'Garden City' develops a thirst for bore water ...
Excerpt from Brisbane Times:
'Garden City' develops a thirst for bore water
27 June 2008
Toowoomba, which prides itself as Australia's "Garden City", may be dependent on emergency bore water from the Great Artesian Basin later this year.
Storage in the city's three dams dropped below 11 per cent this week and will continue to fall at an average 0.1 per cent a week.
The city with a population of 100,000 has no real prospect of good rains until much later in the year.
In July 2006 the city voted overwhelmingly to reject a plan of then-mayor Dianne Thorley to use recycled waste water to relieve the protracted drought.
Faced with an effective campaign slogan - "Say no to putting poo in Toowoomba's water" - 62 per cent of voters rejected what would have been an Australian-first recycling scheme.
The state government is considering a variety of options to maintain supplies to the city, 100km west of Brisbane on the Darling Downs, including links to the south-east Queensland water grid or piping coal seam gas wastewater from Chinchilla.
Toowoomba Regional Council deputy mayor Paul Antonio said four or five bores were planned after exploratory drilling found a suitable aquifer.
He said the bores were expected to yield 5,000 megalitres of water a year as an emergency allocation.
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posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 12:58 PM
1 Comments:
Cr Paul Antonio had better wake up and smell the roses as this city has certainly voted No to the used of processed sewage as the drinking supply. He can sit back and be smug about the fact the he will not have to use the terrible excuss for a water supply because Milmerran will never get it.
Toowoomba people will be outraged if this pathetic council roll over and accept the State Government's decission to bring a pipeline up from Wivenhoe Dam.
They will take our dams from us and give us processed sewage out of spite because their team did not win the Poll in 2006.
The people have never changed their minds and never will.
They can not garantee the safety of this water and we will all end up the test case for the world.
6:41 PM, June 28, 2008
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