Smell from Reserve Septic Tanks.

Copy of email

Hi Susan,

Thank you for your advice dated 12 May 2009 regarding open holes in the reserve 

area between the Guide Hall and the new Soccer Pavilion.

I have recently had the water supply upgraded. You will notice a trench running 

from the front of the property to the old change rooms located towards the rear of the property. The aim of the upgrade is to eliminate the ongoing leaks coming from the original poor quality water line. I have inspected the excavation and back fill and agree that it needs more soil and seed.

In regard to the holes barricaded off with tape, I have approach Steve Breheny from

Churchill United Soccer Club and asked him to organise the backfilling of any holes opened by the club.
I have organised to fill all remaining depressions this week (25 - 29 May 2009).

In regard to the septic smell, I have approached the Churchill United 

Soccer Club who effectively lease the land from Council.  They are 

responsible for all maintenance on the new Pavilion plus any services 

associated with the new pavilion.  I have been advised by sewerage experts that a 

probable cause of the smell is the size of the sewerage pump pit adjacent to the new pavilion. The pit is possibly too large which allows the sewerage time to ferment prior to being pumped to the sewer main. Churchill United Soccer Club have been asked to reduce the holding capacity of the pit which will lead to the sewerage being pumped more frequently eliminating the odour.

If you have any ongoing problems with the sewerage smell once the 

alteration works are complete please contact Churchill United Soccer Club direct 

or advise me by Email and I will follow up with the club.

regards

Bruce Chewe

Coordinator Building & Playground Maintenance 

Latrobe City Council

Exerpt from special meeting called by District Leader Susan Connor

Over the last fifteen (15) years a number of disturbing conversations with members of the public were engaged in. Those who are now in a position to act on the information presented were then not in a position to ‘do anything about these’ other than make tentative enquiries and file the responses. Two major things have changed. The first is that as of September 2007 when a new Hazelwood and Churchill District Leader had undergone training. The second- that as from the 1^st January 2008 when the Hazelwood and Churchill took over the management of the Hazelwood South Community Hall. Things are now changing for the better. Leaders, members of guiding (Including parents) and members of the community organisations, clubs and bands are able to have a wider degree of autonomy to develop and grow. Sometimes their needs outgrow what the Hazelwood South Community Hall can provide i.e. there is not a licence to sell alcohol. There is no smoking on and around the premises as the land is Government land – Department of Sustainability and Environment. The land out the front of the buildings of both the Hazelwood Rifle club and the Hazelwood South Community Hall (that is approximately eight (8) meters from the front doors) is the Latrobe City Councils. Currently the users of these facilities park there.

The Hazelwood South Reserve incorporates the Churchill Soccer Club fields and facilities which are on the North, East and Southern side of dirt drive way .The field to the north, west and south of the dirt road is what is under discussion. The dirt one way track is known to the Churchill Soccer Club members as Soccer Road to others the dirt road that the soccer people use.

A special meeting was called by Susan Connor, the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District Leader. This meeting was run in a forum of open discussion where challenges, choices and conclusions were to be placed ‘on the table’. Following this meeting community members were approached. There ideas and conclusions are also included in this paper. The following is a paper on what has occurred, been concluded and actions to be taken.

The area where the native transplanted
seedlings of the area were to stay.

Well planted and they disappeared.

Approximately fifteen years ago the now Latrobe City Council nursery person came out to the Hazelwood [South] Reserve and showed us how to use the tools to plant over one hundred tree saplings around the then Hazelwood Reserve.

The saplings were a wide variety of nectar and gum producing natives of the reserve area. The idea was to encourage the native animals while furthering a native corridor.

The second side to planting the sampling trees and shrubs as to lessen the retained water that lay over the Reserve during the wet season. The water sat from the reserves middle to the far North Corners. That is the side of the Reserve nearest the Monash Highway. The trees and shrubs chooses loved getting their feet wet.

The third reason was that when these trees and shrubs grew they would provide a wind shelter for the Churchill Soccer Club

The fourth and main driving factor that got the Guides out of home on a bitterly freezing day was they were working towards a badge. The Wombat Wattle one which involved doing something for the Australian Native vegetation and animals.

With in a few weeks the Churchill Soccer people were parking all over the saplings while games and practice sessions were occurring. People were 'hooning' around in the wet ground. During practice times and games the saplings went missing. As the kids grew up they have told of how they were encouraged to pull out and throw around the saplings so that they would not grow.

The scrubs that remain are next to the Hazelood Small Bore Rifle Club, One behind the Hazelwood South Hall and a small patch near the entrance dirt road that leads into the Soccer Club.

Even the six Calistamon trees that lined the front of the Hazelwood Reserve nearest the Tramway Arterial Road went missing.

Two different Hoons in 2 minutes. Unbelievable.

We were there and still cannot believe it!

March 2009 was the last time that a Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide meeting was actually run at the Hazelwood [South] hall the following occurred.

As one approached the car parking area out the front doors of the Hazelwood [South] Hall there is a large pile of dirt and gravel to the Right. About 2 car widths away from where a Girl Guide Leader had parked. To the left other car was another vehicle. About 1 car width away from the Left of the car doors.

Items were being unpacked for use from the second cars boot. One Guide had already gone into the Hazelwood [South] Hall, another had her arms full of bags and was going to the right of the car to speak to the Guide Leader.

A car entering the Hazelwood [South] hall's off road entrance speed by taking a short cut to the Soccer Ground through the Hazelwood [South] Reserve. Too late for a warning to be issued and very glad that anything untoward did not eventualt the District Leader encouraged the Youth member inside.

As the District Leader was now getting the extra things out of the boot she was about to speek to the other leader who had stepped back from sorting things out in the front drivers side of the car. The Guide going inside called to the Leader. The leader turned her head right toward the door. In the process of flicking the door closed with the right hand the leaders body was to the right of the just closing car door.

A second over packed car speed up the Hazelwood [South] Hall off road car entrance. While the driver (in 60's) and his grandchildren and their friends sped laughing past they managed to miss the Leader by approximately 20 centermetres.

An instant further risk analysis was done which resulted in the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guides meeting at the old Glendonald Child and Maternal Health Centre, 19 Churinga Drive, Glendonald, Churchill.