Kerdiffstown Park Landfill Remediation Project

The largest landfill remediation project of its kind in the State has seen the transformation of an illegal landfill to a recreation park. Remediation of this site removes risks to public health and safety and reduces environmental risk to a carefully managed and acceptable level. The creation of Kerdiffstown Park at the site delivers a remediation solution which is acceptable to the local community and integrates sustainable design and development in both the remediation works and the operation of a multi-use public park.

Kerdiffstown Park will be fully accessible to the public and includes sports and recreational facilities such as all-weather playing pitches, shower block, art installations, accessible walkways and seating areas, a children's playground and will be considerate of local ecological protection.

The landfill site at Kerdiffstown was originally a quarry dating back to the 1950s and subsequently used as a landfill site for waste disposal. Following numerous licence breaches and enforcement actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the then site owners abandoned the site. In 2011, a fire broke out at the site causing hazard to nearby motorways and communities. This required an immediate emergency response by the State, and it took 30 days to bring the subterranean fire under control.

Kildare County Council took over the management of the site from the EPA in 2015 and is responsible for managing the remediation project, including licence and planning permissions supported through the provision of funding from the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications.

Further information including drone footage and progress photos are available on Kildare County Council's dedicated page to this project.