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December 1st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
CFA and Melbourne Water crews seen from the air during the search for the man who went missing in a sewage pit at the Eastern Treatment Plant at Bangholme. Picture: CFA/Twitter
Source: Supplied
THE body of a worker who went missing at Melbourne’s main sewage treatment plant has been found.
The 52-year-old Endeavour Hills man – who was working for Melbourne Water – went missing while carrying out routine sampling work at Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant in Bangholme just after 7am yesterday.
Rescuers spent more than eight hours scouring the massive network of pipes, tanks and drains to find the body just after 8pm.
It was the third workplace death in 24 hours.
A 26-year-old man died in hospital from his head injuries after a 150kg piece of machinery fell 6m on to him at a Campbellfield boat manufacturing business yesterday afternoon, and a man died when he was struck by a street sweepers at a roadworks site in Bayswater on Wednesday night.
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It is believed the man fell in a pumping system where the raw sewage flows at about 6m per second.
Colleagues raised the alarm at about 8.45am after realising the man was missing, seeing his work equipment still at the side of the tank. The man was working alone at the time of his disappearance.
The giant treatment tank is among many that are built into the ground and is about 5m deep.
The Eastern Treatment Plant treats about 40 per cent of Melbourne’s sewage, about 330 million litres a day – with waste water coming from the city’s southeast and eastern suburbs.
WorkSafe spokesman Michael Birt said how the man fell into the sewage tank was still being investigated, but that there were guard rails at the edge of the pit.
He said there hadn’t been three workplace deaths in Victoria in one day since May 2001.
“As far as fatalities go it’s certainly the worst day in 10 years,” Mr Birt said.
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.
– Additional reporting Michelle Ainsworth
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