❓ Hon George Cash asks about alternative drinking water sources identified in the Kununurra Water Source Protection Plan, including their locations and investigations undertaken. The answer details the locations and states that no formal investigations have occurred, beyond some earlier hydrogeological studies and a preliminary desktop study.
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I refer to the draft of the Kununurra Water Source Protection Plan prepared by the Waters and Rivers Commission -
(1) What is the specific location of each of the other five sites referred to in the Kununurra Water Source Protection Plan as appropriate locations from which to draw drinking water?
(2) What formal investigations of the sites has been undertaken?
(1) What is the specific location of each of the other five sites referred to in the Kununurra Water Source Protection Plan as appropriate locations from which to draw drinking water?
(2) What formal investigations of the sites has been undertaken?
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Answered
4 September 2003
Responded by
Minister for Local Government and Regional Development representing the Minister for the Environment
Response time
23 days
(1) The Source Protection Plan describes five sites for possible alternative supplies, but does not refer to those sites as appropriate. These sites are: a) From Lake Kununurra direct, b) From beneath the golf course west of the water reserve, c) From beneath the Ivanhoe and/or Packsaddle Plains, d) From possible gravel beds by the Ord River near Maxwell Plains, and, e) From Lake Argyle direct. Each of these sites has major environmental, economic and social implications, and may not deliver a source water as reliably-safe as the existing source. (2) No formal investigations of the sites have been undertaken, apart from earlier studies of the hydrogeology of the Ivanhoe and Packsaddle Plains. A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
These sites are: a) From Lake Kununurra direct, b) From beneath the golf course west of the water reserve, c) From beneath the Ivanhoe and/or Packsaddle Plains, d) From possible gravel beds by the Ord River near Maxwell Plains, and, e) From Lake Argyle direct. Each of these sites has major environmental, economic and social implications, and may not deliver a source water as reliably-safe as the existing source. (2) No formal investigations of the sites have been undertaken, apart from earlier studies of the hydrogeology of the Ivanhoe and Packsaddle Plains. A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
Each of these sites has major environmental, economic and social implications, and may not deliver a source water as reliably-safe as the existing source. (2) No formal investigations of the sites have been undertaken, apart from earlier studies of the hydrogeology of the Ivanhoe and Packsaddle Plains. A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
(2) No formal investigations of the sites have been undertaken, apart from earlier studies of the hydrogeology of the Ivanhoe and Packsaddle Plains. A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
These sites are: a) From Lake Kununurra direct, b) From beneath the golf course west of the water reserve, c) From beneath the Ivanhoe and/or Packsaddle Plains, d) From possible gravel beds by the Ord River near Maxwell Plains, and, e) From Lake Argyle direct. Each of these sites has major environmental, economic and social implications, and may not deliver a source water as reliably-safe as the existing source. (2) No formal investigations of the sites have been undertaken, apart from earlier studies of the hydrogeology of the Ivanhoe and Packsaddle Plains. A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
Each of these sites has major environmental, economic and social implications, and may not deliver a source water as reliably-safe as the existing source. (2) No formal investigations of the sites have been undertaken, apart from earlier studies of the hydrogeology of the Ivanhoe and Packsaddle Plains. A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
(2) No formal investigations of the sites have been undertaken, apart from earlier studies of the hydrogeology of the Ivanhoe and Packsaddle Plains. A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
A preliminary desktop study of these sites, as well as a consideration of a small pipehead dam on the Spillway Creek, has been undertaken.
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