Mortons Urban Solutions have proposed an overdevelopment at the St Bernards Hotel site of 30 Hotel Lodges, 24 extra Hotel/ Motel rooms, sewage and effluent dispersal (27 tons per day, equivalent to 75 houses on 4 hectares) in a low lying area where 3 creeks meet + more.The cliffs at St Bernards are an active landslide area according to Geologist, Warwick Willmott. “Slope Stability and its Constraints on Closer Settlement on Tamborine Mountain, Southeast Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland Record 1981/14 Dept of Mines 1981”. His report was heavily relied on by Beaudesert Shire Council when formulating the Development Control Plan (DCP) for the mountain. Was that information and the action taken important back then, but somehow is not now?This website provides links to websites from around the world clearly showing that the construction of new buildings, elimination of soil binding vegetation, significant car park and building runoff and sewage effluent dispersal will change soil composition and surcharge the groundwater, rendering the site even more unstable. It will also damage wildlife by sewage treatment activation of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC's).Treated sewage effluent disposal areaSewage treatment plant to be straddle this creek. Water level was above the top of the rail. Destroyed rail. Should sewage treatment plant be in this creek? Local Giant Green Tree Frog
On Guanaba Creek 50 metres from sewage dispersal site
20 metres from Guanaba Creek 100 metres from sewage dispersal site
300 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
300 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
350 metres downstreamfrom sewage dispersal site
Glow Worm colonies 500 metres from sewage dispersal site
50 metres from Guanaba Creek
ENDANGERED Araucarian Notophyll Vineforest ABOVE falls
800 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
| Engineers, Bowler Geotechnical, refused to issue a report on the area beneath St Bernards Hotel as they could not sign off on it as being safe for human habitation. Borehole logs are on Landslides page.
For Scenic Rim Regional Council to approve the application they must 1; Ignore the DCP and the Tamborine Mountain Escarpment Flora and Fauna Report recommendations regarding Guanaba Creek 2; the Willmott report regarding landslide risk at the site and 3; the worldwide body of evidence we have presented regarding wildlife damage, environment degradation, water quality deterioration and how other countries deal with similar developments better than we seem to in Australia. Do they have that right?
Thought terminating cliché’s such as “tree hugger” and “greenie” only serve to deflect proper attention from this serious matter. Only full transparency by Council is acceptable.
The content of this website demands attention and acknowledgement.
More information can be found on the Tamborine Mountain News website. www.tamborinemountainnews.com For much more on what is at stake see Peter Kuttners excellent website http://www.biodiversity.com.au/
Email us at protect@tamborine.to or phone 0402377254 or most importantly view the page WHAT YOU CAN DO.
Rainforest below sewage treatment plant
Local water dependant "barometer" of environment health
St Bernards Falls
On Guanaba Creek 50 metres from sewage dispersal site
Caddisfly larva, a "barometer" of water quality
100 metres from sewage dispersal site, 30 metres from Creek
300 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
300 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
Caddisfly - local "barometer" of water quality
300 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
375 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
Past human intervention 100 metres from Guanaba Creek
700 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
Little Red Falls and plungepool 750 metres from sewage treatment plant
Wire Rope Falls 800 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site
Wire Rope Falls in flood
Below the falls
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