Remote NT community not told about $5m contract to fix uranium in water supply
by Royce Kurmelovs from on (#5Z8V5)
Laramba residents have no details of when treatment system will be ready and are forced to pay for bottled water while they wait
Residents of a remote Indigenous community who have been left to drink uranium-contaminated water for a decade will get a new treatment plant by the end of the year under a plan by the Northern Territory government to address the issue.
Details of the project were revealed in a statement to the Australian stock exchange by engineering firm Clean TeQ Water, which announced it had signed a $5m contract in March to build an ion-exchange water filtration system for the 350-person community at Laramba.
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