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In the case where a company storing, transporting or destroying chemical waste becomes insolvent, and this is a real possibility given previous experience, reassigning ownership will be necessary. If there is no effective commercial option for a coordinating body to utilise, eg. This all adds to the risk associated with transporting the waste from the farm or home to the collection point. The issue of ownership of the chemical waste is complex. It is by no means an exhaustive examination and the contribution of new issues and possible solutions by workshop participants is encouraged by the Steering Committee. After being collected, the chemical waste will then need to be transported to the consolidation stores and then on to the destruction facility. At present, the holder is clearly the owner of the waste and has a duty of care to ensure that the waste is safely managed and handled. Consequently, there are two components of transport which should be addressed. They would also need to comply with regulatory requirement in terms of relevant occupational health and safety, dangerous goods, environment protection, public health, and export control legislation.
Previous use of OCPs on farms and subsequent uptake into primary produce has already resulted in multimillion dollar trade losses. Option 4 looks at indefinite ongoing chemical collections. The program has been running since 1989 and has resulted in the collection of 123 tonnes of unwanted chemicals. There would be a need to regularly assess potential threats of not conducting a collection program. How many times is collection offered? The OCP waste was disposed of by high temperature incineration at Rechem International.
The schedule X organochlorines, DDD, DDE and Heptachlor epoxide may be found in collected unwanted chemicals as breakdown products. Some of the chemicals that may be refused include leaking chlorine containers, diesel fuel with fertiliser, and mixed chemicals. Currently, BCC collects waste from residents on request, although this has an expensive exercise. It is considered desirable that the community have full access to information to ensure that trust is developed and maintained. Sydney Water dispose of most of the material, that cannot be recycled or accepted at local landfill sites, through a local specialist disposal company, who have arranged the storage of OCPs and arsenicals at the Commonwealth Storage site, Oaklands NSW. Industrial Waste Disposal Authority, arranged for the collection and disposal of this DDT, via export to Rechem International Pontypool South Wales, by high temperature incineration.
Australia, taking into account regional differences. Environmental Health Officers Group held a Chemical Collection Day in 1996 where they collected approximately 40 kilograms of pesticides from 104 vehicles. Review Report Number 3, August 1996. Workshop participants may wish to consider the need for tailoring promotional and educational activities to the target area or region to maximise participation rates. The National method for the Management of Scheduled Wastes, endorsed by ANZECC in 1993 and reproduced subsequently in the management plan being developed for OCPs, provides a useful starting point for establishing the scope of a national collection, storage and destruction scheme for unwanted farm and household chemicals. Householders are required to provide information on the type and quantities of chemicals and their contact details. There has been a total of approximately 50 tonnes of chemicals collected. Collections are conducted continuously, usually on weekends, and operate out of transfer stations and landfill sites.
Therefore, there are two destruction issues that need to be tackled in developing any national collection program: capability and capacity. During each stage of a collection scheme, various participants will need to have a clear understanding of responsibilities and liabilities. At the completion of export process, approximately 115 tonnes of DDT had been collected. On the other hand, risks and costs are also associated with the collection and transport of unwanted farm and household chemicals to new storage sites or destruction facilities. The functions of a consolidation store could include handling, identification, analysis if required, packaging and storage of unwanted farm and household chemicals once they have been handed in or collected. The collection team would set up and await delivery of unwanted chemicals by farmers and town residents. Given their importance, this discussion paper treats them as being part of a separate building block.
The SAEPA have not scheduled any further collections for South Australia. Territories of Australia restricted or prohibited the use of most organochlorine pesticides particularly DDT. The advice of local communities on whether ongoing chemical collections were desirable would be an important consideration; ongoing collections for a limited period may be more suitable to some communities. This service continues to collect from small industrial premises on a fee for service basis. Apart from these collections, no other programs have been conducted. The collection day at Dry Creek has been advertised so people are aware of the day on which they are able to drop off their chemicals.
OCPs and arsenicals have been surrendered. During the following six months to April 1998, 180 tonnes of OCPs were collected. OCPs, they have restricted or prohibited the use of most OCPs, particularly DDT. The collection team has a caravan, other vehicles and equipment that are moved from site to site. Depending on the type and proportion of unwanted chemicals collected, this option will assist in reducing the risk to public health, the environment and trade. Storage costs will depend on the availability of adequate destruction facilities. Although, this option is likely to collect more unwanted chemicals than Option 2, it may not collect sufficient quantities of target wastes to reduce risks to health, environment and trade to acceptable levels.
