This report relates to the Consultant Agreement between the Environment Protection Authority and Dames & Moore Pty Ltd dated 15 January 1995 in relation to completion of a Risk Assessment Study for the Paddock Creek area north of the Town of Mount Egerton, Victoria. This agreement encompassed information supplied in a brief prepared by the EPA dated 16 August 1995 titled “Risk Assessment Study Proposal – Arsenic and Mercury Contaminated Mine Tailings, Mount Egerton, Victoria”, and Dames & Moore proposals of 1 September 1995 and 14 November 1995.
The study was carried out on behalf of the following Victorian Government agencies:
- Environmental Protection Authority
- Department of Health & Community Services
- Department of Agriculture, Energy & Minerals
- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources