I was gobsmacked to read the comment of our elected Greens office – supposedly being from Tamara Smith herself.
I explained the lack of support from her office around the Bayside Brunswick Heads subdivision continuously affecting our stormwater system, undermining fill and creating sink holes in our roads. It started eight years ago, and progressively increased throughout the whole subdivision.
Footpaths have collapsed and the promised maintenance to fix it has not materialised. NSW government legislation is being ignored around additional development.
Both stormwater and Council sewerage workers reveal that the pipes from our subdivision are buried under decades of neglect and the gravel flushed from under our road and path surfaces is being swept into the drain.
This is outrageous enough, but I received a written apology telling me that Tamara Smith’s office is overburdened with jobs and cannot afford to look into our problems. They referred this as an issue to just my home.
My home? Are you kidding? This is a whole subdivision being affected by destructive failure of the whole storm water system not just my residential home.
Listen up Tamara, because this is not just happening with our stormwater infrastructure – we have an endemic problem not just with stormwater, but sewerage systems have long been ignored, along with NSW state legislation which places the blame for these ongoing problems Byron Shire-wide.
But I don’t think we can hold our breath for real action from your department because obviously you’re not listening, not acting, and not representing Byron residents.
Shame on you for trying to downplay this structural issue to just my property being affected. If the offer to take the tour of the whole subdivision is too much, then I will never vote for Greens again.
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. 
