Lemon Springs project update

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) continues the work to clean up and remove waste and contaminated soil from the cleanup site in Lemon Springs in the state’s north west.   So...

Cherry Creek pollution update

The next stage of clean up works at Cherry Lake in Melbourne’s west is well underway, with EPA monitoring showing pollution levels have dropped significantly. Given these results, Melbourne...

Developers also have role in managing construction waste

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) CEO Lee Miezis says responsibility for managing waste on construction sites does not only lie with the builder and that land developers also play a part...

New EPA app tracks discarded face masks

EPA Victoria’s Chief Environmental Scientist is appealing to all Victorians to be the eyes and ears of a scientific program to rid the streets of discarded face masks. The key to gathering the...

Third time unlucky for Preston smoker

Tossing burning cigarette butts into the street has cost one smoker more than $2,000, after a witness watched him doing it for the third time and decided enough was enough. The witness reported the...

$10,000 fire hazard fine for Preston recycler

A Preston metals recycler trading as National Metals Trading and Recycling has been fined $10,000 after EPA found the company’s stockpiles were a fire hazard. EPA officers inspecting the site on...

Coliban Water Kyneton application on hold

Coliban Water’s bid to amend its licence for the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant is temporarily on hold, after Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) called for more information...

Court penalty over Torquay pesticide incident

Torquay commercial flower grower I, C & J Santospirito Pty Ltd has been fined $70,000 without conviction over a 2020 pesticide incident that left nearby residents suffering vision impairment, sore...

EPA lays charges over building site asbestos at Altona North

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has charged a company and its three directors under the Environment Protection Act 1970 following a comprehensive investigation into the dumping of...

Wantirna man drops an expensive butt

A Wantirna man who dropped a cigarette butt in Scoresby found smoking has become more expensive than he probably expected, after a trip to Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on 31 March. In fact the...