Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold
mining was disastrous for the land, drowning it in floods of sand,
gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this
environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains?
Victorians had a name for this mining waste- 'sludge'. Sludge
submerged Victoria's best grapevines near Bendigo, filled
Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and oozed down from
Beechworth to cover thousands of hectares of rich agricultural
land. Children and animals drowned in the sludge lakes that
collected in mining towns. Mining effluent contaminated
three-quarters of Victoria's creeks and rivers. Sludge is the
fascinating story of the forgotten filth that plagued
nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the dirty big secret of
Victoria's mining history - the way it transformed the state's
water and land; and also how the battle against sludge helped to
lay the ground for the modern environmental movement.
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