With respect to the Bombo Sewerage Sewage and Wastewater Treatment Plant -now branded the “Bombo Water Resource Recovery Facility”:

(1) What action will you take with respect to resident concerns about odours coming from the plant?

(2) When was the last time monitoring was undertaken of odours at the Bombo waste treatment plant and is this information publicly available?

(3) What information can the Minister provide with respect to the level of odours coming from the plant?

(4) What is the Australian Standard for the management of odours from sewage treatment plants?

(a)  Does New South Wales apply the same standard?

(i) If not, why not?

(5) Is the New South Wales standard for the management of odours for sewage treatment plants based on globally accepted standards and levels?

(a) If not, why not?

(6) Does the Bombo Sewage Treatment Plant satisfy your statutory obligations under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW) including but not limited to s129?

(a) If yes, what evidence do you have of your compliance with these obligations?

(7) Does the Bombo Sewage Treatment Plant comply with your obligations contained in the Environmental Protection Authority’s Technical Framework for the assessment and management of odour from statutory sources?

(a)  If yes, what evidence do you have to support a claim of compliance?

(8) Did your department make a submission concerning the recent rezoning of land at South Kiama to the west of the Princes Highway?

(a) If yes, will you make this submission public?

(9) Given the Government growth targets for Kiama, will the Minister instruct her department to investigate a major upgrade of the Bombo Sewage Treatment plant?

(a) If not, why not?

(10) Will the Minister or her department meet with me and local residents to discuss their concerns about the Bombo Sewage Treatment Plant, including the issue of odour from sludge lagoons during rain events?

(11) What maintenance work is planned for the Bombo Sewage Treatment Plant in the next twelve months and will any of this work involve addressing resident concerns about odours?

(12) If this maintenance work does involve addressing odours, what evidence or analysis is your department replying on that this work will reduce odour concerns?

(13) Is the Minister and her department compiling an Illawarra Regional Plan for Sydney Water assets?

(a) If yes, how long is it anticipated this plan will take and will it be made public?

(14) Will the development of this plan delay decisions about much-needed upgrades to Sydney Water assets such as the Bombo Sewage Treatment Plant?