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

16 August 2010 (pdf 169kb)
" The Esperance Cleanup and Recovery Project (ECRP) has established a temporary waste disposal and sampling facility at the Wylie Bay refuse site. Waste material from the cleaning phase of the project is being held in locked sea containers at the site, before being tested and classified to determine the appropriate final disposal location." more...

8 July 2010 (pdf 152kb)
"Cleaning commenced on 28 June with Bay of Isles Mini Excavators and PRC Services mobilising and expanding their workforce to meet the size and complexity of the project."more...

10 June 2010 (pdf 153kb)
"Contracts for the major cleaning project have been awarded to PRC Building Services Pty Ltd and Bay of Isles Mini Excavators Pty Ltd. Mobilisation is currently underway and cleaning will commence from 1 July 2010. It is anticipated that the majority of the required cleaning across the townsite will be completed before the end of December 2010." more...

10 May 2010 (pdf 127kb)
"In preparation for the award of the major cleaning contracts, the ECRP team has identified over 200 premises ready for cleaning. Each one of those premises has now been sampled and analysed, and individual cleaning work plans have been prepared for each property." more...

More updates......