The EPA kept saying it "was peer reviewed" and " it is world's best practice." If that is true then why didn't they show us those reports?

I don’t believe it is world's best to have a prescribed industrial waste toxic dump 500 metres from people’s homes. If the dump were being built today people would have to live five kilometres away. That means all the residents in the area are living too close to a very dangerous dump.

The cap should be at least as good as the one the EPA wanted built on the smaller dump one proposed for the Nowingi desert area. That one was going to be 2.4 metres thick not 1.1 metres! W

e have all read about TPI’s financial difficulties so I think the EPA is making the same mistake here that they made at Cranbourne.

I’m worried it will be the Victorian taxpayers who will have to pay to replace this weak cap.

What is the world's best practice in handling this type of liquid waste, and rehabilitation? Do the ponds have an overflow for heavy rains? Do they smell when evaporation occurs? Will they be fenced off to protect wildlife?

As the ponds are close to Melbourne Airport, major residential and industrial property I'm sure the community wants to know this now prior to any clean up.

Many are disappointed in the clean up of the "dry dumps" that is happening now. Many feel the capping is inadequate but are made to feel by TPI and EPA that as the cover up (capping) is almost complete let's move on and community discussion has been cut off.

I live about 500 metres from the site not 5000 metres as would be required by today's standards. Mine and my family's health is my priority. I hope it will be TPI and the EPA's too!

Have they decided to ‘just do it, and then tell them’ without having to be accountable? EPA has never explained to us why TPI is allowed to put such a cheap, weak cap on this terrible toxic dump.

We still want to see where the ‘peer reviews that this is world’s best practice,’ are. Does TPI really think that we’ll fall for the way they’re glossing over the whole issue with thousand dollar ads and pretty pictures of kangaroos?

For those who are still suffering from the effects of those toxins, it is infuriating. I hope EPA is monitoring the health of those poor kangaroos better than they have done with that of the community’s air and health here, over the years.

The cap being put on the dump is only 1.2 metres, not 1.5 metres as was reported last week? Why is TPI allowed to install a 1.2-metre thick cap on a highily toxic and dangerous dump, opposed to a 1.5-metre cap on a municipal tip? How can a 1.2-metre cap be safer than a 1.5-metre cap? It doesn't make any sense.

What's happening to the millions of litres toxic chemicles and oils beneath the dump which are leaking and have poluted the ground water which can't be used for livestock or the garden?

What about the poor unsuspecting home buyer, don't they have a right to know the dump is on their door step?

It's all kept hush hush, why? It makes me think, we have just had Anzac Day,what ever happened to integrety, honesty and compasion?

It seems it's been lost with the Anzacs, I hope not.

Wake up EPA - do your job, protect the community and the environment before it's too late.