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Macs Reef Waste Transfer Station too costly for Palerang?

A total proposed cost of $1,231,900 is how much it will cost to build a new waste transfer station (WTS) at Macs Reef Road, according to the consultants who developed the options and costed them.

What we know about the costs is that they include:

  • Site Investigations

  • Planning Process

  • Site Establishment

  • Macs Reef Road Intersection Construction

  • Gravel Road Reconstruction

  • WTS Construction

  • Sediment/Leachate Pond Construction

What we don't know about the costs here is:

Does the cost of  building the WTS include rehabilitation? This site would need to be rehabilitated whether there is an WTS there or not.

What is included for $130,000 worth of planning? Is this all design fees? Or is this an in-house council cost that we pay for anyway?

What would be the cost of having to provide an alternative for 3,700 residents through Bungendore WTS or a wheelie bin service? There would be significant extra costs in doing either of these so saying that there will be an additional $1.23m in costs is not quite accurate.

We are not really comparing costs properly here because there will be a cost to provide some kind of service, no matter where it is located or what service is it.

For information about the final agreed COSTS, look at the cost information here.

For all the orginal concept information , look at the proposal here.

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