MORE than 120 horse carcasses left rotting in a parched dam on a remote Aboriginal reserve in northeastern Western Australia will finally be removed after the local shire agreed to intervene.
The horses were seeking water when they became stuck in the mud at Balgo, an Aboriginal community within the Halls Creeks Shire, in WA's Kimberley.
About 40 carcases have already been removed but a further 87 dead horses have been counted at the site by members of the Balgo community.
Although the dam is technically on shire land, it's part of an Aboriginal community where few non-indigenous people venture.
The community's acting chief executive Yaja Nowakowski told AAP that the shire had agreed to send tractors to remove and burn the remains.
"They will make the dam safe to be used again," she said on Wednesday.
Ms Nowakowski said she expected the work would begin in the next few days and would be completed within two weeks.
She said the smell of the carcasses was overwhelming and was keeping people - including children who liked to play in the dam - away from the site at least until rain started to it fill again.
The state government would also provide emergency relief funding, she said.
Comment was being sought from the government.
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