2022-11-14 General Committee Meeting Minutes

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES                                                   14 NOVEMBER 2022


2   INTEGRATED WATER QUALITY MONITORING PROGRAM
    Motion
    Moved:            Cr Lorentson
    Seconded:         Cr Stewart
    That Council note the report by the Environment Officer – Rivers & Coast to the Planning &
    Environment Committee Meeting dated 8 November 2022 on the Integrated Water Quality
    Monitoring Program; and.
    1.    Investigate the feasibility of developing a citizen science water quality monitoring
          program designed to measure and manage the environmental health of the Burgess
          Creek catchment, as well as the impact of Unitywater wastewater discharge and
          outflow;
    2.    Explore funding opportunities for the monitoring program such as through the
          Unitywater Community Partnerships Program.
    Amendment
    Moved:              Cr Jurisevic
    Seconded:           Cr Finzel
    That Point 1 be amended to read:
    1.    Investigate the feasibility of developing a citizen science water quality monitoring
          program designed to measure and manage the environmental health of the Burgess
          Creek catchment and Cooroy/ Six Mile Creek catchments, as well as the impact of
          Unitywater wastewater discharge and outflow and SEQwater water treatment plant
          discharge;
    In accordance with Chapter 5B of the Local Government Act 2009, Cr Stockwell provided the following
    declaration to the meeting of a prescribed conflict of interest in this matter:
    I, Cr Stockwell, declare that I have a prescribed conflict of interest in the matter as follows: Seqwater
    was a major client of my sole trader business (t/a Watershed Australia). Between 2016 and 2020, I
    undertook: catchment planning; land capability and suitability assessments for source protection,
    recreation, grazing, infrastructure, environmental offsets and solar farms; environmental and natural
    resource evaluation, and 'Expert Witness' services in a court case, for the entity. This involved
    contracts to the value of $232,266. This work has covered the vast majority of the Seqwater estate
    throughout South East Queensland including the Seqwater Lake Macdonald estate, where the water
    treatment plant is located.
    Cr Stockwell left the meeting.
                                                                                  Carried unanimously.
    Committee Recommendation
    Moved:            Cr Lorentson
    Seconded:         Cr Stewart
    That Council note the report by the Environment Officer – Rivers & Coast to the Planning &
    Environment Committee Meeting dated 8 November 2022 on the Integrated Water Quality
    Monitoring Program; and.
    1.    Investigate the feasibility of developing a citizen science water quality monitoring
          program designed to measure and manage the environmental health of the Burgess
          Creek catchment and Cooroy/ Six Mile Creek catchments, as well as the impact of
          Unitywater wastewater discharge and outflow and SEQwater water treatment plant
          discharge;
    2.    Explore funding opportunities for the monitoring program such as through the
          Unitywater Community Partnerships Program.
                                                                   Carried unanimously.
    Cr Stockwell returned to the meeting.

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