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Lutana, Tasmania
Summary
Lutana is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glenorchy in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about south-east of the town of Glenorchy. The 2021 census recorded a population of 2,616 for the state suburb of Lutana.
It is a suburb of Hobart. It is a large residential suburb located between the Brooker Highway and the River Derwent.
Meaning "moon" in one of the Aboriginal Tasmanian languages, Lutana was initially a sparsely populated area with agricultural and rural characteristics. Over time, the suburb underwent development and urbanization, transforming into a residential area.
The oldest properties at Lutana were originally built by Electrolytic Zinc (the operator of the Risdon Zinc Works) as homes for its employees at the nearby zinc works. The homes were later sold off and are now privately owned.
The suburb was gazetted as a locality in 1961.
Lutana has experienced substantial growth in recent years, becoming a popular inner-city suburb, offering a range of housing, including weatherboard homes, townhouses and apartments.
Trading as Nyrstar Hobart, the Risdon Zinc Works at Lutana, which has been in operation since 1917, continues to produce heavy metal contaminants affecting the air, land and estuary waters surrounding Greater Hobart.
In the 1980s, top soil samples from Lutana, Geilston Bay and Lindisfarne revealed high concentrations of zinc, lead, and cadmium. The sampling also revealed that the prevailing wind directions, the terrain of the land, and proximity to the smelter had an impact on the contamination's dissemination pattern.
Early to mid-1990s soil sampling around Lutana and the eastern shore revealed that increased levels of cadmium, lead, and zinc were confined to the top of the soil profile, with the bulk concentrated in the top .
A 2009 report conducted by the CSIRO recommended that home-grown vegetables vulnerable to the uptake of heavy metals including lettuce, spinach, carrot and beetroot should be grown in raised garden beds with a minimum depth of clean soil.
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