On average 250 people hand in chemicals, which total nearly 8 tonnes of material, on each collection day. The quantities collected were not provided but are known to be relatively small. The HCWG commissioned a survey of 400 households throughout the metropolitan area, to explore the demand for a Household Chemicals Management Program. Once collected, the chemicals are transported to a licensed HWC storage facility located at Shortland Wastewater Treatment Plant. Given concerns for the lack of appropriate treatment technologies for some chemical waste streams, government involvement in promoting research and development to establish new waste treatment technologies may be required. ANZECC has asked that advice be developed on the scope of the problem and possible solutions.
Figure 4 illustrates a possible relationship between a coordinating body, governments and each part of the collection process. NCSDS is likely to result in the collection of a range of chemicals. The issues of designing and running a collection scheme and who should take responsibility for such, are complex. Unlike the eastern states who exported their OCP waste for high temperature incineration, Western Australia placed their material into storage awaiting the establishment of a suitable local treatment facility. OCPs is an integral part of that method. The merits and costs of these and other promotional strategies need to be considered.
Chemsal Pty Ltd was engaged to collect the 182kg of chemicals, comprising organochlorine, organophosphate, arsenical and other pesticides, from the 14 properties where farmers had indicated having unwanted chemicals. The document is expected to draw on principles presented in the draft National method for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals. OCP waste is being prepared in parallel with the development of a proposal for the collection and destruction of unwanted farm and household chemicals. This definition is derived from the draft OCP Management Plan. The storage facility has an EPA licence. There would be no need to take co ordinated action or for government or industry funding. There would be an ongoing need for appropriately trained personnel at each site to operate the chemical collection program. Scheduled wastes is one group for which particular attention has been given to establishment of appropriate and suitable means of destruction and this issue is discussed in more detail below. Transport distance: Finite or indefinite?
This option focuses on providing ongoing capacity for collections rather than the temporary nature of the previous options for a NCSDS. There needs to be a strong focus on research and development for the treatment of arsenicals and other difficult to treat waste. June to September 1987. As a result of this report, the Waste Management Council, now EcoRecycle Victoria, conducts chemical collection days once a month. It will however continue to operate the Dry Creek facility for households and farmers. Without concerted national action, the Australian community cannot be assured that potential risks to human health, the environment and trade, has been minimised. Participants in the collection program entering into a bond agreement, which is similar to a bank guarantee. This discussion paper aims to generate discussion on both the scope of the problem and possible solutions. For example, export may be permitted when keeping the wastes in Australia presents an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment, and in addition, suitable and environmentally sound overseas destruction facilities must be willing to accept the waste for treatment.
The above illustrates how pesticide contamination of primary produce has and could still result in trade restrictions and that associated costs to Australia would be very high. Beaudesert Shire and Gold Coast City. OCPs above acceptable standards. Territory government level under an agreed national policy framework. BCC are now considering running collections on a suburb by suburb basis at some stage in the future. Some special arrangements are made for rural residents that are some distance away from the depot. Despite these potential sources of funds, liability for the waste is an issue that will need to be dealt with. As will be discussed later in this Paper, collection of OCPs and other pesticides have been undertaken before.
How best to establish and keep public trust. Collection to holder or holder to collection point? During this period 85 kilolitres of liquid and approximately 5 tonnes of powdered DDT was brought in for disposal. The Western Australian Government enacted legislation in mid 1987 to prohibit the agricultural use of organochlorine pesticides. Cockburn City Council collects household chemical wastes at a storage shed at their landfill site. Figure 2 is a diagrammatic representation of these operational issues. Stocks of other unwanted farm and households chemicals are also a potential source of such contamination with the risks of contamination increasing over time through container deterioration or misadventure. The latter was returned and remains stored in Queensland. Given that schedule X OCPs will thus be a major focus of any national collection scheme, this discussion paper draws on issues raised by the OCP Management Plan.
The program was commenced due to public requests and the need to minimise chemical discharges to sewer and the environment. For some areas, this is likely to be considerable. Tracking between the collection point, consolidation store and the destruction facility. Should this occur, these figures are indicative of the magnitude of possible future losses should contamination occur. This option will assist in minimising the risk to public health, the environment and livestock health. Of the three operational facilities in Australia, the Ecologic plant in WA has demonstrated a capability for treating known OCP wastes, including those wastes collected in Western Australia through the 1987 OCP recall. In so broadening the scope, this paper recognises that all types of chemicals were surrendered through past chemicals collection programs. Destruction costs will be an important component of overall cost of any collection program and these will be difficult to estimate where treatment technologies are currently unavailable for some chemical waste types.
HWC can refuse to collect some chemicals in certain circumstances, if this material causes a breach of its EPA licence, or if it is hazardous to transport. In 1993, the Commonwealth Environment Minister adopted a policy that permits for the export of scheduled waste would not be issued while technologies for its destruction in Australia were being developed. What strategies are needed to prevent or minimise the generation of future unwanted chemicals? This may not meet the goal of achieving national action on this issue which would be needed if Australia is to demonstrate that it has a national approach to the management of these chemicals. Export of portion of waste stream collected? The cost of identification and analyses could be significantly reduced by ensuring, that during collection, unlabelled or poorly labelled containers are identified, where possible, by the person surrendering the chemicals and, during repackaging, only like farm and household chemicals are combined. Ways of minimising these risk need to be discussed and factored into any national chemical collection scheme. Government agencies have indicated that, with the exception of some types of scheduled waste, there appear to be an adequate range of outlets for most categories of chemical wastes likely to be collected.
Solvents, 10 tonnes of heavy metal pesticides, 11 tonnes of other pesticides and 219 tonnes of other material. There does not appear to be an incentive to minimise future generation of unwanted chemicals. As a result of the 1987 OCP collection, it was found that farmers had other unwanted chemicals they wished to dispose of. The Queensland Government enacted legislation prohibiting the use of certain organochlorine pesticides in agriculture in mid 1987. The community had been informed by way of advertising in various media before the collection team arrived at a particular town. This is important for environmental, health and international trade reasons. No chemicals are accepted from industry or government agencies. No infrastructure, brought in for collections, would remain for ongoing receipt of unwanted chemicals.
Experience shows that the success of any collection program is heavily dependent on its promotion in the wider community. Commonwealth, State and Territory Environment Ministers. The Brisbane BCD facility has received regulatory approval to treat a range of organochlorine pesticides but has treated only limited OCPs commercially. It involved visiting 9 towns to collect unwanted chemicals, resulted in the collection of over 55 tonnes of material, handed in by a total of 923 farmers. Of the three NCSDS options, this option is most likely to require the establishment of an ongoing coordinating body to develop the required infrastructure, coordinate ongoing collections and oversee the other operational aspects of a NCSDS which include, handling, storage, consolidation, transport and destruction. During this recall, 16 tonnes of arsenic waste was collected, of which 11 tonnes was sent to May and Baker, United Kingdom and 5 tonnes to Rhone Poulenc. Although the community response was poor, the Council believed that there were sufficient unwanted chemicals to warrant collection.
What strategies for the management of future unwanted chemicals should be put in place? This collection was advertised in the local paper and staffed by a chemist from the Waste Management Division of the Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Health Officers from the participating councils. Thus, delaying a collection program in the expectation that technologies would be developed may not reduce the storage costs involved. The section concludes with a discussion of the major impediments to the successful management of unwanted farm and household chemicals. In 1992, a major collection was held in the Lower South East followed in 1995 with a similar collection in the Riverland. Two regions of SA with at least 5 major centres. Environment Protection Authority, regional waste management groups, waste management associations, the Plastics and Chemicals Industry Association, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Melbourne Water. The development of trust between all interested parties during the process to develop scheduled waste management plans has been nurtured by openness and not difficult comprehensible information and processes.
This scheme was funded by the Commonwealth Government. Landfilling of encapsulated arsenic wastes? The OCP waste would be brought to the consolidation stores from collection points, most of these being of a temporary nature. Victoria where over 163 tonnes of material was handed in by 1798 farmers. How many for Australia? The draft final OCP management plan introduces the concept of consolidation stores to handle and consolidate OCP waste. Australia have adequate capacity and capability for managing the range of hazardous chemicals that may be collected?
