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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Consulting the community a ‘waste of time’, Victoria’s EPA told state ombudsman

West Gate Tunnel site.
The West Gate Tunnel project is running at least two years late and costs have blown out after soil contaminated with dangerous chemicals used in firefighting foam was discovered at the construction site in 2019. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Victoria’s environmental watchdog failed to engage with communities when approving locations to dump contaminated soil from the troubled West Gate Tunnel Project, believing it would be a “waste of time”, the state’s ombudsman has found.

The multi-billion-dollar tunnel, which will be an alternative to the city’s heavily congested West Gate Bridge, was originally scheduled to be completed by September this year.

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