The evacuation of patients from Gosford Hospital was narrowly averted, when the building’s air conditioning failed.
The hospital’s cooling towers were compromised by a lack of water pressure.
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The evacuation of patients from Gosford Hospital was narrowly averted, when the building’s air conditioning failed.
The hospital’s cooling towers were compromised by a lack of water pressure.
Gosford City Council has lowered the mains pressure. We know they did that because like many other councils including Sydney some bright spark realised by lowering the mains pressure the number of burst mains would drop. Here is a news flash we all of us have had our capacity to respond to fire lessoned and the failing infrsttructure is continueing to weaken. I dont have any respect for a process which work hard to avoid the real work. The Pipes are failing and they will continue to fail even though council has dropped the mains pressure from 120 psi to 75.
Council is not doing its job and the media is not doing theirs either!
I wonder if this burst mains phenomenon is a result of the NSW Dept of Planning and their high density housing policies;policies which have sent Sydney into gridlock,unaffordable housing and mass exodus of residents to Queensland.Earlier in the year there were numerous power outages in inner Sydney,no doubt due to a massive increase in inner city apartments over the last 20 years.I know that Willoughby Council had to spend some many millions to update overflowing sewage lines in Chatswood proper,and many of us know how Chatswood has been swamped with medium and high rise over the years-a reason why many Central Coasters left the North Shore
And what is the NSW Dept of Planning’s solution?-more high and medium density in the inner and middle ring suburbs.
Be warned-with record population increases,over 400,000 a year and rising-mainly due to record immigration levels-the Central Coast is heading tfor the same high density problems.
Regards from Save Our Suburbs(NSW) at http://www.sos.org.au