Overview
- The Environment Agency, which began excavation Tuesday, plans to move 15 to 30 lorry loads of waste each day over a six-month operation.
- Crews from Acumen Waste Services will dig out about 21,000 tonnes across roughly 8,000 square metres beside the A34 in Kidlington.
- Officials ordered the clearance after fire-service warnings about blaze risk near the road, and pollution barriers now protect the River Cherwell.
- The push forms part of a wider crackdown set out in the new Waste Crime Action Plan, which proposes police-style powers and drone use for the regulator.
- The £7.3 million clean-up is funded by the Environment Agency, which says it will seek to recover costs from those responsible after four arrests so far.