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Register of Questions
– Boolaroo Liaison Meeting 26/8/98
Question from N.Hodgson to
be included in the Agenda item next meeting
Could names and addresses
of all members attending the meeting please be put on the minutes – or if a decision
can’t be made on this at the meeting, I am happy to bring it up at the next meeting?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
Can I attend the next
meeting of the Remediation Management Committee to present my own case? If not why?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
Why have the Environmental
Health Centre ignored solid advice from Dr Vimpani about the health of my daughter?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
Why have the Environmental
Health Centre not investigated the source of the seriously high lead levels at my home?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
What led to the
conclusion, by The Environment Health Centre, hat the back door of my house is the major
source of lead when the high lead levels are the front of my house and the much lower
levels are at the back?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
Have the Environmental
Health Centre informed my neighbours of the high lead levels found at my house and have my
neighbours been informed about the serious concerns generated by such extraordinary high
lead levels? (Soil lead mean for Argenton 766ppm (Galvin et.al 1992 pp64) my level is
82,000ppm. Level for further investigation 300 ppm.
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
Have my neighbours had
environmental lead tests carried out?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
When my ceiling dust going
to be tested?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
Where is the proof that
the Selleys product "No More Gaps" is an adequate and durable product to be used
in remediation?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
How can the Environmental
Health Centre claim that remediation will work on my house when they have made no attempt
to find out where such high lead levels are coming from in the first place?
Question from K.Hayter to
be answered by Remediation Management Committee
Why have I not received a
reply to my letter dated 29th July 1998 and directed to Steve Muggleton, as the
Project Manager of the lead remediation process?
Due to the Remediation
Committees failure to act on the seriousness of my lead problem, I request, through the
Liaison Committee, that Remediation Committee undertake to pay for:
An independent laboratory
to be contracted to de isotope testing on lead samples from inside and outside my home
That the EPA co-ordinate
the supply of sample papers from the Pasminco air monitor samplers from Argenton to the
persons undertaking the independent analysis.
That the EPA ensure that
the above independent person is allowed access to Pasminco slag piles to obtain samples of
any slag that is thought to be needed for testing.
Question from C. Nissen to
be answered by K.Hayter
Where did Mrs. Hayter live
before moving to Argenton?
Question from C. Nissen to
be answered by K.Hayter
How far into Mrs.
Hayter’s pregnancy was she when she moved into the house?
Question from C. Nissen to
be answered by K.Hayter
How long was Mrs. Hayter
living in her home before giving birth?
Question from C. Nissen to
be answered by K.Hayter
Is there any conclusive
evidence that suggest Mrs. Hayter’s baby died from lead poisoning?
Question from C. Nissen to
be answered by K.Hayter
What were Mrs.
Hayter’s lead levels?
Question from C. Nissen to
be answered by K.Hayter
Had Mrs. Hayter done any
renovations to her home to cause elevated blood lead levels?
Question from C. Nissen to
be answered by K.Hayter
Does Mrs. Hayter realise
that she is causing distress to other mother with small children and pregnant women in the
area?
Question from J. Victor to
be answered by Rev M Watt
Why was the first
paragraph of Item 4.6 deleted from the 1st July 1998 minutes? I was told that
this was stated at the meeting.
Question from J. Victor to
be answered by Rev M Watt
Why was Mrs. Hayter
allowed to tape the last meeting?
Question from J. Victor to
be answered by Kate Hayter
Could I please have a copy
of the tapes?
Question from J. Victor to
be answered by Rev M Watt
Is this the first time the
meeting has been taped? If not would like to state that this is illegal if permission is
not granted before the commencement of the meeting. I would like copies of any tapes from
previous meeting.
Question from J. Victor to
be included in the Agenda item for next meeting
Who put up the warning
posters around Boolaroo, Argenton and Speers Point?
Question from J. Victor to
be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
Why is that an advisory
group from Sydney is allowed to monopolise the meeting when it is supposed to be a Liaison
Meeting for the North Lake Macquarie community? Would they be here if they weren’t
paid employees?
Question from J. Victor to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
Does No-Lead still exist?
If so where do they meet? Could their minutes be tabled at Liaison meetings?
Question from J. Victor to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
Could No-Lead give a
report about their meetings at the Liaison Meetings? If they are a bonafide group then
their minutes should be public documents.
Question from D. Mason to
be included in the Agenda Item for next meeting
Who put the "Lead
Contaminated" flyer in our letter boxes, telegraph poles and shop windows?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Kate Hayter
Could I have a copy of the
tape recording of minutes done by Mrs. Hayter?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
If the Lead Advisory
Service have a lead problem in Sydney what’s the source? Where’s the smelter?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
Why did Theresa Gordon ask
Mrs. Hayter’s questions?
