Letters Dreaming A couple of nights ago I had a dream about the March 2022 flood in Ballina. In this dream my wife and I were rescued from our flood-damaged home by surf lifesavers in a ‘rubber ducky’ (which we were!). They ferried us up to the closest high ground on a roundabout on the corner of Burns Point Ferry Road and River Street (which they did!). As we stood there, covered in mud, slush and Lismore’s runoff sewage, (as we did!), looking at the 2-3 metres depth of water that now engulfed the entire surrounding area, and watching black swans dodging floating Council garbage bins and debris, that yesterday was somebody’s house furniture, a fellow in this dream came up and talked to me. He said: ‘Mate, you know within in the next two years there will be a $75 million housing development over there under all that water?’ I replied: ‘Mate, that is the most stupid statement I have ever heard! You must be a complete moron to think such rubbish!’ Now I don’t remember much of what happened after that, but it was a very realistic dream, because I woke up next morning with a black eye! Now if I ever meet up with him again I’d say, ‘Mate, you were right! I’m the moron! I naively believed it was unthinkable that after this catastrophic flood, sanity would “not” prevail, and our wetlands would be protected and preserved as God had intended, with greed and money running a poor second!’ I wouldn’t shake his hand though, ‘cause he just may have been part of that development team who came out to assess how high his ‘wetland job-site’ must be artificially raised, with imported landfill, to proceed with their nonsense. And I know if I’d pointed out that the displaced runoff water from his site would then run down into all the surrounding houses in the area, like many of history’s fools before him, he’d probably say: ‘Well, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs buddy!’ ‘That’ would have probably led to another black eye!
more subsidence will happen and more trees will fall, creating a dam. I went into Council chambers to view the proposed storm water system and found that there was no plan in place. We went into chambers to represent our opposition regarding storm water but of course my microphone was switched off when I had my turn to speak. Annie Radermacher Brunswick Heads
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Cartoon by Jacky Morris (Hopefully his, this time!) (Land and Environment Court, please take note!) Laurence Johnstone West Ballina
Love the track I went on the new lighthouse track today and think they have done an amazing job. Letting you know not everyone dislikes it or needs to complain in Byron. Sonia Friedrich Byron Bay
Council causes problems Our Byron Council, along with many others, causes more problems than it solves. I wish to complain re local government policies about a failure to follow rules and regulations. I have found within our shire there is a problem of ‘no response’ to emails or letters sent. There is also neglect in applying legislation and local government rules. I have been so frustrated by the local events in Bayside, the ever-increasing sinkholes appearing within our roads and within private property. These sinkholes have been consistently recurring, and growing in number over the past few years. The problem is poor construction of our storm water system, and then the additional developments that will add the additional
storm water from the pods. Now the Wallum development’s storm water is to be additional to the flow in a pre-exsisting drain to the south that runs into the Simpsons Creek. I had written to Council re that drain of approximately 500 metres eroding and causing huge numbers of old growth trees to fall into the drain. This drain is where hundreds of homes are to have their hard surfaces directed to this outlet into Simpsons Creek. No response again from Council. Our valuations were submitted to us earlier this year. I had questioned the ridiculous unimproved valuations as I know to fix these poorly operating systems will take massive dollars. Whereas for us in pre-existing Bayside the roads will all need to be dug up to repair the failed storm water system. The cause is that the pipeline has failed due to no geofabric and gravel to support those old pipe works that used rubber collars to hold them in place. Thus our storm water drains are not operating as they have obviously collapsed. The Wallum storm water channel will need to be engineered with a stable rock base. That base will need heavy machinery to distribute those rocks causing more damage and clearing of vegetation to complete. If not done then
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Disappointing to see The Echo publish a smear on Russell Brand, based on allegations. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Or are we in ‘trial by the media’ now? We expect this low form of clickbait journalism from mainstream media, who are spineless servants to their corp/govt advertisers. The Echo of old would look at Russell Brand and see he is being put into legal difficulties because he is a powerful dissenting voice towards government pharma/media corruption, and the fascist technocracy being rolled out by the WEF, UN and central bank digital currencies… things The Echo seem absent in reporting. There are millions of de-platformed dissenting voices and many of the larger accounts are now having manufactured legal problems, including; the brilliant James O’Keefe from Project Veritas, Alex Jones from Info Wars, Dr Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden and of course our very own Julian Assange. Andrew Crockett Myocum
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