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See what they say: Greenpeace
|EPA | Waterways
Greenpeace
Click
this link to read Greenpeace's article on contamination of Homebush Bay and
Newington
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400 tonnes of dioxin contaminated waste being treated
here using innovative, non-incinerative technology. |
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Former Union Carbide plant - ingredients of Agent
Orange were produced here. |
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69 rusting drums of dioxin contaminated waste found
here by Greenpeace in 1997. |
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Former ICI (now Orica) plant - sole Australian
producer of pthalates. |
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Yellow areas (near the stars) indicate high levels of
toxic contamination including dioxin, DDT, pthalates, and heavy
metals. |
Courtesy of GreenPeace Australia |
Environmental
Protection Agency
This table
and quote from Appendix 14 of the Report to the
NSW
Government on the Proposal by Sydney Water
Corporation for Sewage Overflow
Abatement in Sydney Harbour listed on a website
headed Waterways Advisory
Panel Report on Sewage Overflow Abatement in
Sydney Harbour. The Appendix can be found at http://www.muim.nsw.gov.au/wap/14.htm
It tells the
story of Heavy Metal contamination in the local waterways. DUAP and the Minister
are planning to put 6,000 people within 400 metres of this contamination
"Table 10 Maximum Heavy
Metal Concentrations in Sediments
|
Metal
|
Pristine
(mg/kg)
|
ER
- 50
(1)
|
Duck
Creek
(mg/kg)
|
Parramatta
Estuary
(mg/kg)
|
Lane
Cove
Estuary
(mg/kg)
|
Port
Jackson
(mg/kg)
|
Middle
Harbour
(mg/kg)
|
|
Copper
|
<10
|
390
|
470
|
38-1,080
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<30-150
|
15-300
|
0-300
|
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Lead
|
<15
|
110
|
302
|
50-540
|
<50-350
|
50-500
|
0->500
|
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Zinc
|
<50
|
270
|
7,683
|
250-1,930
|
100-1,000
|
100-1,000
|
100-1,500
|
|
Chromium
|
<20
|
145
|
147
|
50-70
|
50-200
|
0-200
|
0-300
|
|
Nickel
|
<15
|
50
|
67
|
19-86
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Cobalt
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
9-60
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Manganese
|
<100
|
-
|
383
|
<75-408
|
75-225
|
75-225
|
<75->225
|
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Cadmium
|
<1
|
9
|
13
|
2->6
|
<3
|
<3->6
|
<3-4
|
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Mercury
|
<0.05
|
1.3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Arsenic
|
<10
|
-
|
-
|
16-57
|
0-45
|
0-30
|
0-45
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Waterways
Information here is from http://www.waterways.nsw.gov.au/mad/homebush.html
on 17 July 2000.
| Location: Eastern
foreshore of Homebush Bay.
Owner: Marine
Ministerial Holding Corporation (Bay and "Union Carbide"
site), and Bankers Trust Custodial Services ("Allied Feeds"
site).
Project Manager: Department
of Public Works and Services.
Area: Approximately 18
Hectares.
Value: Approximately $60M.
Contact: Maritime Assets Division
Ph: (02) 9364 2313
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Project:
 | The "Union Carbide",
"Allied Feeds" sites and the Bay area adjoining them have become contaminated
with a range of contaminents including dioxins due to past industrial
use.
| The Waterways Authority in conjunction
with Bankers Trust Custodial Services will be letting a contract that will
use new technology to
permanently destroy the contaminents. This will allow the land to be
put to productive uses as defined in the Rhodes Peninsula Regional
Envionmental Plan.
| It is expected that the Environmental
Impact Study will take some twelve months and the actual remediation work
will follow and will take from two to four years." |
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***************** End of Quote***********
(From
March 2001 the top site, the former Allied Feeds
site is believed bought by the Meriton Group from
BT Group.)
Lidis Group owns part of the
land previously owned by Union Carbide. On the map
above it is in the area where the yellow line is
outside the blue outlines areas.
Remember "new" often means
"unproven"
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