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Gas Bottle Removal

Dear Residents,

RE: Disposal of Origin 45 kg gas bottles:

Alan Mott, Ranger North and South Currigee campgrounds has kindly volunteered to collect the empty 45 kg gas cylinders from the residences at Currigee and transport them to Tipplers.

Please leave empty cylinders on the ground beside your garbage bins for collection.  Thanks to Alan for this kind offer.

Also, a pair of Hacket Fitzroy prescription glasses were found on the Surf Beach on January 4th by a resident.  If you think you may have dropped them please reply to contact@currigeefootprints.com

Kind regards,

 

The Committee

Gas Update March 16

Currigee Gas Update
The Residents committee has been investigating the supply of 45 litre LPG gas to our resident community since supply ceased at the end of 2014. There have been many discussions with Gold Coast City Council, State Government, Couran Cove residents, Tipplers, Island operators and potential suppliers. We have looked at storage options, shared facilities and council involvement. Suppliers are not particularly interested in servicing Currigee.

It appears that the only solution going forward will be to engage a supplier and providing the barge transport for them which will be an additional cost.

It is important to note at this stage that with changes in regulations and codes in 2015, many residents need to upgrade their gas fittings to be compliant. Upgrades must be done by a qualified gas fitter before the new supplier can supply to you.

Please find a quote here for all residences which Andrew Stewart has kindly organized.

The gas fitter will be on the island in the next month. We are yet to finalize dates. You will need to authorize via email that you want the work done and also give us details of how to access your residence. Clearly you can commission your own person but you will need a compliance certificate and plate before you can get supply.

We will be in touch again shortly to let you know timing and how to give the service person approval and access details.

Gas Update Jan 20

Currigee Gas Update
As you are no doubt aware, our gas supply issue has yet to be resolved. We have tried a political approach through both the previous and current state governments and have got no worthwhile traction – as much as we wish there was, there is no legislative obligation for any supplier to continue to supply us and hence current government are politely washing their hands of it all. It is just not a vote winning issue at all.

Our only option is to find a commercial solution.

To this end we have investigated every option that we have been able to identify. We are presently discussing one possibility and to assist us in the process I ask that each household complete the attached survey to give us an accurate estimation of our likely demand and the methods to deliver this service.

We will provide more details and background once/if this possibility comes to fruition – in the interim both a quick and honest response from as many households as possible is very important to get an outcome here

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XKDMDZN Many thanks in anticipation.

Gas Certification Quotes 

Dear Residents,

The Residents committee has been investigating the supply of 45liter LPG gas
to our resident community since supply ceased at the end of 2014. There have
been many discussions with Gold Coast City Council, State Government, Couran
Cove residents, Tipplers, Island operators and potential suppliers.  We have
looked at storage options, shared facilities and council involvement.
Suppliers are not particularly interested in servicing Currigee.

It appears that the only solution going forward will be to engage a supplier
and providing the barge transport for them which will be an additional cost.

It is important to note at this stage that with changes in regulations and
codes in 2015, many residents need to upgrade their gas fittings to be
compliant. Upgrades must be done by a qualified gas fitter before the new
supplier can supply to you. 

Attached please find a quote for all residences which Andrew Stewart has
kindly organized.

The gas fitter will be on the island in the next month. We are yet to
finalize dates. You will need to authorize via email that you want the work
done and also give us details of how to access your residence. Clearly you
can commission your own person but you will need a compliance certificate
and plate before you can get supply.

We will be in touch again shortly to let you know timing and how to give the
service person approval and access details.

Many thanks

Lisa Siganto

On behalf of committee.

Gas Certification Quotes

Note: 30/08/15 Updated the PDF file with new quotes

Gas Supply on Currigee

Dear Residents

We continue to seek a solution to our gas supply problem.  The timing and result of the State election has not helped the situation at all.  Although Verity Barton did win the seat of Broadwater, her colleagues did not win enough of theirs!  Consequently, her ability to assist us is somewhat diminished – to say the least.

(The meeting Verity was scheduled to have with Cameron Caldwell of City of Gold Coast Council on January 5 to discuss our plight never occurred as the election was called a day or so before!) .

On the flip side, Anna Palaszczuk is on record as saying that  “that there would be “no development … pure and simple” on Wavebreak Island”   – see http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/asf-consortium-willing-to-make-changes-to-save-wavebreak-island-cruise-ship-development/story-fnj94j0t-1227216776543

On a positive front, I have been referred to a wholesaler who has expressed interest in supplying the Currigee community. This will still require support from the Gold Coast Council and that are having some preliminary discussions.  To assist their investigations, they would like to get an idea of the number of gas appliances that are in the Currigee community – not the number of houses connected to gas, but the actual number of appliances.

Therefore to assist this process, grateful if you could take about 30 seconds and fill in and submit the attached survey.  There are no promises this will work, but it is worth the effort.

The password is the same as for the Resident section of the Website ie  turtle

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NNS53TY

Many thanks