RIVER MGMT, TOXIC WASTE: "Heavy metals contaminate Yarra fish"

The Age
27 October 2008

Melbourne's Yarra River has unkindly been described as an "upside-down" river for its muddy, brown colour, but it seems the river is also a nasty chemical cocktail.

Fish in the Yarra have arsenic levels up to five times the safe level for human consumption and some are so badly contaminated that they could cause kidney or nerve damage in humans, according to a study by the Herald Sun newspaper...

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