On the local news last night Mayor Ndiaye plus a Byron Council staffer talked about spending, 92 million dollars I believe was the figure, on the Byron Bay pool and on the Mullumbimby pool.
Mentioned was Lot 22 as an alternate site for the Mullumbimby pool. Did not the previous elected Council refuse this site for a housing development due to it being flood-prone?
Also to the newly-elected councillors, you have a sewer gravity mains system running under the Mullumbimby CBD and the eastern side of Mullumbimby, where the sewer gravity mains were described by the previous utility manager employed in water and recycling during a Water and Sewer Committee meeting in 2019, as being in a terrible state.
Also never discussed is how much raw sewage is escaping from these gravity mains into the surrounding ground water.
The term ‘past its use-by date’ is a popular expression – it was used by Mayor Ndiaye when mentioning the Mullumbimby pool. It also has been used for replacing the sewer rising main from the Stuart Street sewer pump station in Mullumbimby and the water main in Byron Bay.
Surely at some stage someone has to use the phrase ‘past their use-by date’ when referring to the Mullumbimby sewer gravity mains.
These earthenware mains were laid in 1963, in the conditions they were laid in, according to credible design engineers, after 23 years their use-by date ticks over.
We are now in 2024. The Brunswick steering committee during the moratorium in the nineties where raising the ‘I/I issue’, surely it is time serious consideration was given to replacing this past-its-use-by-date system with a vacuum system in the Mullumbimby CBD and eastern side of Mullumbimby.
Water and Recycling cannot be allowed to continually ignore this issue as they continue to do.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
