Flushing wetlands during drought a folly?

By Daniel Pedersen
Updated August 30 2018 - 2:14pm, first published 9:05am
Michael Egan questions whether an environmental release now is the best use of commonwealth water, of which all taxpayers are owners.
Michael Egan questions whether an environmental release now is the best use of commonwealth water, of which all taxpayers are owners.

AN ENVIRONMENTAL release of as much as 132,000 megalitres of water into the Macquarie River system from Lake Burrendong in the middle of one of the worst droughts in recorded history has been pilloried by Narromine Mayor Craig Davies and Trangie farmer David Kinsey.

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