Homebush Bay. Threat to $300 milion marina

State Government plans to develop a $300 million marina on an 18-hectare site, on Wentworth Point on the western arm of Homebush Bay, may be scuttled by its own environment department, which says the project would expose people to serious health risks from pollution, according to The Daily Telegraph. Documents obtained by the Opposition under FOI laws show the project can be expected to disturb contaminated sediment, which is laced with dioxin from the former Union Carbide factory across the bay. The marina and boatyard development could also compromise some of the remediation work completed since a clean-up began in 2005. The Government said it would call for expressions of interest in January, with a view to work beginning in the middle of next year.