Minutes of Meeting

Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting

Venue	Council Chambers, Station Street, Mullumbimby
Date	Thursday, 13 April 2017
Time	2.00pm

BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL

Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 13 April 2017

Minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on Thursday, 13 April 2017

File No: I2017/462

PRESENT:   Cr C Coorey, Cr M Lyon, Cr Richardson

Staff:   Phillip Holloway (Director, Infrastructure Services)

            Peter Rees (Manager, Utilities)

            Helen Waldron (Minute Taker)

Community:                       Col Draper, David Fligelman, Alan Dickens, Duncan Dey

Cr Lyon (Chair) opened the meeting at 2.15pm and acknowledged that the meeting was being held on Bundjalung Country.

Apologies:

Cr S Ndiaye

Madeleine Green

Mary Gardner

Declarations of Interest – Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary

There were no declarations of interest.

Adoption of Minutes from Previous Meetings

Committee Recommendation:

1.       That the minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on 2 March 2017 be confirmed.

2.       That the Committee notes the minutes will go to the Ordinary Meeting of Council to be held 20/04/17. (Dey/Lyon)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Business Arising from Previous Minutes

There was no business arising from previous minutes.

Staff Reports - Infrastructure Services

Report No. 4.1             Questions Raised by Committee Member Regarding Ocean Shores and Brunswick Valley STPs

File No:                        I2017/365

Committee Recommendation:

That Council note the information provided to the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee regarding the Ocean Shores and Brunswick Valley Sewage Treatment Plants.

(Dey/Coorey)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Report No. 4.2             Inflow and Rainfall - Brunswick Valley STP, March 2017

File No:                        I2017/366

Committee Recommendation:

1.       That Council note that the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee was provided with daily inflow and rainfall figures for March 2017 for the Brunswick Valley STP.

2.       That the Committee be provided with a report on the need to replace the original sewer network in ‘old’ Mullumbimby (as it was in the 1960s, when the sewer network was built) and to consider including allocations in its future business plans for sewer management.

3.       That the report, in part 2 of the recommendation above, consider options and how well they protect or enhance the environment. (Dey/Lyon)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Report No. 4.3             Ocean Shores to Brunswick Valley STP Transfer Feasibility Study

File No:                        I2017/449

Committee Recommendation:

That Council notes the Committee discussed the report about Ocean Shores to Brunswick Valley STP Transfer Feasibility Study. (Dey/Lyon)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

A Dickens and C Draper voted against the recommendation.

Action:

· notify community reps on Committee when Valances Road PoM report is complete and published

· that the nutrient data from Ocean Shores wetland be shared with the Committee via a report

· P Rees to review figures of 1.6 (as per Council’s web site) - v - 1.1 (see Appendix b of Attachment 1) and advise the Committee via memo

· P Rees to investigate whether a capacity assessment was carried out as part of the GHD study mentioned in Attachment 1

There being no further business the meeting concluded at 4.00 pm.