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Rous focus on Alstonville groundwater to boost region s supply – The Echo
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Rous votes to put the Dunoon Dam back on the table
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Ballina Deputy Mayor and Rous County Cr Sharon Cadwallader. Photo David Lowe.
The Dunoon Dam made an unscheduled appearance late in the last Ballina Shire Council meeting, on the back of a motion put forward by Cr Phillip Meehan and seconded by Cr Sharon Cadwallader.
Cr Meehan said he had growing concerns about Rous County Council’s plan to purchase the Marom Creek Water Treatment Plant and the associated water licences from Ballina as part of the Future Water Strategy. He also said he was alarmed about Rous’s plans for the Alstonville aquifers.
‘This is another example of water mining except the water’s not being put into bottles,’ he said. ‘But there’s a whole lot of public concern about it… We actually need to consider whether we want to move ahead with this or not.’
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Subscriber only There s more than one reason the debate over the Dunoon dam and future water resources runs deep. It s why the dam gets ping ponged between councils across the Northern Rivers and back to Rous County Council for another look. Everyone knows there is going to be winners and losers if a dam is chosen over aquifers and vice versa. Maybe neither of them is the right option. It s also looking like a turf war between Lismore and Ballina over which town is top dog in the region. Dunoon is in Lismore s patch and aquifers on the Alstonville plateau largely bring the heat on Ballina Shire Council.