Blaxland Waste Management Facility Upgrade - Blue Mountains City ...

ut private ownership of land along the route was one issue that becameimmediately obvious to another resident as a major barrier to this solution)Issue 5. Railway Parade is too narrow – it will be worse with moretrucks/traffic, need cycle laneThere was general discussion that the whole access route to the existing facility is toonarrow (refer to Issue 4 above also).Mitigation measures suggested;Use Council owned frontages along Railway Parade to widen the road.3.3 Summary of Actions arising / Reports back to the communityfrom the workshopA number of issues were raised by residents that have been investigated andaddressed could not be answered on the day, as they required more investigation.These issues and the responses from the investigations are reported below.Ringing telephone bell at night - No external telephone bell/ ringer etc is fitted onany of the Waste Management Facility buildings. It is assumed that the ringingnoise reported is from the industrial area.Reversing alarms on equipment - By mid March all permanent equipment on sitewill have "Smart Alarms" (designed to measure background noise and adjust thealarm output accordingly) fitted to replace the existing alarms.Sedimentation of billabong upstream from the Waste Management Facility – Aninspection has been arranged within the next 2 weeks with Council's Environmentalscientist to review options for clearing sediment from the billabong.Heavy equipment & equipment movements into/out of the Waste ManagementFacility – BMCC is actively investigating ways of reducing the occasional impacts ofmoving heavy plant to and from the site. The time when these movements canoccur are restricted by the RTA due to the size of the vehicles that carry themachinery. Various options to the current early morning movements are beinglooked at.21/12282/100563 Blaxland Waste Management Facility UpgradeCommunity Workshops14