#Sydneywatergate- The Anatomy of a Crisis

The Lane Cove Council area, North Ryde and other lower north shore suburbs was impacted by a major Sydney Water outage that left some locals unable to shower or flush their toilets for up to four days.

The issue started on Saturday 10 September 2022 and was resolved on 14 September 2022, The Sydney Water crews worked around the clock, and once they realised they could not quickly fix the burst water pipe, they had to take steps to reroute the water to other pipes to restore water to impacted locals. The main problem is that Sydney Water did not communicate this to the public.

The problem first started at around 6.45 am on Saturday, 10 September 2022.

A water main burst so loudly it sounded like an explosion, and water started gushing onto Epping Road. Traffic on Epping Road was a nightmare, and some Lane Cove locals told ITC that they were stuck in traffic for over 2 hours on Saturday.

The traffic congestion only got worse on Monday morning when everyone was returning to work, and as the bus lane was flooded, Sydney buses were also impacted.

Sydney Water’s Managing Director, Roch Cheroux, said the replacement of the damaged pipe was complex, and crews worked around the clock to return normal water supply as soon as possible.

“This was not an ordinary water main break. Crews have told me it’s one of the largest blow-outs they’ve ever seen and that the impact of the break was so powerful, it created a 12 metre long, seven-metre deep and 10-metre wide excavation site.”

“This was a complex and unfolding situation. The size and scale of this event and the full extent of how widespread the incident was on our customers changed rapidly over the course of the weekend,” Mr Cheroux said.

Jacky Barker from In the Cove will be speaking to a cross section of people from local business, residents, and locals involved in the political process (at both state and local level). How were they impacted and what did we learn?

Joyce Aimond – Bakers Delight Lane Cove -13:07

Madeleine (Hinchy) Huston – Lane Cove Local and works in local government in communications - 29:20

Rory Burke – Electorate Office for the Member for Lane Cove and Minister for Planning Anthony Roberts - 45:21

Denise Shrivell– Chatswood West Local and part of the advisory committee for the formation of LINA and involved in North Sydney’s Independent (NSI) - 1:03:40

Marianne Bastiani – Lane Cove North Resident - 1:13:42

Andrew Zbik – Lane Cove Mayor - 1:29:37

Recorded on 15 September 2022

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Welcome to the In The Cove Podcast. This month we tell you about local events on the horizon and speak to local Kolya Miller who is in the Army Reserves and was recently deployed to Lismore to help after the recent floods.

Federal Election

If you have been to the Lane Cove Plaza lately, you will have no doubt seen candidates for the May 21 2022 Election speaking to locals.

Federal Election – 4th December 2021 – Meet the North Sydney Candidates Forum

In the Cove is holding a North Sydney Candidate Information Night on Zoom – Monday 9th May at 7.30 pm. All candidates have been invited. The following have agreed to attend Trent Zimmerman, Kylea Tink, Catherine Renshaw, Victor Kline, Robert Nalbandian, Heather Armstrong, and Lesley Kinney.

To register GO TO https://events.humanitix.com/north-sydney-candidate-information-night?

Lane Cove Fun Run

The Lane Cove Fun Run is Back! Flash SALE on now!

The Lane Cove Fun Run is an amazing community event and raises money for the local community and 10% of net proceeds go to Sydney Community Services. The inaugural event was held in 2016 and it was such a success it became an annual event. In fact, the event was so successful journalist and noted author Peter FitzSimmons wrote an article about the Lane Cove Fun Run in the Sydney Morning Herald. Peter wants other suburbs to get out there and do the same. Covid restrictions sadly meant the 2020 & 2021 were cancelled. 2022 is going to be a huge year… let's make up for lost time!

The Lane Cove Fun Run is 100% organised by volunteers and its sponsors are all local businesses who believe in the importance of giving back to their local community.

Lane Cove Rotary Fair

Lane Cove Rotary Fair is on!

Rotary Lane Cove is pleased to announce that we are working with Lane Cove Council for the 2022 Lane Cover Rotary Fair. Stall registrations will open 1 August 2022. In the meantime, if you have any further queries, please email lanecovefair@gmail.com and they will respond to you shortly.

Date: Sunday 9 October 2022

Meet Kolya Miller

We speak to Kolya Miller who is a member of the army reserve and find out about his recent deployment to Lismore. Kolya has been active in the Lane Cove Community for years and at one stage was the president of the Lane Cove Public School P & C.

We ask Kolya about the army reserve, his work in Lismore and how others can get involved in the army reserve. It's fascinating to learn how an expert in cyber security took time off work to help NSW residents impacted by the flood.

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Welcome to the In The Cove Podcast – it has been a while but we are back, back, back.

ITC has been very busy keeping our loyal readers up to date on all things COVID-19, Events, and Lane Cove Council news. It has been a very active period for Lane Cove Council with three meetings in the first two months of the year.

At the March 2022 meeting, TOFUgate popped up. What is TOFUgate?

Greens Councillor Rochelle Flood asked Lane Cove Council to consider options to reduce meat consumption and promote plant-based alternatives at Council functions and events, as well as in Council managed facilities, to improve environmental, as well as human health and animal welfare outcomes. Just as a side note ITC was at a Lane Cove Council workshop only a few weeks ago and one of the participants remarked that there were no vegetarian options provided.

Councillor Flood made it clear that the notice of motion was to ensure that there were options for vegetarians and vegans at council events and it was not an attempt to remove meat from the menu. Councillor Flood stated numerous times it is about having options.

The motion had an extended discussion after Councillor Bennison asked three questions and moved the following amendment:

“An amendment was moved by Councillors Bennison and Brooks-Horn that Council undertake consultation with the community to determine if they would like plant-based proteins included in catering for all Council events and venues.”

During his speech in support of the amendment, he referred to UK literature about Tofu being no good for developing brains and making them smaller.

ITC has done an extensive literature search and cannot find anything to back this up. ITC has written to Councillor Bennison and asked him to provide a link to the research he cited – we have not received a reply.

He also stated he was not keen on “farting cows causing climate change”.

Councillor Bennison’s amendment motion was lost. The original motion was carried with a unanimous vote.

After we published our article on TOFUgate, we were contacted by Andrew May (who grew up in Lane Cove and is part of the famous May family). He is now working with V2 food.

In our podcast we speak to Andrew about what is plant-based protein, and it is not just TOFU. Andrew May is the chief Taste-a-tarian & Chief Growth Officer at v2food

We are on the run down to the Easter vacations and ITC will have all your Easter news and information on what’s happening around Lane Cove (and most importantly where can you get that coffee fix on Good Friday and Easter Sunday).

Help Lane Cove raise some money for those who have been impacted by the floods.

Christine Anu and Miriam Lieberman Trio Friday 29 April, 6:15 pm - 9:00 pm

This is a $10 ticketed event with the proceeds being donated to GIVIT to support people impacted by the recent storms and floods across New South Wales

6:15 pm – 7:15 pm Miriam Lieberman Trio

7:45 pm – 9:00 pm Christine Anu

Christine Anu is one of Australia's most popular artists of all time who uses her voice and reputation to spread a message of unity and hope. With 17 ARIA nominations, including the APRA AMCOS award-winning My Island Home and her platinum album Stylin' Up, she has one of the country's most enduring and recognisable voices.

Tickets for this event are $10 (+ ticketing fee). Click here to book.

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