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Local Wadawurrung members conducted a smoking ceremony at the announcement in 2019. Photo – Barwon Water.
The Moorabool News – 26 April, 2022 Page 9 By Lachlan Ellis A 54-hectare section of land at Bostock Reservoir is back in the hands of Traditional Owners, with plans ongoing to put the land to both recreational and productive use. Barwon Water sold the land, which lies just a short distance from the Ballan township and in the heart of Wadawurrung Country, to the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (WTOAC) in August 2019. WTOAC CEO Paul Davis said the sale was a significant moment for the Wadawurrung people. “The area of the Wadawurrung Registered Aboriginal Party is over a million hectares. Up until the purchase of that land, all that the Corporation owned on their behalf was 800 square metres in Ballarat,” Mr Davis told the Moorabool News. “Without wanting to sound like I’m speaking for them, the views that have been expressed to me are that they’re glad they’ve got something back. Somewhere they can go to and have free use of. “What they’ve decided they want to do, is make the land available for Traditional Owners to spend time at, whether that be camping or other ways to spend time with one another. Also, they have views around setting
up a small enterprise in natural resource management. They started to do that from around June to July last year, they’re working gradually to build that up.” Managing Director at Barwon Water, Tracey Slatter, said the land was not needed by the company, and its sale to Wadawurrung supported reconciliation efforts. “We sold the unused land at Bostock Reservoir in 2019 as part of our property realisation program, which maximises the value economically, environmentally and socially of our unused assets to our customers and our region,” Ms Slatter said. “The sale of the 54-hectare parcel of then-Barwon Water-owned land to Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, following a Valuer-General’s valuation, also supported key actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan to partner with and support First Nations people in our service area. “Sale proceeds of the landholding, which was no longer required for operational purposes, also helped us to keep downward pressure on customers’ water bills.” Bostock Reservoir was not sold in its entirety – the reservoir itself is still owned by Barwon Water as part of the regional supply system.
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