Innova Soil Technology has been delighted and encouraged by the community response to our proposal to clean contaminated soil within the City of Hobsons Bay.

The opportunity to cleanse soil from local polluted sites in the area - returning them to light industrial, commercial or housing development, even parklands, recreation reserves or sporting facilities in some instances - has met with strong support.

The legacy of previous generations needs to be addressed now and not left to future generations.

Numerous decontamination opportunities varying from the former Williamstown gasworks site to the seaweed currently polluting Williamstown and Altona’s beaches have been mentioned as clean up targets for our remediation process.

Any suggestion that we are establishing a waste dump is uninformed, unfounded and inaccurate.

Indeed our ethos is the opposite to dumping. We are focused on recycling and enhancing the future.

We are also focused on promoting our services to companies with sites in and around the chemical complex and expect these companies to absorb more than half of our capacity.

As part of our extensive consultation program we have briefed the Altona Complex Neighbourhood Consultative Group (ACNCG), City of Hobsons Bay councillors and officers, local industries, the EPA and various local community and environment groups about our intentions.

There will be no impact on local residents. There will be no dust or odour from the site.

The site is ideally located within the Altona chemical complex at the rear of DOW Chemicals.  Covered trucks will only travel 1 km in Hobson’s Bay – from the M1 Princes Freeway to the DOW site on Kororoit Creek road.

Innova intends to employ 15 -20 full time local and skilled people at the centre including plant and equipment operators, tradespeople, engineers and scientists.

We will be running a public presentation on the technology planned for the centre and we are currently establishing an interactive website and online forum to further discuss our plans and to respond to any concerns from the local community.