Poisons 'dumped in water catchment'

The Advertiser: Poisons 'dumped in water catchment' :

"Up to 24 drums filled with arsenic, copper and chromium were allegedly dumped at the Awoonga Dam catchment area at Builyan, near Gladstone, in 1999."

The environmental authority was contacted about this in 1999 but the EPA says it was brought to its attention in December. It is now July. Being alert and not alarmed isn't a bad policy for normal living. It's the reminder we need to keep our eyes and ears open in a world which has turn on us. Look at the news today. So much mishap, so much misadventure, so much sorrow and pain. What could we have avoided by being more active and alert with regard to our environment and habitat? Looking after ourselves. Why these drums of waste have been dumped is beyond me and why nothing has been done and it all followed up is also puzzling, except perhaps somebody else may have followed it through and then the left arm is not letting the right arm know what it is doing. Somebody saw the drums being dumped but it all seems to have been turned into a fresh air experience and it's no big deal. Poisoned water is not what we want. Are toxic materials not automatically removed directly from factory and business sites to a safe disposal area? Is a list kept of what is disposed ? Where are the checks and balances for being alert and not alarmed?