Walley's Quarry Landfill: Odour Pollution

(asked on 8th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints have been received by the Environment Agency about Walley's Quarry Landfill in Newcastle-under-Lyme in each month since January 2019.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 17th December 2020

Walley’s Quarry landfill site holds a permit that is issued and regulated by the Environment Agency (EA), and the EA takes seriously any concerns expressed regarding the site. Although no landfill will ever be completely odour free, the level and type of odour arising from such operations should not be causing annoyance.

The table below details the number of odour complaints (reports of incidents received through the EA Incident Communication Service) about Walley’s Quarry Landfill, over the last two-year period.

Month

Number of Odour Complaints

January 2019

81

February 2019

259

March 2019

58

April 2019

49

May 2019

31

June 2019

57

July 2019

48

August 2019

95

September 2019

134

October 2019

82

November 2019

159

December 2019

102

January 2020

37

February 2020

94

March 2020

187

April 2020

74

May 2020

68

June 2020

53

July 2020

77

August 2020

92

September 2020

371

October 2020

225

Reticulating Splines