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 I support this cause with all my heart and soul.

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Shame on you!!!! This town doesnt deserve it i know for a fact i grew up as a child going out there and visiting relatives and now im going out there and seeing whats happening and this isnt for the best! go somewhere else or even better how about not at all!!! Bugger off!!!!!

I support the efforts of Fellow residents. This proposed activity is not consistent with the lifestyle encouraged by this regions councils.

This mine is absolutely crazy. I bought a property in Sandy Creek some years ago so that my children and hopefully my grandchildren will have some unspoiled nature to enjoy. Why do people enjoy move away from the city? Mostly to get away from noise, trucks, lights at night that spoil views of the stars etc. This is exactly what such a mine will bring with it.

I thought Stradbroke Island had mountains of sand to exploit. Why distribute such exploitation to our backyards!

The remarkable visual amenity of Sandy Creek, like much of the region, is more than the private delight of those of us who live there. It is the raw material of any future tourism industry. If we permit the expansion of in-stream or near-stream extractive industry in the omerset Region, we will destroy any chance of success for a more environmentally compatable alternative industry

Who is to benefit form this? certainly not the residents of Sandy Creek and surrounding areas!

I was looking at buying a property on Sandy Creek Road and enjoying a peaceful retirement there. Maybe not now I see what is coming.  I feel for the poor people who are near neighbours to this inappropriate development.  Is all of Qld a minesite?  Will have to go somewhere more remote to avoid this find of rampant development.

People live in Rural areas because they want the Quieter more Peacefull lifestyle, not to have this destroyed by noisy Trucks creating Dust and Dirt and exhaust polluction and damage to the roads and environment and not to have the Creek and underground Water Aquifers destroyed by this Mining Proposal.  Trucks using a road that was built to handle Local Traffic only will endanger every person driving on this road and the Children waiting on the roadside for the School bus will be put in a dangerous situation every day trying to get on and off the bus and crossing the road to get home.

This pristine valley belongs to the residents. Noise from the mine would radiate through the entire valley, mostly in the early morning...6am start for the mine???? Does the council really want a sand mine in the middle of a growing residential area. I was looking at buying on Sandy creek road and bring ing a young family to the area, but with the mining development application submitted, I am seriously thinking twice about investing in the area.

The council promotes a' “Natural Somerset” as a key principle, where the region is “a place where the natural environment and rural lifestyle are valued and protected”, and an area which is “scenic, rural, clean and relaxed”.' With the recent coal seam resolution passed, why would sand mining be any different?

There is no place in our small country town, for such a quarry. we do not have the roads to cope. we do not want our drinking water contaminated either.

I don't think this is the place for the trucks and traffic that a quarry will bring. You only have to look at Bracalba and see the damage to the roads and the traffic. If the D'Aguilar highway can't cope then our little roads sure won't.

My kids catch the bus to school along the route the trucks will be taking. The road is not made for trucks and will be too dangerous.

ive lived close to a mine like this for 20 years . its noisy and damaging to roads.not to mention dangerous on the road . many a time ive had close call on corners. we love the area and dont want to see it raped by a sand mine

The beauty of this area will be completely destroyed with the opening of this mine, leave it as it is. We are all happy

Why would you want to take from this place when it gives so much. Do yourself a favour and go spend some time  their as I did, maybe then you WILL APPRECIATE what you have and what you wont have if it goes ahead. People like myself drive many k's to enjoy places like this.

Don't ruin another beautiful part of south east qld!!!

Disastrous for the environment and quiet family life.  Trucks speeding down the road will be unacceptable for safe environment for ourselves and our children

We moved here 4 years ago to raise our children in a quiet and above all, safe community.  Now we have to contend with a constant flow of truck and dogs ploughing down a quiet country road not equipped to handle heavy loads.  If this mine goes ahead it will only be a matter of time before someone's loved one is seriously injured or killed.  I'm afraid to say we won't be sticking around to watch it happen- we will move on elsewhere.

Profit over the safety and wellbeing of a community? SHAME ON YOU MR ALZINO!!!!

