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.

Project updates

20 December 2011 (pdf 145kb)
"As anticipated, the bulk of the cleaning for the Project is now complete. The ECRP team would like to take this opportunity to wish our project partners, wider stakeholders and community members a happy and safe Christmas." more...

28 October 2011 (pdf 120kb)
"The bulk of cleaning is expected to be completed in December 2011. A validation audit will soon be undertaken to provide an independent and scientific assessment of the thoroughness of the ECRP sampling and cleaning operations..." more...

24 August 2011 (pdf 218kb)
"Detailed sampling of individual premises across the affected area of the townsite is drawing to a close. The ECRP is now focusing on validation sampling to ensure that cleaning has been effective and that no recontamination is occurring..." more...

16 June 2011 (pdf 151kb)
" The ECRP has identified a probable cut-off line or limiting boundary to the north west of the town beyond which premises were not affected by Magellan lead contamination from rail movements or ship loading events at the port..." more...

More updates......