Wanaka Community Board chairman Lyal Cocks said he believed there was a definite issue of non-compliance and land ownership that ‘‘needs to be sorted and sorted out quickly''.
The Otago Regional Council does not believe there is anything in the landfill that constitutes major contamination.
Mr Cocks and QLDC chief executive Duncan Field called a meeting with staff in Queenstown yesterday morning to discuss issues relating to ownership and consents.
Compliance staff were now gathering more information and would report back, Mr Cocks said yesterday.
When the Otago Daily Times visited the cleanfill site on Monday, it contained items Ms Dippie understood should not be there, such as galvanised steel, a bathroom sink, a broken plastic traffic cone, wires, a metal drum, large lumps of tar, carpet underlay, and greenwaste.
It appeared a liquid sludge had channelled down the face of the landfill and pooled at the bottom.
Ms Dippie said she was concerned about the possibility of leaching into Riverbank Rd residents' water bores.
She was also sick of excessive noise and dust and wanted the landfill closed. Mr Gordon said the landfill should not be allowed inside the town boundary.
The site should be cleaned up and material dumped somewhere else.
‘‘I reckon that yard should be locked as of now until the resource consent is sorted out for it. The way it is, looking up from the [Cardrona] riverbed, it is visual pollution. It is absolutely shocking,'' Mr Gordon said.
They say they have been told by council staff the landfill site consent lapsed in 2004 and although another one has been applied for, it was not clear what stage it was at.
Mr Cocks said it appeared ‘‘issues'' had been going on since 1999 and it was not clear which consents were relevant to the site.
Earlier in the week, he described the situation as ‘‘messy'' and ‘‘hot''.
There has been confusion about ownership. The site was one of several registered as belonging to the Upper Clutha Pest Destruction Board in 2006. The board later became part of the ORC.
The QLDC did a deal to buy several blocks near the Cardrona River from the ORC and entered another agreement to on-sell land to Wanaka Landfill Ltd.
Robert Duncan of Wanaka Landfill Ltd said yesterday he owned and operated the cleanfill site and he had no concerns about it.
He was aware of and annoyed by Ms Dippie and Mr Gordon's complaints and said questions should be directed to the QLDC.
ORC director of resource management Selva Selvarajah said the land was privately owned and Wanaka Landfill Ltd did not need to get a regional council consent to operate a cleanfill site, although the district council might require one.
It was not acceptable for greenwaste to go into a cleanfill because rot could produce acid substances that could then react with landfill material, he said.
ORC compliance staff had asked the landowner to remove some material this week ‘‘but even if they don't remove it, I don't see it as a major problem,'' Mr Selvarajah said.
Judging by the photographs supplied by the ODT, it seemed a lot of soil was being deposited from somewhere else, as permitted by the ORC waste plan, Mr Selvarajah said.
The ORC is responsible for auditing hundreds of open, closed or decommissioned landfills. Many districts are closing and consolidating the sites.
The ORC did not usually order site owners to dig out and remove landfill contents, Mr Selvarajah said.
