All of a sudden Council’s supposed experts condemn the Wilsons Creek weir water quality during rain events, which would put people’s health at risk in Mullumbimby and the whole hybrid system.
How did the Lavertys Gap water filtration plant supply a very high quality of water for all those years during the dry and during the rain?
It operated with a sand filter, chlorine being injected plus soda ash and gradual ferric being introduced via a hopper, plus an operator attending for an hour a day doing testing and operational duties.
The staff now claim the pursuit of the hybrid system was adopted without a full options assessment, how?
At the time, did Council staff offer their input, as they are employed to advise on these issues at the time they are being discussed.
This is the same as the proposal to close Ocean Shores STP put forward by staff and the Director of Infrastructure. When the time came for the Director of Infrastructure and his staff to actually supply factual information and a report to the elected Council at a Council meeting, all a staffer summoned by the Director of Infrastructure to supply this information could do was continually say we need to close it.
No report, no real reason, just we need to close it.
Council employs a lot of presumably highly-qualified people in various areas which fall under Council’s responsibility and control, it makes absolutely no sense when some of them now say the hybrid system proposed is basically floored and could supply a health risk to the Mullumbimby community. When the system proposed was being discussed, did they flag any of these concerns at the time or just remain silent until now?
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. 
