Appendix CRF - Part 3 - Northamptonshire County Council

The East Northants Resource Management Facility
S19 The landfill site lies approximately 2.5km north of the village of King’s Cliffe in the
East Northamptonshire District of the County of Northamptonshire (Figure 1).
The closest village to the site is Duddington, approximately 2.2km to the North
West. The setting is generally rural with a majority of the land surrounding the
landfill site comprising open farmland or woodland.
S20 Landfilling operations at East Northants Resource Management Facility
commenced in 2002. The site has been previously known as the Kingscliffe
landfill site and as the Slipe Clay Pit.
S21 The facility is the subject of a Permit and operates as a hazardous waste landfill
with a number of ancillary waste activities and treatment processes on the site.
The landfill site is engineered to the highest standards consistent with hazardous
landfills. It is lined with a composite barrier of high density polyethylene and
1.5m thickness of clay. The disposal rate of the engineered landfill cells with
hazardous and inert (the inert material is used for cover and construction of
access tracks) waste is permitted at a maximum of 249,999 tonnes/year (Figure
2).
S22 It is currently envisaged that landfill operations will continue until approximately
2013, dependant on the actual importation rate. The site will be progressively
restored and once complete will undergo a defined scheme of capping and final
restoration. The afteruse of the site will be principally grassland and wildflower
meadows for ecological and agricultural purposes.
S23 The proposal for LLW disposal at the site will not change the annual tonnage, the
total capacity of the site or the physical features that contributed to the original
landfill permitting decision.
Application for disposal of LLW including HV-VLLW under RSA 1993,
for the East Northants Resource Management Facility:
Supporting Information
July 2009
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