<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/36be79a6-5638-41e3-a916-cbe3983f5d56/82E87963-BB06-434B-A795-A7A9D353DD6C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory01.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory01.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory01.htm"><FONT size="2" face="MS%20Sans%20Serif"> Written by <B>SALLY EVANS</B>.</FONT> <P>WANGARATTA could be sitting on a ticking time bomb.</p> <P>A thick layer of ash and silt from recent bushfires has covered huge masses of the King Valley, with just a solid downpour of rain needed to wash it into local waterways.</p> <P>It threatens to turn the King and Ovens rivers into sludge, as seen after the 2003 Alpine bushfires, and is a looming death sentence for fish and possibly the whole river ecosystem.</p> <P>This is the worst nightmare of local farmer and Rural City of Wangaratta councillor, Neville Wright, who describes it as "<B>an environmental disaster waiting to happen</B>".</p> <P>"<B>Just because the smoke has gone doesn’t mean we are out of the woods,</B>" he said.</p> <P>"<B>If we get a four or five-inch rain, there would be enough stuff come down here that it would probably clog the river up.</B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/82E87963-BB06-434B-A795-A7A9D353DD6C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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