Mt Coot-tha Quarry History of Significant Events - 2016
2016
8th February
Philip Best lodges a damages claim with JTLA Lawyers regarding the cracks to our slab and the broken glass.
JLTA have never proceeded with resolving this claim, however LM Quirk advised in 2017 that the claim was progressing.
However we have not seen any evidence of this.
Philip Best lodges a damages complaint to the EHP Pollution Hotline regarding the quarry manager forcing the Heilig
technician to use a spoil spike even though the concrete block was already there.
Philip Best Lodges a complaint with the EHP department regarding the vibration damage to the new slan in our new home.
The EHP advised that this must be dealt with by the Mines Department.
The BCC Laywers JLTA advise that they have appointed King and Company Solicitors to act on their behalf regarding the
damage to our property from blast vibrations.
As of 2018, King and Company have not done anything, however LM Quirk advises that the claim is progressing.
Philip Best organises a meeting of all residents at Steven Miles Electorate Office.
EHP Director and DNRM Mines Inspector attended along with Steven Miles and his staff.
Philip Best asks BCC Mr Terry Bird if the BCC could provide the estimated blast strength to the residents.
This information is readily available with the Blasting plan, however Mr Bird refuses to even acknowledge our email
request.
This was followed by approximately 15 subsequent requests for the same information (to be provided with the notice
of blast email).
In consideration that the maximum blast vibration is legally undefined on every 10th blast, this is an essential
piece of information for the residents.
EHP organises an on-site meeting at the 159MCR monitoring point on Mt Coot-tha Rd.
Minister Miles as well as some EHP staff and local residents attended.
As you would expect, the blast was a very week one that I estimated to be 3mm/second which was correct.
Afterwards I wrote a report on what happened which included that Mr Bird stormed off when asked to answer residents
questions.
The quarry"s response to our July residents meeting was to let rip with the strongest blast for some years.
On the same day I hired a noise decibel datalogging metre from NV Engineers, to record the noise in my home.
Robert Bell, Quarry Manager, Emailed through the blast vibration reading for the massive blast.
To find out that the blast had exceeded the customary maximum of 10mm/second was no surprise when you consider the
extreme decibel levels that were recorded on that day.
Please note that when ever any recordings are done in our house, that no person or animal is allowed to remain inside
the house.
Philip Best imported the decibel data into excel and plotted the results as a chart.
The results showed that the home continued to vibrate for up to 60 seconds after the blast.
This is an extremely bad outcome for our new home which already had cracked floors.
Philip Best and some other resident attended the Kenmore Council Listens Forum.
We were not permitted to use the microphone to address the crowd.
After the forum, myself and others pleaded with Cr Matic and LM Quirk to stop damaging our precious homes.
I later wrote a report on what happened.
Philip Best writes to LM Quirk and Cr Matic following the Kenmore Council Listems Forum.
The email was to clarify soe of the things we said after the forum.
Philip Best writes and submits an AS2187 Appendix J Change Project Proposal to Standards Australia.
The Project Proposal is allocated the reference number PP1636