Thanks to The Echo for continuing to publish my letters regarding the lack of responsibility taken by Byron Shire Council (BSC) and their continuing failure of maintaining important infrastructure, such as the stormwater pipes which collapsed in Bayside, Brunswick Heads.
The consistent failure of Council to manage, maintain, repair and reconnect our stormwater pipes and to excavate the buildup of deposited sand from the failed system just reflects how poor our local government has become.
For years now, this problem has been before councillors. A meeting with Phil Holloway resulted in just a few trees being felled from the end of the drain leading into Simpsons Creek.
Two sink holes in our roads have become 22, with continuous back filling with road base. Time and time again, nothing has been done to address the major issues.
For several years now I have emailed and written with no resulting repairs to reconnect this system to the functional legislated requirement.
This must be done prior to any further allowance of more construction. The approval of further housing DAs just continues, and anyone that has the knowledge of this disastrous situation would ask how can this be allowed? The answer is back to management of our BSC.
The big issue is sulphate soils and that councils knowingly allow construction on sulphate sites such as Bayside. From my knowledge of this issue, there should never have been any construction allowed to occur on such sites.
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. 
