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?
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