alert for Aussies in Sydney area - cu levels high in WATER

If you are living in, or travelling around Sydney please take special care - purchase water, get your home water levels tested......
Am only assuming there would be market gardens in vicinity??
Geographically, I have absolutely no knowledge,
but just wanted to let everyone know potential & to check it out on the local level
cheers
Bel



WATER flowing into a river that feeds Sydney's drinking water supply is laced with metals and poisons including arsenic, copper and boron, a university researcher says
The poisons have been seeping from a coal-fired power station near Lithgow, in the Blue Mountains.

The Department of Environment and Climate Change says it knows about the discharge from Wallerawang power station, and is reviewing research by the University of Western Sydney which indicates "a large and unnatural increase above natural background arsenic levels in the upper Cox River catchment''.

The university's Ian Wright said the arsenic was diluted downstream and is not thought to pose a human health risk, Fairfax Media reports.

Copper was measured close to the power station at between 30 and 50 times natural levels, and boron levels were 25 times higher than upstream.

Dr Wright's research will be used in a case to be put before the Land and Environment Court, which will argue Delta Electricity is polluting the Cox River and should be made to stop.

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