The recent Wyaralong EIS did not even mention the Bromelton Industrial estate as an adjacent land use. Instead stating that the area was

"mostly rural, especially with livestock grazing. Surrounding catchment land uses include livestock grazing, cropping, sand/gravel extraction and urban influences (including stormwater runoff and wastewater treatment plant discharges). Unsupplemented extraction of water from Teviot Brook is also common in the catchment. The Bromelton area, which discharges to the Logan catchment, also has a number of industries that produce effluent, including an abattoir, rendering plant, gelatine plant, stock feed plant, pet food manufacturing plant, feedlots, saw mills, sugar mill, a dairy cooperative, a concrete plant and fertiliser plant."

Page 6-92, Wyaralong Dam EIS (State Development).

What they fail to make any mention of is the fact that the Teviot Brook must run through an industrial estate before the town water supply is extracted at Cedar Grove Weir - and they call Queensland the smart state!

Industrial estate is in red. The yellow line is the path that the water supply must follow before it gets taken from the river and treated near the weirs.

The Logan River must also run past 27km of industrial estate just before reaching the Cedar Grove Weir!!

Industrial estate is in red. The yellow line is the path that the water supply must follow before it gets taken from the river and treated near the weirs.

It is inconceivable that these two proposals (Wyaralong Dam and the Bromelton SDA) were proposed by same state development department and yet each fails to mention the other in any of their documentation.

Chapter 6 and 10 of the Wyaralong Dam EIS both deal with water and air quality modelling respectively neither include an assessment of how the future Bromelton SDA developments will impact on the:

• local communities ability to use tank water, or
• whether the local community will be able to use their tank water (taken from their own rooftops, which will be laden with particulate matter from a combination of the industrial processing plants and the nearby heavy transport highways,
• extra measures needed to be put in place to treat water which has been compromised by stormwater runoff from the Toxic and Noxious Industries and their corresponding hard stand areas, proposed for a 27km stretch of the Logan River, upstream of the Cedar Grove Weir.

LTLV are campaigning to ensure that the SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership Scientific Expert Panel are employed to run Wyaralong Dam and Bromelton SDA scenerios through their EMSS model to appropriately determine their cumulative impacts on the health of receiving waters within the Teviot Brook and the Logan River and on Southern Moreton Bay.