Wollondilly Shire Council

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• 6 Month Progress Report on the Delivery Program

  Our significant road repair program is on track, with reconstruction, heavy patching and drainage work across the Shire, and more works planned for the coming months to address priority issues. Our advocacy for roads funding is also gaining traction, with recent funding announcements giving us more resources to tackle the extensive road repairs needed across the Shire following our wettest year on record. The Wollondilly Cultural Precinct is being strongly utilised with the upgraded Shire Hall n…

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• Council supports Domestic Violence Safe Phone program

  In the lead up to Domestic Violence Prevention Month, Wollondilly Shire Council is taking part in the DV Safe Phone program and has installed a recycled phone bin at its Customer Service Centre.
  
  The DV Safe Phone program aims to repurpose old phones and give them to people in domestic violence situations to support their access to help when it is most needed.
  
  There are drop-off locations right across Australia, and the Council Administration Building in Menangle Street Picton has now been adde…

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• Council seeks community input on the future of Waste Management in Wollondilly

  … for residents than the current two scheduled clean-up collections each year. Council is also preparing to introduce FOGO into Wollondilly households with the commencement of the next Waste Disposal Contract in 2029 and is looking at the frequency of bin collections.
  
  The questionnaire is now available on Council’s Your Say page with hard copy questionnaires available from Council’s Customer Service Centre and Wollondilly Library Services in Picton.
  
  Residents can also chat with staff at pop-up…

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• Onsite Sewage/Septic

  More than half of Wollondilly’s population lives in rural and rural-residential areas, where Sydney Water’s sewer system is unavailable. As such, there are over 8000 on-site sewage management systems installed in the Shire.
  
  Most of these systems are septic tanks and aerated wastewater treatment systems (AWTS). Other types of systems include pump-outs, mounds, reed beds, sand filters, biological filtration systems and wet composting units.
  
  Septic Tanks provide anaerobic (‘without oxygen’) treat…

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• Visit Wollondilly

  WelcomeWollondilly, on the south western outskirts of Sydney and at the foothills of the Southern Highlands, is surrounded by spectacular natural beauty and rural pastures.
  
  Its 2,560 square kilometres stretch from Bargo in the south, Appin and Menangle in the east, Warragamba in the north with the Nattai wilderness, Yerranderie and Burragorang Valley to the west.
  
  Wollondilly is rich in Indigenous and European history, with the earliest inhabitants being the Gundangurra and Tharawal people.
  
  At…

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• Onsite Sewage/Septic

  More than half of Wollondilly’s population lives in rural and rural-residential areas, where Sydney Water’s sewer system is unavailable. As such, there are over 8000 on-site sewage management systems installed in the Shire.
  
  Most of these systems are septic tanks and aerated wastewater treatment systems (AWTS). Other types of systems include pump-outs, mounds, reed beds, sand filters, biological filtration systems and wet composting units.
  
  Septic Tanks provide anaerobic (‘without oxygen’) treat…

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• Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 - Informal Access Application

  Please complete this form to apply for information access to government information under Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPA Act). If you need help filling out this form, please contact the Right to Information Officer on 4677 1100 or visit the 'Accessing Council Information - GIPAA' page on our website.
  
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• Keep Chickens For Eggs

  Keeping chooks provides your household with a daily supply of sensational tasting eggs from a sustainable pet that consumes your kitchen waste and weeds your garden.
  
  Keeping chickens is a great way to turn waste into food, entertain yourself (and your kids), and they increase the nutrients and health of your soil while eating bugs, insects and sometimes mice.
  
  How to do it now!
  Keeping chickens is easy with the right setup, equipment and knowledge. Always check your local library, bookstore or…

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• House and Home

  Our home and garden can be a healthy Eden of self-sufficiency or a bottomless pit of resource-consuming ecological inefficiency. So how do we manage our ecological footprint & set it on a sustainable path?
  
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  Assess your homes sustainability
  Like many of us, and with
  the impending carbon price, you may be thinking about ways to save money at home.
  
  Buy renewable electricity
  Every time you use electricity in your home greenhouse gases are belched out on your behalf. So b…

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• Install solar hot water

   Sunlight converts cold water into hot water. No gases are emitted and no one gets hurt. Life is rarely this simple!
  
  The cost of energy is rising and the effect of pollution increasing. Water heating accounts for approximately 30 per cent of an average household's total greenhouse gas emissions and about the same proportion of total household energy use. Visit Climate Change for more information.
  
  Solar hot water systems are highly efficient in their use of solar energy (sunlight) to heat…

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• Adopt a Vegetarian Diet

  Join the mung bean nation! Prevent the sizzling death of a thousand innocent animals, improve your health, and hit the jackpot in terms of reducing your ecological impact.
  
  On a per capita basis, Australia is one of the largest meat consumers in the world; we consume approximately 118kg of meat per annum per capita (1998 ABS). Meat products contribute almost half of our entire ecological footprint (or impact on the environment).
  
  There are three compelling reasons to stop eating meat:
  
  1. To he…

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• Products

  Decisions about the things we buy can move us toward being sustainable. Thinking about things like the resources used in the products we buy, how efficient they are and their lifecycle can help us make more environmentally friendly purchases.
  How can we reconfigure our retail filters to include our environmental responsibilities?
  
  Products Actions
  
  Purchase recycled products
  From toilet paper to chairs, jackets to dog leads, there are many recycled products that are excellent quality, so conside…

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• Buy Fair-trade Food and Products

  To stop the degradation of the global environment we have to deal with the failings of global trade, namely its tendency to increase poverty and its exploitation of the weak. Buying products labelled 'Fairtrade' is a good start.
  
  The Fairtrade collection of organisations has developed a Fairtrade Certification Mark. When you find a product that bears this mark, you know that it has been procured through a process that has helped deliver better trading conditions to marginalised produce…

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• Promote Sustainable Living

  Help spread the word about actions we can all take to reduce our impact on the environment.
  
  It is easy to feel that you're the only one trying to live sustainably, but as you talk to more people, you’ll find that many of us are on the same path. We are all teachers and we are all learners, so share what you know with others and you might just be rewarded by discovering something new yourself!
  
  The more we promote sustainable living, the easier it will be to build sustainable communities.…

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• Be a Responsible Pet Owner

  Pets give us company, affection and love. But with ownership comes responsibility; to care and nurture them and to minimise their impact on the environment.
  
  Pets can have a profound impact on biodiversity, wildlife and the health of our environment. One only needs to look at the impact rabbits, cats and foxes have had on Australia’s natural systems since they were released into the wild.
  
  Managing our domesticated nature, and pets, in a way that does not further damage those natural systems, bi…

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