We moved out here to get away from this sort of shit! Certainly wont be staying if this goes ahead.The only benifit i can see is to fill the owners pockets with cash!!!!!!!!

 Damage to the river and the surrounding environment must be prevented.

 The polution and disturbance to the environment is unacceptable

We came here for a quiet country lifestyle- I love that I can hear nothing but the birds most days.  We want to raise our children in a safe environment.  The roads are so inadequate for trucks, and I fear for the safety of sharing Mary Smokes and Sandy Creek Roads with trucks.  We are all on tank water and that dust will be sliding straight into our tanks from our roofs.  What about the environmental impacts on Sandy Creek itself?  Somerset Dam is just over the hill and what type of run off will be in that catchment?  

                                                    NO! NO! NO! TO THE MINE!!

Why are they doing this to our little part of the world, who is going to have to tell some-one their loved one is not coming home because they came face to face with  gravel truck. A lot of these truck drivers are cowboys and get paid by the load so of course they will be doing 100kph along Sandy Creek/Mary Smokes Roads. What happens when we have got all the dust on our roofs and it goes into our drinking water will MR ALZINO pay for our drinking water OF COURSE NOT his water is ok. My husband walks the dogs along the road and I don't want ayone coming to tell me he is not coming home, come on council show your balls and say bloody well NO. We have spent 20 years getting all the native birds to come around here and we enjoy them, we won't see them for long if the mine goes ahead along with a lot of other local wildlife.

NO TO THE MINE.

We would like the idea of quarrying/mining in Sandy Creek abandoned completely

I agree with Beau. Kilcoy does not need this industry.

Our roads are not able to handle the constant usage of heavy trucks. 

Completely unacceptable to have this kind of industry so close to existing residents, and on agricultural land.

No benefit to environment or community. NO MINE at Sandy Creek

 regular visitor to area due to family.

 there is too greater negative impact  to not only sandy creek but surrounding suburbs for this to be allowed. the sand mine should not even had been a consideration. if it gets approved, i can only imagine what else will be applied for and passed. what hope does any other town have when they face the same problem. what hope do any of us have if it is passed. NO MINE!!!

A proposal like this will destroy the beautiful area that we live in for no benefits to the residents that live there

I do not want this sand mine to go ahead,  we moved here for the lifestyle and beauty the area has to offer. We want to bring our kids up in the country, with clean fresh air and the opportunity to ride along the roads, if this goes ahead you are taking our new found quality of life away from us and all the residents around us. The safety on our roads is another major concern for me, I note today that the speed limit on parts of the d'aguilar hwy has been reduced to 90 kph, I can only presume this is to try and reduce the amount of fatalities seen on this road, what will a proposed extra truck and dog every 15 or so minutes do to the safety and condition of our roads.

No shit c*nt is building no mine around this area as this is my territory. Them beta phaggots gotta pay my share of 20% if they wanna stay around!

Our backyards are not mine sites! Once environment is destroyed it cannot be rehabilitated. Thousands of years of natural processes cannot be returned to pristine condition by planting a few trees...

Would destroy the local environment, and its diversity /sigh 

No mines to save the environment brah

 NO WAY!!!!!

I don't want a mine next to my golf driving range!!!

The project will destroy the local environment
in the short and long term, far beyond the lifetime of the actual
quarry operation.

It saddens me to think that the beauty of somerset could be sullied by this mine. 

I often visit my son and his family in the area,They moved there for , and I enjoy the

pristene nature of the countryside. To ruin that woul be a terrible shame.

I do not want a sand mine in sandy creek it would be an irreversable environmental disaster, there will be no benefit to anyone in the community

The 10 kms of road from the proposed extraction site along Sandy CK / Mary Smokes Creek rd to D'aguilar Hwy, is maintained by local council. The recent floods destroyed much of the road - and was repaired at considerable cost, time and whilst necessary in this case, disruption to residents and visitors. However less than a year later, with the current traffic load,  the road has already deteriorated badly. This road simply cannot support  60 or so tonne loaded trucks with100+ movements per day, 312  out of 365 days a year for 15- 20 years! Who would pay for local road maintenance should this extraction proposal be approved?- Somerset ratepayers!-Have a really good think of the potential damage, costs and disruption should this be approved. Our rates would have to rise to accommodate it- I don't want and can't afford, an extra financial burden to pay for the consequences of something that has no positive benefit to the environment and our community. Whilst Alzinos would pay an amount as all road users do, there is no way it would cover the damage that these trucks would do.

