Soil reuse

The first step is to check if you are eligible to apply.

You can apply for soil to be reused if your project meets this criteria:

• proposed reuse material contains soil or ballast fines and the volume of material is more than 5m³
• soil origin and reuse locations are both on VicTrack land or future VicTrack land. 
  
  

Also, the reuse criteria needs to meet one of these site definitions:

• Soil origin and reuse locations are within the same land title.
• Soil origin and reuse locations are within the same VicTrack railway lot number.
• Soil origin and reuse locations are within the same project boundary as defined by the guidelines.
• Soil origin and reuse locations are within the same railway precinct (or no more than 200 metres within an adjacent railway precinct)

We do not accept reuse applications if:

• either soil origin or soil reuse locations are outside VicTrack land boundary (or land to be transferred to VicTrack) or project boundary
• reuse material contains asbestos
• the reuse intention is not genuine* 

* Genuine reuse is where imported clean fill would otherwise be required at a site, or the reuse is providing genuine benefit to the site and its environment.

If you are eligible to apply, the next step is to read our Soil Reuse Guidelines and flow chart.

This will help you to understand the context and the process in more detail.

Applications without supporting evidence will not be processed.

During the final stage of our online form, you will be asked to supply evidence to support your application.

We recommend that you read the requirements below and prepare your evidence first.


Types of documents
Download this document guidance that outlines the type of documents that are needed to support your application. 
 

Format and sizes of documents

Option 1: Upload to the form
You will be able to upload up to three files and they can be doc, docx, jpg, jpeg, pdf or png. Each file must be less than 5MB.

Option 2: Upload to your filesharing service
If you need to send us any files over 5MB, then please upload the files to a filesharing service and place a download link at the end of our form.

Once you have gone through steps 1 to 3, you can then apply for reuse.