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Gower tip waste disposal history

Mr Carroll made this Freedom of Information request to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

The request was successful.

From: Mr Carroll

5 June 2010

Dear Sandwell Borough Council,

I am requesting information concerning the former Albright and
Wilson waste disposal site known as The Gower Tip, Tividale. As the
former waste regulatory authority I trust that you may hold this
information, rather than referring me to the Environment Agency. My
Freedom of information request is as follows
1 Can you provide me with a map of the location of this site?
2. A copy of the full waste disposal license and the consents to
dispose of waste on the site, and what this waste was and the
allowed quantities.
3. The known periods when waste tipping occured at the site and
when the site was considered "closed".
4. Confirmation that the site is designated as "contaminated land"
and the reasons for this decision?
4. How the site was remediated, if at all?

Yours faithfully,

Mr Carroll

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Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

5 June 2010

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Please quote your reference number INT1-106028284 on all future correspondence.

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Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

22 June 2010


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From: Mr Carroll

18 July 2010

Dear Sandwell Borough Council,
Teresa Armstrong,

I have not received a response to my Freedom of information Request
concerning Gower Tip waste disposal history, when it was indicated
that I would receive a response by 12th July. My original request
asked
"I am requesting information concerning the former Albright and
Wilson waste disposal site known as The Gower Tip, Tividale. As the
former waste regulatory authority I trust that you may hold this
information, rather than referring me to the Environment Agency. My
Freedom of information request is as follows
1 Can you provide me with a map of the location of this site?
2. A copy of the full waste disposal license and the consents to
dispose of waste on the site, and what this waste was and the
allowed quantities.
3. The known periods when waste tipping occured at the site and
when the site was considered "closed".
4. Confirmation that the site is designated as "contaminated land"
and the reasons for this decision?
4. How the site was remediated, if at all?

I hope that you can investigate why I have not received a respone
as indicated and can I ask that the response is sent to me via this
email address along with the information originally requested.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Carroll

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From: Angela Goddard
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

29 July 2010


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Good Afternoon Mr Carroll

Please accept my apologies for the delay in providing you with this
information. Please find attached the response and information you
requested

Kindest Regards

Angela Goddard

Data Protection/Freedom of Information Assistant

Democratic Services

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Sandwell Council House

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From: Mr Carroll

29 July 2010

Dear Angela Goddard,

Ref Gower Tip waste disposal history.

Thankyou for supplying me with the map of the site and information
related to the above subject. Could I ask however, in your e mail
reply you have refered to site license "SL54"
"I can confirm that the Council does not hold a copy of the waste
disposal licence SL54. And I can confirm that the Council has not
inspected the site under the Environmental Protection Act 1990,
made a determination of contaminated land or served remediation
notice."
Could I ask if you have not got a copy of the waste disposal
license then how are you able to quote the waste disposal license
number, which according to my information is not the site license
number for this site in any case?
Given that there is no longer a waste disposal license in operation
why have the council not made a determination under part 2(a) of
the EPA 1990?

Yours sincerely,

Mr Carroll

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From: Nigel Parr
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

3 August 2010


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Dear Mr Carroll,

Please find attached the Council's response to your recent request for a
review of the Council's handling of your Freedom of Information enquiry
and also a response to the additional information you requested within
your email dated 29th July 2010.

Yours sincerely,

Nigel Parr

Data Protection/Freedom of Information Officer

Democratic Services

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Sandwell Council House

0121 569 3248

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Mr Carroll left an annotation ( 3 August 2010)

I only feel sorry for the people who disposed of this waste for this company. I suppose they were told it contained "harmless calcium phosphate."

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