Baigup Wetlands — funding
973. Hon ALISON XAMON to the minister representing the Minister for Water:
I refer to the answers to my questions on notice 4629 and 4631, in which it was clarified that the Department of Environment and Conservation had transferred $900 000 to the Department of Water to be put towards the Baigup Wetlands, and that approximately $35 000 was spent on the development of the Baigup Reserve and remediation plan. I ask the minister to please specify how the remainder of that $900 000 has been or will be spent and when.
Hon HELEN MORTON replied:
I thank the member for some notice of this question. All the funding was spent on the investigations, which included extensive groundwater drilling and chemical sampling; sampling and analysis of adjacent Swan River estuary water; extensive soil sampling in the Baigup Wetlands area, especially the areas disturbed by construction of wetland formation; and long-term groundwater monitoring for acid events. The preparation of the management plan based on these investigations cost $35 000, as noted in the earlier reply.