Jondaryan Shire takes swipe at Mayor Thorley ...

Comments in the Toowoomba Chronicle today by Jondaryan Shire Council Mayor Peter Taylor in relation to a survey of residents views on using recycled sewage for drinking:

"This survey was about involving people in the whole process from day one," Cr Taylor said.

"If this had happened in the Water Futures Project, we wouldn't have the problems Toowoomba is now facing."

The Jondaryan Shire Mayor also believes that it wasn't councillors' role to tell locals "what's good for them".

That's precisely what Mayor "drink it or be damned" Thorley thinks. She wants to tell Toowoomba ratepayers what she thinks is good for them and to hell with them if they don't like it.

It's interesting that the Jondaryan Shire Mayor thinks the lack of community involvement has created problems with the Toowoomba Water Futures project.

The Jondaryan Shire survey showed overwhelmingly that shire residents do not want to drink recycled sewage.

Toowoomba City Council has continually refused to conduct a similar survey of Toowoomba residents, fearful that it would confirm what many in the community already know.

With a substantial proportion of the communities of Toowoomba and the surrounding region against Mayor Thorley's controversial recycled sewage project, it seems impossible that it could ever get the community support it needs to get off the ground ...