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Strange that, how many times are the public told "We will investigate" or ' We'll take samples' yet never another word is spoken. This is not the first time drums have been found and it won't be the last, it's only the dump site that's changed it seems.
.More than 190 contamination notices where sent to home owners in new Port Coogee development after the Department of Conservation and Environment reassessed the quality of the local ground water. The notices prevent land owners from sinking bores and drawing groundwater, and must be included on the land title for future buyers. So can the government explain why homes can still be built there, and why people weren't told before their purchase that the ground water is contaminated?
.The project developer, Australand also received notices over land not yet sold. I find this a fraudulent act on behalf of government and Australand, all monies should be returned to unsuspecting buyers. Why wasn't the land & groundwater checked before blocks were sold, to make a statement like 'To the best of their knowledge there is no issue with the land' does that mean they did or didn't check, has this law of disclosure just come in?
.To now tell landowners they were aware of extensive remediation by the DEC before buying the land from the State but the Contaminated Sites Act, which came into effect I believe in 2003-2006 allowed the department to classify the land without prior notice to owners. Seeing as the land was under extensive remediation it should not have been sold, how SAFE is the soil seeing as the water is contaminated. I don't remember LandCorp adding in their advertising that some blocks in the estate once had a foundry near by, or how PCB's from the old power station would be in the soil. The Land disclosure Act should have made buyers aware.
