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NO DAM: People opposed to a new dam protest outside Rous headquarters. Photo: Alison Paterson
News 15th Feb 2021 12:00 AM
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Subscriber only Cr. Cadwallader assiduously avoids discussing the truly eye watering cost associated with the destruction of cultural and environmental heritage which another dam on Rocky Creek would entail (Northern Star, February 10). Instead, she chooses to spread unfounded fear. Unless she has not read, or comprehended, the work already done by Rous County Council, she must know the major significance of the burial sites and rainforest at her proposed dam site. Unless she hasn t be paying attention, she must know that there is not one Alstonville aquifer , but two, and that Rous s intention is to utilise the newly proved deep aquifer, actually freeing up demand on the current shallow aquifer.