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INFORMATION REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT REPORTS August 2007 VICTORIA’S AUDIT SYSTEM AUDIT REPORT CURRENCY An environmental audit system has operated in Audit reports are based on the conditions encountered Victoria since 1989. The Environment Protection Act and information reviewed at the time of preparation 1970 (the Act) provides for the appointment by the and do not represent any changes that may have Environment Protection Authority (EPA Victoria) of occurred since the date of completion. As it is not environmental auditors and the conduct of possible for an audit to present all data that could be independent, high quality and rigorous environmental of interest to all readers, consideration should be audits. made to any appendices or referenced documentation An environmental audit is an assessment of the for further information. condition of the environment, or the nature and extent When information regarding the condition of a site of harm (or risk of harm) posed by an industrial changes from that at the time an audit report is process or activity, waste, substance or noise. issued, or where an administrative or computation Environmental audit reports are prepared by EPA- error is identified, environmental audit reports, appointed environmental auditors who are highly certificates and statements may be withdrawn or qualified and skilled individuals. amended by an environmental auditor. Users are Under the Act, the function of an environmental advised to check EPA’s website to ensure the currency auditor is to conduct environmental audits and of the audit document. prepare environmental audit reports. Where an environmental audit is conducted to determine the PDF SEARCHABILITY AND PRINTING condition of a site or its suitability for certain uses, an environmental auditor may issue either a certificate or EPA Victoria can only certify the accuracy and statement of environmental audit. correctness of the audit report and appendices as presented in the hardcopy format. EPA is not A certificate indicates that the auditor is of the opinion responsible for any issues that arise due to problems that the site is suitable for any beneficial use defined with PDF files or printing. in the Act, whilst a statement indicates that there is some restriction on the use of the site. Except where PDF normal format is specified, PDF files are scanned and optical character recognised by Any individual or organisation may engage appointed machine only. Accordingly, while the images are environmental auditors, who generally operate within consistent with the scanned original, the searchable the environmental consulting sector, to undertake hidden text may contain uncorrected recognition environmental audits. The EPA administers the errors that can reduce search reliability. Therefore, environmental audit system and ensures its ongoing keyword searches undertaken within the document integrity by assessing auditor applications and may not retrieve all references to the queried text. ensuring audits are independent and conducted with regard to guidelines issued by EPA. This PDF has been created using the Adobe-approved method for generating Print Optimised Output. To assure proper results, proofs must be printed, rather AUDIT FILES STRUCTURE than viewed on the screen. Environmental audit reports are stored digitally by This PDF is compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader EPA in three parts: the audit report (part A), report Version 4.0 or any later version which is downloadable appendices (part B) and, where applicable, the free from Adobe’s Website, www.adobe.com. certificate or statement of environmental audit and an executive summary (part C). A report may be in colour FURTHER INFORMATION and black-and-white formats. Generally, only black- and-white documents are text searchable. For more information on Victoria’s environmental Report executive summaries, findings and audit system, visit EPA’s website or contact EPA’s recommendations should be read and relied upon only Environmental Audit Unit. in the context of the document as a whole, including Web: www.epa.vic.gov.au/envaudit any appendices and, where applicable, any certificate Email: [email protected] or statement of environmental audit. 