This is in addition of course, to the most important issues of irreparable damage that this mine would have on the environment, the surrounding farms and the safety and wellbeing of residents and visitors.

I truly hope council places the wellbeing of its constituents and the preservation of this precious part of the region before the profit of one man.

I consider this type of developement to be destructive to the environment and dangerous to surrounding areas. We do NOT need more heavy vehicles on D'Aguilar H'way! It must not be llowed to go ahead.

I consider this type of developement to be destructive to the environment and dangerous to surrounding areas. We do NOT need more heavy vehicles on D'Aguilar H'way! It must not be llowed to go ahead.

I cannot support developement of this nature in our immediate area or anywhere else in tis country. I think it a very poor & damaging system detrimental to the environment

The environment needs protection not more destruction.

The D'Aguilar Highway is already a very dangerous road without the addition of dozens more heavy vehicles per day.

This developement would ruin forever our neighbourhood and the existing flora and fauna,and MUST be stopped. 

I was born in Kilcoy 46 years ago but for the past six years living else where.  When I was very young remembering our Sunday drives to Mt Kilcoy and Sandy Creek area.  Knowing even back then that the few scattered farms and beautiful creeks were always there for a purpose.  Erecting a sandmine in this rich fertile grazing land will not only be disastorous for the environment and will have an ill effect on the water supply for Kilcoy through to Brisbane. 

The creek life from the sand mine down will be interfered with. Not mentioning the roads out in this lovely area, who will repair the roads from the trucks that will be passing by every few minutes or so?  There are not only the locals that live there that commute to work  daily, but also the local school but that use this quiet country road twice daily.  They don't need the noise and distruction in this pristine rural area.  Please DERM  and council you should consider this and look closley at the facts.

Having lived in the Mount Kilcoy area for approx 35 years and being a 4th generation farmer, I know that having a sandmine would be detremental to this A grade agricultural land with very fertile flats, not only to the land but also to the creek that it will would be filtered into.  As a water treatment plant operator I know having a mine would be detremental to all water drinking water supplies from Kilcoy to Brisbane.

Even though, I come from victoria, I come up here alot to enjoy the beautiful scenery that you guys are so lucky to have. Once this place is stuffed, that's it, it's gone and no more tourist dollars from me at least.

 I lived in the Mt Kilcoy area for twelve years. I was an executive on the Kilcoy Chamber of Commerce and Community Assoc, The Somerset Valley Grape and Wine Producers Assoc and the Kicoy Tourism Network. a network of Fram Stay, B&B, Cellar Door and Wineries.  I find the proposal of a sand mining project to be located at Sandy Creek almost beyond comprehension.  Recent Kilcoy Councils spent considerable time and effort on working with the Qld Govt to establish a Tourism Strategy. A sound sensible strategy for maintaining the unspoiled environment of the Region as witnesed by the D'Aguilar Biosphere initative. 

The Council has encourgaed the development of lifestyle lots which bring new residents and ultimately greater prosperity to the region.  I find it difficult to believe that sand mining will achieve much other than to discourage people to live in the area.

The resulting high heavy traffic volume alone will lead to unsafer roads and increased costs.

Frankly the approval of the proposed mine defies commonsense.

 I visit my father in Sandy Creek. His grandchildren ride their bikes along Sandy Creek road and play in Sandy Creek. What impact will sandmining have on this area?. All impact will be negative. No sand mining in Sandy Creek

Preserve our precious environment for future generations

We all live out here for the peace, tranquility and beauty of the area - this mine would ruin all that (along with the roads), not to mention decrease the value of the area as a whole and our properties.

