How much foot-and-mouth disease-related pyre ash material was transported from (a) Dumfries and Galloway and (b) the Scottish Borders for l…

Answered Asked by Adam Ingram SNP Lodged 1 Feb 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much foot-and-mouth disease-related pyre ash material was transported from (a) Dumfries and Galloway and (b) the Scottish Borders for landfill at Garlaff in East Ayrshire.

The answer

Answered by Ross Finnie on 15 Feb 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

In total some 4,828 tonnes of waste material, including pyre ash, soil and bottoming, was transported and buried at Garlaff landfill site. Three thousand, seven hundred and twenty-one tonnes were transported from the two continuous burning sites in Dumfries and Galloway and 1,107 tonnes from the site in the Scottish Borders.

In the Official Report

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