Council staff taken to task over sewer pump-out screw up

Lake Macquarie council staff will look at options to assist residents. Picture by Marina Neil

COUNCIL staff have committed to do better after a very public tongue-lashing over a sewer pump-out blunder that has left Lake Macquarie residents in the lurch.

Awaba resident Hayley Maeder described the council's communication as "anxiety-provoking" and "disgusting", after it told 195 residents in a letter that they had just four months to find someone else to empty their septic tanks.