One wonders what Central Coast Council is thinking with their proposal of a desalination water treatment plant at Noraville (Coast News September 19).
The plant will have an extraction pipeline at either Pebbly Beach or Jenny Dixon Beach, with the leftover brine being discharged at Norah Head ocean outfall.
This area is one of the most significant beauty spots on the northern sector of the Central Coast, with high tourist attraction during the Summer season popular with both locals and tourists enjoying holidaying and swimming at the beach and the safe swimming enclosure of the Norah Head rock pool, as well as enjoying the natural beauty of the surrounding area.
This is all put at risk with a desalination plant in this location.
The increased size of this proposed plant located in what is a residential coastal area is of concern together with the detrimental impact of discharging toxic brine and other toxic chemical contaminates into the ocean at this location impacting the marine environment, coast ecosystems, and swimmers alike.
Central Coast Council needs to seriously reconsider the location of this desalination plant.
Email, Sep 27,
E. Williams, Buff Point
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