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SUBMISSION: to the Clarence Valley Community Strategic Plan

Post author:John Edwards
Post published:May 6, 2022
Post category:Local Issue Submission

The Clarence Environment Centre has a proud 32-year record of environmental advocacy, with conservation of the natural environment an absolute priority. As such, we view planning as the key to an ecologically sustainable future.

Having been alerted to the above document privately at the last minute, this submission will be far from comprehensive. However, we would like to make the following observations in relation to the salient points of the Draft.

The water quality crisis update

Post author:John Edwards
Post published:April 5, 2022
Post category:Local Issue

Twelve months on from the delivery of the "Water Quality Crisis” report, another flood, and another announcement from council (5^th March 2022), to the effect that: “Our drinking water storages at Shannon Creek Dam and Nymboida River have received a huge amount of dirty water over the past week. The dirty water will affect our water treatment processes and we unfortunately cannot be certain of the water quality”.

As our earlier report explained, supported by evidence, it is soil disturbance through human activity and bad management that contributes to excessive turbidity, not just heavy rainfall.