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Toorale Station's water in Govt buyback sights

27 Aug, 2008 10:51 AM

The NSW and Commonwealth government are considering purchasing entire irrigation properties, in its push to buy back water, with Toorale Station on the Warrego River the first in their sights.

Interest in Clyde Agriculture's Toorale Station at Bourke, worth an estimated $25 million contradicts the government's disinterested response to previous approaches by large irrigators to negotiate land-plus-water deals.

Representatives of NSW Climate Change and Environment Minister, Verity Firth, are reportedly talking to Clyde's agents in the lead-up to it's auction, set down for September 11 in Sydney.

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We were out at Toorale on August 10th, and were amazed at the amount of water in the levees. The lower of them is Dicks Dam, which meanders for mile after mile - a magnet to bird and animal life. I was amazed to learn there are another 7 or 8, and the amount of water they hold must be incredible. The levees were built over 100 years ago, and the dams are truly places of great beauty. In that respect, I think it would be a shame to see them removed, but nevertheless a good thing (provided they can be of course - and not classified as historic). Who knows if any real change downstream would be noticed, or if other dams and levees would stem the flow somewhere further along the flat plain, and create a new oasis? I'd love to go back in a few years and find out!

Posted by possim, 8/09/2008 4:44:40 PM

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