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Call for ICAC inquiry into quarry

 

A public meeting has urged the Correa Bay Water Quality Management Committee to write to the Premier and to the Independent Commission Against Corruption about the Bulls Hill quarry.

The unanimous resolution was made after the meeting outside the quarry was told that the Department of Land and Water Conservation (DLWC) and the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) had been aware for over a decade of sediment discharge from the quarry site into Correa Bay.

Committee chairman Mr Derek Britton said official records dated March 24, 1992, recorded the outcome of an onsite meeting undertaken in February 1991 by the State Pollution Control Commission, Soil Conservation Service, National Parks and Wildlife Service and a Gosford Council officer.

He said the records stated: "This inspection determined the quarry is the major source of sedimentation that is leading into Woy Woy Bay (Correa Bay)."

He said the departments noted that "the quarry is currently in breach of the Environment Planning and Assessment Act 1979, the Clean Water Act, the Soil Conservation Service Act 1938 and the permissive occupancy licence agreement with the Lands Department".

Media release, September 23