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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Alcoa’s future mining near Serpentine Dam is a greater threat to Perth’s biggest drinking water dam than its present work which ...
US aluminium giant Alcoa wants to expand mining operations in the world's only jarrah forests in Western Australia, setting the stage for a battle with environmentalists over the impact on wildlife ...
A preliminary plan for removal of the Estabrook Park dam on the Milwaukee River calls first for dredging a pocket of contaminated muck that has accumulated in front of one section of the structure ...
The latest plan moves its operations closer to the Serpentine Dam, which supplies almost 20 per cent of Perth's drinking water. It has prompted greater scrutiny of how Alcoa manages potential run ...
spanning about 800 feet along the side of the dam, that fish can use to go upstream. The troublesome part of the ladder, at least for the lamprey, is known as the “serpentine section.” ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A major bushfire along the edge of Serpentine Dam on the weekend that shut down Alcoa’s bauxite mining will not affect the quality ...
Recent internal expert advice provided to the highest levels of government obtained by WAtoday raised grave concerns about an increased risk of harmful sediment flow into the Serpentine Dam from ...
The Serpentine blaze started during lightning storms near the Serpentine Dam on Saturday, about 55km south-southeast of Perth, and as of Sunday is estimated to cover 2,000 to 3,000 hectares of land.
South of the island, and rarely seen by park visitors, the dam is a 582-foot-long serpentine wall only a few feet higher than normal water level. They were thinking about aesthetics in the 1930s.