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 area Sewage 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
 30 metres from creek, 150 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
 100 metres from Guanaba Creek
 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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