Clean Up Bill for Government’s Toxic Sydney Site Doubles to $116m

Taxpayers will fork out $116 million to clean up a heavily contaminated site near Parramatta for the NSW government’s light rail project, more than double the original bill.

The escalating bill means the government has had to spend almost $170 million to get the land to a stage where the transport agency can start building a maintenance yard for trams at Camellia by midyear. The trams will run on the first stage of Parramatta’s multibillion-dollar light rail line when it opens in 2023.

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