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TRECATTI TIP, LOCATION DOWLAIS TOP, MERTHYR TYDFIL, WALES. LIFESPAN 50YEARS, LICENCE SPECIAL DIFFICULT AND HAZARDOUS WASTE. | The TRECATTI Tip, a brief history in 1970s the site was an opencast coal site some 300 meters deep in 1986 after fierce opposition from local residents planning permission was given by the local council to fill the site with household refuse. The site was used as a household landfill site for eight years, the only problems we had was with the odd bit of wind blown litter from the site. Then in 1992 the council had two options under a government directive, option one run the site themselves, option two set a hands off company. They choose option two with a company called Biffa Waste Services Ltd; they set up a 20% profit share agreement between them selves. The council tried to grant a deemed consent licence for the site that would allow the tipping of difficult special and hazardous waste, because they could not sell a deemed consent, they tried again with an ordinary consent that was passed by the council. This is were the fun begins or does it, having the special waste licence for the site that made it more of a economic gain for Biffa, the councillors sold the site to Biffa for one pound, (yes �1.00 pound). The councils friends at Biffa told them that it would take a million pounds to line the site, so the licence was granted and the incredible duo of Biffa and the council begun operations in 1993, at Trecatti. In early 1994 Roger Morris the chief executive of the Merthyr council decided that he wanted to go on a trip, so their friends Biffa gave them a weekend in Belgium, all expenses paid for by Biffa, to see a leachete plant. (Nobody told them they see the same plant 12miles away in Pontypridd) Along with Roger went Ray Thomas council leader, Billy Pye council officer, and Linda Matthews's deputy leader of the council. A good time was had by all concerned with the trip, only one thing they forgot to do was tell the rest of the council that they were going on the trip, never mind Ray and Roger sorted later. The first of the air borne odours also started in 1994, people begun to suffer with running eyes, sores on their faces breathing difficulties and other symptoms. Countless complaints by residents were ignored by the council and Biffa, then came the Biffa bung sorry community benefit of 10.000 pounds. Nobody new about this community benefit except Roger and Ray, residents wrote to the MD of Biffa to find out if it was true that they had given the 10.000 to the council, this was confirmed as true. After a great deal of investigation by residents Roger and Ray said they spent the 10.000 on tarmarking Blaen Dowlais Street, or did they we think differently. Thousands of complaints begun to arrive at the councils environment health department from 1993 onwards, the Merthyr & Rhymney Environment Action Committee, the group set up by residents to fight for the closure of the TRECATTI Tip. Begun the camping to close the tip on health and environmental grounds, they invited the local MP Ted Rowlands to help them he as done nothing to date the same as Glennis Kinnock, Euro MP, Ron Davies MP Welsh Secretary of State, and others they have done nothing. Despite numerous breaches of the licence condition's by Biffa. Then in 1996 came the council's saviour the Environment Agency, 20 miles away in Cardiff a government quango, that did not know their left hand from the right hand a complete waste of space. After six years of fighting for the closure of the TRECATTI Tip, the residents are still very active, there as been a marked increase in the use of inhalers by very young children, and also a vast increase in the number of birth defects in the local area. Prenatal death rate in the United Kingdom is 8%; in Merthyr its 10.4% does this tell you anything. I could go on for ever, if you can help contact us at [email protected], any sort of help would really be of use to us
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