Original story by Charmaine Kane, ABC News
More than 10,000 litres of raw sewage has spilt near a popular creek at Currumbin on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Currumbin RSL Club
Gold Coast Water says a sewerage main was damaged during construction work in the car park of the Currumbin RSL Club yesterday afternoon.
The manager of operational performance, Paul Gear, says swimming and fishing has been banned in an area of Currumbin Creek but the situation could have been much worse.
"The supervisor on site of the construction works acted very, very quickly and stopped some of the sewage going down the stormwater drains within about 15 or 20 minutes, we have been told," he said.
"What that allowed it to do was form its own lagoon in the car park of the RSL.
"That stopped a lot of the spill going into the waterway."
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