Paul
Back in the 1980s dolphins were drowning in large numbers in the long nets
set by Taiwanese fishermen. I was working with a researcher from the W A
Museum who trying to redesign the nets. My job was to collect specimens for
DNA when the dead dolphins were brought to Darwin, and then clean the
skeletons.
The bloke who did the work before me immersed the dolphins in half-44 gallon
drums filled with water, at the sewage ponds, but it didn't work. You
really don't want to know the rest (you may be having breakfast).
However, the story will be included, possibly in my next book.
Denise
on 21/2/08 5:29 PM, Paul Dodd at wrote:
> Denise,
>
> I feel I have to ask... "Rotting dolphins" ??????????? WHY????????????
>
> Paul Dodd
> Docklands, Melbourne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Denise Goodfellow
> Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2008 2:41 PM
> To: Dave Torr; Carl Clifford
> Cc: Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] News from Werribee - housing estate approved on
> WTPland
>
> A few years ago I was ordered to remove my rotting dolphins from the sewage
> ponds because, ostensibly, the smell was affecting residents some way down
> the road. It wasn't my dolphins - the system for breaking down the sewage
> was playing up. However, they made a handy scapegoat.
> Denise
>
>
> on 21/2/08 12:41 PM, Dave Torr at wrote:
>
>> Personally I'd be more worried about the noise from the freeway running so
>> close. The area is a fair way from the smelly bits and part of it is
> already
>> a housing development anyway.
>>
>> On 21/02/2008, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>>>
>>> No need Tony. After the new residents have all moved in, they will
>>> all complain about the smell and have the WTP closed down. The
>>> authorities could then take advantage of the dredging in Port Phillip
>>> and lay pipes to carry the raw sewage into Bass Strait. Much cheaper
>>> in the long run.
>>> You know it makes sense.
>>>
>>>
>>> Carl Clifford
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21/02/2008, at 12:26 PM, Tony Russell wrote:
>>>
>>> Let's hope the developers issue nose pegs to the people who buy the
>>> houses.
>>>
>>> T.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From:
>>> On Behalf Of Dave Torr
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:35 AM
>>> To: birding-aus
>>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] News from Werribee - housing estate approved on
>>> WTPland
>>>
>>>
>>> Wyndham Council has formally approved the development of part of the
>>> current Western Treatment Plant as the Riverwalk housing development.
>>> The local paper says it will take all of the land in the triangle formed
>>> by the Werribee River, Farm Rd and the Freeway although the website (
>>> http://www.vicurban.com/cs/Satellite?c=VPage&cid=1148415559491&pagename=
>>> VicUrban%2FLayout&site=VicUrban)
>>> shows it as taking the area between the Geelong Rd, Werribee River and
>>> Freeway) and has long been planned. The area is not of high interest to
>>> birders (although any loss of open space is of course not good) but
>>> probably means the loss of access to the WTP via New Farm Rd.
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