Another interesting article from the ABC news website:
Last Update: Wednesday, December 14, 2005. 10:01am
(AEDT)
Council blamed for big fish, bird
kill
An
environment group has blamed Richmond Valley Council for the recent fish kill
and bird deaths in Salty Lagoon at Evans Head in northern NSW.
The
Total Environment Centre (TEC) says sewage from a nearby sewerage treatment
plant has made the lagoon a cesspit.
Last
week, 25,000 fish were killed in Salty Lagoon and hundreds of birds have died
after eating the rotten fish.
TEC
spokeswoman Fran Kelly says the council should be fined for destroying the
waterway.
"If
you treat a lake like Salty Lagoon which Richmond council has as a cesspit, it's where they throw their sewage,
it's toxic, if you do that something like this is likely to happen and, of course,
it has happened, so the blame clearly and squarely should be on Richmond Valley
Council's shoulders," she said.
"The
State Government should be taking responsibility for the fact that they also
failed to act to make Richmond council act."
