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Barriers erected to minimise noise were “ineffective”, the homeowner wrote, and “forces residents to close windows and doors in their own homes in searing heat in an attempt to reduce noise and pollution making us prisoners in our own homes”. “We are subjected to excessive dust and chemical smells. The council cannot tell us what the dust may contain and it enters our drinking water,” they wrote. “Shame on the SDRC. You have destroyed our little town.” Continued on page 2
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ing and clashing at ridiculous hours of the night and the town is covered in grain dust...and becoming more and more worthless,” she said. “How did the grain operation get the green light without residents being informed or given a choice?” And Ms Shaw is not the only one desperate for action. In a letter to the Free Times editor this week, an Allora resident of 32 years living directly across from the facility slammed SDRC for condemning their household to “a nightmare from which we cannot escape”.
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