Bioaccumulation monitoring 1999 annual report for Fletcher Challenge Paper

"April 2000".

Project Number: Biomonitoring of Newsprint Mill Wastewater for Norske Skog (formerly Fletcher Challenge Paper, and previous to that, Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd) – YH/6/21 and YH/6/21/3.

MDFRC item.

For listing of associated publications, see Biomonitoring of Newsprint Mill Wastewater for Norske Skog Part 1 (annual reports) and Part 2 (presentations and scientific publications).

Fletcher Challenge Paper, Albury operates a 2100 ML irrigation storage dam (Lake Ettamogah) for tertiary treated wastewater. The Lake has been stocked with fish obtained from commercial hatcheries. The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre was contracted to assess bioaccumulation of metals in these fish, as part of a long-term monitoring program.