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Clean-up order for council after orange sludge pumped into national park
@Source: 9news.com.au
A Sydney council has been issued an official clean-up notice over orange sludge which leaked into a waterway in a major national park.
Ku-ring-gai Council self-reported a leak from an old landfill in Turramurra to the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) on July 11 which saw a watercourse flowing through Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park polluted with leachate.
The leak was found to be from a faulty pump underneath North Turramurra Golf Course.
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An EPA officer visited the scene and found an orange liquid and sediment from a system wich disposes water from a former landfill site within the golf course.
Photos from the scene show the polluted water flowing through a waterway in the national park.
A clean-up notice was issued to the council which required it to prevent, remove and divert the liquid from the national park.
A replacement pump was later put in place by the Ku-ring-gai Council to stop the leak.
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"EPA officers collected samples of the leak and water samples from an unnamed creek downstream which will help inform if there was any impact to the environment," A NSW EPA spokesperson told 9news.com.au.
"The EPA's investigation is continuing."
9news.com.au has contacted Ku-ring-gai Council for comment.
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