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Water under the bridge, overrecovered flows not coming back, Coulton claims By HARRIET GILMORE IT’S water under the bridge, and “over-recovered” flows from the Macquarie Valley, unfortunately, won’t be coming back, Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton claimed last week. Mr Coulton said that despite calls for it to be returned, the excess water from the f lows, wouldn’t be re-allocated for farming, but instead would go to meeting environmental targets. In a media release, Mr Coulton said that the Federal Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek MP, had said it was her intention, to re-purpose the almost 40GL of water over-recovered from the Macquarie Valley, to the 450GL of additional environmental water required as part of the Murray Darling Basin Plan.
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Warren Central Easter Hat parade STORY & PHOTOS: PAGE 17
Expanded project — Macquarie River cleanup starts next week By HARRIET GILMORE WORK on an extensive project to clean-up the Macquarie River is expected to begin next week, with an informative community session recently held on the initiative. More than 20 interested community members and stake-holders met with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in late March to discuss the upcoming work to remove log-jams, rubbish, and other debris, along a morethan 55 kilometre stretch of the river. In good news for the river and its supporters, the project, which was intended last year to only remove man-made debris from just two of seven “rafts” (log-jams) along the river, has now been expanded. The work is to now include the removal of most of the debris, rubbish, and identifiable woody weed debris, including willows, from the river and banks all the way from the Warren Top Weir all the way to Marebone Weir — around 180 kilometres in total, as the river flows. News of the expanded project was well-received by community members at the information session, with many surprised that the project was actually going
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One of the largest clean-ups of the Macquarie River to date, is expected to begin next week, with rubbish and debris, including this car body near Bryan Egan Weir, to be removed from a more-than 55km stretch of river. PHOTO: WARREN STAR. ahead. One community member, hailed it as the biggest clean-up the Macquarie River has ever received. EPA Incident Management and Environment Health Di-
rector, Arminda Ryan — who ran the session — said the coordinated effort to be led by her organisation, is expected to take six weeks to complete. However, she emphasised,
that contractors will work “as long as it takes” to complete the job with no fi xed end-date.
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