EPA not up to its own rhetoric on how to handle lead contamination from north Lake Macquarie

Donna Page
Updated December 27 2017 - 8:41am, first published 5:30am
FRUSTRATED: Boolaroo resident Mark Hambier tried for months to find a place in the Hunter to dump lead soil from his yard and eventually gave up. Picture: Marina Neil
FRUSTRATED: Boolaroo resident Mark Hambier tried for months to find a place in the Hunter to dump lead soil from his yard and eventually gave up. Picture: Marina Neil

THE chain of events that led to the unresolved debacle of where to dump up to a million tonnes of toxic lead soil from north Lake Macquarie was government by media release.

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Donna Page

Donna Page

Investigative journalist at the Newcastle Herald

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