Mayo County Council has signed a contract for approx. €2.5m with Joe Reilly Plant Hire Ltd for the Claremorris Historic Landfill Remediation Project.
The work to complete the remediation will take 44 weeks and is funded 100 per cent by the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE), with consultant engineers Fehily Timoney overseeing the project.
Historically the site operated as a landfill, accepting municipal waste from 1982 to March 1996, under the contract it will be capped to the recommended Environmental Protection Agency requirements.
This will reduce the environmental risks from the site and when completed it will be ready to be handed over to the Claremorris and Western District Energy Co-Operative, who have worked on a voluntary basis to progress this issue, for the development of a 5MW community solar farm project.
