{"id":62,"date":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/community-standards-healthy-environment-group-weed-this\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:11:02","slug":"community-standards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/articles\/community-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\"><u>Community Standards<\/u><\/h2>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;display:block;\">The Healthy Environment Group is a community group who believes based on the\u00a0current science that chemical spraying should be minimized in the vicinity of;\u00a0young children, sensitive at risk persons, near organically grown foods and\u00a0aware or pregnant persons who choose not to be exposed as a matter of course by\u00a0neighbours, Councils and State authorities.\u00a0 The culture of spraying at\u00a0will needs changing and we propose the following interim guidelines, standards\u00a0and changes be adopted in a considerate aware community.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><strong><u><font size=\"3\">Concerns for Private\u00a0Properties<br \/><\/font><\/u><\/strong>Council to advise neighbours within a specified distance of 1 km\u00a0of notification need for:<br \/>\u2022\u00a03 days (72 hours) notice minimum to be given\u00a0to a sensitive neighbour<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Date and times of any proposed spraying to be\u00a0specified<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Poisons to be used to be specified <br \/>\u2022\u00a0New notice to\u00a0be given if weather or other factors prevents spraying<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Stop spraying\u00a0if wind blowing in direction towards sensitive neighbours property<br \/>\u2022\u00a0No\u00a0pressure spraying in vicinity<br \/>\u2022\u00a0No more than 1 day of hand spraying from\u00a0all sources to be permitted in any week (7 Days)<br \/>\u2022\u00a0No more than 3 days\u00a0cumulative in any calendar month, or 4 days per year from any one\u00a0source<br \/>\u2022\u00a0No more spraying on public road reserves or on frontages to\u00a0roads<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Spraying within 300m of a residence including adjoining fence\u00a0lines to be by prior agreement only<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Where it has been shown previous\u00a0neighbour spraying has caused medical consequences all spraying by agreement\u00a0only<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Owners to be reminded that they are legally liable for the\u00a0actions of their contactors<br \/>\u2022\u00a0That contactors must be specifically\u00a0licensed under the QLD Environmental Protection Act<br \/>\u2022\u00a0Neighbour to be\u00a0fined for using Grazon and all 2,4 d containing products without a permit\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Standards The Healthy Environment Group is a community group who believes based on the\u00a0current science that chemical spraying should be minimized in the vicinity of;\u00a0young children, sensitive at risk persons, near organically grown foods and\u00a0aware or pregnant persons who choose not to be exposed as a matter of course by\u00a0neighbours, Councils and State authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadMore\" href=\"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/articles\/community-standards\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":74,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/89"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}