Coal seam gas water - Chinchilla pushes towards water supply solution ...

Excerpt from ABC News:

Chinchilla council pushes towards water supply solution

23 July 2007

Chinchilla Shire Council says it will renew efforts to secure a contract with nearby coal seam gas fields to supply water to the southern Queensland town.

The council has spent about $200,000 sinking a bore deep into Hutton Sandstone to see if bore water could supply Chinchilla's needs should the weir run dry.

But the initial results have shown the water is of bad quality and at least five bores would need to be drilled to meet requirements.

Mayor Bill McCutcheon says it will reapply for state and federal funding to re-use water that is produced from nearby coal seam gas fields.

"It does make it important now that we proceed as fast we can with the coal seam methane option and we're working hand-in-hand with the companies now to firm up the options and the costing," he said.

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