Victorian EPA’s failures ‘a great case study’ in community management gone wrong

Environmental Protection Agency apologises over lack of community consultation over soil dumping

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Victoria's environmental watchdog's failure to properly engage with residents over the handling of contaminated soil shows community groups cannot be kept in the dark like mushrooms", an expert says.

The Environment Protection Authority came under fire after the state ombudsman concluded it failed to properly engage communities when approving sites to dump contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel project. The EPA had told the ombudsman that community consultation would be a waste of time".

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