Noosa Today - 14th April 2016

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Issue 206 | Thursday, 14 April, 2016

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Reusing and reducing waste By MEGAN OGLE LOCAL residents, business owners and community groups have come together to build a sustainable future for Noosa. In a bid to reduce landfill and promote community spirit, Noosa Community Biosphere Association (NCBA) vice president John Wood said residents and business owners alike are collaborating to protect the biosphere lifestyle. Continued on Page 2 Collaborative community: NCBA vice president John Wood, Little Cove owners Justin and Michelle Warrick, Boomerang Bag project manager Desiee Gralton and local resident Joe Shlegeris. Collaborative community: NCBA vice president John Wood, Little Cove owners Justin and Michelle Warrick, Boomerang Bag project manager Desiee Gralton and local resident Joe Shlegeris.

Plug the flood By MEGAN OGLE LOCAL residents are fed up with flooding and have called on the new Council to put a plug in the problem. Lake MacDonald resident Bob Miller alleges Noosa Council has ignored pleas for help after the Lake MacDonald estate where he lives has had an increasing issue with flooding for the past five years, which he says is due to nearby developments. “The flooding issue is man-made, it is the speed of storm water run-off from developments that Council has approved in and around Cooroy,” Mr Miller said.

“Storm water flows into Cooroy Creek then into Six Mile Creek West Branch, hits an elbow and water pipe line and flows into Lake MacDonald estate. “Council has been fully aware of the problem for over five and a half years and to date Council have done absolutely nothing to fix the problem, yet they have continued to approve developments in and around Cooroy knowing full well that there is a pre-existing flooding issue.” However Noosa Council Planning and Infrastructure project manager Adam Britton said Mr Miller’s claims were refuted by the previous

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Sunshine Coast Regional Council, however new flood modelling would be considered. “Sunshine Coast Regional Council’s hydrologist previously wrote to Mr Miller in 2013 refuting his suggestions that new development runoff was causing increased flooding given it represented a mere three per cent increase in water within the catchment, with the increased hardstand areas ‘unlikely to contribute at all’,” Mr Britton said. “Noosa Council recently completed several flood mitigation projects in priority areas where floodwaters had previously inun-

dated residents’ homes. These areas include Tewantin’s Daintree estate, Pomona’s Rifle Street and Ashgrove Drive at Cooroy. “While Noosa Council is aware of some flooding on Mr Miller’s property, Mr Miller’s house was built above the Q100 flood level of the time, and there is no record of the building ever having been inundated.” “However, Noosa Council will consider funding for new flood modelling for the Six Mile Creek catchment as part of upcoming budget discussions.” Mr Miller said Lake MacDonald residents met with now Mayor Tony

Wellington during the election campaign where he said Cr Wellington assured residents “he would look into the flooding issue”. “In upcoming budget discussions we will consider funding for new flood modelling to cover the Six Mile Creek catchment, which will include the Lake MacDonald area,” Cr Wellington said. “I made a pre-election commitment to establish a Lake MacDonald flood reference group to include residents of Lake MacDonald and we will begin establishing this group shortly.”

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