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Green Heroes among 2026 NSW Environment Award winners

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Racehorses shot for pet food by NSW breeder

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In 2018 Water and Recycling (W&R) on Byron Shire Council (BSC) asked the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee (WW&SAC) to endorse a five-year plan at a cost of $250,000 a year. They submitted to reline the sewerage gravity mains throughout Mullumbimby.

This plan involved bringing a contractor in who specialised in this type of work.

This work is meant to be completed in 2024.

To date the only way of comparing what has been achieved in the five years is by looking at the inflow figures from Mullumbimby into Brunswick Valley Sewage Treatment Plant  (BVSTP) which appear on W&R’s public database.

To date no visible evidence has been supplied of the completed relined mains.

The inflow into BVSTP still increases substantially during rain events which would indicate that this whole process has been a total waste of money.

The question should be asked: who has been monitoring this work over the last five years and what evidence can be supplied that substantiates that the mains have actually successfully been relined?

Alan Dickens, Byron Bay

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Remembrance Day 2026: 11am, 11 November

It is estimated that in WWl there were 20 million dead and 20 million injured. From a population base of fewer than five million,...

Love books? Join Friends of the Library

Friends of the Libraries, Byron Shire are looking for some fresh, new, younger faces to join the group and help keep it moving forward.

Racehorses shot for pet food by NSW breeder

Thirteen thoroughbred horses deemed no longer useful, have been destroyed with eight horses destroyed by firearm at Berkeley Park Stud.

Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club youngsters shine

Two young members of Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club have delivered outstanding performances at the Paddle NSW State Sprint Championships, held at the Penrith International Regatta Centre over the weekend.