After meeting with an independent auditor and the Environment Protection Authority (EPA), the EPA agreed to allow the appointment of an independent assessor to review asbestos contaminated material and associated earthworks at the Highlands Golf Club.

The independent assessor would determine if the remediation was carried out in accordance with the EPA's approved remediation strategy.

Council's capital projects officer Michelle Green said the independent assessor found the remediation was carried out in accordance with the approved asbestos remediation plan, and no fragments of asbestos were found.

"However, the EPA also attended the site and found seven fragments of asbestos embedded into the battered edge of the stockpile," Ms Green said.

"That was a really unfortunate outcome.

"The EPA has come back and said we have to remove all of the stockpile, which will be approximately $300,000 on top of the $420,000 we have already spent.

"They have requested that we do this by October 24, which is fairly unreasonable I would say."

Councillor Jim Clark successfully moved a motion for council to request an extension of time to January 31, 2015, and a letter be sent to the Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, to review the matter.

Wollondilly MP Jai Rowell and local MP Pru Goward would be included in this email.

"It appears that what was a remediation strategy has become a removal strategy for that particular problem and that creates a problematic funding issue for council," Cr Clark said.

"Council and ratepayers are being hit in the hip pocket for something that really isn't council's fault."

Councillor Graham McLaughlin said it was a "ridiculous amount of money to clean up a small amount of bonded asbestos".

"This amount of money will be a burden on our budget and on our ratepayers," Cr McLaughlin said.

Councillor Ian Scandrett said he was "appalled" the matter had got to this and was "appalled" council would fund this at the cost of fixing roads and playgrounds in the shire.

Cr Clark's motion was passed unanimously and council will seek legal advice on the EPA's decision to revoke the asbestos management plan they had previously approved.