 What is there not to worrie about the noise the dust the wildlife that lives in the creek and around it .What damage will it do to the water table ?? the same water that runs into sommerset dam which would affect most people far and wide .Not to mention the roads last year during the storms i had to get my car pulled out from the middle of the road !! Yes it sunk into the tarmac a little suzuki what a truck would do god only knows .I cannot see one benifit  this sand mine would make !! CAN YOU ???

I believe this mine is the thin edge of the wedge for other developments around the area. If it goes ahead, expect many more industrial plants popping up in the area, with the excuse that "they already exist so it's not pristine".

The natural values & lifestyle choice people have made along our valley NEEDS to be RESPECTED by those who have a bright / not-so-bright money-making idea.

Even if it has been approved in the past, it lapsed & PEOPLE have moved in, excluding industrial use thereafter.The proponent cannot expect 2 bites at the cherry.

Move on & be satisfied with the money you already have. We will be satisfied with nothing less that the rejection / failure of your proposed development.

there's abetter sand DEAL at Toorbul 

The proposed development is totally inappropriate to the area. Considering the environmental and traffic-related issues which arise, it should be declined by DERM, Main Roads Department and Somerset Regional Council.

I DO NOT AGREE

 We don't want a mini-Bracalba here.

This will ruin prime farming land

NO SAND MINE

Disgusting to even THINK about doing this, shame on you, is money our god? What sort of earth do you want left for your children?

We do not want or need this extractive industry in our area. The disruption to our quiet country lifestyle posed by this proposal is set to destroy why we live here and whywe wish to continue to live here. The country roads in this area have not been constructed to withstand the extra heavy haulage vehicles that would be using them. An inspection of the present conditions of Sandy Creek Road and Mary Smokes Creek Road from the proposed mine site to the D'Aguilar Highway will clearly show that these roads cannot withstand the extra loading.

The project will destroy the local environment in the short and long term, far beyond the lifetime of the actual quarry operation.

The noise and truck congestion is going to be nightmarish. A complete destruction of local lifestyle.

• The proposed quarry is only a few hundred metres from many residential acreage homes.
• This is a dangerous proposal; the trucks would be seriously endangering our children and the couples who ride and walk along the road, along with School bus and KCC bus for the elderly. The roads are not wide enough and there is no walking path.
• What about the creek? Is the creek water going to soak through the sand into your pit? If the water table is lowered, is the creek even going to flow? I suspect these are closely related!
• My front verandah view is straight down to the proposed pit; with the prevailing SE wind set to blow the dust straight into my home. I get asthma. I have no-where else to go! The valley is a sound bowl, and the reversing warning sound of machinery alone, starting at 6am, 6 days a week, including on my days off , a few hundred metres away, is immoral and a grave injustice.
• Mr Alzino, for you it is more money to add to your wealth. For me, the peace of my home and the quiet of this valley is all I have, and you plan to take this away too. Merry Christmas to you too!!!
•  If this goes ahead, others are waiting to apply for the same thing I believe. This will grow.
• This by extension seriously affects people not only adjacent to the property, but the School communities, those affected by accidents which WILL occur, the camping aesthetic and pushbike riding appeal in the area, and related businesses, Kilcoy residents (will a quarry then go in next to Kilcoy Creek, beside their water supply? There is a lot of sand there!)
• Then there is the wildlife, water quality, ground water issues, silicone dust and the chemicals used.
• this is not an essential resource at this location. Dig a hole where it is not going to destroy lives!

Leave the noise and the smog in the city it has no place out at Sandy Creek it will only destroy what we have here

Please keep this area as it is. No mines. Don't stuff the ecosystem

 When we bought here, we bought a lifestyle away from the city and the noise. The thought of a sand mine so close to our property is very distressing. This is a rural residential area. Families live here. The constant movement of trucks along our country roads is a great safety concern, as not only vehicles, but children going to school, walkers, cyclists also use the roads.

Our water table is precious and the environmental damage would be irrepairable in the forseeable future.

