The purpose of the Mangrove Mountain Sub-Committee is to consider, monitor and advise on the Upper Ourimbah Creek Catchment. It will provide relevant advice for the consideration of Council via the Environment and Planning Committee of Council.
There are six independent, external, community members on this committee, and I am one of them. Part of my role is to inform the community of the committee’s progress. This committee has met four times this year and information including minutes of the meetings can be found on Council’s website.
Our last meeting was held on 21st May, and I will summarise the minutes:
• Presentation by the unit manager, Environmental Compliance Services, about on-site sewer management in Mangrove Mountain.
• Unit Manager, Strategic Planning, spoke about “Local Planning — Mangrove/Ourimbah Catchment”, emphasising the importance of protecting the water catchment area west of the M1.
• The unit manager, Environmental Compliance Services, provided an update on PFAS and the Ourimbah Creek Catchment, including Council’s monitoring of various sites.
• Community members requested a site inspection of the Council’s water and sewer water quality sampling locations — to be investigated.
• Jayden Pan (community member) to report back to the sub-committee on the latest publicly available EPA data.
• Discussion — Water NSW to be invited to attend a future community meeting on PFAS to address the Notice of Motion by Councillor Smith.
• Community members commenced a discussion on a solution for the MM Landfill site — deferred.
• Request by committee members for Verde Terre Pty Ltd to be invited to the next meeting.
• Request to receive a higher resolution map of the drinking water catchment boundary.
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