Just Add Water campaigners will need to buy existing water licences if they want to top up Lake Colac from the Gellibrand River system.
Lake campaign hits water licence hurdle
Reader Bill McCarthy shared this image on Facebook of a yacht on Lake Colac at the weekend.
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If they take a good look at the Gellibrand River over Winter time, they would see that there is plenty of water there that could be pumped, especially when the river mouth is bared over flooding the flats along it and farmers are losing valuable grazing land for month.
Mr Riodan is well aware of the river flooding problem and may be able to use that info from the authorities to aid the lake idea.
Would like to see the report “Just Add Water” has submitted… without the details it’s hard to see how feasible or not it really is. Seems Barwon Water and Southern Rural Water both are concerned over the flooding impact it could have in Colac township. And now the issue of cost (both dollars and environmental).
This really needs to be compared to a plan to divide the lake which wouldn’t require extra water and would provide flood mitigation and far more tourist opportunities.
BTW: like the photo. I think we’d all love to see more yachts on the lake.