❓ Mr Cowper asks about the government's plan to reduce salinity in the Collie basin. Dr Jacobs outlines two measures: an independent engineering assessment and expansion of the eastern creek diversion project.
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COLLIE BASIN — SALINITY LEVELS
I have a question for the Minister for Water — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Member for Perth, you can ask questions in this place but there is a way to do that. I formally call you for the first time. Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS
I have a question for the Minister for Water — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Member for Perth, you can ask questions in this place but there is a way to do that. I formally call you for the first time. Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS
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I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Member for Perth, you can ask questions in this place but there is a way to do that. I formally call you for the first time. Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
The SPEAKER : Order! Member for Perth, you can ask questions in this place but there is a way to do that. I formally call you for the first time. Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Member for Perth, you can ask questions in this place but there is a way to do that. I formally call you for the first time. Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
The SPEAKER : Order! Member for Perth, you can ask questions in this place but there is a way to do that. I formally call you for the first time. Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Mr M.J. COWPER : Will the minister please advise the house what he is doing in relation to the government’s commitment to reduce the salinity levels in the Collie basin? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question and his interest in this very severe and serious issue of ever-increasing salinity of the Collie basin. Of course, that has an impact on Wellington Dam and the ever-increasing saline levels of this dam. There are two areas I will respond to: one is that the Liberal-National government made an election commitment to fund an independent engineering assessment of the means to reduce salinity in Wellington Dam. That process has been conducted by KPMG and WorleyParsons as independent consultants. We committed moneys to that during the election campaign to get an independent assessment of projects — Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Several members interjected. Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Dr G.G. JACOBS : — some good work has already been done—that can aid the problem and reduce the salinity in the Wellington Dam, because this problem has serious potential impacts for our irrigation area. Sixty-eight gigalitres of Wellington Dam water is used for horticultural and viticultural irrigation. I am pleased to let the house know that we have received more than 20 expressions of interest from proponents that have made some suggestions about projects to reduce the salinity levels in the upper Collie and Wellington Dams. That process is ongoing, and we expect in November that we will have some results and that I will be able to present them to interested members about how we can truly reduce this very difficult problem. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Perth. I am pretty sure I have spoken to you earlier today. If you do want to ask a question, I suggest you do it in another way. I formally call you for the second time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
Dr G.G. JACOBS : With regard to the second measure, a pilot project had been established to create the eastern creek diversion in the first flush of winter, which was producing a lot of saline. I commend the previous government for starting this project. As minister, I have expanded this project, and it will continue in order to increase the diversion of the first flush of salt into the Wellington Dam.
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