Bore war continues ...
Excerpt from WIN News:
Bore investigation
30 August 2007
Discovery
It's been revealed drillers of a test hole at the Wetalla Bore were not directed to test for water quality.
Toowoomba City Council now under fire for refusing to spend the initial $300,000, instead sinking the now unusuable $2.4 million dollar bore.
See - Toowoomba City Council - hopelessly incompetent or corrupt.
Sink a bore hole for the specific purpose of finding drinking quality water but don't test for water quality?
What idiot would do that?
By 8 October 2006, a 6 inch test hole had been drilled to 635m.
Why was the decision then made to drill to 657m with a width varying from 9-26 inches?
Without testing water quality?
For what purpose?
It's perhaps easy to label this as more incompetence from the Toowoomba City Council (just another example to add to the ever growing pile) but one suspects there is more to this than mere incompetence ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:01 PM
4 Comments:
Thorley will want to dump this in Kev's lap and run away to Tasmania sooner.
6:33 PM, August 30, 2007
$1m for water futures, $2m for their dud bore. They don't care how much of our money they waste with their secret backroom deals. Enough is enough.
6:45 PM, August 30, 2007
There is a hidden agenda here.
We need to know who the consultant is and did they drill into the GAB or did they drill into the Helidon sandstone.
This water was never about bringing water to the citizens because it was to get a water supply to the Acland Coal Mine.
Macfarlane is well and truly in the know about this and they are not on the side the people of Toowoomba.
7:16 PM, August 30, 2007
So the council has just sat on its hands once again and not sought water solutions for Toowoomba.
7:40 PM, August 30, 2007
Post a Comment
<< Home