Any coordinating body would need to be accountable to governments through a number of processes which may include contractual requirements to develop corporate, strategic plans and annual reports. These arrangements include opening up the depot on other occasions to receive the load, or actually arranging to have the chemicals collected. OCPs mirex, toxaphene, methoxychlor, and isobenzan. Previous experience shows that the cost of storage and redrumming of collected waste can be a major component of the overall cost of a collection scheme. For example, the containers may be rusting, they may have lost their lids or caps and their labels may have fallen off or become illegible. Given this scenario, it will be important that any national chemical collection program have available options for managing the range of wastes collected. Third, clear responsibility could be given to a coordinating body to plan and run a national collection program. Territory experiences, a failure to collect all or at least the majority of unwanted farm and household chemicals could place additional costs on the program and undermine the objective of removing most, if not all, unwanted farm and household chemicals by a certain date.
The case studies illustrate some of the different ways in which messages can be conveyed and people motivated to participate. The decision as to whether to accept or refuse chemicals is solely at the discretion of HWC. The arsenic waste has been encapsulated in concrete and placed in the secure landfill site at Mt Walton. To address this problem, a pilot rural collection program was developed for the northern part of central Victoria. All risks and costs will need to be assessed and balanced in designing a scheme for the management of unwanted farm and household chemicals. First, the responsibility for developing a national collection program could be left to individual governments which would, in effect, continue the present arrangements. Such an option may give the community no future outlet for chemical wastes produced in future and may result in improper disposal. Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. As a result of this collection program, 360 kg of pesticides have been collected.
This discussion paper attempts to convey the nature of issues that need to be resolved in developing a national scheme for managing unwanted farm and household chemicals. The survey found significant use of household chemicals with about 30 percent of households requiring a disposal service for at least one chemical product category out of 41 categories surveyed. The Australian, 21 November 1994. The national workshops being run by the National Advisory Body on scheduled wastes in July and August of 1997 provide an ideal opportunity to bring forward new and creative ways for addressing these issues. Operational issues that will need to be considered if Australia is to successfully address the issue of unwanted farm and household chemicals will now be outlined. Australia, and one that could well have an adverse impact on the effectiveness of any collection program is the distance that waste holders would need to travel to a collection point. There are likely to be long term storage costs and risks. Functions of the consolidator? As part of each key building block, there are many issues that will require discussion.
The requirements for public reporting should be consistent with those specified in the draft OCP management plan. It would be helpful if the chemicals are readily identifiable and safe to handle at the time of collection. HWC has found that the householders are prepared to wait until the collection service is undertaken in their area. Commonwealth, State and Territory agriculture departments. This should reduce the costs of consolidation and maximise the opportunities of destroying the wastes safely and effectively. This option would give greater assurance to government, industry and the community that unwanted chemicals and their potential risks are removed from farms and households. Option 1: Do not conduct a NCSDS. As the waste is collected, consolidated, transported and finally destroyed or treated, the ownership of the waste will be transferred. This is a free service to the householder and farmers.
This option has the potential to significantly reduce the risk to public health, the environment and trade. In this discussion paper, the option of a coordinating body has been suggested to provide the focus for the operational aspects of any collection scheme. In addition, BCD is currently constructing a new facility which is to incorporate a Plascon plant, with initial use for concentrated PCBs and subsequently for OCPs. They are presented to highlight some of the ways in which collection programs have been conducted. The costs of storage and disposal have tended to discourage this practice. The Steering Committee believes these principles should be extended to any collection program that may be developed to remove unwanted farm and household chemicals. DDT was handed in over the next year. Two Household Hazardous Waste collection days were held in 1990 and 1991 in Western Australia, organised by the Western Australian Municipal Association.
The options in this Discussion Paper provided, while based on previous experience, may or may not be appropriate to the vastly different regions across Australia. The issue of transport will be strongly influenced by how the collection, handling and storage components of a NCSDS are to be managed. Adding OCPs to the backlog of PCB wastes awaiting treatment, would extend the delay before those wastes are destroyed. Based on these case studies, a series of possible options for unwanted farm and household chemical collections are canvassed below. In turn, effective promotion depends on potential hindrances being addressed early in the planning of any collection program like putting in place effective communication strategies. Persistence of organochlorines in breast milk of women in Victoria, Australia, Fd. These pages are no longer being maintained or updated but remain here as an archive for your information.
