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Some time in the 1850s, a 60 ton vessel was built and launched at Yarragee, some miles upstream on the river above Moruya.
In 1871, the river at that spot was said to be “scarcely a foot deep”.
The silting was attributed to the contemporary mining activities at Araluen, and had affected the full length of the river from there to its mouth.
The silt is expected to remain for thousands of years.
Such consequential effects in both time and place were common then, arising from varying degrees of greed, ignorance or indifference.
I thought that times had changed, so am disturbed by the lack of detail and in-depth consideration of possible risks to the river that could follow a serious failure in the proposed cyanide processing plant at Dargues Creek mine.
Such a failure would affect my drinking water now, and all and everything that live within the valley for generations to come.
There are smarter ways of doing things.
Chris Jones, Tuross Head