FRASER COAST CENTRAL

123rd MEETING OF THE BURRUM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCORPORATED HELD ON MONDAY. 2^nd MARCH, 2009

Meeting commenced at 7.10pm.

Points of discussion made were:-

1…Effort from the BBS, P A,BCC and Community Centre to donate money $200 to a nominated needy person for sewer installation after partner died.

3…. Fund raiser – Community Centre will be holding a fire victims fund raiser on Sunday, 19^th April – dinner show from 5.30pm – cost $25.00 – $30.00 – requests that as many members as possible attend. Contact secretary with your bookings.

4…Burrum River Bridge [our lifeline] upgrade with footpath and lighting,

5…Town entries/exits, security cameras, boom gates at railway crossings

6…Best use of council reserve land in the area. Airport and General industry usage.

7…The “Steam Train” would be going through on 15^th April – unsure if it is stopping in Howard. Contact vice president for details.

10…We need larger development sites here for accommodation projects. No motels etc here for stopovers. Need more land approved by council for this use.

11… Infrastructure – Sewerage, expansion of Community Centre, railway land howard, playground, picnic facilities, playgrounds howard burrum,swimming areas,rural enterprise,Railway Land and Town Area Improvement (footpath’s etc).

12… Recreation – enlarge/improve Skate Park and playground/bridge, riverside – develop picnic facilities and swimming areas.

13…Rural Enterprise programme is keen to get local businesses exposed in the media. Contact us via the president/vice/secretary.

14…S.T.E.P.S. had reps at the meeting highlighting the government grants available to employers of disabled people

15…Sympathy card to the Lawrey family for the sad passing of a local business identity Bob Lawrey

MEETING CLOSED AT 8.45PM.

NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, 6^th APRIL, 2009

Henry Sapiecha Publicity Officer Burrum Chamber of Commerce BCC@acbocallcentre.com

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WIDE BAY WATER CORPORATION HERVEY BAY  LENTHALLS DAM (QLD) GATES FAILURE 2008 –

A CASE STUDY IN GATE RELIABILITY AND HUMAN FACTORS, FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT RISK MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE.

The Lenthalls Dam Crest gates were installed in 2007 and failed to operate as designed from January 2008. In February 2008 high rainfall led to a moderate flood event, all gates inoperable. The gates failed to lower to release flood water.

In this incident, manual operation of the gates did not occur, it is believed the mechanism was not operable. The operating authority failed to implement the Emergency Action Plan and failed to evacuate flood impacted upstream sites. Three persons were put at risk due to upstream flooding.

Had the flooding been more prolonged or severe the persons trapped faced injury or death.

Australia has a strong reputation with respect Dam Safety and Incident management, this near fatal incident offers an opportunity to review and amend existing Dam Safety Requirements, Risk Management and Gate Reliability Criteria.

This incident provides an opportunity to review all current guidelines and enhance Dam Safety standards with emphasis on the importance of mitigating human failure and ensuring public safety.

For the Lenthalls Dam Gates Failure Research paper and the Gutteridge Haskins & Davies (GHD) Blank Emergency Action Plan for Wide Bay Water Corporation, City of Hervey Bay (Local Government Owned Corporation providing water and wastewater services), please refer to the links below. (requires Adobe Reader)

Click here to read the report and click here to view the Wide Bay Water Corporation Blank Emergency Action Plan prepared by Gutteridge Haskins & Davies (GHD).

Wide Bay Water Corporation Water Services Provider DRAFT Version of the Operation Manual for Lenthals Dam (prepared by Gutteridge Haskins & Davies) GHD and the Chief Executives Officers Responsibilty (Tim Waldron CEO).

Click here to read an extract of the Click here to read Wide Bay Burnett Conservation Council’s letter to the Minister Queensland State Government Department of Natural Resources and Water regarding Wide Bay Water Corporation (Local Government Owned Corporation) of former Hervey Bay City Council now Fraser Coast Regional Council and Interium Resource Operatiors Licence in 2004 and the innundation of Wongi Waterholes due to Lenthals Dam Gates failure to operate.

Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 20th April 2009

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NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS AND THE GENERAL COMMUNITY

TO THE NICEST PLACE IN AUSTRALIA

THE BURRUM DISTRICT of  QUEENSLAND

FRASER COAST – AUSTRALIA

Our chamber of commerce [as others] has a mandate and a policy to promote and assist local existing businesses generally to be profitable and encourage new business to enter and prosper in the Burrum district.

The local Fraser Coast Council are updated regularly on developments in the area and are made aware regularly of requirements to facilitate business advancement in the district we represent.

The local progress association has a similar but more basic function in promoting advancement in the area. We have an arrangement where there should  be little conflict if regular dialogue in maintained.

The areas of our mandate cover -

Howard-Torbanlea-Toogoom-Burrum Heads-Burrum town

This also covers areas such as Pacific Haven, Stafford Estate and surrounds.

There are many modern efficient methods of having available and getting information  to our members and the community generally.

A web blog site such as this is a step in the right direction

A list of members businesses will be listed here for the record as well as the profiles of excecutive members.

Quick distribution of notices and minutes of meetings are important.

All available records of minutes in a published version will be posted here.

All members are requested to forward via email, details on their businesses in the form of text and photos. We will assess these for inclusion in this site.

These can include photos of business people themselves also to help personalize thier businesses to the viewing public.

Please include all contact details, especially email addresses.

Submissions to be made to

bcc@acbocallcentre.com or admin@burrumcc.org.au

Burrum Chamber of Commerce on world wide web

The web address for the Burrum Chamber of Commerce >

burrumcc.org.au

The community at large as well as members are invited to place comments in this site on any issues raised to which one feels a response is warranted.

Posted by Henry Sapiecha 8th April 2009.

Publicity Officer for the Chamber.

In business we trust

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