TCC June 2004 Report - no merit in recycling water for potable use ...

Comments in the Jondaryan Shire Council letter to the Toowoomba City Council dated 3 April 2006:

"In June 2004, Toowoomba City Council officers compiled a Report titled "Water and Wastewater Strategy Study for Toowoomba and the Surrounding Areas".

The options considered and recommended in this study included:

(a) Demand Management and Rainwater Tank Strategies

(b) Groundwater Strategies

(c) Wastewater Re-use Strategies (potable and non-potable)

(d) Greywater Re-use Strategies

and covering an area comprising Toowoomba City and varying parts of Jondaryan, Crows Nest, Rosalie, Cambooya and Gatton Shires.

This Report saw merit in all the aforementioned options, except the proposition to recycle water for potable purposes.

The Report was not adopted by Toowoomba City Council, however around August 2005 the Council produced its Water Futures Toowoomba Water Recycling Project.

This Project promoted, almost to the exclusion of all other options, the recycling of wastewater to potable standard which in turn would be incorporated into the water supply."

See - TCC sees no merit in recycling sewage for potable use.

So, even the Toowoomba City Council's own Report did NOT see merit in recycling water for potable use.

Then the Report is not adopted by Council and quietly buried while they proceed hellbent on forcing recycled sewage for drinking on an unreceptive city and surrounding shires.

How interesting ...