as posted on WAToday
* Vanessa Williams and Chris Thomson
* October 2, 2008
A 23-year-old Greenmount man was allegedly caught doing burn-outs right outside the new traffic police headquarters in Midland yesterday.
Police Media's Ros Weatherall said that around 5pm, a Traffic Enforcement Group officer was leaving work when he spotted a man allegedly doing burn-outs outside the building.
The car allegedly lost traction and its wheels smoked up.
Ms Weatherall said the officer pulled the driver over. The car was seized for seven days under anti-hoon legislation.
The driver has been summonsed for allegedly causing excessive noise and smoke.
Traffic Enforcement Group only moved from Perth to Midland last week.
The alleged burnouts were the second outside a WA Police station this year.
On February 3, a learner driver was charged for the same offence after police at Cannington station heard tyres squealing.
The police went out to see a 24-year-old Maddington man allegedly spinning the wheels of his Ford Falcon in the station's front carpark.
That man's car was seized for 48 hours.
as posted on WAToday
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
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
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
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