Community Open House Sessions
We hosted three open house sessions in late-May 2024, inviting local community members to learn about a potential strategy to fill the mine pit and hear the latest on rehabilitation of the former mine and power station sites.
The community events followed three years’ worth of technical work, exploring the possibility of using groundwater to fast-track filling the mine pit within the next decade, rather than remain restricted for what could be 50 years at the current natural fill pace.
Over 100 members of the local community dropped in to the sessions, taking up the opportunity to discuss the technical findings with representatives from the Alcoa team and their technical experts.
The feedback collected during the open house sessions is now being collated for consideration ahead of any potential application for a formal groundwater licence amendment with Southern Rural Water.
View the information boards presented at the sessions.