Videos

A series of videos showing the natural beauty of Darlington, Ormeau and Brumm Creeks - water systems feeding in to the Pimpama River catchment. Existing quarries are destroying this catchment area with consequent disasterous impacts in the lower reaches of the river. The upper riverine environment are being being badly trashed because local landowners such as Holcim Quarries and Boral pay lip service to attempts to stop willful destruction by 4WDs and trail bikes on their lands. The motto of 4WD clubs using this area are - "don't destroy what you come to enjoy." Little wonder why Stop The Quarry and the local community are furious.

Click on each photo below to view a Youtube video.

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Quarrying Ormeau Creek

Covers the major issues and presents the key arguments and the salient realities about the government's non recognition of a riverine environment when the facts show differently. Wagners key argument is that their proposed quarry is not on a creek - why? Because there are less controls on quarriying when a creek is not a creek. But the law and the evidence shows that Ormeau Creek IS a watercourse which means that Wagners case will be quashed as they have not applied to the government for any use of natural resources.

Darlington Creek Pollution

Shows the stark effects of degradation occuring in Darlington Creek and the resultant downstream impact this has on the Pimpama River and Moreton Bay Marine Park . Since this movie was made, and to their credit, Holcim, the owner of property through which part the upper reaches of the Darlington River flows, have stepped up efforts to make access to their land far more difficult for 4WD and trail bikes. They have erected barriers on access roads, set up warning signage and provided a greater security presence. They have also set up a consultative process with the community to ensure that local concerns are heard and acted upon. Unfortunately although there was an initial decrease in the number of vehicles making a mess the activity levls soon rose again and the amount of silt being washed down the creek during high rain continues. Holcim's commitment has also been questioned because promises they made are now not being followed up since their application to open an industrial plant have been approved.

Click here to read about devastating downstream fish kills caused primarily by disturbed iron sediments flowing from tributories such as Darlington Creek into an already acidic Pimpama River to create an oxygen depleted water environment

Darlington Creek - waterfalls galore

Shows Darlington Creek and its many waterfalls.  Darlington is one of three creeks affected by this proposed quarry.  Darlington Creek is fed by both Brumm and Ormeau Creeks and eventually feeds into the Pimpama River.  The Pimpama River is the last remaining unspoilt riverine corridor between the Gold Coast and Brisbane linking the forested inland and Moreton Bay (compared with such rivers as Logan, Coomera and Tweed which have a residential estates and business centres located on both sides of their banks).

Brumm Creek - site of quarry overburden

Local people who have lived in the area for many years have referred to this water course as Brumm Creek.  Brumm Creek, like Ormeau Creek, runs into Darlington Creek which is a tributary of the Pimpama River. Brumm Creek is fed by a spring and flows all year round although in drought times this is a trickle with moisture flowing underground. Wagners want to use Brumm Creek as the site for storing overburden cleared from the quarry located on Ormeau Creek. This overburden will be, according to the plans, over 20m high. The willful destruction of Brumm Creek's fragile environment would be a total travesty of justice. The area has is untouched, absolutely beautiful and filled with highly endangered flora and fauna - something that Wagners neither acknowledge or care about.

Ormeau Creek Gorge - in the dry

Shows the Ormeau Creek gorge during drought.  The Ormeau Creek water course is referred to as a "drain" in Wagner Investments Pty Ltd quarry application - and no wonder, most small rural watercourses look a lot like this during times of severe drought.  What Wagners were not prepared to do was to look further at the actual facts such as official government maps and Water Act legal definitions. Wagners would like the creek to be a "drain" because there are no contols on quarries located on a "drain". The next movie shows the creek in wetter times. No way can anyone call this a "drain".

Ormeau Creek - in the wet

Shows the Ormeau Creek in wetter times.  The Ormeau Creek water course is referred to as a "drain" in Wagner Investments Pty Ltd quarry application. It suits Wagners to call this running water course a "drain" because it will allow them to quarry at will whereas a quarry on a creek has many many more controls.