WELCOME
Welcome to OnCUE - Cleaning Up Esperance, the Esperance cleanup and recovery
website.
The Western Australian State Government is committed to ensuring future exports
and imports through the Port of Esperance do not pose a risk
to the health or amenity of the Esperance community.
In December 2008 the State Government launched
the Esperance cleanup and recovery project, a rigorous and comprehensive
exercise to clean up the Esperance townsite of lead carbonate
and nickel sulphide dust that had escaped from the port during
ship loading over a number of years.
The Department of Environment and Conservation
has imposed a number of licence conditions on the Port of Esperance
to ensure all future metal concentrate exports do not cause any
further health or environmental problems.
Find out more about OnCUE - Cleaning Up Esperance, the Esperance cleanup and
recovery project, by visiting our other pages through the index
tabs on the top menu.
Further information on the Esperance cleanup project is available on the Department of Health and Department of Environment and Conservation websites.
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Project updates
18 January 2010 (pdf 164kb)
"The ECRP team has identified a
likely area of elevated lead concentrations across the townsite
using available datasets
and computer modelling. This area will be refined as we systematically
sample in a staged approach to determine the actual levels
and the degree of cleaning required at individual premises.
A total of 140 premises have now been sampled." more...
3 December 2009 (pdf 91kb)
"Detailed sampling has
commenced in Stage Two, comprising approximately 100 premises
directly
to the west of Stage One. Cleaning work continues in Stage
One as individual cleaning work packs are developed, based
on the analysis of results from the laboratory." more...
12 November 2009 (pdf 93kb)
"Fieldwork for broad based soil sampling across Esperance is
complete and samples are currently being analysed for lead
and nickel levels. Cleaning of homes in the Stage One area
is progressing while residents in the Stage Two area, adjoining
and extending to the west of Stage One, have been contacted
to seek consent for sampling." more...
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October 2009 (pdf 42kb)
"Esperance Cleaning Services has
been awarded the tender for Stage One of the cleaning project,
which covers an area to the south west of the Port and is bounded
by Twighlight Beach Road and Smith Street. Detailed sampling
of individual premises is well underway and cleaning work plans
are being developed for the first round of homes to be cleaned
in this area." more...
More updates......
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