Illawarra-Shoalhaven

Community updates

14 Jul 2025

The NSW EPA entered an Enforceable Undertaking with Port Kembla Copper and Port Kembla Properties Pty Ltd (PKC) to address legacy contamination surrounding the premises.

Port Kembla steelworks at night. Credit: Caz Nowaczyk/EPA
21 Mar 2025

The EPA continues to offer free testing on a voluntary, opt-in basis to owners and occupiers of private land in and around Port Kembla with concerns about heavy metal levels.

Aerial photo of Port Kembla
01 Nov 2024
In January and February 2024, the EPA and the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) undertook a snap-shot, single point in time, assessment of the Lake Illawarra...
The view of Lake Illawarra from Mt Kembla Lookout in the Illawarra Escarpment State Conservation Area. Credit: Nick Cubbin/DCCEEW
22 Aug 2024

We commenced proceedings against Metropolitan Collieries in the NSW Land and Environment Court in 2023 for alleged licence breaches associated with water pollution incidents in 2022.

An EPA officer sampling water in Camp Gully Creek