NorthConnex

Please find attached my submission.

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John Pickford

Attached is my submission.

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Diana Huang

To Whom It May Concern

Please find attached my EIS submission.

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Dr Elizabeth Pickford

Dear Department of Planning

Attached is my NorthConnex EIS submission.

Thank you

Barbara Stewart

Please find attached our submission objecting to the currently proposed Trelawney Street Site access and heavy vehicle traffic flows. Entrance to the site via Loch Maree will result in massive traffic congestion that is avoidable. This submission also request a ban on heavily vehicle in the local streets to the south of Pennant Hills Road.

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Attached upload is my submission to the NorthConnex project SSI_13_6136. I object to the proposed design of the ventilation stacks and portal.

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12 September 2014

Director - Infrastructure Projects
Department of Planning and Environment
Number: SSI 13_6136
Major Projects Assessment
GPO Box 39
SYDNEY NSW 2001

NorthConnex Application Number: SSI 13_6136

Please find below my submission in response to the exhibition of the EIS for NorthConnex.

Firstly I would like to state I object to the project as described in the EIS.

I have a high level of concern regarding the following issues and request that these be considered by NorthConnex and the Department of Planning. In regards to the NorthConnex tunnel, I am concerned about:

1. Placement of the northern ventilation stack in the centre of a densely populated residential area in Wahroonga, where 9,300 school children will be exposed, as well as multiple aged care facilities, hospitals, businesses and homes.

2. The placement of the northern ventilation stack in a valley in Wahroonga where there are often low wind speeds, which will result in poor dispersion and exposure to community to high levels of tunnel emission.

3. I am highly concerned about the multiple large scale research studies that suggest the impacts of air pollutants on health are serious. These include increased death from heart disease, increased risks of lung cancer, stroke, poor lung growth in children, increased asthma, and recent research suggesting low birth weight for pregnant women, increased autism, and congenital heart defects. These studies confirm air pollutants have prothrombotic and inflammatory effects on humans which cause the above health problems.

4. I am concerned about the project including future provisions for portal emissions in densely populated areas, which will result in emissions remaining at ground level, and hence exposing the local population to pollutants. I am also concerned that NorthConnex's claim that there will no portal emissions from current proposal cannot be verified.

5. I am concerned about the large amount of diesel emissions which will be emitted from the NorthConnex tunnel, as it is being designed for heavy freight to bypass Pennant Hills Rd. Diesel emissions have been classified as carcinogenic by the World Health Organisation, and also contain a larger number of fine particles which penetrate deep into lung tissue and remain there causing inflammation.

6. I am concerned about the air quality within the tunnel which is shown in the EIS to have exceedences above standards for pollutants such as NO2, and haze from particulate matter at the ends of the tunnel.

7. I am concerned about the multiple flaws in the air quality modelling of the northern stack in the EIS. These include:
a) extrapolation of meteorological data from other weather stations which do not reflect the local meteorology, local topography, and the valley location.
b) The use of a coarse topographical model
c) The failure to consider polluted intake air from the Pennant Hills/M2 interchange as part of the project contribution to air quality at Wahroonga
d) the background air quality being based on air quality at Lindfield and Prospect and the lack of any actual data on PM2.5

8. I am concerned that a full and transparent options assessment process was not undertaken to assess alternative designs for the project. Unlike other tunnel projects in Sydney there are alternatives for locating the stack and portals in non-residential areas.

9. I am concerned that the justification for not providing filtration for the stacks is cursory and unconvincing. How can all of the exhaust fumes form thousands of cars be concentrated and pushed out a small smoke stack and not be harmful?

10. I live within 100m of the proposed ventilation stack, but North Connex was unaware that mine and my neighbor's houses ( we have a duplex down a long driveway) existed because they didn't bother to do a site inspection. They only discovered that our houses existed when they approached the owner of the house in front of ours to discuss purchasing a portion of his land. This shows a distinct lack of effort on the part of North Connex to do any investigation before putting their proposal forward.

11. After discovering that my house did in fact exist, North Connex approached me wanting to purchase a portion of my driveway. Then a few weeks later approached me again saying they now want to purchase the house in front of mine and relocate my driveway to Woonona Avenue from Bareena Avenue where it currently is. They seem to want to change their minds fairly quickly, and again shows the lack of planning that has gone into this proposal. It seems as though they are still trying to work out the basics after having submitted the proposal a long time ago.

12. The sole purpose of this tunnel seems to be pushing traffic onto other toll roads owned by Transurban as there are no ramps anywhere along the proposed length of the tunnel that would allow traffic to enter or exit other parts of pennant hills road.

13. The proposal appears to be a least cost / highest profit to shareholder proposal, not what best suits the community that they are trying to destroy by polluting it with harmful fumes from trucks and vehicles.

To address my concerns I request that the following actions are undertaken:

1. The air quality and human health impact assessment need to be revised to address the issues raised above.
2. An independent options assessment process should be undertaken to assess alternative locations for the ventilation stack and portals.
3. To undertake a Life Cycle Analysis and assessment for the provision of filtration
4. A long term health study on children and residents in areas impacted by stack discharges be included as part of the conditions of approval.
5. A comprehensive air quality monitoring program is developed and implemented.
6. An independent review of the ventilation system is undertaken to ensure that NorthConnex's claim of no portal emissions is justified.
7. Portal emissions from NorthConnex in the future are banned.
8. The Submissions Report/Preferred Project be exhibited to allow the community to respond to the revised information contained in the report.
9. The Department does not approve the project in its current form as it clearly does not meet the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development as required by the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act.

Name: Matthew Lawrence

Address: 2/43 Bareena Avenue , Wahroonga , NSW , 2076

I have attached a written submission objecting to the proposal as it currently stands.

Copy of covering letter and Council report uploaded. Hardcopy has been sent via the post.

Upload is my submission to the NorthConnex SSI 13_6136. I object to the current design of the ventilation stacks and portals.

Please see attached submission

Please find attached my EIS submission regarding the NorthConnex tunnel.

Kind regards

Carol Laughton

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Attached is my EIS submission.

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Grant Madden

Attached is my EIS submission.

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Chrisie

Please find my submission on the traffic flow issue that I perceive will happen if not addressed at Pennant Hills Road and Loch Maree vicinity.