A council will incur clean-up, performance improvement and penalty costs totalling more than $1 million after failing to report a caustic soda spill from a sewage treatment plant.
A Yancoal and Glencore joint venture company will spend more than $1.4 million after sediment-laden water escaped from its Singleton open-cut coal mine into a creek.
Businesses and residents in Sydney would have higher water bills at times when dam levels are low, under new proposals from the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal.
A company that supplied chemicals company Jalco Australia with a wastewater storage tank alerted it three times to possible deficiencies, but Jalco failed to act and the tank collapsed.
The NSW environment department has for the fourth time been convicted of pollution offences over its operation of a sewage treatment plant in the Snowy Mountains.