115 Odour Logs From March 2008 Til 12 April 2008
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CMCOAG – Newsletter and Updates
Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group
12th April 2008
115 ODOUR LOGS FROM MARCH 2008 til Now!
And what you need to know…
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Hi there
1. Keep Up The Good Work! Your odour logs are having a HUGE impact – it’s awesome!
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Your valued efforts of reporting the odour is certainly making folk sit up and recognise that residents are fed up with having this noxious odour forced upon them.
Here’s the TOTAL of Odour logs made via the CMCOAG online form:
March 2008: 87 odour logs!
Leeming
Willetton
Canning Vale
April 1 – April 12 2008: 28 odour logs (so far)!
Leeming
Willetton
AND this doesn’t include all the phone calls made to the Emergency Pollution Response number!
2. What Are Residents Saying…?
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As many of you know there was a recent CMCOAG letter box drop. The feedback we received from residents was gob-smacking!
The residents we spoke with stated:
a. They experienced the odour at their homes and were sick and tired of putting up with the RRRC Waste Composting Facility’s noxious stench!
b. Didn’t want to move but felt they had to consider it for the sake of their family’s. Were furious and felt like they were being driven from their homes.
c. They were tired of feeling helpless seeing their family’s suffer (and their pets) from symptoms such as blood noses, eyes burning, running noses, dizzy spells, severe headaches and migraines, skin rashes, feeling nauseous and chest pain when experiencing the odour.
d.Some had just moved to the area over the past 12 months or so and couldn’t believe that this facility had been built so close to a residential area. And were now facing the above with their own family’s.
e. We also discovered that residents had been reporting the odour BUT via the SMRC odour hotline…and were frustrated due to the follow up response for which they stated to us: They were advised that there is no odour coming from the facility. That they are told they are the only person who has reported the odour. And that they feel that they are being made to feel stupid for phoning in the odour – like it’s all in their head.
Listening to all the stories of how residents are suffering – many of which were very similar in regards to the symptoms and anguish they are experiencing from this noxious odour – truly breaks your heart. These people (our neighbours) felt like they had no where to turn.
Most of these distressed residents had no idea they could log the odour online via CMCOAG.com and could report to DEC via the EPR number…
And were relieved they had another option, had someone they could speak with that would take their concerns seriously and that they weren’t on their own.
This is why it’s vital that on every occassion that you experience the odour that you report it.
We’ve already shown what an impact can be made, let’s keep it up!
3. What You Need To Know…
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In regards to RRRC Waste Composting Facility:
Of the total amount of rubbish delivered to the facility 44% is sent to landfill, 38% is turned into compost, and 18% is moisture lost through the process. (as stated in the City of Canning Council minutes dated 25th March 2008) The compost – which is not salable due to it’s impurities – is carted away (paid for by the SMRC) and used in Landfill. So 82% ends up in landfill anyway!
Keep in mind that the RRRC Waste Composting Facility receives the rubbish placed in the GREEN WHEELIE BINS, not the yellow topped bins.
4. Take a look at this…!
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http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/Shared/Meetings/Minutes25March2008.htm
“The City of Canning has contributed part of $2.4 million for remedial work to resolve the odour at RRRC. In lieu of continuing complaints by local residents, the Chief Executive Officer be authorised to write forthwith to SMRC, requesting:
Why is the odour still persistent? What strategy is being used to rectify the odour issue once and for all, and in what timeframe? Given that the remedial work appeared to have failed and is not performing, then they should give cause as to why the City of Canning should not seek to have the funds contributed towards the remedial work of the odour that is still prevailing in the area, returned?”
5. Keep LOGGING THE ODOUR!!
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Your efforts are working! And are making a difference – more than you realise!
Let’s not give anyone the excuse of being able use a reduction of odour logs as meaning that the odour isn’t occurring! We need to keep reporting the odour!
UNDERSTAND:
When you’re not getting the odour – someone else is!
Just because you’re not smelling it, it doesn’t mean you’re not breathing it in.
Whether you’re experiencing the odour at your home, driving to work, walking the dog, playing with your children at the park, while visiting your relatives, along Roe Hwy walkway, down South st, in Canning Vale, while waiting at the bus stop, at your local shops or driving through a suburb… REPORT THE ODOUR ON EVERY OCCASSION!
We’ve come this far – we need your support.
Residents do not deserve this ongoing noxious odour that continues to interfere with our lives and family’s.
Make sure you put your odour experiences in writing via the online odour log:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm
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b. And at any time, 24 hours per day please call the… EMERGENCY POLLUTION RESPONSE Numbers below:
Day Time – 6364 6501
After Hours – 1300 784 782
If you’re calling after hours please select “option 1″ for emergencies when it says “for an emergency please press 1″.
An operator will speak with you, log your call and immediately pass it onto the on-call DEC officer.
REMEMBER THE RESIDENTS WERE HERE FIRST!
…not the RRRC Waste Composting Facility
Thanks so much…
