Fire water set for Port Philip Bay and agriculture

by Pelican Press
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Fire water set for Port Philip Bay and agriculture

Five Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of contaminated ‘fire water’ from a massive factory blaze will be released after remediation into Melbourne’s Port Philip Bay or used for agricultural purposes.

Authorities are still monitoring local waterways for lasting signs of chemical contamination more than two weeks after an inferno at the Derrimut warehouse, in the city’s west, that was so fierce it sent metal drums flying hundreds of metres skyward.

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