Manhari fined

EPA Victoria has fined Manhari Recycling after it allowed smoke to be discharged from its Somerville Rd, Tottenham operation. EPA officers investigated and found that the smoke emission that occurred...

Buninyong fire attracts an EPA fine

A stockpile of burning waste, including waste tyres, at Buninyong has attracted CFA firefighters who stopped the fire, and then EPA Victoria who issued a $9,880 fine.   EPA officers responded to...

Company and Director fined $1.28m for 2017 Coolaroo fire

A company and its sole Director have been convicted and fined a combined $1.28 million over a 2017 fire that destroyed a Coolaroo recycling plant, burned for over a week and triggered the evacuation...

A pile of waste and a pile of money

A Braybrook company has copped a $5,928 fine from EPA Victoria over a stockpile of industrial waste found on a property at Campbell Rd, Gisborne.   EPA officers fined First Choice Demolition Pty...

Media Statement: Cherry Creek Court Case

MEDIA STATEMENT: EPA VICTORIA An avoidable environmental pollution event that led to the death of tonnes of fish, the pollution of Cherry Creek and Lake and the loss of the community’s use of...

EPA pumps $5k out of a Carlton petrol station

The NSW-based company running a high-profile Carlton petrol station has been hit with a $5,928 fine for failing to show it was obeying an environmental notice from EPA Victoria.   The notice...

Veolia Waste Transfer Station decision on Development Licence

After a comprehensive, science-based assessment of Veolia’s Development Licence application for a waste transfer station at its site in 290 Hallam Road, Hampton Park, EPA Victoria has decided to...

Waste tyre blitz in the west

EPA Victoria is targeting tyres dumped on public streets, parks and farmland which pose major environmental and human health risks as dumpers choose to shift the cost of disposal onto the community...

More fast food outlets failing the environment

EPA Victoria will escalate its enforcement of environmental compliance and contact the corporate and franchise headquarters of  McDonalds, Hungry Jacks and KFC after inspections found another...

EPA testing for emerging contaminants in fish

EPA Victoria scientists will soon be seen on Port Phillip Bay, on the river banks that feed into it and Gippsland Lakes as they start the collection phase of a project to better understand how our...