00:00One million dollars worth of grain swallowed by the Shoalhaven River.
00:06Around 10 o'clock last night at Manildra's Bombardieri plant, a silo filled with 1,000
00:11tonnes of wheat gave way, taking a second and third silo down with it.
00:16One of the silos has ended up in the Shoalhaven River.
00:19The rest of the product, between 1,500 tonne and 2,000 tonne, has been left on the ground.
00:26Responders heard the first responders overnight, but nothing could prepare them for the mess
00:30revealed by daylight.
00:32We could hear the machinery working in the evening, which we don't usually hear.
00:37It's usually very quiet in the nights, but we weren't sure what was going on.
00:41I thought it was April Fool's Day.
00:45So I thought that when I first pulled up here, I thought, oh, this has got to be a joke.
00:48But yeah, no.
00:49It's serious.
00:50It's not a joke.
00:51But yeah.
00:52No.
00:53Serious stuff.
00:54A new drain was set up at the collapsed silos as the clean-up got underway.
00:58Booms have also been installed to prevent the grain being swept further down the river.
01:03Here on the water, Maritime New South Wales is monitoring the spillage and controlling
01:07vessel traffic.
01:09While the grain continues to spill into the river here behind me, the Environment Protection
01:13Authority says it will also continue to monitor impacts.
01:16Manildra says no workers were hurt.
01:19Structural engineers are assessing the damage and trying to determine what caused the silos
01:24to collapse.
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