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A local Liberal MP says the New South Wales Government has been slow to act on a toxic spill at industrial sites along Parramatta River.
Four industrial sites on the Camellia peninsula, near Rosehill Racecourse, have been found to contain chromium VI - a cancer causing agent.
"It's too little too late. It's far more of a problem than they've ever admitted to," he said.
Gary Hayton, who worked at the Patrick site for seven years, said: "Governments knew about it, councils knew about it, the workplace knew about it, WorkCover knew about it, but nothing gets done. It's really bad."
He told the Herald he was threatened with the sack "unless I pulled my head in".
Patrick's environment report in 2007 found the groundwater discharging into the Parramatta River was heavily contaminated with chromium VI and was "generally well above human health and ecological criteria".
Originally posted by spearhead
They say there is no direcct threat to people. i'm sure there would be a direcct threat to wildlife and fish. So indirectly people who it fish caught in the river would be directly exposed to the "cancer causing agent".
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Until 1970 the river was an open drain for Sydney's industry and consequently the southern central embayments are contaminated with a range of heavy metals and chemicals.
there are five particularly contaminated areas of Sydney Harbour, and that four of them are in the Parramatta river system.
The main contaminated areas of the Parramatta River are:
Homebush Bay - dioxins, lead, phthalates, DDT, PAHs (coal tars) mainly originating from nearby chemical factories of Berger Paints, CSR Chemicals, ICI/Orica, and Union Carbide.
Iron Cove - various metals and chemicals with no clearly defined point source. Pollution may possibly enter through Iron Cove Creek and Hawthorne Canal.
Off former AGL site, now redeveloped as Breakfast Point.
The Parramatta River is one of the few significant coastal rivers in New South Wales which has not been the subject of a Healthy Rivers Commission Investigation.