EPA - Hawkesbury Post

EPA Uncovers Environmental Report Scam

by Publishing | Jul 29, 2024 | News, Priority

Over 100 sites, including 24 early childhood education centers, are alleged to have had their environmental reports falsified by the consulting firm N G Child & Associates. The alleged falsifications span 135 sites across 33 councils in NSW, including the...

Asbestos discovered at PCYC, South Windsor

by Sam Magnusson | Mar 1, 2024 | News, Priority

Asbestos has been discovered at the PCYC Hawkesbury Youth Centre at South Windsor, as the list of locations that have received mulch potentially contaminated with friable asbestos grows. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed asbestos was found at the...

Toxic PFAS chemicals spread in Richmond to riverside soil and recycled water

by Sam Magnusson | Jun 16, 2023 | News, Priority, Top News

Michael Sainsbury. The spread of highly toxic PFAS chemicals from the Richmond RAAF base has grown with testing by Hawkesbury City Council and the Western Sydney University finding elevated levels in soil around the collapsed Cornwallis Road site and in recycled...

Local PFAS fears rise after new $22 million settlement and concerns over human costs

by Sam Magnusson | May 26, 2023 | News, Top News

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Michael Sainsbury There is rising concern in the Hawkesbury about the real extent of contamination of toxic PFAS chemicals from the Richmond RAAF base and the potentially devastating human cost from the substances. Two Pfas class action law...

PFAS settlement for Richmond residents

by Publishing | May 15, 2023 | News, Top News

Richmond landowners are part of a $132.7 million class action settlement with the Federal government over contamination by toxic PFAS chemicals around eight airforce sites across the country PFAS (a family of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) are also known as...