Sheidow Park Residents Exposed!
November 3rd, 2009 by KrisThe Government’s Desalination Pipeline Project has left residents of five Sheidow Park homes exposed to the noise and pollution of the Lonsdale Highway.
A thick belt of decades-old Pine and Gum trees were removed from a section between the homes and the highway to make way for the desalination pipe. These trees previously acted as a barrier to highway traffic noise and pollution.
In return, residents have been offered potted trees instead of the barrier wall they had reasonably requested as compensation. The construction company admit the trees acted as a visual barrier, but deny noise attenuation!
Residents say their $400,000+ homes have been devalued and their back yards ruined. To add insult to injury, residents received letters from the construction company offering replacement fences instead of a wall.
The residents’ treatment has been nothing short of outrageous.
I spoke personally to the Minister for Water Security, Karlene Maywald and met with senior managers from SA Water and the Department of Transport. Neither SA Water nor DTEI were willing to bend on the issue.
I am calling on the Minister to personally intervene in this decision.
There is a basic principle at stake here: if the Government wants to go and off and build a pipeline, residents shouldn’t be made worse off by the project – especially when a two-metre wall would offer an easy solution.
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