YEW TREE FARM

Money Lane, Lydiate Ash,Romsley, Near Bromsgrove.

Yew Tree Farm 1990.

Yew Tree Farm 1997.

Yew Tree Farm was first landfilled in 1958 and ceased in 1993. It was originally used as a sand and gravel quarry and was later filled by British Leyland and then the County Council to dispose of domestic and commercial waste.

It has a maximum depth of 20 metres and a minimum of 4 metres and was filled with roughly 456,000m3 of waste. The site was capped with 1 metre of clay and then 0.6 metres of subsoil. It has no engineered base and is therefore a dilute and disperse site.

There are a total of 17 internal monitoring points and 5 externally.

Monitoring of the external wells occurs monthly and the gas levels are consistently low.

The land is currently used for grazing.

October 2002