Please show common sense and compassion and STOP THE MINE FROM GOING AHEAD.

NO SAND MINE IN SANDY CREEK

If you want to find out more, check out the information in the window of the little shop at 8 Kennedy St Kilcoy

Please NO sand and gravel extraction at Sandy creek, this area was promoted as rural residential when we purchased it. This heavy industrial proposal will shatter the peace, land and water quality of the area, not to mention road safety for the pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders on the narrow Marysmokes creek road. The safety and wellbeing of Somerset residents must come before money. Although an approval was made approx thirteen years ago, this does not mean it is the right decision today, especially with the growth of residents over that time. 

As an animal lover I find it intolerable that a mining industry could be even considered in this area .

We all deserve to live in this peaceful environment.

This sand and gravel extractive industry is not an essential resource, and is readily available in other locations.  It will reduce agricultural land, and because of the use of chemicals in the processing may compromise Sandy Creek, the water table, and possibly the Brisbane water supply.  The release of dust and possible silica into the atmosphere will create health hazards for nearby residents.  Water for the processing from the creek or water table will reduce available water for residents and farm animals.   I request this development be prevented.

It's shocking that our state and local governments would consider allowing a sand mine on one of south-east Queensland's most pristine water courses in a highly settled area like Sandy Creek. The really alarming thing is the precedent it would set for so many other places.

It is very important to me that this mining not be allowed to go ahead.

It will interfere with our peaceful lifestyle if we have many trucks travelling past daily.

The water table is important to be kept safe.

This is a beautiful area and needs to be protected

As a local resident I am concerned about mining in the area destroying our lifestyle.

We moved to this area for peace and tranquility and to enjoy the attractive natural environment.

Our water tables are precious and need to be protected.

Trucks will be constantly passing creating noise and potential danger.

We deserve to maintain this beautiful part of the world.

Someone will get hurt and maybe killed; and that someone, more likely than not, will be a child, hit by a truck.

It's hard to grasp that ONE man's pursuit for wealth can be so blind to the damage and harmony of this wildlife corridor, and the people that live within it. Put yourself in our shoe's Mr Alzino.

People living in rural areas often do so because they enjoy a tranquil, safe environment – council should seriously consider the protection of residents’ lifestyle before approving non-compatible industries (e.g. mining).

The destruction of 32.5 acres of CLAS A GOOD QUALITY AGRICULTURAL LAND would be and absolute travesty.

I have a son, daughter and grand daughter who live in the area and I am fearful for their safety

if we work together as a community, and all of us put in some effort - we might just be able to stop this proposal !!!!!

This development goes against what the council have committed to in the Somerset futures and the targets the QLD Government have set under the SEQ NRM Plan.

The council and state government are public servents, that means they work for us.

we dont wont this beatiful valley dug up for some one to make a heap of money. leave our valley alone

The mine will lead to moreheavy vehicle traffic creating a greater hazard on our roads.  The roads are not sufficient to carry heavy vehicles.  The mine will create dust, visual and water pollution in a catchment area and may lead to reduced sub surface water.

I am extremely concerned about the impact this mine could have on the community and surrounding communities. Sandy Creek is a beautiful rural & residential area. If this mine goes ahead it has the potential to have detrimental environmental impacts along with potential health impacts for residents and visitors to the area.

 I am extremely concerned not only about the potential detrimental environmental impacts on our water, air, wildlife and landscape, but particularly the volume of truck activity on the access roads and the D'Aguilar Highway. I have a school age daughter who uses one of the local school buses. My fear is that the school buses and the students they transport along the school bus routes of Sandy Creek Road, Mary Smokes Creek Road and beyond to Sandy Creek and Mount Kilcoy will encounter an unacceptable level of danger due to the sheer numbers and speed of the trucks and also the condition of these roads. In brief. 

Whilst I understand the need for Sand and Gravel Extraction, I feel there are more suitable areas which will have less detrimental effects to the local environment.

This quarry provides nothing positive to the region, but instead adds polution and danger.

Stop the mine on your doorstep!

Act now before it's too late.