Eurobodalla mayor Liz Innes confirmed the council this week had received verbal advice from the NSW Environmental Protection Authority about its latest round of testing at the Brou waste management facility. Water testing of the creek on the adjacent private property by the EPA revealed that Brou tip was not the source of contamination concerns, she said. The EPA is finalising their report and the council understands it will be made public in the coming weeks.

“While all of the testing to date indicates that Brou tip is not the source of pollution concerns, council will continue to work with the authorities to identify potential sources of pollution and address the concerns that have been raised,” she said.

The allegations of toxic leachate flowing from the Brou landfill into adjacent waterways and lake are now also being investigated by two Eurobodalla fishing clubs, and the clubs too are awaiting results of additional testing by the EPA.

Mayor Liz Innes met Tuesday with representatives from the Tuross Head Fishing Club and Tomakin Fishing Club, who themselves conducting sampling and witnessed a fish kill on Whittakers Creek that leads into Brou Lake earlier this month.

Tuross club secretary Max Castle said he was at a loss to why the council up to this point had not being open and transparent with any testing of toxins potentially leaching out of the tip. He also wondered how the Brou tip had been allowed to expand when it sat on the site that was formerly identified as an aquatic reserve and he held concerns that leachate was now flowing into a sanctuary zone in the Batemans Marine Park.

Tomakin Fishing Club president Adam Martin also visited the waterways downstream from the tip with Mr Castle earlier this month after a recent fish kill and was very concerned about the potential impacts on the marine environment.