Berrima pollution a warning for other mines: scientist

By Peter Hannam
Updated August 21 2017 - 9:10pm, first published 7:30pm
Downstream of the Berrima Coal mine. Photo: Ian Wright
Downstream of the Berrima Coal mine. Photo: Ian Wright

The paucity of independent monitoring of waste water from coal mines in NSW is leaving communities exposed to decades of pollution, long after mining operations have ceased, Ian Wright, a leading water ecologist, said.

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