ALCOA Refinery Wagerup Noise Monitoring Report following the Minister’s approval of Alcoa’s Regulation 17 application under the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997, which allows the emission of noise from the Wagerup refinery to vary from the prescribed standard.

This fact sheet is designed to provide information in relation to unreasonable levels of low frequency noise in music (bass or ‘doof doof’).

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance for users of the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997 (the Regulations) in relation to noise emitted from the use of ‘specified equipment’ on residential premises.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance for users of the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997 (the Regulations) in relation to noise from construction work on construction sites.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance for users of the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997 (the Regulations) in relation to airblast noise emitted from blasting operations.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance for users of the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997 (the Regulations) in relation to Part 3—Noise measurement.

This fact sheet is designed to provide an overview of the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997 (the Regulations).

This fact sheet introduces the concept of adaptation in the context of climate change and explains some related ideas.

The 2011–12 Midland Background Air Quality study was undertaken in order to measure levels of the acid gases hydrogen chloride (HCl) and hydrogen fluoride (HF) in the ambient air in the Midland area.

October 2014

DER commenced Phase 4 of the Kwinana Background Air Quality Study in 2013, which was a twelve-month study to obtain short-term averaged data for ammonia and targeted volatile organic compounds at selected sites within the region surrounding the Kwinana Industrial Area and bounded by the Cities of Cockburn, Kwinana and Rockingham.