Mayor Thorley - there is water after all ...
A little over a month after the referendum, Mayor Thorley finally admits what 62% of Toowoomba voters already knew - that there are other options to her ill-conceived recycled sewage scheme.
An excerpt from comments in yesterday's Chronicle:
Toowoomba will not run out of water. That's the promise of Toowoomba Mayor Dianne Thorley after some heavy duty number-crunching this week revealed the city's existing bore production had been underestimated.
Initial predictions that an extra 20 viable basalt bores would be needed were revised and it was revealed that just 13 would successfully yield the 5000 megalitres a year required.
Remember Mayor Thorley and the Yes campaign's main argument? Toowoomba will run out of water - there are no other options to drinking recycled sewage.
Amazing!
The information regarding the bores could have been made available to the public at any time in the past 12 months while Mayor Thorley was trying to convince Toowoomba residents that there were no other options and the water was going to run out.
But that wouldn't have helped her argument would it ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:01 AM
1 Comments:
$1millon was spent to use this city as a experiment for the rest of Australia.
We now know that we had bores which will yield 5000ML and they should have been drilled 12 months ago. This $1Millon would have paid for a lot of bores.
The Mayor has stated that she knew that the Poll would be lost and if this is the case she should be held accountable for misspending our money.
8:12 AM, September 08, 2006
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