Chinchilla council keen for water scheme funds ...

Excerpt from ABC News:

Chinchilla council keen for water scheme funds

20 February 2007

Chinchilla Shire Council says it cannot wait much longer for the Federal Government to approve funding for a project that would turn a by-product from mining into drinking water.

The council says it was told by the Federal Government in November a decision on its plan to turn coal seam gas water into town water under the national water initiative was imminent.

Mayor Bill McCutcheon says the town's water supply has dropped from 90 per cent in June when it lodged the application to 20 per cent.

Councillor McCutcheon says it is reviving plans to sink a bore on the south of the river.

"We're having preliminary discussions now with the Department of Natural Resources and Water on accessing an emergency bore which is a totally different project, of course, which would allow the town to have emergency water supplies, we've been down this track three times before and fortunately we have had rain which has saved us every time," he said.

See - Gas water to supply Chinchilla.

It is extraordinary that the Federal government is dragging its heels on this project given its support for a similar project in Dalby ...