I am The GREENS candidate for Newcastle and live in Newcastle. I have three children, am an environmental engineer specialising in water management and have worked on Aid projects in the Solomon Islands and Vietnam. I am a Newcastle City Councillor and am the coordinator of the Green Corridor Coalition, an alliance of more than 50 community and environment groups committed to the protection of biodiversity corridors in the Lower Hunter.
Old thinking, old solutions
Here is a Google Earth map of the location of the Tillegra Dam. The proposal is for the dam to store 450 billion litres of Barrington water, while the neighbouring Chichester Dam (builts in the 1920's) stores about 20 billion litres.
Compare the catchments...
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Michael Osborne
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4:04 pm
Labels: Planning for the future, Water
