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Dear COG list people,
Protect Ginninderra Falls and the Murrumbidgee
As this is in your backyard, I feel justified in sending this environmental
alert, and request for lobbying assistance
to you. I know nothing of the background to this case,
personally. It has been sent to me as a personal request from a
friend of a friend.
I take the information at face value, as a legitimate environmental
concern.
I hope I am correct in that assumption. No doubt someone will correct
the record if that is not the case.
Please consider.
Denis Wilson
Robertson NSW
This issue directly affects a property which is just on the NSW side of the
ACT, and they have a very short time to respond and take action to prevent a
beautiful part of Australia being permanently scarred and potentially
polluted.
Begin forwarded message:
We need your support!!!!
For
those who remember the old Ginninderra Falls before their closure, try
imagining the surrounding environmentally protected land being quarried for
red granite. Then picture a large concrete crushing plant on site.
This is a proposal put forth to the Yass Valley Council, alongside landfill of
an old quarry site. The new quarry site, alongside the area for
landfill, have the potential to overflow directly into our Murrumbidgee
catchment. There is no promise or guaranteed way of policing for the use
of unclean fill, or to fine for its use. If found, the proposal states
it will be removed – after the effects have been felt downstream. Add to
that a concrete crushing plant with the potential to dump dust or sludge of
lime, silica and even hexavalent chromium (remember the movie Erin
Brockovich?) into our beautiful river. There have also been endangered and
threatened flora and fauna species which exist on the proposed quarry
site. The applicants have previously been quoted as calling the
area ‘Canberra’s Kakadu’ – WHAT A
BACKFLIP!!!
Please,
respond to this email at
with
your concerns or support, or contact the Yass Valley Council quoting reference
PR5533 and DA 5.2007.346.1 - responses are accepted until Thursday 2nd April
2009.
Thank
you for speaking up for appropriate development and against ravaging of our
natural resources.
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