11-16-2016, 12:39 AM
C'mon DDDDarren, you've got some real spot fires erupting now mate, and it seems like it is just you holding 'one limp hose' to put it out? Where are your mates Barmybaby, Purple Haze Harfield, Wingnut and Conductor Houston???? Throwing you under the bus?
Calls for more tests on historic use of chemicals at Gold Coast Airport
Steven Miles has called for more tests.
Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles has called for more testing to determine contamination risks stemming from the historic use of poisonous firefighting chemicals at the Gold Coast Airport.
Airservices Australia has released its report into tests carried out at the airport for PFAS, a group of potentially deadly chemicals including perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).
The report, by GHD, found PFAS of up to more than 60 times the guidelines considered in the report in some groundwater samples tested.
The report found PFAS was not detected in the nearby Cobaki broadwater.
Dr Miles welcomed the report but said more needed to be done.
“I’m calling on the Commonwealth Minister for Transport and Infrastructure to ask Airservices Australia to conduct testing which is as broad ranging and thorough, as is occurring at other locations where these chemicals have been found,” Dr Miles said.
ASA yesterday said in a statement that while test results on the airport boundary indicated potentially low risk, Airservices was working with relevant agencies to determine further action including the option of further testing.
It was revealed earlier this month that the chemicals, found in firefighting foam, had been detected near 12 Australian Defence Force sites, including RAAF bases in Townsville, Amberley and Richmond.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national...d827ac64e6
Sure would be a crying shame for Cooly's airport to be better known for its contamination of ground water with a toxic chemical that can't be removed, than for it to be known as being the gateway airport to the beautiful Gold Coast?
TICK TOCK Houston and Electric Blue
Calls for more tests on historic use of chemicals at Gold Coast Airport
Steven Miles has called for more tests.
Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles has called for more testing to determine contamination risks stemming from the historic use of poisonous firefighting chemicals at the Gold Coast Airport.
Airservices Australia has released its report into tests carried out at the airport for PFAS, a group of potentially deadly chemicals including perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).
The report, by GHD, found PFAS of up to more than 60 times the guidelines considered in the report in some groundwater samples tested.
The report found PFAS was not detected in the nearby Cobaki broadwater.
Dr Miles welcomed the report but said more needed to be done.
“I’m calling on the Commonwealth Minister for Transport and Infrastructure to ask Airservices Australia to conduct testing which is as broad ranging and thorough, as is occurring at other locations where these chemicals have been found,” Dr Miles said.
ASA yesterday said in a statement that while test results on the airport boundary indicated potentially low risk, Airservices was working with relevant agencies to determine further action including the option of further testing.
It was revealed earlier this month that the chemicals, found in firefighting foam, had been detected near 12 Australian Defence Force sites, including RAAF bases in Townsville, Amberley and Richmond.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national...d827ac64e6
Sure would be a crying shame for Cooly's airport to be better known for its contamination of ground water with a toxic chemical that can't be removed, than for it to be known as being the gateway airport to the beautiful Gold Coast?
TICK TOCK Houston and Electric Blue