❓ Question raises concerns about the closure of State Reference Network gauging stations due to funding shortages and the impact on water resource management, flood prediction, and environmental monitoring, particularly in the southwest.
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(1) Is it true that a large number of the State Reference Network gauging stations have been closed in the last two years or have ceased to be monitored?
(2) If yes, is it true that this closure and/or mothballing of stations is due to a lack of adequate funding, resulting in a shortage of staff to maintain and monitor these stations?
(3) Do the stations contained within the State Reference network provide water resource information, allow calculation of pollutant loads and provide flood management information for protection of life and limb?
(4) Is it true that the station in the Diamond Gorge on the Fitzroy River was destroyed during the recent floods, and that inadequate or an absence of maintenance was the reason why the flood was able to destroy the station?
(5) Have a large number of water resource information stations for water supply inflow been closed in the past 10 years?
(6) Was the gauging station in the Blackwood River, that was intended to provide reference information for discharge monitoring from the now closed BHP Beenup minesite, recently closed?
(7) What impact do the closures of these stations have on the ability of government agencies to predict water quantity and quality, together with flood risk, throughout the state, in particular within the south west land division?
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(2) If yes, is it true that this closure and/or mothballing of stations is due to a lack of adequate funding, resulting in a shortage of staff to maintain and monitor these stations?
(3) Do the stations contained within the State Reference network provide water resource information, allow calculation of pollutant loads and provide flood management information for protection of life and limb?
(4) Is it true that the station in the Diamond Gorge on the Fitzroy River was destroyed during the recent floods, and that inadequate or an absence of maintenance was the reason why the flood was able to destroy the station?
(5) Have a large number of water resource information stations for water supply inflow been closed in the past 10 years?
(6) Was the gauging station in the Blackwood River, that was intended to provide reference information for discharge monitoring from the now closed BHP Beenup minesite, recently closed?
(7) What impact do the closures of these stations have on the ability of government agencies to predict water quantity and quality, together with flood risk, throughout the state, in particular within the south west land division?
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