THERE will be three and not two community meetings held by the Department of Defence tomorrow to update Katherine residents on the chemical contamination of our drinking water.
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The Katherine Times will Facebook livestream from the first of the Katherine Country Club sessions at about 2.30pm tomorrow for those unable to make it in person.
There will be be two community “walk-in information sessions” at the club, from 2.30-4pm and the second at 5.30-7pm.
A third “community leaders meeting” will be held at the Tindal RAAF Base from 11am as well to discuss the department’s PFAS environmental Investigation program.
A number of NT Government departmental experts are also expected to attend the meetings to answer questions.
Similar to the initial meeting held at Knotts Crossing on November 25 last year, defence’s deputy secretary Estate and Infrastructure, Steve Grzeskowiak, is expected to lead the sessions.
Defence says it is committed “to provide local residents and business owners with an opportunity to discuss the environmental investigation into per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on and in the vicinity of, RAAF Base Tindal”.
An update scheduled for March 23 was cancelled by the department.
Federal health authorities last week dramatically lowered the “tolerable daily intake” for PFAS from 0.5 micrograms per litre to 0.07.
Chris McLennan
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
