The LVOO (Latrobe Valley Ocean Outfall) was commissioned in 1992 to discharge a mixed effluent of domestic sewage and industrial wastewaters, including pulp mill effluent and formation water from offshore oil platforms.
2023-2025 Gippsland Water Dutson Downs Waste Water Treatment – assuming that all waste waters from Dutson Downs end up in the LVOO.
Average detections from 82 test regimes (99% positive for PFAS)
PFBA: 0.001ug/L
PFBS: 0.0011ug/L
PFHpA: 0.0052ug/L
PFHpS: 0.0017ug/L
PFHxA: 0.0213ug/L
PFHxS: 0.027ug/L
PFNA: 0.009ug/L
PFOA: 0.0098ug/L
PFOS: 0.1502ug/L
PFPeA: 0.0045ug/L
PFPeS: 0.0015ug/L