Conservation Area 9, Mount Atkinson Road

May 30, 2024

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Conservation Area 9, Mount Atkinson Road

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Conservation Area 9, Mount Atkinson Road-image

Completely destroyed by the illegal dumping of a huge amount of asbestos-contaminated fill in early 2022, making ABC TV news. Melton Council currently taking legal action. Federal EPBC authorities and Victorian EPA slow to take action. Compensation essential. Illegal soil dumping now the business of organised crime.

Main photo: Completely destroyed by illegally dumped asbestos-contaminated soil
2: ABC journalists interview the GPN member who discovered the crime
3: Contaminated fill as far as the eye can see, a huge and organised dumping operation
4: Forty hectares buried, lizards smothered
5: The undamaged Conservation Area 8 in the foreground, then the utterly destroyed Conservation Area 9

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LGA: MELTON
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Type: Conservation Area
Status: Extant
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Area (ha): 43.3554611
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Map: https://www.google.com/maps/@,,17z