing to enable construction within the 30 meter deep quarry.

There is Landfill Gas power generation with electricity export to the National Grid. Installed capacity is 4.89MW. [1]

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 Treatment Works. Consequently, Leachate produced by the site is removed by tanker to appropriately permitted Sewage Treatment Works.

Other Infrastructure

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 and has been converted to be used a Waste Transfer Station.

Tonnage Handled

Only individual EWC codes received at the site in 2018 that exceeded 5,000 tonnes are shown below:

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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