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Story summary
- The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority ordered Sydney Water to remove fats at the Malabar wastewater treatment plant after discovering a large fatberg.
- The fatberg was possibly the size of four buses.
- It contributed to beach closures last summer.
- Sydney Water must implement a pollution reduction program including fat removal and monitoring technology.
- Sydney Water's managing director admitted the fatberg likely formed due to wastewater discharges.
