REGIS Resources mining company is submitting its EIS [environmental impact statement] to place a significant gold mine and tailings dam on Kings Plains, an important tract of historical and agricultural country between Bathurst and Blayney.
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In this highly populated agricultural country, the community of 100 landholders are offensively known in mining terminology as "sensitive receptors".
For the construction of this mine, Regis must first plug the spring source for the Belubula River, an important tributary for the Lachlan-Murray Basin.
This means plugging the springs with cement plugs to build a 600 square acre tailings dam atop the spring.
Should this plugging lose integrity, there is a very real prospect of the water table being polluted with heavy metals.
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Kings Plains is a significant water table whose springs have been known, in dry times, to quite randomly flow and feed the river, providing large amounts of clear and unsullied water from our pristine water table.
These springs are at the very headwaters of the beautiful Belubula River, which is an important feeder for the Lachlan-Murray Basin, Australia's food bowl.
I believe this is environmental vandalism.
As caretakers and custodians for Australia, when will this money-grubbing, careless attitude to water stop?
