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The heavily polluted Alexandria Canal near Sydney Airport is still unsafe to touch despite state and local governments promoting it as “Little Venice” eight years ago.
Planning authorities say that the canal doesn’t stink anywhere near enough to be classified as Venice.
EPA documents slamming the four-kilometre-long waterway as “the most severely contaminated canal in the southern hemisphere” are considered so toxic that the government recommends nobody touch them.
Old South Sydney City Council artist-impression drawings of “Little Venice” on the canal are hazardously embarrassing and should not be viewed, touched or eaten.
Castle Hill Liberal MP Michael Richardson told the Sydney Morning Herald that toxic canal sediments are threatening local residents. The government has assured him that he is safe in Castle Hill.
The most severely contaminated canal in the northern hemisphere is either a water feature outside the New Jersey State House or Beijing’s Olympic regatta centre.
