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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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KLEMZIG GROUNDWATER TESTING

Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:28): My question is again to the Minister for Environment and Conservation. Has the EPA undertaken any subsequent investigations in the Klemzig area in order to ascertain whether there remains a pollution plume in the vicinity of the former smallgoods factory on O.G. Road and to delineate the extent of any such plume or is it assumed that the contamination has simply disappeared?

The Hon. P. CAICA (Colton—Minister for Environment and Conservation, Minister for the River Murray, Minister for Water) (15:29): I thank the honourable deputy leader for his question and quite simply the answer is this: the initial test was done on the site at 35 O.G. Road. As a consequence of what they found there, testing was done within a 500-metre radius to see whether or not there had been any, if you like, spread of what was found on that site to other areas. Of the four bores that were tested in August, three showed no traces of contamination. One showed some trace contamination or fraction contamination, as I think it is described. Subsequently, that bore was then retested on two occasions and found to be all clear. As a result of that, the EPA determined that there was no requirement to do any further testing because—and I go back to what I said earlier—there is no contamination; there was no contamination.

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

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