Surfers and Surf Live Savers were fed up with the state of the beach at Cronulla, however they were not about to settle for a deep ocean outfall. This method was at the time seen by the locals as an excuse by Sydney Water not to treat the effluent which filled the warm summer air at Cronulla beach with a familiar stank!!!The three largest Sewage treatment plants in the Sydney area are North Head, Bondi and Malabar which release primary treated effluent through deep water ocean outfalls off the shore. This method has been criticised as a way of shunning responsibility to clean up our sewage and waste water. However the people of Cronulla and the Sutherland Shire Council got their way in 1996 when proposals for the upgrade of the Cronulla plant were being discussed. They said no to an off shore outfall (unless the effluent was also tertiary treated) and they got their way. The plant would be upgraded to tertiary level.
The POO protesters were successful. And they could hold their heads high among other protest groups in Sydney despite their interesting name!!!!
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