Bendigo Weekly Issue 869

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ISSUE 869 FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014

Council backs mosque plan EXCLUSIVE:

The Bendigo Weekly can reveal Greater Bendigo council planning staff have recommended the plans for the $3 million mosque be approved. Story: Page 3

BAIL OUT LOOKING GOOD: An artist’s impression of the new mosque set to be built in Bendigo.

EXCLUSIVE

By ANTHONY RADFORD

THE fight to stop toxic water bubbling to the surface across Bendigo is putting financial pressure on the Bendigo Trust. When Unity Mining stopped operations at its Kangaroo Flat mine in 2012, toxic groundwater it

Cash pressure over waste mine water

previously pumped out began rising in the city’s abandoned mine shafts. With the Central Deborah Mine the deepest accessible point of the water, the Trust, which operates the mine, as well as the city’s Talking Trams, the Joss House and the Dis-

covery Centre, was forced to act. A State Government grant of $300,000 enabled the Trust to buy the pumps, but it costs them more than $100,000 a year to run them. The past 12 months have seen a doubling of the amount of water pumped, doubling the costs. If

the water is not pumped, and the Trust decides to walk away from the underground section of the mine, the water will start bubbling up all around Bendigo. The water has high levels of arsenic and salt in it, as well as sulphur and metals such as manganese.

It cannot be used for drinking, recreation or agriculture and is not allowed to mix with surface water. At the moment the water is pumped into the Garden Gully Mine shafts and into Unity Mining’s Woodvale settling ponds.

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