Re: Threats to Sewage Farms

["michael norris" <>]

Hi Peter

The Werribee Sewage Farm, now known as the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), is 
covered by the Strategic Management Plan for the Port Phillip Bay (Western 
Shoreline) Ramsar site.
Go to www.dse.vic.gov.au and search for Ramsar Site Management Plans.

Sites, Ramsar or not, may also be covered under the federal Environment 
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. This is currently being 
'streamlined' but I don't know the implications.  Certainly transferring any 
asset from public property to  private ownership reduces the scope of the 
concerns which can be brought to bear, or at least complicates that 
enormously in many cases for environmentalists.
Sorry to correct your subject line from 'sewerage' (the pipes) to 'sewage' 
(the stuff)!
Michael Norris