Question from D. West to
be answered by The Lead Advisory Service NSW.
The Lead Advisory Service
NSW told us all night our lead source was Pasminco yet you want to waste money on tests to
find the source.
Question from S. Lunn to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
Theresa Gordon made the
comment that she was the person who removed lead from petrol, did anyone else have input
or only her?
Question from S. Lunn to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
Does No-Lead still exist?
When are the meetings? Are they advertised?
Question from S. Lunn to
be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
Why does the Lead Advisory
Service NSW continue to criticise? Why are they so destructive? We are here for the same
reason.
Question from S. Lunn to
be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
Who do the Lead Advisory
Service NSW represent? Do they tell people who enquire from our community to contact the
Environmental Health Centre?
Question from K. Collins
to be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
Elizabeth O’Brien
stated at a public Liaison Meeting on 26/8/98 at Lake Macquarie City Council that her
child had been diagnosed with lead poisoning! Does she have a personal vendetta with the
lead problem and a vendetta for solving the problem in this community?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Rhetorical
Prime TV or other media
seem to want to print negative attitudes instead of listening to people that have positive
good news items. A photographer from the Post Newspaper was invited to a presentation of
the Cubby House and Nintendo prizes for the Round 11 blood testing program but of course
no one showed. So may be its about time the media people started doing research into their
stories instead of letting selective people have all the say and leaving all the local
community out in the dark. The local people are the ones that should be having the say
– the Votel Send the so called Groups back to Sydney and let them clean up their own
backyards.
Question from K. Collins
to be included in the Agenda Item for next meeting
Because the meetings are
time limited, not everybody gets the chance to express their opinions on the issues that
need to be discussed. Could the meeting go for two and half-hours. Reason: by the time
departments or agencies decide on minutes from previous meetings 75% of the meeting time
has gone.
Question from K. Collins
to be answered by Kate Hayter
Mrs. Hayter says that she
has had threatening calls, rape calls, food thrown at her and been assaulted – have
all of these been reported to the police or neighbourhood watch?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Kate Hayter
Mrs. Hayter said that she
purchased her house in Argenton during 1995. Was she not aware of the lead problem? Was
she not told about the lead problem?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Kate Hayter
Did Mrs. Hayter know there
was a 149 notation on her property? Was she notified by Lake Macquarie City Council or her
solicitor about his hazard? If not why? You should have been notified by your legal
representative on the 149 notation.
Question from D. West to
be answered by Kate Hayter
What does Mrs. Hayter want
from the Remediation Management Committee and Why?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
What do the Lead Advisory
Service NSW actually do?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
Does the Lead Advisory
Service NSW refer people to the Environmental Health Centre in Boolaroo? If not, Why?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
Who does Theresa Gordon
represent? Is it No-Lead? Who is No-Lead? Is it community people or selective people?
Question from D. West to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
Why does Theresa Gordon
get involved in the lead problem in North Lake Macquarie when she is believed to live at
Merewether?
Question from R. Victor to
be answered by Theresa Gordon No-Lead
What is the Lead Advisory
Service’s role in North Lake Macquarie?
Question from R. Victor to
be answered by
Who was the guy in the
brown jacket asking all the question? Is he a resident of North Lake Macquarie?
Question from R. Victor to
be included in the Agenda Item for next meeting
Who distributed the
"Warning – Lead Contaminated Area" posters?
Question from R. Victor to
be included in the Agenda Item for next meeting
Who funded the
"Warning – Lead Contaminated Area" posters?
Question from J. Latham to
be answered by Lead Advisory Service NSW
What is the Lead Advisory
Service NSW job on the committee?
Question from J. Latham to
be answered by Chairperson
Why was there a tape
recorder on the table going at the meeting and no one was asked or told that the whole
meeting was being taped?
Question from J. Latham to
be answered by Kate Hayter
What was the blood lead
level of Kate Hayter’s child before she moved out of her house? What is the
child’s blood lead levels now?
Question from J. Latham to
be answered by Environmental Health Centre and Kate Hayter
What work does the
Environmental Health Centre say has to be done to Kate Hayter’s house so she can move
back in? What is the hold up on the work being carried out?
Question from J. Latham to
be answered by ?
I thought that the meeting
on Wednesday night (26/8/98) was to talk about the lead problem and how to clean it up,
not to bash Pasminco like most of the non-residents did.
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