Cleanaway has lodged a Development Application to build an industrial composting facility 650 metres from homes and 1.6km from the NSW Murray River township of Howlong. The Facility will create significant odour and pest problems for the whole community of 2700 people as well as introduce over 50 large trucks a day through the centre of town past a Primary School and Aged Care Facility. There are serious concerns being raised about the potential damage Howlong’s ground water supply and to property values. Serious questions have also been raised about the validity of the minutes of the meeting by Federation Council which resulted in a decision to lease land to Cleanaway for this purpose. The Howlong community strongly supports composting and the 'Halve Waste' scheme but the location of the facility must be changed to somewhere more suitable - away from homes and away from suburban streets. Pressure must be applied to the Federation Council, the Federation Council Administrator, the Joint Regional Planning Panel, the Environmental Protection Agency, the NSW Government and Greg Aplin, the local member to stop this proposal.