Image from Professor Fityus – Ground Water Conditions 38-44 Maitland Road Mafield I have used extensively reports from the Royal Commission on Collieries Report 1886 and Professor Fityus report titled “Report on Groundwater conditions at 38‐44 Maitland Rd Mayfield” commissioned by Legacy Mines and released to us on July 2020. Both reports prove my theory that the problem has been spreading in Mayfield for some time. What I did not know, is that the authorities have known about the issues for over 137 years and kept this information from the public. That there has been systematic failure by authorities to ...
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Legacy Mine Maps in Mayfield Newcastle NSW are not available for public review and there is no online register of old abandoned mines listed on the NSW government website. Direction by government agents will address you to visit the below website; https://www.nsw.gov.au/subsidence-advisory/districts https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/spatialviewer/#/find-a-property/address But the above will only give you information whether the property has been previously mined, or a mine district. Key information about the mine including the mine depth, span of the mine, year it was last mined, and the number of mine subsidence events in the area are not reported. Below is the current mine subsidence map ...
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For many years, water is running from under Maitland Road directly into our properties. Over time the problem has become worse, spreading to neighbouring properties as well as water now vertically coming out of concrete slabs, structural columns and more. The NSW government together with the Newcastle Council are treating this as “seepage” and have informed us that it does not warrant any action by them. Internally, we have had a wall collapse, subsidence damage is throughout the building, Maitland Road has had subsidence/resurfacing, multiple sink holes in the curb at the front of the building ...
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We have fallen into a rabbit hole of endless false promises and hopes in dealing with various government departments with regards to abandoned mines, now called, Legacy Mines. Legacy mines are old mine workings that no owner can be found, and they then become the liability of the government. Then, its soley at the discretion of the NSW minister whether they fix any problems. For us, its a facade, they can never fix anything because there is no budget to fix these old legacy mines – in 2019 (according to the NSW government website) they were managing 645 legacy mines, ...
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Welcome to our new website, Mayfield Mines. This website has been created out of desperation, out of many years trying to work with various government departments, the chance of solving the mine issues without legal action is zero. Through MANY documents, photos, videos, freedom of information, and much more, I believe I can show an overall picture of Mayfield and related suburbs of systematic damage to government and private assets caused by a network of abandoned mines. I will be looking to expose government departments for their negligence, and at times I will allege wilful negligence, where these departments have ...
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