| John
Forrest National Park under threat
| 1997
The Mundaring Wastewater Treatment Plant was commissioned
and in its inaugural year of operation the sewage effluent from the plant overflowed
from Manhole 22 across Jarrah Road and into Jarrah Creek, a creek in the Jane
Brook Water Reserve. Jarrah Creek flows into Jane Brook, and Jane Brook flows
through John Forrest National Park into the Swan River. [read the Mailbag
and What the Papers say...] 4
Years Later!
2001
The
Water Corporation initiated a short-term remedy to the treated sewage running
across Jarrah Road into Jarrah Creek. The Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP), the Health Department and the Water and Rivers Commission gave “their
in-principal approval to this option as being the best short term remedy to the
situation” the situation being placing a sewerage pipe directly from Manhole
22 into Jarrah Creek. See
"Section 2 Environmental Health Service, 2.1 Mundaring Wastewater Treatment
Plant (Lot 304), Darkan Street Mundaring – Modification to jarrah Road Leach
Drain" Shire of Mundaring,
Development Approvals Committee Minutes 12-6-2001 including a letter from Water
Corporation dated 28-5-2001. |
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It
is now 2006 and the Mundaring Wastewater Treatment Plant still discharges treated
sewage into Jarrah Creek! 2006
The Water Corporation is negotiating with the Perth Diocesan Trustees of the Anglican
Church and also the Chambers (Hidden Valley) dense urban developers in the hills
suburbs of Parkerville and Stoneville to build a sewage treatment plant. It is
proposed that the developers and the Water Corporation will build a larger sewage
plant than the one in Mundaring “on the western side of the Chambers (Hidden
Valley) development area, adjacent to John Forrest National Park...similar to
the Mundaring WWTP”. The Mundaring Sewage Plant has had its treated sewage
flowing either directly or indirectly into John Forrest National Park since 1997.
See letter
from the Water Corporation's Peter Verschuer, dated 15-8-2005, the Stoneville
Progress Association.
Can
we make a difference – You bet!
Supporters
of this site have achieved the following: - Delayed
the Parkerville and Stoneville developments since 1997
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Delayed the building of the Mundaring Water Treatment Plant
- Ellenbrook
scaled down from 50,000 to 28,000
-
Leda placed on the National Estate as determined in the Hague (equivalent to the
Bungle Bungles and the Great Barrier Reef)
-
The best part of Hepburn Heights saved after taking the State Government to the
Supreme Court and the High Court in Canberra and winning
- Protective
legislation for the Swan Valley
- Tourism
grants for the Swan Valley
- Logging
of old growth forest minimised
- Ningaloo
Reef saved from some kinds of development
If
these groups working on their own have achieved this, can you imagine what we
can do together?
Can
you imagine what we can do with your help? What
can I do? - Join
one of the local residents associations who support
this site.
- Contact
Ken Walter, Project Director for the site selection of the Mundaring water treatment
plant see ‘Political Contacts’
- Write
to your local politicians – Local, State
and Federal
- Buy
a car sticker – place it on the back window
driver’s side
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Talk to you friends, relatives, neighbours and workmates
- Write
to your local newspaper
- Keep
up-to-date by visiting this site
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