Properly made submission (object) Brett Kennedy MCU13/0171

        Industry is already impacting on the residences and properties here. Water trucks fly
in like noisy, slow moving, heavy march flies and fill up at the water station across the road

from my property and then groan out. Soil is to be extracted from behind the proposed

development’s site and will be noisily and for an extended period of time transported from
the access road that is adjacent to the old office building on the proposed site of the new

factory, along Lake Macdonald Drive to fill land for a housing estate.

        As I have learnt (through my study at Charles Sturt University), catchment

management is a complicated business. A core concept to remember is that any
modification to a waterway and its surrounds has the potential to have impacts on

properties both up and down the stream. This is further complicated by the fact that
waterways cross borders and boundaries. Mistakes need to be recognised and rectified for
the good of all stakeholders.


        I am not a hydrologist and the comments that I make in this submission with regards

to the floods that have occurred are those only of a resident who has lived through and

observed numerous flood events here. I have been ’stuck" on all three sides of these

floodwaters and as such have observed the path of flood waters from different angles. I am

not an expert in this field, just an observer and a participant.


        The effects of the extensive modifications to the natural watercourse in the

Wimmers site on the flow of floodwater through my property and properties further

upstream and downstream needs to be carefully studied. If these modifications to the
natural profiles are shown to have the negative effects on water flow, I ask that these

modifications be undone and that the watercourse be returned as much as possible to its

natural state. This can only serve to protect property and to improve safety. I ask that any

such study and modifications be done before any development proposals for the property

be considered. The past tenant of the proposed development site has left large, poorly

considered {I feel) modifications to the soil profile and to the watercourses. The

watercourse is only partly shown on schematics of the proposal. Only one arm of the

watercourse is shown and it is labelled as ’drain’. It is in fact part of a creek. There are in fact

two arms to this creek and they converge just inside the Wimmers property. There are also

two drains under the road, not one.



        These modifications, along with the damming effect of Lake Macdonald Drive not

only pose an often demonstrated threat to myself, my property and the public but also to
any development that is built on the site. It is stunning that such a major development could

even be considered when     it is in such close proximity to a watercourse that floods so

regularly and with such force and that the developer knows about the linear miss" that the
building had in 2012. I will further address some of my legitimate and very real concerns on
the flooding later in my submission and offer some suggestions and hope that they will

hopefully be well considered.