Mt Coot-tha Quarry History of Significant Events - 2012-2013
2012 The Legacy Way construction began in April 2011. This project continued to emit loud noise both day and night throughout 2012. This was in addition to the normal quarry Blasting.
27th February
DERM (now EHP and then DES) Agrees to establish a permanent monitoring at the unused address 159 Mt Coot-tha Rd (159MCR).
A concrete block style permanent monitoring point was then established.
Approximately 2 years later we find that the Heilig technician had been ordered by the quarry manager to not use
the concrete block, and only put a spike in the ground.
2013 The Legacy Way construction began in April 2011. This project continued to emit loud noise both day and night throughout 2013. This was in addition to the normal quarry Blasting.
5th May
Residents Succeed in getting "Notice of Blast" email sent to John Higgins each week, so that John can forward
them to all his quarry affected email recipients.
Philip Best asks EHP again for the Quarry to share monitoring information with the residents.
Previous to this we had no idea at all what the actual blast vibration levels were.
The residents meeting now has a new date an agenda, it is on the 7th November 2013.
Since then we have tried several times to have a second residents meeting, however each time our email is ignored.
Philip Best detects serious flaws in the Australian Standard AS2187 Appendix J (Blast monitoring), and writes the first
of many letters, seeking a more balanced approach.rite the first of many... to be continued