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Ballina Shire Council supports application for new croquet club
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Craig Zerk, East Ballina
As an engineer with over 45 years’ experience working in the water supply industry, I support the new water Strategy proposed by Rous Water and I am opposed to the Dunoon Dam.
There are some very significant reasons for favouring groundwater over construction of a new dam downstream of the existing Rocky Creek Dam.
Economically, groundwater offers the lowest Net Present Value and can be sequentially staged over decades to meet the needs of a growing population. By comparison, the dam involves a huge up-front cost (the estimate as at 2020 was $220 million – but we know that the cost of these kinds of projects always blows out significantly). The dam is actually sized to meet the needs of a more than 70 per cent increase in population to the year 2080 but would need to be funded by the present ratepayers (even though we already have enough water for our present needs).
Ballina Shire Council. Photo David Lowe.
Ballina Shire councillors managed to cover a lot of territory at their last meeting, which finished before a very late lunch.
Farmers market expansion
An expansion request for Ballina Farmers Market was approved at Commemoration Park, in spite of councillors expressing some concerns about parking. Following will be a DA, likely to request a doubling of the market size to sixty stalls. Ballina Deputy Mayor Sharon Cadwallader. Photo David Lowe.
Deputy Mayor Sharon Cadwallader said, ‘When you’ve got something like this the community is really responding to, I am very happy to support.’ Cr Eoin Johnston opposed the motion, but was overruled.
Could paid parking be on the cards for Lennox Head?
Yesterday’s Ballina Shire Council meeting saw councillors raise the spectre of paid parking at Lennox Head, and possibly elsewhere in the shire.
During a discussion about fees and charges, Cr Nathan Willis began musing on the lack of prospective earnings for the future, despite all the extra ratepayers flooding into Ballina and surrounds. Was it time to consider a report looking at the possibility pay parking in Lennox Head, he wondered?
After a few nervous moments, Cr Eoin Johnston said he would second this. ‘Very brave!’ responded Mayor David Wright.
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