Murrumbateman rejects ASIO waste

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The Yass Valley Council has rejected a proposal to dump asbestos waste from Canberra at the Murrumbateman landfill.

The council was considering an application to take 35,000 tonnes of asbestos waste from the site of the new Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) headquarters.

Work has started on clearing the site for the $600 million building on Constitution Avenue near the suburb of Campbell.

Yass Valley Council director of operations Simon Cassidy says the deal would have funded some projects in the Murrumbateman area.

"The proposal would have provided significant income to council which could have been used on a number of local projects out in the Murrumbateman area such as roadworks," he said.

"Unfortunately now that income won't be received by council so a lot of those projects won't proceed in the short term."

Murrumbateman Progress Association president Ray Cameron says residents will welcome the move.

"We're quite grateful and thankful that this isn't going ahead. We're very glad that we're received such prompt notice that the project will not proceed," he said.

"We're also glad that the landfill which is at Murrumbateman which is originally for all the people in the local government area of Yass Valley Council, isn't going to used by outsiders."

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