Pressure cleaning in Campbelltown

At the 2021 Census, the suburb of Campbelltown had 6,303 occupied private dwellings. Separate houses were 51.1 per cent, semi detached and townhouses 13.8 per cent, and flats or apartments 34.9 per cent.

Across the Campbelltown local government area, separate houses were 78.3 per cent of 57,368 occupied dwellings and flats only 6.4 per cent, against 65.6 and 21.7 per cent for New South Wales. Townhouses and semi detached homes were 15.2 per cent, above the state's 11.7.

Campbelltown City Council's stormwater page says stormwater generally cannot be treated, and that pollutants from roofs, gutters, downpipes, gardens, driveways and roads end up in creeks, rivers and the ocean.

It goes further than most councils and describes the method for roof cleaning. Block the downpipe where cleaning if it cannot be disconnected. Protect stormwater drains with sandbags or a portable bund in the roadside gutter. Remove the captured wastewater with a vacuum or bilge pump and direct it to lawns or gardens, not the drain.

It also says that allowing polluted wastewater into stormwater drains, roadside gutters or waterways is an offence and may attract fines or prosecution. That is the method we work to on a Campbelltown roof, written by the council that would enforce it.

Council says most of the local government area drains into the Georges River catchment, and a smaller area drains into the Nepean River catchment. It names O'Hares Creek among the area's waterways.

So a driveway in most of Campbelltown is upstream of the Georges River, the same river Liverpool City Council and the City of Canterbury Bankstown name further downstream.

Council's own history records that in 1960 the state government announced Campbelltown would become a satellite town.

Asbestos NSW estimates that one home in three built or renovated in New South Wales between 1945 and 1990 contains asbestos, most often in corrugated roofing and cement sheeting. We do not have the build year of every street, so we look at the sheet in front of us, and if it might be fibro we stop and say so.