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POULTRY PALS: Casey White bonds with a silky chicken during Wimmera Poultry Club’s annual auction at Horsham Showground on Sunday. The club was formed in Dimboola in the 1970s before moving to Horsham in 1998. Its annual auction draws visitors from across Victoria and interstate to the Wimmera. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER
Ararat water push A
rarat municipal leaders will use the impending Federal Election to up the ante in a bid to obtain the extra money needed to start an $85-million East Grampians Pipeline project.
Ararat Rural City Council has listed the GWMWater project, designed to dramatically improve water security for much of the municipality, as one of its key advocacy issues.
It is calling for federal intervention in the wake of the May 18 election announcement. Ararat mayor Peter Beales said a lack of guaranteed access to highquality water in rural areas of the shire was a profound impediment to industry growth and development. Cr Beales said regardless of which party won the election, the region’s water issues would remain until the Federal Government took action.
“GWMWater has been allocated nearly half the money needed but we need at least $32-million from the Federal Government to make the pipeline a reality,” he said. “We desperately need federal assistance to secure the region’s access to reliable water and allow cropping, stock and wine businesses to not only grow, but thrive. Our municipality is known for its agricultural assets, from vineyards to stock and crop farms,
and to see this pipeline built would be a major triumph for the community.” The region surrounding Ararat has a reputation for having unreliable groundwater and surface water catchment areas, making agricultural production challenging. The Ararat council is confident the pipeline will help secure the future of local farmers’ businesses based on expectations that climate conditions will become drier in the future.
Ararat council chief executive Tim Harrison stressed the importance of the project during a business breakfast at Ararat’s Alexandra Oval Community Centre. He outlined the council’s position on the East Grampians Pipeline after an explanatory address on the project and other regional water issues from GWMWater managing director Mark Williams. Continued page 3
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