2001 was a turbulent year for the Potter Point Outfall not only was it getting a fantastic upgrade....but it was reported in the papers that nuclear waste was being released into the sewerage system!
reported in the Daily Telegraph on 26 March 2001:
NUCLEAR waste from the Lucas Heights reactor is being released into the sewerage system and discharged off beaches at Cronulla. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation yesterday said fish and water samples at Potter Point, in Sydney's south, were being monitored to assess risks posed to people swimming in the area or eating fish caught in its waters.
A little bit off the Target there but still interesting !
About Me
- Georgina Wiles
- I am an Journalism Student at the University of Wollongong. Born in the dusty ochre bowl of the Orange Free state in South Africa and raised among the damp green affluence of Southern England, I was always aware that there was much more out there than the immediate. Following the completion of my secondary school education, the option of further blind studying was far outweighed by the attraction of some wide eyed investigation. At 18 I began planning a trip to South America, starting purposefully in the country I knew the least about; Ecuador.Having joined a voluntary conservation organization I spent the fateful year of 2003 working and traveling in South and Central America. This journey in a very roundabout and poorly planned manor brought me via Southern Africa to the place I now call home; Australia. The unique cultural confluence which exists in Australia has captured my imagination since arrival and from this source of fascination I have found fuel for my interest in Journalism.
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