Vales Point Solar Farm

This is situated at the entrance to our village, it will be an eyesore. I
don't wish to see anymore visual pollution at the entrance to our
town. We already have an eyesore of a power station, enough! It has
been noted in towns with these wind farms that the birdlife is
suffering and we have an extensive population of native birds, parrots
and owls included. It would be more cost efficient to erect enough
solar units on all the houses in the town for the same price or at
least on all publicly owned buildings across the Central Coast and you
would get much more reliable source of power. Wind farms are not as
reliable at production of power as solar panels, so please do not
encourage this ridiculous concept. It is not windy every day here, but
the sun does shine on most days. I currently have 22 solar panels and
solar hot water on our roof and it is sufficient to supply most of our
power needs. I do not believe that a wind farm would be able to do the
same on a 365 day basis.

My property is on Summerhayes Rd, which is on the west side of Pond 2. I
do note that main access to construction will be via Rutleys Rd and
Pacific Hwy, however, currently Power Station Employees regularly use
Summerhayes Rd to access proposed Pond 2 area. Whilst Summerhayes Rd
is mainly sealed, the last 3rd of the road adjacent to Pond 2 remains
unsealed. The amount of dirt that is disturbed with the increasedPower
Station traffic on the road, and the erosion of our road to get to our
homes is constant. It seems part of the DA includes construction of
perimeter roads to access the Solar Farm.i am positive these perimeter
roads will be accessed via Summerhayes Road, like they currently are..
Is there any possible way, that the sealing of the remainder of
Summerhayes Road might be considered ? There may only be a handful of
us in that end of Summerhayes Road, but our road is affected, even
though it might not state it.

While generally supportive of the proposed development The Mannering Park
Precinct Committee has concerns on a number of issues:
1. Traffic Study
While the traffic study is very informative it takes no account of
actual traffic behavior. The average delay times included in the
studies also takes no account of actual traffic behavior.
Currently the truck congestion, from the ash capping and other trucks,
at the Pacific Highway and Ruttleys Road intersection can become far
greater than the study statistics indicate. It is not uncommon to have
four or five semi trailers, along with the light vehicle traffic,
banked up at this intersection. When this traffic is given the green
light it is then forced to merge with two lanes of south bound traffic
that has previously been forced into a congested formation by the
lights at Carters Road and Tall Timbers Road Lake Munmorah. This then
becomes a bottleneck and traffic accident waiting to happen. This
situation will be made far worse when the construction traffic is
added.
After a rain event the trucks exiting the existing ash capping
operation leave site with mud over their tires with the result being
mud and debris being deposited onto Ruttleys Road. This then can and
has caused damage to cars and poses an accident risk. This will be
exacerbated during construction by the additional truck movements.
2. Community
The Precinct recognizes that the EIS proposal is separate to the coal
fired power station and that the current owners of Vales Point Power
Station have no obligations for past impacts, on the community, by the
coal fired power station. However, we believe there should be some
benefit flow to the community from the solar farm proposal to, in some
small way, compensate for the impacts decades of air and water
pollutants, that those living around the power station, have endured.
Similiar to the Chain Valley Collieries 3.5 cents per tonne of call
produced, which was previously mandated by Planning and Environment,
we would suggest a similar scheme based on megawatt hour production be
incorporated in the approval documents. This fund could help the
communities around the southern edge of Lake Macquarie fund critical
infrastructure needed in the affected communities.

I object to the submission as there has been no consultation with
property owners of the transmission line from vales point power
station to sydney, This easement was in place for the coal fired
powerstation at its closure the infrastructure should be removed. If
greedy power station owners wish to continue to use it fair and just
compensation must be negotiated with property owners as its use is now
way past its original intent.

local government and state government will be responsible for property
values if this project is allowed to go ahead and liability for
compensation to property owners without addressing the easements
removal at end of life of the coal fired powerstation.

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