SECTION 1:
TOXIC
WASTE
-- The Castlereagh Liquid Waste Disposal Depot, or The Castlereagh Waste Management Centre


LIQUID WASTE LEACHES FROM WASTE DEPOT CONTAINING 2 MILLION TONNES
OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES & POISONS NEARBY PROPERTIES
UNIVERSITY GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEGREE ASSIGNMENT 1: The Impact of the Castlereagh Liquid Waste Disposal Depot on the Londonderry Terrestrial Environment (this
includes the Hawkesbury River located North-West of Sydney, Australia)
This pdf file (for which you will need the program Adobe Acrobat Reader to view, available at:
www.adobe.com) is an Applied Science Degree assignment created with other Degree students (Derek Sporl, Robert Sinclair, Rebecca Harvey, Ingvild Mogster, and Warwick Hunter) that focuses on the waste depot and the many grievous problems associated with its existence. You will find information on the EPA, Waste Service NSW, waste leakage from the depot, and disease generated in animals and humans by this 'leachate'. This document will also be of some interest to University students because it presents a variety of approaches to investigating problematic issues.
Get this file
HERE
(it is 1,330 KB in size, so please allow time for the pdf file to download and display in your web browser).
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UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEGREE ASSIGNMENT 2: Global Toxicity: Chemicals -- A Worldwide Nightmare (Highlighting the Castlereagh Waste Management Centre and its Impact on Londonderry, Sydney)
This assignment, which became a book (ISBN 0-646-23801-9), provides even more information than the first one above, including University of Western Sydney soil and bore water heavy metals test results, and a very important analysis of waste depot bore water test results obtained by Waste Service NSW that proves conclusively that toxic waste was leaking from the depot.
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Get the main document file
HERE
("Global Toxicity")
(632 KB), or below for other languages.
The important
Appendices include a great many maps of the waste
depot itself, details of a Community Monitoring Committee meeting in
which an EPA representative admitted that the depot was leaking,
interviews, chemical wastes lists, and heavy metals tests:
app1a depot site maps.pdf
(1,445 KB).
app1b depot site maps.pdf
(1,415 KB).
app1c depot site maps.pdf
(516 KB).
app1d depot site maps.pdf
(1,646 KB).
app1e depot site maps.pdf (1,183 KB)
All the above maps provide details on the location of the Castlereagh Liquid Waste Disposal Depot (Castlereagh Waste Management Centre).

app2 depot environs.pdf shows depot environs maps displaying the locations of affected properties, as well as a map of an anonymous property where we took soil samples for analysis at UWS (University of Western Sydney) (190 KB.
app3 1995 interviews.pdf has interviews with an affected property owner, a RAGE (Residents' Action Group for the Environment) official, and a UWS lecturer (68 KB).
app4 1995 cmc meeting.pdf has notes I took at a 1995 Community Monitoring Committee meeting where an EPA official admitted that the waste depot was LEAKING!
(478 KB).
app5a rage newsletters.pdf has RAGE newsletters and media releases from 1993 to 1996
(1,522 KB).

app5b rage newsletters.pdf has RAGE newsletters and media releases from 1993 to 1996
(1,055 KB).
app6 lists of chemical wastes.pdf has scans of various Waste Service NSW documents displaying the wide variety of toxic wastes deposited at the waste depot
(1,203 KB).
app7 heavy metals printout & method.pdf shows a scan of the heavy metals analysis performed by UWS technicians on the anonymous property soil samples (1,355 KB).
app8 tests.pdf shows soil test results for 1996 on the anonymous property
(306 KB).
app9 graphs for soil
and water tests.pdf shows graphs for the various anonymous soil and water tests, including
heavy metals
(379 KB).
app10 jones
interview and photos.pdf
(614 KB).
app11 performance rating scale.pdf
(267 KB).
app12 closure plan.pdf
(285 KB).

Canada (phone)
Canadian Poison Control Centres
Phones and Addresses for Provinces
napra.org
Also see
WHO (World Health Organization Yellow Tox lists)
Malaysia
PRN(Pusat Racun Negara) National Poison Centre
Poisoning and Emergency 1-800-88-8099 and
04-6570099
prn.usm.my emergency
All resources IDPIS Universiti Sains Malaysia
Integrated Drug and Poison Information Services
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South Africa
For
phones to poison and drug information centers
throughout South Africa and drug profiles:
uct.ac.za
Also see
World Directory of Poison Centres
For many counties in Africa
Southeast Asia - India Indonesia Nepal SriLanka
Thailand
IPCS directory of poison centres: South-East Asia Region
Poison Centers for India Indonesia, SriLanka, Nepal, Thailand
See also
Southeast Asia WHO (World Health Organization Yellow Tox lists)
World Directory of Poison Centres
Go
directly to
World Health Organization (WHO) for telephone numbers in 70+
countries
Yellow Tox World Directory of Poison Centres WHO/ILO/UNEP World
Federation of Associations of Poisons Centres and Clinical
Toxicology Centres
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