Secret documents reveal toxic threat beneath Sydney Airport

Secret documents reveal toxic threat beneath Sydney Airport

A pool of poisonous water underneath Sydney Airport contains some of the highest levels of toxic firefighting chemicals seen on Australia’s eastern seaboard, according to test results that were buried from the public after they were handed to authorities six years ago.

The airport at Mascot is one of the highest profile sites in the country to be polluted with the per- and poly-fluoralkyl [PFAS] chemicals, but despite over a decade of testing the extent of the contamination footprint has remained shrouded in secrecy.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-documents-reveal-toxic-threat-beneath-sydney-airport-20181220-p50nfn.html

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Interestingly , I have been talking via email to Simon Savage about these very chemicals , as we have some issues over here in the West with them.

Microfluidics-generated graphene oxide microspheres and their application to removal of perfluorooctane sulfonate from polluted water

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12274-015-0968-7

He replied to my email to him in part with;

" As it happens we are already looking at this in the context of our water JV, Nematiq. "

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