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POPSState seeks federal help as Mokoan decommissioning jumps to $127m, claims MP
(...cont) "This project would deliver the government’s required water savings, and protect irrigators, at a much-reduced cost compared to the full de-commissioning of the lake," he said. Mr Sykes said that aside from the rising costs, the key issues arising from the de-commissioning of the lake, water security, flooding, future land use and equitable sharing of water savings, were still unresolved. "We are still waiting on government support for an independent assessment of the current level of water security of supply for irrigators, and there has been no action on the flood risk assessment for Benalla and downstream on the Broken River. "The government has yet to commit the $30m plus required for its much-touted ‘world class wetlands’ to replace the lake, and there has been no agreement on equitable sharing of water savings. "At this stage, not one litre of the claimed 50 billion litre water savings from de-commissioning Lake Mokoan is ear-marked for Broken Valley irriga
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