NSW: Newcastle steelworks site get $110m clean up

AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-2004
NSW: Newcastle steelworks site get $110m clean up

There's a new $110 million remediation plan to clean up the heavily polluted former
BHP steelworks site at Newcastle.

The Regional Land Management Corporation says the clean-up of the 150 hectare site
will begin next year, with plans for a multi-purpose container and cargo terminal for
the former steelworks.

Corporation chair RON ROBSON says the plan will involve the construction of a 1.4 kilometre
long underground wall, new stormwater drainage systems and capping of the site to contain
contaminated soils.

The site at Mayfield -- west of Newcastle's city centre -- has been polluted by 80
years of steel making.

Mr ROBSON says most of the remediation work will be finished by 2012.

BHP finished steelmaking there in 1999, with much of the site turned over to the state
government in 2002.

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