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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Royce Kurmelovs

Remote NT community not told about $5m contract to fix uranium in water supply

Laramba resident Alvin Allan and his family do not consume the water at their homes due to uranium levels above the Australian guidelines
Laramba resident Alvin Allan does not consume the water at his home due to uranium levels. Clean TeQ Water has announced it will build a filtration system for the community. Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian

Residents of a remote Indigenous community who have been left to drink uranium-contaminated water for a decade will get a new treatment plant by the end of the year under a plan by the Northern Territory government to address the issue.

Details of the project were revealed in a statement to the Australian stock exchange by engineering firm Clean TeQ Water, which announced it had signed a $5m contract in March to build an ion-exchange water filtration system for the 350-person community at Laramba.

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