Please see attached submission.

I object to the project for the following reasons
Increased traffic involving heavy vehicles on an already busy road
Loss of natural environment and habitat

This will affect all the businesses around the area. Tourists and locals are less likely to spend money near a mine. Regardless of acoustic barriers, I believe the noise will negatively impact local retreats and businesses that have positioned themselves to be close to nature. Despite the ground being flat, I do think most people driving past will see more mining and industry as a bad thing; this will be bad for locals' mental health and will make the Nelson Bay area less of an ideal tourist destination. I don't think we built up the road just to have more trucks on it destroying it. I'm surprised that the discovery of Aboriginal artefacts hasn't put a stop to the application already.

As a regular user of Nelson Bay Road I have major concerns for my safety and the safety of other road users with the increased truck movements on the road. The sand trucks that use the road now do not always contain their loads with sand spilling on the road and vehicles travelling near them. Speed limits and not adhered to.
The location of the proposed Quarry is too close to not only homes but the school. Given the evidence of harm caused by silica (proven) the location is not suitable, fine particles cannot be managed in the air with the amount of wind in a coastal location.
Tourists provide a major source of income for the Port Stephens area, the proposal includes clearing of land that will be harmful to the environment and take away from the nature that draws visitors to the area.

I am a local resident of Anna Bay. This quarry would be disastrous for our local environment and traffic congestion. It would also severely pollute our air and degrade our beautiful environment.

That many truck movements daily on that section of road will be dangerous.
Fast moving traffic on a dual section of Nelson Bay Rd will come up against slow moving trucks.
That many trucks using the Port Stephens Drive roundabout daily will also prove problematic for local road users.

If this Sand quarry has 200 + truck movements North to quarry and 200 south to the quarry, me and others will find it difficult to exit our driveways on Nelson Bay Road. I am talking about the single lane sections of Nelson Bay Road south of the proposed mine ( 99.9% of trucks will travel south). It is difficult to exit now due to large traffic numbers and would be more dangerous with an extra 400 truck movements (200 north and 200 south).
This project should be paused until the Nelson Bay Road Bypass is completed, and it would be against public safety to approve it before the bypass is finished.
Kind Regards
Shane Scanlon

Two hundred trucks per day driving along Nelson Bay Road as if there isn’t enough traffic congestion already. Where does all this sand end up? How big of a quarry do you think this is going to be? There is already sand erosion in the LGA and this will just add more as well as diesel exhaust

As a father of young children I would like to see more industry to support the community

I object to the development of yet ANOTHER sand farm for the following reasons:
Biodiversity loss
Impacts on a sensitive coastal groundwater system
Increased truck traffic and road safety risks
Impacts on amenity, rural character and lifestyle
Potential impacts on schools, families and local residents
Potential health impacts from dust and silicates
Potential visual impacts on one of Port Stephens most important entrance corridors
Further industrialisation of the Bobs Farm–Salt Ash area
Cumulative impacts from existing and proposed extractive industries