Upgrade for Woy Woy tip

Gosford Council will close Woy Woy tip to putrescible waste and upgrade the landfill site at a cost of $2.5 million, if the council's draft City Management Plan is adopted.

This has been included in part of council's strategy for a "closed loop system".

Council has budgeted $1.5 million from its waste facility reserve to develop prelimary site and engineering works for the system, to be implemented in the 2007/2008 financial year.

Council also has plans to be extracting landfill gas and methane to generate "green energy" by December.

Council reported that negotiations were still continuing with AGL.

Council also has plans to construct the next stage of the landfill at the western end of the site at a cost of $1 million.

The project will be funded by council's waste facility reserve and is expected to be completed by December.

Draft City Management Plan, 25 May 2007 Gosford Council