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Issues and Recommendations for Urgent Repairs and Improvements to restore water quality & enhance social amenity

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Bulli Tidal Pool, looking east from Waniora Point Something stinks?!?!!!   There is something wrong with Bulli Tidal Pool. I grew up in Bulli during the 1960s and remember the pool as a clean, fresh and fun facility. I especially remember playing underneath the western and north-western overflow outlets, prior to the installation of the toddlers pool. But something happened to the pool, and its water quality, between then and the 1980s, when I returned to the pool and noticed that it stunk. By the late 1990s and early 2000s the Bulli community was demanding Council fix bad smells at the pool and address the apparent lack of pool maintenance. A press report from March 1998 noted the following:   Pensioner Mal Roberts, who organised a 1,000-signature petition, said he'd call in support from winter swimming groups and the schools, if Council couldn't find the money to rectify the pool's problems. Residents petitioned Wollongong Council until the problems were resolved to