Peter Pennycuick
Water and Sewerage Systems Engineer
Tweed Shire Council
November 2009
Peter Pennycuick attended the meeting and provided a presentation on the application of the Water Industry Competition Act to Nightcap Village. He advised that Nightcap Village is a proposed 1,000 person development removed from the main centres of the Tweed Shire and adjacent to Nightcap National Park. The development application raised a number of complications for Tweed Shire Council regarding the delivery and ongoing maintenance of the water and sewerage services. Development consent was granted in February 2009. A copy of Peter’s presentation is provided for information purposes.

Tony Stanley
Principal Building Investigator
NSW Office of Fair Trading
November 2009
Tony Stanley attended the meeting to explain the review that was recently undertaken by the NSW Office of Fair Trading into the plumbing regulatory framework in NSW. The key recommendations of the review include: the establishment of a single plumbing regulator with jurisdiction over all plumbing regulation in NSW and the adoption of the Plumbing Code of Australia (PCA) in NSW. A copy of Tony’s presentation is available for download. If you are interested in more information please contact him directly.

David Nicholls
Manager Water Data Section
Bureau of Meterology
May 2009
David attended the meeting to explain the new reporting requirements for water utilities under the Australian Government’s Water Regulations 2008. He acknowledged that a large amount of data already provided by the bigger utilities to the NWC’s National Performance Report will be the same. In NSW approximately 30 councils will be required to provide data to the BoM. At this stage the data can be provided in whatever format it is available. An across the board format known as the Water Data Transfer Format is being developed for future data collection. A copy of David’s presentation has been requested for distribution to member councils.

Paul Heinrichs
Manager
Dam Safety Committee, DWE
May 2009
Paul Heinrichs provided an update on the on the new risk management approach being adopted by the Dam Safety Committee. He noted that the new approach is a move away from the previously deterministic approach and that safety requirements are now based on the population at risk from a dam failure. A copy of Paul's presentation was not made available for general viewing but more information about the new risk management approach is available on the DWE website.

Julian Gray,
Smart Approved WaterMark CEO,
February 2009
Julian gave an overview of the Smart WaterMark scheme including the recent “Every Buckets Counts” campaign. He also discussed the latest results from their annual Newspoll water-saving survey. For more information visit www.smartwatermark.info.

Corinne Cheeseman,
AWA National Manager Technical Programs
November 2008
Corinne discussed the opportunities provided to councils through the H2Oz recruitment program and a mentoring program that is currently being piloted by AWA. For more information logon to the website.

Grant Leslie,
Program Manager, WSAA
September 2008
Grant provides regular feedback to our Committee on WSAA activities.  At this meeting he provided an update on the NWC/WSAA Framework for Recycled Water Quality meetings.

Tom Mollenkopf
Chief Executive, AWA
July 2008
Tom regularly attends our meetings and provides an update on AWA activites. On this occasion he provided an update on two new documents:  Demand Management Guidelines and Wastewater Source Control.
 
Savewater!Alliance
July 2008
Representatives of savewater! Alliance visited the building with their new mobile water education caravan.  We were able to view this new education vehicle that can be booked and modified for each member council to use as a tool to inform their residents about how to save water.

Norm Himsley
Executive Engineer, Dams Safety Committee
September 2007
Norm provided an overview of the Committee and its role in overseeing the safety of 335 prescribed dams in NSW and the risk management that entails.
 
Grahame Gibbs
Director Performance Management & Compliance, DLG
July 2007
Grahame provided an informative overview to an infrastructure funding issue regarding an independent future sewer scheme at Clunes in Lismore City Council.
 
Carolyn Davies
Director Water & Energy Programs, DECC
July 2007
This presentation arose from a call from DECC in late June to all councils re the imminent new state-wide Rainwater Tank Rebate scheme. Carolyn attended out meeting to provide an update and clarify some issues regarding the rebate.
 
Neil Hanington,
General Manager and Malcolm Nix, Executive Manager Operations, Mid Coast County Council
May 2007
Neil gave an overview of Mid Coast County Council: it was formed in ‘97 from Great Lakes & Greater Taree Councils; has 37,000 customers; the budget is $108M including $72M for public works; has 130 staff including 80 operational staff.
 
John Millay,
Director of Operations, Carrathool Shire Council and Chair of RIVROC & MurrayROC Water & Sewer Strategic Alliance.
May 2007
John advised that the aims of the Water and Sewer Strategic Alliance are for the two ROCs to work as a group; to provide a forum to discuss the status of common issues, concerns and requirements for the 16 councils in the two ROCs and to reduce duplication by undertaking common projects.
 
Tim Killesteyn,
Asst Director, Critical Infrastructure Policy, Security & Critical Infrastructure Division
Federal Attorney-General’s Department
May 2007
This presentation provided an overview of the Attorney-General's Dept Critical Infrastructure Protection Modelling and Analysis (CIPMA) Program and follows on from a workshop was held in Sydney that Simon Thorn attended.