A scientific report questions whether falling water levels in Thirlmere Lakes National Park near Sydney are due to coal mining and asks what future impacts mining and Coal Seam Gas production may have on groundwater.
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CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: Farming communities have long worried about the effect of coal mining and coal seam gas development on underground water. A new independent study has looked at a drop in water levels in the Thirlmere Lakes National Park in New South Wales. According to some geologists the study raises questions for the development of coal and gas feels near surface water. Greg Miskelly reports.
GREG MISKELLY, REPORTER: On the range of Australia's biggest city, in a sandstone gorge millions of years old, lies one of Sydney's natural treasures. The vegetation is lush in this internationally recognised National Park, but over the last few years, the five unique lakes here seem to have been drying out.
Today, Philip Pells and his son Stephen Pells, both scientists, are here monitoring rainfall capture in one of the lakes.
GREG MISKELLY, REPORTER: On the range of Australia's biggest city, in a sandstone gorge millions of years old, lies one of Sydney's natural treasures. The vegetation is lush in this internationally recognised National Park, but over the last few years, the five unique lakes here seem to have been drying out.
Today, Philip Pells and his son Stephen Pells, both scientists, are here monitoring rainfall capture in one of the lakes.
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