Squabb Wood Landfill Works

Client: Viridor Waste Management

 

Location: Romsey, Hampshire

 

Value: £1.18 million

 

Year of Completion:  2007

 

Provian Construction have moved 600,000m3 of soil - enough to fill a massive 240 Olympic-sized swimming pools - in just eight weeks from a landfill site in Southampton to the historic Broadlands stately home estate.

 

The contract, worth £1.18m, was awarded to Provian by Viridor Waste Management to carry out new cell preparation at Squabb Wood in Romsey. Scheduled to last approximately 16 weeks, the earthworks project saw Provian move 15,000m3 of soil a day at the 48.5 hectare site.

 

In preparing the new cells ready for receipt of waste installation of composite liner systems, protection layers and leachate drainage facilities, designed to protect waterways and land from potential contamination, were all part of the contract. 60,000m3 of engineered clay liner, 55,000m2 of plastic liner and 1700m of land drainage were utilised.

 

When the cells are full to capacity, they will be capped with clay and restoration soils incorporating an extraction system to pipe gases emitted from the landfill to power generation facilities.

 

The 600,000m3 of excavated soil were then used in two separate areas of restoration, measuring approximately four acres and six acres, on land owned by Broadlands – the Mountbatten Estate. The former home of the late Lord Louis Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, Broadlands is situated on the outskirts of Romsey. The soil will be used to protect its landscape setting and relationship with the River Test – one of England’s most famous chalk streams, designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.