Properly made submission (object) Brett Kennedy MCU13/0171

Lake Macdonald Drive). This residence is within metres of the gate. Given that the proposed

new   factory is at such an angle to the road and the length of the building, the real distance
from this residence is most definitely less than this and I would approximate that it is only

around 175m from the factory. The residence marked as the nearest southern residence is

estimated as being 350 m from the factory. It is in fact only (as measured by myself) only

185 metres from the front gate of the proposed new factory’s gate to the mail box of this

residence.


        Given the huge variance between the approximated distances of residences from the

proposed new factory and the measured distances, I ask that a new and more accurate
survey be undertaken before any decisions are made about.


        Other components perhaps have not been but also need to be included in the noise

study calculations. Water trucks fill up across the road from my property. Given the
"seasonal hectic" nature of their usage of the filling facility, they may not have been

factored into the ambient noise levels. Multiple numbers of vehicles queue to fill at once

and regularly can leave engines running while they wait and refill. On one occasion on

Monday the 21st of October this year, the line consisted of six trucks. They perform a
particularly valuable and important service for the community. They are also particularly
noisy as they groan away slowly after refilling. As they are a pre-existing contributor to
noise levels, the noise of at least six idling trucks on the verge of Lake Macdonald Drive

needs to be factored into equations. Trucks run seven days a week. They are regularly there

before 6am and the latest truck that I remember filling up at the station was from memory

after 8pm. (P.S. Council needs to consider reducing the speed limit in the Area from 80km to

60km in this area to ensure the safety of the truck drivers and the public at large.)


        CSR will be moving multiple loads of soil and trucking this soil along Lake Macdonald

Drive to be used as fill for an estate. These trucks have not started yet but need to be

included in ambient noise level measurements as approval has been given for them and as

such their contribution to noise levels has to be recognised, assessed and included as

baseline. They will be operating for an extended period. They will be exiting the turf farm

exit and entering and exiting Lake Macdonald Drive at the entrance that is adjacent to the

old CSR office building. Hours of operation of these trucks and their frequency will need to

be included in the noise study. Noise level calculations for the property that is marked as the,

"nearest residence to the south/’ will undoubtedly and dramatically rise. Given that

approval has been given to CSR for the removal and transport of this soi" it is reasonable to
assume that such   operations could be approved again in the future.

        The testing site for the Noise study is also questionable with regards to my house.

The site was some metres back from the road. Noise travels easily from the proposed

factory site to my property. From my house, I have in the past heard entire jokes and
conversations from the front of the building that would house the new factory. Perhaps the

low lying, mainly open land between the two properties, the raised level of the building and