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Attached to the e-mail Not properly made submission (late) B & S Power MCU12/0184.
5% September, 2013 Dear Mr Tony Wellington, We wish to submit our concerns about the chicken farm proposed by David Milligan in West Cooroy. Road Suitability West Cooroy has all the hazards. - Bends - Blind corners and crests - Narrow - Top Forestry Rd is a road that fits the above description except it is dirt - Bad dust when dry - Slippery when wet as is clay Traffic The school bus traverses Top Forestry Rd - very carefully. Many more people are also living along Top Forestry Rd than years ago. B Double Trucks Dave Milligan said these trucks are quite safe and can be acceptable on the current road conditions. In our opinion the Old Ceylon/Belli Creek Rd T intersection, adjacent Evans Rd, would be the worst for B Doubles. There is restricted driver vision until right on the crossroad. A turning B Double truck is an accident waiting to happen. Would the ratepayer pay for upgrading of these roads for personal gain? The constant weight of these trucks will destroy the roads. Feral Animals Wild dogs, dingoes, foxes, feral cats and crows would be attracted like magnets to the rotting corpses and smell of dead chickens. Livestock owners will be impressed with more vermin to deal with. Dead Chicken Disposal Will Mr Milligan clean out his sheds daily of dead chickens and deposit them in containers that are vermin secure and odour proofed? How will he then dispose of them? Of course no smell would escape and waft to neighbours near and far would it? They wouldn't just be bulldozed down a slope would they? Out of sight, out of mind. Or set on fire?
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Manure Disposal Mr Milligan would be aware already of land slips that occur in this area after heavy rain. Metres of chicken/sawdust manure even composted would just wash straight down the steep slopes into the waterways and pollute the water. Not all of Mr Milligan’s land is terraced. We are not talking about a couple of trailer loads of manure here. Too much chicken manure would also be detrimental to the health of his fruit trees and of course it would be cheaper to spread and not bag. Cheaper still to have in piles at the mercy of the weather. Will it be dampened down? Health Concerns In dry weather the manure dust would be blown away. Too bad for all of us on tank water i.e. everyone. Those people with asthma would suffer, not to mention the Hay fevers bought on by the dust too. Employment Would backpackers be employed to be cost effective? This is how he employs seasonal workers now at this farm. We are concerned that Mr Milligan sounds very conscientious and environmentally friendly but suspect that Mr Milligan may be happy to wait until after permission is granted and then do precisely what he had planned to do in the first place ~ after all it is his land to do with what he wants regardless, isn’t that right? Will there be follow up and ongoing audits done by independent health inspectors if permission is given? Yours Sincerely, Mr B & Mrs S Power 519 Belli Creek Road COOROY 4563 Phone : 5447 7153