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The Merri Creek has once again turned a muddy brown colour after heavy rain over the labour Day weekend. It previously happened after heavy rains in early January.
The mud appears to be from headwater areas, north of Donnybrook , where parts of the Merri and its tributaries flow through light coloured sedimentary rock (rather than basalt typical of most of the catchment). Investigations after the first incident showed that a number of development sites in the north of the catchment have inadequate erosion control and are responsible for a sizeable portion of the problem. However, some of it possibly also comes from eroded the creek banks.
Merri Creek Management Committee has again reported the problem to the EPA and is awaiting a report. See the muddy Merri in January on You Tube. |
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The State Government bill to adopt an Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) and a new controversial Growth Area Infrastructure Tax appears to have been shelved after a it didn’t pass the Upper House a second time on 23 February. It is currently assumed that the bill will be presented at a later stage, possibly after the next State election.
The Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett has given his in-principle approval to the expansion, through the Strategic Impact Assessment provisions of the EPBC Act, but has specified that detail of actions to mitigate impacts on matters of national environmental significance are still to be finalised.
For more details on this update, see the Environment Defenders Office website.
See below for more on the background to the proposed expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary. |
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A subsidiary of the Reserve Bank in Craigieburn has been criticised for failing to report a potentially dangerous chemical spill of 25,000 litres of methyl ethyl ketone (MEK). Read or listen to the ABC news report of Wednesday 13 January 2010. |
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