Investigating underway into another sewage spill

as posted on ABCNews

The Department of Environment and Conservation is investigating a malfunction at a Water Corporation plant which saw thousands of litres of sewage spill into the Southern River at Gosnells.

The Swan River Trust Riverpark operations manager, Chris Mather, says it is the fifth sewage spill in the past three months, but an investigation has ruled out a widespread Water Corporation infrastructure problem.

Mr Mather says the impact of the most recent spill is relatively minor.

"With the amount of water flowing into the river system with rainfalls and ground water inflows the actual affect is reasonably minor when you talk about 25 thousand litres of sewage coming into a system which has much more water in it," he said.

"However, we do continue to monitor each incident we attend and monitor and we also conduct routine testing on the river as well."


as posted on ABCNews