Thyra Piggery Project

Thyra Piggery Project is an animal effluent management project located at Thyra, approximately 15km north of Echuca-Moama in New South Wales. It was registered in April 2016 and operates across an undisclosed project area.

Animal effluent management projects involve capturing and treating waste from piggeries or dairies that would otherwise decompose in open anaerobic ponds. This is achieved by directing the waste into covered ponds or engineered digester tanks to capture and combust the resulting methane emissions.

The Thyra area is known for broadacre agriculture and intensive livestock operations such as pig farming. The region experiences semi-arid to temperate conditions with low to moderate rainfall, and soils are generally riverine clays, clay loams, and sandy loams.

This project operates by collecting and combusting methane generated from piggery manure in covered lagoons. In April 2022, the facility transitioned to the current 2019 methodology from an older 2013 biodigester method. The site is owned by SunPork Consolidated Pty Ltd, which is one of Australia’s largest vertically integrated pork producers.