Figure 4: Possible relationship between governments, a coordinating body and a national chemicals collection scheme. Whereas the other two management plans deal with scheduled wastes that belong to holders who will need to take responsibility for destruction of their own waste, the OCP management plan deals with wastes held by a much more diverse group, including farmers and householders. Of these approximately 15 tonne represent pesticides. One of the objectives of initial identification and segregation is to reduce the later need for chemical identification and analyses. Agriculture Department representatives on the NCSDS Steering Committee. This occurred after the US Government detected OCP residues in Australian beef.
The Queensland Rural Pesticide Recall Program commenced on 8 October 1987 with a Ministerial direction to all local Authorities, Government members and Department of Primary Industry officers setting out the details of the program and advertisements placed in the rural media. The National Manifest System for the Transport of Hazardous Wastes could play an important regulatory role in tracking interstate movements of the collected waste and in providing to governments and the community with an assurance that the waste is moved from the consolidation facility to the destruction or treatment facility. Of this total, approximately 20. To be part of an excisting facility? Gippsland area, and 6 towns in the South West portion of the state resulting in 824 farmers handing in 120 tonnes of chemicals for disposal. For example, in the past Australia exported PCBs to the UK for high temperature incineration but the UK has recently banned the import of wastes for incineration. Some of these are summarised in Figure 1 which also presents some idea of the chronology of a collection scheme and possible links between the various key building blocks. National method for the Management of Scheduled Wastes. The facility opens the first Tuesday of every month and enables householders and farmers to bring along their unwanted chemicals and leave them at the depot. Although the risk associated with any remaining stocks of OCPs finding their way into the food chain is less than it was 10 years ago, it is still possible.
It is envisaged that a coordinating body would be responsible for administering a collection scheme and ensuring that the collection, storage and destruction actually occurs, but it would not necessarily perform all of the tasks. This uncertainty may delay the commencement of a NCSDS. What storage capacity will be needed and what regulatory requirements should stores be subject to, for example, dangerous goods, environment protection and occupational health and safety controls. Collection and destruction of OCP wastes therefore presents an added level of complexity if these wastes are to be safely destroyed; for example, who will pay for destruction. Farmers and householders may possess containers that are in a poor condition. Environmental and health performance of destruction facilities. EcoLogic have been contracted to treat this stored OCP waste at their Kwinana site. Role of Australian Dangerous Goods Code? Hunter Water Corporation has indicated that it will continue to undertake the chemical collection program as a service to its customers.
If anything goes wrong, the fund could then be used to remediate any damage. The Northern Midlands Council, which comprises mainly farming communities, undertook a survey of all residents in their region to assess the extent of unwanted chemicals in the community. Between 1990 and 1995 five suburban collections were held around Adelaide. In 1996, amendments to the Hazardous Waste Act 1996, were passed under which exports of hazardous wastes for final disposal may only be permitted in exceptional circumstances. Waste holders not removing unwanted organochlorine pesticides from farms could threaten the trade of those that do remove and destroy organochlorine pesticides. Intergovernment and interagency cooperation and information sharing. Subsequent to this, the Department of Agriculture conducted two pesticide recall programs where 180 tonnes of OCPs and 20 tonnes of arsenic waste were collected. The accountability of such a Coordinating Body to governments and the community, and the public accessibility to information, are considered to be essential features of any collection and destruction program.
At present the Dry Creek drop off point is the only chemical collection program being undertaken by the SAEPA. The EPA advertised the collections through postal dumps of brochures or flyers a few weeks before the collection day, advertisements in local papers running over three consecutive issues, utilising free time on ABC regional radio, placing posters around shopping areas and pubs, using the Department of Agriculture to provide lead articles to the local papers, and having the collections mentioned in the CFA fire reports. To profit public confidence and support, transparency, public accountability and reporting are seen as important features of any collection scheme. Likewise transport, while a feature of the whole process, is also treated as a separate building block. Sydney Water Board commenced conducting Household Chemical Collections in 1989, as part of their campaign to improve the quality of their sewer discharge. Ownership could remain with the coordinating body from the point of collection through to destruction or disposal or be assigned to other individual participants in the collection program. We would like to thank you for the terrific service that we have received from Cheaper Bin Hire over the years.
