Inspection blitz on industrial precincts

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) is conducting a statewide inspection blitz on industrial precincts that have the potential to impact local waterways that flow through our communities...

EPA lifts the prohibition notice in place at SBI landfill since 10 August

EPA Victoria has lifted a prohibition notice that has been in place at SBI landfill since 10 August, following a site inspection  by EPA officers on Thursday 25 August 2022. The notice was put in...

Prohibition notice lifted - SBI landfill

5pm update Following reports of odour, EPA officers inspected SBI landfill in Cranbourne today.  Odour surveillance at the site and surrounding residential area found no offsite odour. There has...

Unloading a lit cigarette costs transport company $2,200

A lit cigarette dropped from a company car at Hallam has cost a transport company more than $2,200. EPA Victoria issued the company with a fine in February 2022, after a member of the public made a...

EPA's mobile lab

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has shared how it conducts scientific investigations in the field with a video of its mobile lab, the Emergency Management (EM) Vehicle. A major...

Hefty fine for contaminated dump at primary school

A court case involving more than 100 loads of asbestos-contaminated waste dumped at a Victorian primary school has ended with a conviction and a $285,000 fine. EPA Victoria (EPA) charged Concrete...

EPA moves quickly to have waste removed from Sunshine North property

EPA has acted immediately to have potentially hazardous and industrial waste removed from a Sunshine North premises. The site is secure and containers will be removed from the 270 McIntyre Rd site to...

EPA stops Cranbourne landfill from accepting waste until it can control odour

EPA Victoria has today issued Cranbourne landfill operator SBI with a prohibition notice, stopping it from accepting waste until odour issues at the site are properly managed. EPA continues to...

EPA fines Mt Cottrell company over silence and a smell

An agricultural company has been fined more than $9,000 for failing to give information to EPA officers as they investigated reports of odours from its Mt Cottrell farm. EPA West Metropolitan Regional...

EPA holds snap dairy inspections

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) South West Regional officers have conducted a series of unannounced dairy farm inspections to check on effluent management at dairies within the South...