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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Locally owned and proudly independent
Taking over the Tablelands
Hundreds of grey nomads hit the region last week for the annual Christmas in July celebrations at Davies Park in Mareeba – See P3 for more.
Bev King and her dog Tao, Rosemary Robinson, Nola Hughes and Rainey Parsell who are all part of the Solos Network of travellers.
It’s dam crazy! Tableland farmers are furious after learning SunWater is releasing 200-300 megalitres of water per day from Tinaroo Dam over the next month for ‘environmental attributes’. The Tablelands is still a drought declared area, local
The decision to let out thousands of megalitres of water from Tinaroo Dam has got farmers scratching their heads farmers water allocations have been reduced to 60 per cent and as of August 1 the Mareeba Shire Council voluntarily
placed Mareeba Shire rate payers on level 1 water restrictions. Farmers have been conservative in their use of water and
to now see these releases for the next month is a slap in the face for the community. “We are more shocked than
anything that they would do this,” said Joe Moro, president of the Mareeba District Fruit and Vegetable Growers Asso-
ciation. “We have asked for a review of the resource plan. We have written to the minister and this week have a meeting with the Department of Natural Resource.” CONTINUED P13
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