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Sutherland and Marsden Jacob Associates have been engaged by the Queensland Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning to assess the potential for a salinity trading scheme to be implemented in the Fitzroy River Basin to improve mine water management. The study also investigates the impact and value of groundwater management and methods of prioritising management expenditure. The likely timing for the regulation being made is July 2014. Marsden Jacob will also analyse alternative governance and funding options for industry participants and project beneficiaries. On Wednesday 3 July, Gene Tunny from our Brisbane office presented a paper on the economic viability of recycled water schemes to the Asia Pacific Water Recycling Conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Our work is supporting the Council to transition to an integrated water management approach, and the development of its Municipal Drainage method. Marsden Jacob Associates worked with the Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government Minister for the Arts to deliver this initiative, and to identify and evaluate economic diversification opportunities in New South Wales and South Australian Basin regions. QCA website and can be accessed here.
The presentation is available here. This morning Alex Marsden gave a keynote presentation at the IAH 2013 conference in Perth on Assessing the value of groundwater. Two new research projects will improve understanding of the costs, benefits and risks that impact on investment in recycling options in Australia. Parks Victoria, Marsden Jacob and Alluvium are working together to estimate economic values for the watershed services provided by Victorian parks. Consequently dewatering of mines has become both an issue for mining companies and an opportunity for agricultural development in the region. WSUD is an approach to urban planning and design that promotes the sustainable use and management of water, including drinking water, storm water, and waste water.
Mining in the Pilbara region has expanded rapidly in recent years and extraction of minerals from below the water table has become common. Blacktown City Council will use the results of the study to plan and prioritise Council activities to improve waterway health in the region. MJA has been engaged by the NWC to assist in developing social and economic performance measures for its 2014 Triennial Assessment. It will examine climate change consequences, environmental water holder trade, irrigator adaptability and options for improving water markets. People living in Blacktown believe waterway health is important for liveability and supporting their local economy. Our advice includes estimating the likely cost escalation impact that marketplace trends will have on water infrastructure tender prices for the next five years, and advice on how dynamics within materials, plant and labour sectors factor into the cost escalation estimates. Marsden Jacob has been commissioned by Seqwater to review the types of assessment frameworks available with a view to developing a tailored options assessment framework that can be utilised by Seqwater in the development of the water security program.
Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence, at the 2012 Ozwater Conference in Sydney. SA Riverland Floodplains Integrated Infrastructure Program. The Gold Coast City Council has engaged Marsden Jacob to determine the economic value of water on the Gold Coast. The Summit is a forum for discussion about how the water sector can drive cultural change and efficiency improvements. The review will include a financial and economic analysis of the project, which would divert saline water from the Collie catchment, and a review of the demand for services offered by the project. Pricing issues associated with potable water recycling. The symposium will address productivity in the Victorian water sector and other industries and highlight some innovative methodologies and initiatives currently in place to improve productivity. One of the research projects led by Marsden Jacob Associates will develop the first national framework for the economic assessment of new schemes.
Water quality offsets are innovative approaches for managing water quality in waterways. The scoping document will define the options for the commercialization of projects which make use of the excess water. Peter will address the symposium on Victorian productivity benchmarks. Victorian Branch, will be held on 22 October at Langham Hotel, Southbank, Melbourne. The panel will be asked to review the draft method and endorse the final plan. Marsden Jacob Managing Director Peter Jacob will speak at the Smart Water Fund Productivity and Commercial Performance Symposium on Monday, 7 October at the Telstra Conference Centre, Melbourne. It aims to address the broader question: How can the Victorian water industry support growth and development of the Victorian economy? Phil Pickering on 0434 884 220 for more information. The Water Reference Panel will provide independent advice to the Water Corporation on the plan that will explore the themes of reducing water use, developing new sources and increasing water recycling.
The project report provides a comprehensive framework to help assess the economic viability of recycled water schemes. Offset frameworks already in place in Australia and internationally are often proving to be cost effective mechanisms for managing environmental impacts and providing flexibility for more innovative and sustainable management approaches to managing environmental impacts. Marsden Jacob and Alluvium Consulting have been engaged by the City of Greater Dandenong to identify and evaluate opportunities for an integrated flood and water quality management approach at Thomas Street, and associated financial and economic benefits and costs.
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