Coldstream Had A WET Winter!

Facts n Figures!
Averages\Extremes for the month of August 2010

Average temperature     = 8.4°C

 Average humidity        = 81%

 Average dewpoint        = 5.2°C

 Average barometer       = 1013.9 hPa

 Average windspeed       = 3.3 km/h

 Average gustspeed       = 6.0 km/h

 Average direction       = 340° (NNW)

 Rainfall for month      = 130.4 mm

 Average Rainfall Aug    = 73 mm

 Rainfall for year       = 577.8 mm

 Maximum rain per minute = 6.0 mm on day 22 at time 12:00

 Maximum temperature     = 16.5°C on day 30 at time 15:20

 Minimum temperature     = -0.6°C on day 06 at time 06:16

 Maximum humidity        = 98% on day 10 at time 04:50

 Minimum humidity        = 45% on day 22 at time 15:10

 Maximum dewpoint        = 10.5°C on day 15 at time 16:44

 Minimum dewpoint        = -1.4°C on day 31 at time 7:01

 Maximum pressure        = 1029.4 hPa on day 29 at time 10:07

 Minimum pressure        = 996.9 hPa on day 11 at time 17:12

 Maximum windspeed       = 24.1 kmh from 360°( N ) on day 14 at time 10:28

 Maximum gust speed      = 44.4 km/h from 293°(WNW) on day 16 at time 11:08

 Maximum heat index      = 16.5°C on day 30 at time 15:20

 Avg daily max temp :12.6°C

 Avg daily min temp :4.7°C

 Frost days= 1

Daily rain totals

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  22.2 mm  on day 1

  00.4 mm  on day 2

  07.0 mm  on day 4

  05.0 mm  on day 5

  01.8 mm  on day 9

  06.0 mm  on day 10

  26.4 mm  on day 11

  09.2 mm  on day 12

  12.2 mm  on day 15

  02.0 mm  on day 16

  04.6 mm  on day 19

  01.8 mm  on day 20

  01.6 mm  on day 21

  01.4 mm  on day 23

  09.4 mm  on day 24

  00.4 mm  on day 25

  06.4 mm  on day 26

  01.4 mm  on day 27

  00.4 mm  on day 28

  11.0 mm  on day 31

Thanks to Robert for the Stats.

Brumby crumbles to demands for Fire Service Levy changes

Member for Swan Hill, Peter Walsh, has welcomed the decision by the Brumby Government to finally accept a major recommendation from the Bushfire Royal Commission to introduce a much fairer system of funding Victoria’s fire services.

“The Coalition has been advocating an equitable system of funding the fire and emergency services but Premier Brumby has long been in denial,” Mr Walsh said.

“The catalyst for his about-face has been the Bushfires Royal Commission and the upcoming State election.

“The Bushfire Royal Commission’s major recommendation to drop the Fire Services Levy on insurance policies on property and replace it with a charge on all property, with a concession for low-income earners, is a far more equitable system.

“The new system will be much fairer and echoes the long standing call by the Coalition, the Insurance industry, farming and other business groups,” he said.

“Premier Brumby has continually rejected this call stating that the current model was the best way to fund Victoria’s fire services even to the extent of stating in the Parliament in August 2009 that the Coalition policy for a property based levy was a poll tax, and he thought it was a disgraceful policy.

“The new model will replace the inequitable existing one where country businesses find that for every $100 of their insurance premium, they pay an additional $123 for the fire services levy, GST and stamp duty, more than doubling the cost of their insurance.

“This about-face is just another example of John Brumby adopting sensible Coalition Policy and demonstrates the disarray of the Labor Government and its own lack of real policy,” Mr Walsh said.

Media contact: Peter Walsh (03) 5032 3154

Planning Application No: YR-2010/398

68-70 Station Street,   Coldstream, Construction of a 1.8 metre high (by approximately 148 metre long) Colorbond Fence,

YARRA RANGES SHIRE COUNCIL

MINUTES  

SUMMARY

The application seeks approval to construct a 1.8 metre high (by approximately 148 metre long) Colorbond Fence in a Green Wedge Zone (Schedule 4).

The application advises that the purpose of the fence is to contain livestock.

The application was advertised and 1 petition (with 7 signatures) was submitted to

Council objecting to the application.

It is recommended the application be refused, as the proposed 148 metre long Colorbond fence is both contrary to the objectives of Clause 21.06 (Built Form) and Clause 21.07 (Landscape) of the Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme (that seek to protect and preserve scenic rural landscapes in Green Wedge areas) and, has failed to demonstrate how Colorbond cladding better manages livestock on a rural property.

Resolved on the motion of Crs McRae and Dunn

That Council resolve to refuse Planning Application YR-2010/398 for Construct a 1.8 metre high (by approximately 148 metre long) Colorbond fence at 68-70 Station Street (Lot 23

LP8124), Coldstream, and issue a Notice of Refusal subject to the following grounds:

1.     The proposed 1.8 metre high by 148 metre long fence is contrary to the objectives of Clause 21.06 (Built Form) and Clause 21.07 (Landscape) of the Yarra Ranges Planning  Scheme,  that  seek  to protect and  preserve scenic  rural landscapes  in Green Wedge areas.

2.     The grant of a permit would result in a 1.8 metre high fence dissecting the property in an  uncharacteristic  form,  and  introduce  an  undesirable  precedent  of  residential fences in rural areas.

3.     The application failed to demonstrate how and why a 1.8 metre high by 148 metre long Colorbond fence is needed for agricultural uses to manage livestock.

Dumping of fire levy welcomed

Victorian home owners will pay a new tax from July 2012 to fund most of the state's firefighting effort, in a move that has won widespread community support.

At present a fire service levy is charged on insurance premiums, raising almost $600 million a year - about three-quarters of the budgets of the Country Fire Authority and Metropolitan Fire Brigade.

Fire levy to go: Government adopts commission proposal

KAREN SWEENEY

27 Aug, 2010 10:15 PM

 

AFTER a decade of campaigning by rural Victorians, the controversial Fire Services Levy will be scrapped.

The state government announced yesterday that it would adopt a recommendation by the Black Saturday bushfires Royal Commission to replace the levy, which impacts on every Victorian property owner.

It was welcome news for the CFA and the Victorian Farmers Federation who have campaigned for a fairer system for all Victorians.

Opposition treasury spokesman Kim Wells said the government had been dragged kicking and screaming to replace the state’s inequitable insurance-based fire services levy with a fairer property-based system.

This had happened only after 18 months of intense pressure for reform from the state Coalition.

“Labor has known for years how unfair and inequitable the fire services levy has been.

“Everyone but John Lenders and John Brumby has acknowledged that the FSL was a tax that placed a heavy burden on many Victorians, yet Labor has done nothing until today.” 

 

 

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