Buying property - Toowoomba or Highfields ...
The recycled water project will effectively split Toowoomba's housing market into those on recycled water and those not.
Highfields, an extension of Toowoomba but officially under Crows Nest Shire Council, will not be taking recycled water from Toowoomba.
Crows Nest Shire currently takes its water supply mainly from Cressbrook and Perseverance Dams located in the Shire with a smaller proportion from Council bores. It does not currently take water from Cooby Dam into which Toowoomba City Council proposes to pour the recycled water.
So you end up with a real estate market split between those in Toowoomba who get recycled water and those in Highfields who don't. Imagine the impact that could have on housing prices.
The Mayor's Director of Engineering Services need not worry though - he lives out in Cabarlah - well away from the recycled water he and the Mayor are trying to introduce.
See - Crows Nest Shire water sources.
Also see - Toowoomba's Director of Engineering Services.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:44 PM
4 Comments:
That is so wrong, why should Toowoomba have 2nd rate water, when the dams were built by the ratepayers of Toowoombe.
Maybe all the water could be piped to Cabarlah so that the engineer doesn't miss out!
1:25 PM, November 09, 2005
True but that's how it currently stands. Crows Nest Shire does not take water from Cooby dam.
You end up with a very odd situation where people out the northern end of Ruthven St (and the rest of Toowoomba) will have recycled water and these areas will not:
Blue Mountain Heights
Cabarlah
Crows Nest
Haden (and District)
Hampton (and District)
Highfields
Meringandan
Ravensbourne
So people who don't want to drink it will live just outside the city boundary.
2:28 PM, November 09, 2005
Correction:
I now understand that those in Blue Mountain Heights will get the recycled water. Sorry.
12:52 PM, November 28, 2005
The plan is also to do a limited purple pipe use of recycled water (not for drinking) in the Highfields area.
Nothing wrong with that.
3:52 PM, January 05, 2006
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