Toowoomba City Council - desperate times ...
It's the small titbits of information that give you an insight into the current thinking of the Council camp.
The surprise suggestion at a Water Facts meeting by Council's Head of Engineering Services, Kevin Flanagan, is a good example.
His suggestion was that there is no need to conduct the indepth testing of the recycled water before getting it to people's homes to drink. The 3-5 years testing was something the Council never agreed to and it isn't necessary.
Just to be clear, recycling sewage for drinking purposes at the rates proposed by the Toowoomba City Council (25% and higher) is NOT done anywhere else in the world. Nowhere!
Even the Council's own advisers, CH2M Hill, stated in their section of the NWC application that:
“Thus, the recycled water would represent 26% of the total yield or 29% of the water supply to Mt Kynoch. This ratio of recycled water is high by international standards and will need detailed review and further studies.”
Their own advisers!
And now Mr Flanagan is ignoring this advice and saying there's no need for review, further studies or indepth testing. Let's just get it to people's homes asap.
This seems to be Council's plan for dealing with the prospect of the dams running out.
How desperate is the Council to hang onto its Water Futures project that it would backtrack on its own adviser's advice?
How far are they willing to risk people's health while hellbent on this project?
Quite some distance it seems.
What Mr Flanagan fails to realise is, once again, he is undermining the Council Yes case.
There are people in Toowoomba who might go along with Council's plan because they think there will be years of research to try to show it is safe.
Shortcut the process and you lose those votes.
Has Mr Flanagan switched sides?
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:18 AM
3 Comments:
Mr Flanagan said that this 6 star rating on Councils new water is bull---t ( his word not mine), so why is it in the water booklet.
The media people know about this also but are not prepared to tell the people and expose the deceit.
This is a strange world we are living in when the local media is in bed with the Council and dose nothing to investigate a story.
What a lazy lot of journalists they are !
Luckily the people find reading this booklet a little too tedious.
6:13 AM, April 07, 2006
Criminal minds can be found in people of all professions. We can't even trust teachers or doctors these days so why the hell would we trust a city engineer.
12:59 PM, April 07, 2006
What's in it for Kev that he is still desperately clinging to the idea of making people drink recycled sewage?? Not that he will, out on his property in Cabarlah!
1:27 PM, April 07, 2006
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