{"id":15010,"date":"2025-07-23T03:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15010\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:36:06","slug":"sydneys-green-heart-council-under-fire-over-orange-pollution-in-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15010\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sydney\u2019s green heart\u2019 council under fire over orange pollution in national park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCouncil has replaced the faulty pump as well as the associated pipework and will continue to monitor the system,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>An EPA spokesman said investigators from the department have collected samples of the leak as well as water samples from downstream to \u201cinform if there was any impact to the environment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cowan Creek is located within the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a6067835ba69b465e49d9897ed51fd47ab91cdd6.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cowan Creek is located within the Ku-ring-gai Chase National ParkCredit: NSW EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EPA\u2019s investigation is continuing,\u201d the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>This incident is the second time in as many years that the council has been issued with an environmental clean-up order by the EPA after \u201csediment laden water\u201d was found to be discharging from Norman Griffiths Oval in Pymble into a creek within Lane Cove National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was discovered during upgrade works at the oval involving the installation of a new synthetic turf playing surface at the site.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment president Kathy Cowley said the latest incident was \u201cconcerning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kathy Cowley, president of the Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment community group.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/99a8dfbc6cce775324c79a2fdf3e54243c49c267.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kathy Cowley, president of the Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment community group.Credit: Janie Barrett<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKu-ring-gai is surrounded by three national parks and the council has a strong responsibility to maintain its sites so that no pollution incident occurs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s especially important when we\u2019re under so much pressure to build more housing, that\u2019s putting even more pressure on our environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clean-up order comes after the council \u2013 which dubs itself \u201cSydney\u2019s Green Heart\u201d \u2013 released plans to spend $2 million on trees and natural environment works this financial year in its 2025-26 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p57ogt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCouncil has replaced the faulty pump as well as the associated pipework and will continue to monitor the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-15010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}