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Four flight paths are set to converge at Cooroy once the new north-west to south-east facing runway at the Sunshine Coast Airport is built.

This will not only mean increased aircraft noise and skies littered with planes for northern parts of the Sunshine Coast especially in and around Pomona, Cooroy, Eumundi and Doonan, but it will also mean increased pollution for acreage properties in the Noosa Hinterland which depend on rain water collection for their drink water supply.

At the predicted flight altitudes over the northern end of the Sunshine Coast, planes will be highly visible in the sky.

There is also talk of increasing international flights at Sunshine Coast Airport. Direct flights between Auckland in New Zealand and the Sunshine Coast are already set to commence at the end of June 2015.

Take-offs and landings of large jets at Sunshine Coast Airport will contribute to noise and pollution along the flight paths on the northern end of the Sunshine Coast.

Looked at a property in Pomona. Everything appeared fine until a train screeched around a bend of the railway line. When we did further checks we found to our horror that rail traffic in this section of the Brisbane to Cairns AusLink Network corridor is projected to increase approximately 3.5 per cent a year and double in 20 years. That's not good considering pretty much all of Pomona is subject to noise from the railway line.