Minutes of Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting

BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL

Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 21 October 2021

Minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on Thursday, 21 October 2021

File No: I2021/1664

PRESENT: Cr C Coorey, Cr M Lyon and Cr S Ndiaye

Staff: Phil Holloway (Director Infrastructure Services)

Cameron Clark (Manager Utilities)

Luke Arnold (Resource Recovery Contract Management Officer)

Rachel Barden (Administration Support Officer)

Shelley Flower (Infrastructure Planning Support Officer)

Dominika Tomanek (Minute Taker)

Community: Col Draper, David Fligelman, Madeleine Green, Duncan Dey, and Ben Fawcett

Visitors: Sebastian Harper and Tim Fleming (Environmental Data Solutions)

Cr Ndiaye (Chair) opened the meeting at 9:14 am and acknowledged that the meeting was being held on Bundjalung Country.

Apologies:

Mary Gardner

Declarations of Interest – Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary

Madelaine Green declared a pecuniary/non-pecuniary interest. The nature of the interest being that she resides 1km away from Byron Bay Resource Recovery.

Adoption of Minutes from Previous Meetings

Report No. 3.1 Adoption of Minutes from Previous Meetings

File No: I2021/1637

Committee Recommendation:

That the minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on 30 September 2021 be confirmed with the adjustment that the word ‘catchment’ is added after each word ‘STP’ in point 3 of the minutes.

(Ndiaye/Green)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Note: The minutes of the meeting held on 30 September 2021 were noted, and the Committee Recommendations will be reported to Council, at the Ordinary Meeting held on 28 October 2021.

Business Arising from Previous Minutes

There was no business arising from previous minutes.

Staff Reports - Infrastructure Services

Report No. 4.1 Inflow and Infiltration - April 2021 update

File No: I2021/718

Committee Recommendation:

That Council:

a) notes the report from Environmental Data Services;

b) notes that the measuring system on which the report was based does not work when the manholes surcharge;

c) investigates methods of assessing the benefits to Inflow and Infiltration of sewer repairs in our leakiest sewer catchments, to ascertain the efficacy of the repairs to date and into the future of ongoing repairs.

(Dey/Draper)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Report No. 4.2 Byron STP Condition 9 Additional Load - Quarterly Report

File No: I2021/1611

Committee Recommendation:

That Council

a) notes the report.

b) reaffirms its commitment to reducing flows from the STP into Belongil Creek.

(Coorey/Dey)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

There being no further business the meeting concluded at 10:58 am.

Venue	Conference Room, Station Street, Mullumbimby
Date	Thursday, 21 October 2021
Time	9.00am