Flanagan v. 32,330 - the latest round ...

The continuing animosity within Council by the former Yes campaign team is amazing.

This time, Council's Head of Engineering Services, Kevin Flanagan, has prepared a report to be tabled at the Council Committee meetings on 7 and 8 November 2006 regarding plans for the Emu Creek dam and Artesian bore installation (Page 116 of the meeting agenda). It disputes claims published in the Chronicle on 21 October 2006 relating to plans for the Emu Creek dam and slowness in implementing the Artesian bore.

See - Council Committee meeting agenda - 7 and 8 November 2006 (Page 116 onwards).

Interestingly, Mr Flanagan states that, in 1997, access to Wivenhoe dam was the Toowoomba City Council's preferred water supply source.

He also makes reference yet again to those mythical dam yield review reports of the DNRMW (now the DNRW) which were used as the basis for justifying why Toowoomba residents needed to drink recycled water - but have never been tabled anywhere. Given he is unable to produce these reports, Mr Flanagan should really stop using them as a basis for justifying his position.

The agenda item clearly shows how sensitive the former Yes campaigners are to comments published in the media, pushing for them to move forward with available water source options.

Perhaps Mr Flanagan's time would be better spent updating the public on the amount of water which is available to the public.

Whatever water source the Toowoomba Water Supply Task Force recommends, expect the former Yes campaigners within the Council to do everything within their power to try to characterise the preferred water supply option as an expensive and difficult alternative.

It's the only way they can justify the time and money wasted pursuing the ill-fated recycled sewage water proposal ...