- Title:
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Guideline on Responding to Incidents Involving Landfill Gas Leaching
- Date:
- December 2011
- Organisations
- AFAC
- Authors:
Supporting documents
- Gas Leaching Discussion Paper
- Action Guideline Levels for Methane Gas Produced from Landfill
- Emergency Incident Response Plan
Overview
AFAC Guidelines are a preferred or advisable course of action. Member agencies are expected to be aware of Guidelines and to have considered how best they apply to relevant circumstances faced by the agency.
This Guideline is to assist and support agencies responding to and treating incidents involving gases that have migrated from landfill sites. It reflects a consensus on best practice for dealing with such incidents as at the date of publication.
The Guideline set out in this paper has been formulated from a joint Country Fire Authority / Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board paper based on the learnings from the Brookland Greens landfill gas incident in Victoria in 2008. Full details of the analysis on which this
Guideline is based are outlined in the AFAC Discussion Paper Responding to incidents involving landfill gas leaching (May 2011).
