South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:02): (338) My question is for the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure regarding the Suburban Rail Loop and the Heatherton stabling facility. We might all recall the Liberals fought very, very hard to make sure that the Heatherton stabling facility was not a stabling facility but a great park. Soils and groundwater at the Cheltenham SRL station site are contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, metals and cyanide, and they are being excavated and moved to the stabling facility in Heatherton, a former quarry site which has operated for over a decade as a clean landfill, where the degree of contamination is uncertain. Minister, what permits and mitigation measures are being undertaken at the stabling facility at Heatherton to protect human and environmental health for the nearby residences and market gardens in the area?
The PRESIDENT: Standing orders prescribe we only have 15 constituency questions, but I am going to call Dr Heath and do something very bold and we will only have 14 tomorrow instead of 15.