Stanthorpe dam likely to proceed ...

Excerpt from ABC News:

Work likely to start next year on new Stanthorpe dam

29 May 2007

Construction of a new dam at Stanthorpe is expected to start next year.

Mayor Glen Rogers says Stanthorpe has outgrown the existing Storm King water storage, and the situation has been exacerbated by the drought.

Councillor Rogers says levels have fallen to just over 20 per cent, but he hopes the shire can avoid having to cart water from Warwick.

Council is awaiting the terms of reference for an environmental impact statement for the second dam planned for Emu Swamp.

"The modelling that's been done to give us the availability or allocation annually will need to be about 8,000 megs for the urban component and it if also includes some irrigation water, as has been suggested, and the investigations are currently looking at that, then it will be 18,000 megalitres," Cr Rogers said.

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