Gold Coast Council Probed as Tonnes of Sewage Spilt Into River

More than 350 million litres of sewage has been spilt into a Gold Coast river after a broken Queensland council pipe went undetected for months. The Gold Coast City Council may face prosecution after the state government announced it would investigate the “catastrophic failure.” The broken pipe is believed to have dumped effluent into the Albert River at Yatala for up to three months, believed to be the state’s worst-ever leak. “We haven’t seen a spill of this magnitude in Queensland to my knowledge,” the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation (DESI)’s Brad Wirth said. DESI said it would investigate the council, who they named as the “polluter.”...