Dirty coal: health fears of a town covered in dust from disused power station

Senate inquiry to visit Port Augusta to investigate mistakes made after the closure of the Northern power plant

For the residents living near the site of South Australia's demolished coal-fired power plant, the coming months could be their third straight summer of dust.

A flawed rehabilitation of an ash dam has led to potentially hazardous particles being blown across Port Augusta and its 14,000 residents for the last two years.