But for one community west of Rockhampton, a spill of toxic water from an old gold mine has turned out to be worse than first thought.
The abandoned Mount Morgan gold mine, which overflowed for the first time in its history three weeks ago, is still spilling acid and heavy metals into the Dee River. Local farmers now say that the Dee River is an unnatural shade of blue-green for a lot of its length, and birds and fish are dying.
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