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ICONIC BRIDGE TURNS 50 She’s one of Dubbo’s most iconic structures, and she’s officially 50 years old today. The L.H. Ford Bridge cost $1.25 million to build and was opened on September 26, 1969. Many local men worked on its construction, including Tony Bourke and John Morris pictured at the bridge this week, but none of that crew were invited to the official opening.
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Major national award for Dubbo Specsavers DUBBO got a reminder this week that it can hold its own in just about any sector with the news that Specsavers Dubbo has won a national award, beating stores from across Australia.
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By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY DUBBO Regional Council voted this week to start Level 3 water restrictions on Monday, October 1, followed by Level 4 water restrictions from Friday, November 1. Level 2 water restrictions introduced in July failed to ignite residents to do the right thing, causing water usage in the time since to actually increase. “I need Dubbo regional residents to start saving water and taking this seriously. It is incredibly disappointing that Level 2 hasn’t
Dubbo told: Get ready for Level 4 water restrictions
worked,” mayor Ben Shields said. A staged approach will be adopted by Council to ease the city into Level 4 restrictions to allow big business and big users to get ready. During public forum on Monday night addressing councillors, Fletcher International Exports owner Roger Fletcher disagreed with the need for a delay. “You’ve got to get awareness to the public, and you say you’re going to do that. (The current situation) is critical and restrictions should start straight away. With our business and what it needed to do, we
put it together in a couple of hours, so its rubbish you need a month,” Mr Fletcher said. Peter Schuster was one of several speakers who rely on ground water for their irrigation enterprises, and objected to recent negative commentary around their industry. “Times are tough. Our operation currently covers 3200 hectares just south of Dubbo but because of the season we are relying on just 52 hectares of irrigation. Irrigation is the only thing that is allowing us to continue to support local farm supply businesses as well as local
transport companies, local contractors, mechanics, and many more,” he said. “We need to be, and are, efficient water users and employ the latest and most efficient forms of water delivery technology,” Mr Schuster told the meeting. After 25 minutes of discussion on what water level restrictions needed to be put into place for Dubbo, councillors agreed on the October 1 and November 1 dates for implementing Levels 3 and 4 respectively.
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