{"id":679,"date":"2021-04-04T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-mining-macedon-ranges.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:20:54","slug":"even-low-impact-industry-make-mistakes-cost-locals-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-mining-macedon-ranges.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Even low impact industry make mistakes – cost locals and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If even a low impact industry like waste water treatment make simple mistakes costing locals and the environment; just imagine the mistakes a complex heavy industry like mining can make, with impacts that can be massive and permanent. Locals and the environment take the hit of course… rarely the miners.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t have to imagine of course, this happens regularly all over the world including in Australia. So let’s not allow on mining in the Macedon Ranges.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coliban Water put up warning signs in 2019 after discharging treated wastewater in the Campaspe River. (Facebook: Sallyanne Craig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below are some details of the Campaspe River and Snipes Creek incident…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coliban Water breached its Environment Protection Authority (EPA) licence in June 2019, when it discharged treated wastewater from a release point on Wards Lane,<\/strong> which flows into the Campaspe River and Snipes Creek, a tributary of the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, dozens of landowners were impacted and warned by the EPA not to use the creek water for stock, domestic or food crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents also reported seeing “filthy scum” on the water surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December, Coliban Water pleaded guilty to charges of causing or permitting an environmental hazard and pollution of waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kyneton Magistrates Court yesterday ruled Coliban Water should not have allowed the discharge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The water authority was fined $150,000, which will go towards a rehabilitation project to restore the ecosystem of Snipes Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We recognise what happened in 2019 was unacceptable, and we are sorry for the impacts we had on downstream landowners, and the environment,” Coliban Water managing director Damian Wells said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘We’re all really angry’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kyneton farmer Huntly Barton, who owns land along the creek, said the issue has cost him thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We relied on the river for domestic purposes, we used to shower in it,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But it meant I could no longer rely on the river at all, I had to put down a bore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“That water wasn’t good enough to go into the house, so we had to put in fresh water tanks.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Barton added the contaminated water caused stock losses in 2019 and farmers in the area were left frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’re all really angry,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When we sell stock, we have to sign a statutory declaration [stating] what we’ve been allowing and putting into our stock, yet we’ve been feeding them water that we have no idea what’s in the bloody stuff.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article here at the ABC website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If even a low impact industry like waste water treatment make simple mistakes costing locals and the environment; just imagine the mistakes a complex heavy industry like mining can make, with impacts that can be massive and permanent. Locals and the environment take the hit of course… rarely the miners. 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