Pollution Incident Response Management Summary
Foxground & berry bypass – Environmental reporting
For project emergencies contact 1800 506 976
Pollution incidents
Under the NSW environmental legislation pollution incidents causing or threatening material harm to the environment must be notified to the relevant authorities. Material harm includes actual or potential harm to the health or safety of human beings or to ecosystems that is not trivial, or actual or potential loss or property damage exceeding $10,000.
Contact details
The contact details for the relevant agencies are listed in the table below.
The contact details for the relevant agencies are listed in the table below.
Emergency Contact |
Phone Number |
Police/Fire/Ambulance | 000 |
State Emergency Services | 13 25 00 |
Fire and Rescure of NSW | 1300 729 579 |
OccCorp – Injury Reporting | 1300 666 303 |
Transport Management Centre | 13 17 00 |
Southern Region Traffic Operations Unit | 4221 2448 |
Workcover Authority | |
WorkCover Assistance Services | 13 10 50 |
After Hours Emergency Contact | 9214 9220 |
Construction Hotline | 9370 5881 |
Poisons Information Centre | 13 11 26 |
Local Councils | |
Kiama Municipal Council | 4232 0444 (work hours) |
0417 686 477 (after hours) | |
Shoalhaven City Council | 4429 3111 (work hours) |
TBA (after hours) | |
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Counselling | 1800 337 068 |
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) | 13 15 55 |
Illawarra Health District | 4222 5000 |
Fauna Rescue | |
WIRES – Australian Wildlife Rescue Organisation | 1300 WIRES (094 737) |
NPWS (in circumstances when WIRES is unavailable) | 1800 629 104 |
Heritage | |
NPWS | 1800 629 104 |
NSW Heritage – reporting potential non-indigenous archaeological relics or sites | 9873 8500 |
Services | |
Telstra | 13 20 00 |
Optus | 1800 200 487 |
Jemena | 13 16 26 |
Endeavour Energy (electricity) | 13 1003 |
Sydney Water | 13 20 90 |
Community Notification
In an unlikely event of pollution incident occurring that threatens to cause harm to human health or the environment, the following notification protocol will be followed:
- Environmental and engineering staff will determine the community notification catchment depending on the nature of each incident
- Early warnings will be issued by phone calls, web updates and door knocking to affected residents
- Notifications to affected residents will include details of incident, time frame of the impact and the mitigation measures put in place
- Instructions to residents to minimise health impact i.e. for airborne chemicals residents will be advised to close windows and doors, to take extra care if they have respiratory issues, keep children inside and protect animals, where possible, and
- Sensitive receivers i.e. schools, nursing homes and hospitals will receive priority notification of pollution incidents.
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