Following last week’s story on a large fish kill and pollution in the Belongil Creek, Byron Council staff have told The Echo the NSW EPA test results received on Monday ‘confirm that iron bacteria was present in the estuary water and a contributor to the discolouration’.
A DPI spokesperson told The Echo last week that DPI Fisheries staff attended Belongil Creek on Friday last week and ‘observed 100s – 1000s of fish along the waters’ edge of the creek from the railway bridge to the creek mouth.’
Staff added that, ‘Nothing indicates pollution from uncontained development works. The result received from the EPA lab test confirmed a previous report and Council staff sampling that it was a natural event’.
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