Gold Coast Council Probed as Tonnes of Sewage Spilt Into River

We haven’t seen a spill of this magnitude in Queensland to my knowledge,' said the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation.

Construction workers watch the overflowing Parramatta river in Sydney, Australia, on March 3, 2022. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images

More than 350 million litres of sewage has been spilt into a Gold Coast river after a broken Queensland council pipe went undetected for months.

The Gold Coast City Council may face prosecution after the state government announced it would investigate the “catastrophic failure.”