West Footscray fire: 'Chemical cocktail' could flow to bay beaches, EPA warns
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Toxic waste from the West Footscray factory fire could flow as far into Port Phillip Bay as Brighton, while Victoria’s environment monitor warns it could take weeks or months for a popular western suburbs waterway to return to normal following the enormous blaze.
Stony Creek, at the Spotswood Golf Course, turned an unusual color as water from the firefighting efforts at the West Footscray factory blaze ran into it on Friday.
Photo: Steve Wilson
Scores of dead fish, eels and birds have washed up along the shores of Stony Creek and the mouth of the Yarra River near Spotswood, Newport and Williamstown since the blaze.
Stony Creek runs from near the site of the factory fire in Somerville Road into the lower Yarra River area flowing into Port Phillip Bay.
Firefighters remain at the scene of the fire as it continues to smoulder and expect to keep fighting it for days.
The blaze, which began on Thursday, is one of Melbourne’s biggest fires since the Coode Island disaster of the early 1990s. It is believed chemicals including acetone and oxyacetylene fuelled the blaze.
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