Fires broke out in a Melbourne landfill site four years ago. Residents are still waiting for them to end

Sun, 7 Jan 2024 12:16:07 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/05/fires-broke-out-in-a-melbourne-landfill-site-four-years-ago-residents-are-still-waiting-for-them-to-end>

"At times, the stench has roused Nicole Power from her sleep. The St Albans
resident likens it to the smell of burning chemicals.

“It get rights down in my throat,” she said.

Marian Pham, a Kealba resident, said the smell triggered her asthma.

Since 2019, Power, Pham and other residents in Melbourne’s west have lived with
stench from fires burning at the Kealba landfill.

At first, residents could not point to where the smell was coming from. Then,
the word began spreading among locals who flooded the state’s Environment
Protection Authority with odour reports.

More than four years since those first reports, the landfill is still burning."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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