1 CARMS # 65092-2 / SO # 8004012 Williams Landing Town Centre Pty Ltd Environmental Audit Report Stage 6A, Williams Landing Development, Palmers Road, Williams Landing, Victoria EPA – CARMS: 65092-2 and SON: 8004012 2 AECOM CARMS # 65092-2 / SO # 8004012 i Environmental Audit Report Executive Summary Environmental Audit (Contaminated Land) Table 2 Summary of Environmental Audit Information Summary of Environmental Audit Information EPA file reference no. Service Order Number: 8004012 / CARMS Number: 65092.2 Auditor: Darryl Strudwick Auditor term of appointment: 18 November 2009 to 24 July 2015 Name of person requesting audit: Mr Richard Poore of Williams Landing Town Centre Pty Ltd Relationship to premises/location Representative of Site Owner Date of request 15 April 2013 Date EPA notified of audit 19 April 2013 Completion date of audit 21 January 2014 Voluntary – Site proposed to be developed to enable sensitive Reason for audit land use Current land use zoning Priority Development Zone – Schedule 1 (PDZ1) EPA region Metro Municipality Wyndham Dominant – Lot on plan Lot S6 on PS643390W, Volume 11415 Folio 780 Additional – Lot on plan(s) Part of Lot A on PS703016R, Volume 11425 Folio 270 Site/premises name Stage 6A, Williams Landing Development Street/Lot – Lower No. NA Street/Lot – Upper No. NA Street Name Palmers Street type Road Street suffix (North, South etc) NA Suburb Williams Landing Postcode 3027 GIS coordinate of site centroid: - Longitude/Northing (GDA94) 144.748055 - Latitude/Easting (GDA94) -37.864722 Site area (hectares) 19.22 Members and categories of support team None utilised 3 Prepared for – Williams Landing Town Centre Pty Ltd – ABN: 68137303149 AECOM CARMS # 65092-2 / SO # 8004012 ii Environmental Audit Report Summary of Environmental Audit Information Outcome of audit Statement of Environmental Audit Implementations of conditions of Statement of Environmental Further work or requirements Audit - waste material comprising crushed rock, concrete, steel reinforcement, asphalt, coke and slag, covering an area of 1,100 m2 in the south east of the site is considered to be aesthetically unacceptable for residential, recreation / open space and commercial use where the material is accessible; and - no direct investigation of groundwater has been undertaken, as the site is not likely to be a source of Nature and extent of continuing risk groundwater pollution, and potentially affected beneficial uses at the site are not relevant. In completing the Stage 6A Audit in accordance with EPA Publication 759, the Auditor has assumed that groundwater at the site is polluted. Previously completed Environmental Audits of land to the north and east of the Stage 6A Audit site have concluded that the beneficial uses “primary contact recreation” and/or “stock watering” are precluded by the presence of TCE (“primary contact recreation” and “stock watering”) and Hg (“Stock watering). Table 3 Physical Site information Physical Site Information Site aquifer formation Quaternary Newer Volcanics Average depth to Approximately 8 to 9 m groundwater Groundwater segment Segment C Groundwater flow South to South East direction Part of the former Laverton RAAF Airbase including: - runway safety areas (i.e. excluding runways and taxi areas); Past use/site history - temporary aircraft parking areas; - a small portion of a former runway and taxi areas; and - a small portion of an area with a former non-directional navigation beacon. - North: Ashcroft Avenue, then residential/former Stage 2 Audit Area (north) and vacant land/former Stage 3 Audit Area (north east) Surrounding land use - East: Vacant land/former Stage 4 Audit area - South: Commercial/Stage 6B of the Williams Landing Development - West: Vacant land (EPBC Conservation Area) Mixed use, including educational, commercial and medium to high density residential Proposed future use uses. 4 Prepared for – Williams Landing Town Centre Pty Ltd – ABN: 68137303149 AECOM CARMS # 65092-2 / SO # 8004012 iii Environmental Audit Report Summary Outcome of Audit This Environmental Audit Report has been prepared by Darryl Strudwick (an EPA appointed Environmental Auditor – Contaminated Land) of AECOM Australia Pty Ltd at the request of Mr Richard Poore of Williams Landing Town Centre Pty Ltd. The Auditor has been engaged to undertake an Environmental Audit of the site known as Stage 6A, Williams Landing Development, located at Palmers Road, Williams Landing, Victoria (the site) (see Figure 1). The site occupies an area of approximately 19.22 ha and is part of the former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Laverton Air Base (more recently known as RAAF Williams) which occupied approximately 275 ha. The former RAAF Laverton Air Base operated from the 1920’s until the early 1990’s, when it was decommissioned. Prior to this time, the land of the former RAAF Laverton Air Base was used for pastoral activities (ES, November 2013). Environmental assessment and remediation works were undertaken at the site between April and November 2013. Under the provisions of the Wyndham City Council Planning Scheme (Local Provision), the site is currently located within a Priority Development Zone Schedule 1 (PDZ1). The future intended land use of the site (Stage 6A) is envisaged to be mixed use, including educational, commercial and