It’s unacceptable that Snowy Hydro’s actions allegedly sent a plume of sediment two kilometres down a pristine mountain stream in Kosciuszko National Park, the New South Wales environment minister says.
The Commonwealth-owned energy provider and contractor WeBuild were each fined $15,000 last week for two pollution incidents in the Kosciuszko National Park over three months in 2022.
As a result of alleged poor sediment and erosion controls, a sediment plume stretched for more than two kilometres down the Yarrangobilly River, while sediment-laden water from roadworks at Tantangara, a dam on the Murrumbidgee, entered Nungar Creek.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority said its officers had warned the companies beforehand….