A PLAN to improve Lake Colac’s foreshore has received a mixed reaction from Colac Otway Shire councillors, but they have agreed to ask residents for their views.
‘BLAND PLAN’: Lake foreshore plan divides councillors
The Lake Colac foreshore is the focus of a new council plan.
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I’ve read through most of the four documents made public, and although there is a lot in it I like, there’s some major issues with the documents themselves that make it hard to give well balanced feedback.
1. costings. There’s a real lack of transparency and/or detail. Seems hard to believe that zone 4 is $42,650 whilst zone 5 is $934,338. Seems hard to believe that a zone costing almost a million dollars can be costed down to the very dollar, “338”, but we aren’t provided with any details on how much that infinity ring things is going to cost.
2. The document reads more like a sales brochure than a planning document. Figures/Pictures are generally not labelled, and the reader has to try to decipher if they are existing or proposed pictures, and in either case where they are to be sited or are sited. And a lot of them don’t make sense to the local context, eg : emu statues, large rocks in a sedimentary basin etc.
3. Complete lack of detail on where the idea of the eternity ring came from, or of any community consultation around that or other alternatives. The claim it ties in with aboriginal heritage is totally cringe worthy. And sadly it completely ignores exactly what is there already, how it is used, and how the current point is a relaxing place to looking over the lake without the foreshore activities interrupting: so what od they do: they put a semi circle jetty in front of that view with balustrades as well //sigh.
That said the document does include some important and significant recommendations on safety, improving parking, line of sight, general amenities etc. These core works should be happening now as part of the annual spend. Sadly this document seems to have pushed the budget into the millions category, waiting for yet another federal/state grant, to build a nipple ring jetty no-one asked for.
Id be happy to see what is there fixed up, more BBQ and seating. It would also be nice to see people pick up their darn rubbish, park properly, walk on the paths instead of the road and keep their dogs on leads… most of which are obvious and signed, but people lack common sense these days.
As for the lake itself, I think people should leave it alone and not stuff about with natural waterways. Enough damage has already been done to the lake and creeks in the past which we can’t reverse.
I live in Geelong, The only way you can fix this ces pit and that is what it has become, is to dredge all the mud and this would cost hundreds of millions and take years to do providing it doesn’t get any water in it again and to all the Greens and other believers in man made climate change the lake has been dry a few times before, Solar Physicists have been predicting the next Maunder minimum to begin very soon we have already seen record cold and snow in Asia and parts of the USA and the last time this happened here was in the 1600s and apparently according to scientists during those times lake sediment showed that in southern Victoria and Tasmania were very wet so hopefully in a few years time we will see the thing over flow again
Has anyone noticed the biggest flaw in theses plans?
There is no point redeveloping the lake foreshore when there is no lake. A lake requires water. Ours has grass and puddles.
Go to shepparton and look at what they’ve achieved there. Simply spectacular and a joy to see. We have grass.
Leave the foreshore as it is. Fix the lake.