Riverina MP Michael McCormack is seeing history repeating as opposition to a proposed Sydney dump at Ardlethan heats up.
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When a dump at the Ardlethan Tin Mine was first put forward in the 1990s, Mr McCormack brought it to the public’s attention.
If rubbish gets into the wrong place, he said, it could have all kinds of unintended consequences.
‘I get concerned about the fact we’ll potentially have something which could place at risk underground aquifers upstream of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area,” Mr McCormack said.
“It perturbs me we’re potentially going to be used as a landfill site for Sydney rubbish.”
Mr McCormack said he had written to federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt about the proposed project “to at least alert his attention it was something he may have to look at in the future”.
The proposal, which fell under the NSW Government’s review, would have to meet some very stringent conditions, he said.
“They’ll have to tick so many boxes and jump so many hurdles,” Mr McCormack said.
