SA expects new bill for Royal Adelaide Hospital building site contamination clean-up

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      New Royal Adelaide Hospital building site Feb 19, 2015

 

The South Australia Government expects to receive another compensation claim for the removal of contaminated waste from the new Royal Adelaide Hospital building site.

The building consortium, SA Health Partnerships, made a $30 million claim for remediation work at the former rail yard site on North Terrace but the claim was rejected late last year.

The two parties are still to reach an agreement over the issue.

The ABC reported last year the claim centred on remediation work with Health Partnerships, citing 24 instances of unknown soil contamination.

State Health Minister Jack Snelling told a parliamentary hearing on Friday that an updated claim was imminent.

“We would expect that the consortium would be putting in another claim for the extra time that it took them … to remove that waste, but as of now they still haven’t put in such a claim,” he said