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Samantha Lock

Australia's busiest harbour at risk of sewage eruption

Sydney Harbour is unlikely to be polluted from an underground sewage pipe leak, authorities say. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A leaking underground pipe has prompted fears sewage could flow into Australia's busiest harbour. 

Emergency works are underway on a 100-year-old central pipe carrying excrement up to nine metres below Sydney Harbour. 

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