Filthy Queanbeyan drops crap into our lake.

Go down to where the Molonglo starts to become the lake, and have a sniff at the mud. That’ll tell you what’s going on.

I haven’t swum in the Lake since 82, when we paddled kayaks down from the Oaks Estate low level crossing (had to carry the kayaks over fields of stones, the river was LOW as 82 was a big drought). As we got down near the Lake beginnings, the stench was appalling, with the pipe from Harman and the pipe from the abattoir (yes we had one of those then) were evident and stinky. In those days something from Duntroon was going down too, they had a light that’d go on when a lot of nasty stuff was going in.

Haven’t swum in the yucky thing since.

So now the lake is full of sh!t, just like the politicians and public servants who sit there and look at it all day are anyway.

The sewerage is probably cleaner then the water in the lake anyway.

I know it’s not a treatment plant! It’s a closed tank.

Ant…..that’s good, then you would know that across from the caravan park is not a sewerage treatment plant but a pumping station that pumps to Oaks Estate. When the river is not flowing the river water next to the weir has the least oxygen coz by the time it travels down the river it is biologically consumed and this creates the pongy smell around the weir and upstream from the weir. The old pumping station had bio filters that sanitised any odours.

No I won’t. I’ll be drinking my very, very big tank. The results of my miniture poo farm goes onto the trees.

And it’s very suss that it gets stinky right at that spot, but no where else, yet Googong ostensibly affects the entire river. So for years I thought it was the dodgey septics at the caravan park, until I saw what they were building/altering across the road. I know a sewerage plant when I see one.

Ant………..the river gets a little pongy coz there is a bloody big dam upstream (Googong) that stops all environmental flows into the river. There are no septic tanks in Queanbeyan and the work opposite the caravan park is a $8m sewage pumping station. All sewage is treated at the Sewerage Treatment Plant at Oaks Estate and produces one of the highest quality effluents in Australia. It has too coz it flows into Lake Burley Griffin.

Anyway you shouldn’t worry about Queanbeyan’s sewage too much in a few years you will be drinking the ACT’s!!

They can’t even get this right, and we’re going to drink the stuff?!

Knows Best said :

ACTEW have overflows into the lake all the time.

That’s different. ACT Sh*t doesn’t stink !

I suspect that Qbn’s sewage has been doing this for many years. Have you ever driven around that low-level crossing (near the old Marco Polo Club) and smelt the pong, and assumed it was a dodgey septic in the caravan park there?

Well, if you’ve noticed the on-going works there with half the road closed off, what they’re mucking around with is the sewage plant! I don’t know what its role is in Qbn’s poo-works (I believe the main thing is over in the paddocks on the Oaks Estate side, near, ahem, the molonglo), but I bet that’s what’s been smelling terrible all these years.

At least they’re not chucking bodies in the river like they used to. Good way of freeing up space in the graveyard but not a sustainable method.

With so much crap in Lake Burley Griffin already who would notice a little more and btw I understand Telstra is being prosecuted for the major leak that happened 6 months ago…..so there!!

ACTEW have overflows into the lake all the time.