Millmerran also gets a salty bore - but for only $560,000 ...

Excerpt from the Chronicle:

Second Downs bore strikes salt

28 September 2007

A second Darling Downs bore into the Great Artesian Basin has struck salt.

Millmerran Mayor Paul Antonio said drillers went down 810 metres into the Hudson's Sandstone only to be disappointed.

The Millmerran council spent $560,000 on the project.

But all is not lost.

"It is not what we had hoped, but we can use the water.

"Because the water is not of a high quality, the best we can do for Cecil Plains is in fact shandy the weir water and bore water to provide a better mix for the town," Cr Antonio said.

In August, Toowoomba City Council were aghast when it's $2.4 million bore into the Great Artesian Basin at Wetalla went down 657 metres and met the expected volume of 2000 megalitres, but drew high levels of salt.
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