Lemon Springs (Victoria)

[4]Wildlife at Lemon Springs is rich and includes endangered cockatoos, echidnas, black wallabies and emus.

[5] In August 2012, Graham Leslie White bought the 567-hectare property stating he would use it as a quad biking course for his family.

[8] Through thorough investigation using drones with ground penetrating radar, EPA Victoria discovered 32 sites where containers were buried as well as other smaller dump locations over the 1400 acre property.

[9] EPA Victoria removed the waste from the 32 sites and re-filled 25 of them with clean soil making it the largest project of this kind in Australia.

Enviropacific, a service company received a license by EPA Victoria[13] to create a facility in Stawell which would store, clean and reuse parts of the cylinders.

EPA Victoria staff and car at Lemon Springs
Clean up of the toxic landfill in Lemon Springs by EPA staff