Haul Waste
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Haul Waste is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bridgwater, Somerset. It received industrial, household and inert waste from 1969, covering about 2.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD09404, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09404 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Haul Waste |
| Address | Somerset Bridge Tip, Bridgwater, Somerset |
| Site operator | Bridgwater Rural District Council and Somerset County Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 May 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 331000, 135400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Somerset Bridge Refuse TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Screech Owl Nature ReserveWaste types not recorded
- Dunwear Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Site Near M5 Westonzoyland RoadInert
- Huntworth LaneIndustrialInert
- Pond at Westonzoyland RoadInert
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.