this year that found the creek that takes overflow from the Eraring ash dump had a selenium concentration of 110 parts per million, more than 55 times the level recommended to protect fish and birds.
Tougher groundwater regulation: Australian regulators that oversee ash dumps should immediately develop and implement actions to clean up and manage ash dumps causing groundwater contamination, including resiting operational ash dumps to thoroughly rehabilitate existing sources of contamination to best practice standards.
National guidelines: Australian governments should develop and ensure the implementation of enforceable national best practice guidelines for ash dump management, rehabilitation, and closure and post-closure management to mitigate as far as practicable the future threat of contamination of land, groundwater, and surface water and prevent harm to human health.
"Environmental Justice Australia is a group of anti-coal activists with one objective, to shut down coal fired power stations," Mr Gurney said.
Coal dumps ash, wind & solar dump toxic by-products in china. Meanwhile nuclear captures, logs & controls 100% of its far smaller waste stream, but its totally nuclear we need to worry about... repeal140A