$850,000 set aside to investigate an alternative for the Mugga Lane tip site

How about land adjacent to the suburb of Yarralumla?

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?client=firefox-a&channel=s&hl=en&q=Yarralumla+ACT,+Australia&ie=UTF8&ll=-35.314057,149.088206&spn=0.012204,0.028667&t=h&z=16

Cranky I vote for a steam engine train to haul the garbage from the Mugga tip. Black smoke and a shrill whistle to keep the MacArthur reidents happy :-0

Thumper all those people would cost close to that much. Add up the salaries, then nearly double for entitlements, insurances and super etc.

Increasingly, they seem to think that if they heap up the bureacracy, generate lots of paper, somehow that makes the result more “probity-ish” or something.

Yeah, think of the ZOMFG UNBEARABLE NOISE Macarthur residents would have to put up with, cranky (in other words, great idea! 🙂 )

Containerised garbage from Sydney is currently (and one assumes profitably) sent to the Woodlawn mine site.

A railway siding/loading facility in Hume, on the existing rail line, would be in close proximity to the waste industries already located on Mugga Lane. A 30k or so trip to Tarago would have to be economically viable.

They used to rail minerals from Tarago, so yes it could be done

And as for rail, is there any freight on that line? How much would the trains cost, and how much fuel would they use.

Hell, figuring this stuff out shouldn’t cost 850K! Let’s form a “consultancy”!

The problem with Tarago is that it’s 50kms away – that’s a lot of wasted transport fuel to cart garbage to a hole in the ground. It wouldn’t take long to work out exactly how much – number of trucks per year x fuel consumption of truck during round trip to Tarago.

Maybe to Great Hall in Capital Hill?