Petition updateClean up Lithgow's Water SupplyNot Impressed
Leanne HawkinsAustralia
Aug 27, 2017 — RE: Dr Wright said similar problems were evident in the Blue Mountains, where WaterNSW had no sites monitoring water close to the Springvale mine near Lithgow nor four others that had closed nearby. The data used by the 2016 audit was sourced 100 km downstream, he said. Discharges from all those mines, including Berrima, end up in Lake Burragorang. An audit of Sydney's water catchment has found a drop in quality of water in some of the bigger reservoirs. An audit of Sydney's water catchment has found a drop in quality of water in some of the bigger reservoirs. "I'm not impressed by the lack of independent scientific data," Dr Wright said. "WaterNSW should be sampling above and below every discharge point of major pollution."
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