Optus has installed a mobile phone base station on the water reservoir at 85 Wallace Street, Macksville, and forwarded an independent radio frequency electromagnetic energy (EME) measurement survey to Nambucca Shire Council.
The survey was put to council for approval at today’s (18th) ordinary council meeting.
As outlined in Nambucca Shire Council General Manager’s Report, the survey conducted by EMC Technologies, was for checking EME levels after the Optus site was commissioned in order to demonstrate compliance with the Radio Communications (Electromagnetic Radiation – Human Exposure) Standard 2003.
In conclusion, the report identified that existing EME levels measured at any of the locations tested, did not exceed the Radiation Protection Standard for maximum exposure levels to radiofrequency fields – 3 kHz to 300 GHz (2002) General Public Reference Level.
Mr Coulter said that levels of EME were measured at the Seventh Day Adventist Chruch on Wallace Street, Macksville, St Patrick’s Primary School, Maksville Childcare Centre and Macksville High School.
“The report concludes that the existing EME emissions are well within the standards, which have been developed to protect human health, although there is likely to be continuing debate about the standards themselves,” Mr Coulter said.
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