Took a drive along the road on 23 November, 2014. We were looking to see if the contaminated water from the mine that is being sprayed along the road by trucks in order to suppress the dust caused by the trucks carrying water to suppress dust (!) was having any impact on the native bushland. The Crown Land.
The pictures of our discoveries regarding threats to flora from the treated water blended with stormwater runoff from the mine that has been stored in the Brunswick Tailings Dam and allowed to be sprayed over the roads and trees by the Environmental - get this! - Protection Authority can be seen here.
It was a dry day. Mid to high 20s. Light wind from the north. Forty-six millimetres of rain fell five days before. Nothing since.
Driving back home, this body of water flashed in our eyes like a mirror.
We are not saying that this is the treated water from the mine that has been mixed with stormwater from the Brunswick Tailings Dam. Not at all. But there is a heck of a lot of it and it looks like it's come from trucks. And it's not really good enough is it?
Now you see it!
Oily, vile water on the roadside. What is it? Lots of it. Thirty or so metres.
It flowed under and then back up.
It soaked the channel. Dug a little hole.
On 24 November, 21mm of rain... it looked like this on the other side of the creek.
So we went for another drive along the road on 25 November, 2014.
Now you don't!
All washed away, eventually into the creek!
Well maybe not all...
The solution to pollution is dilution, eh?
Thanks for keeping on top of it all EPA-Appointed Environmental Auditor!
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