Readers may be aware that all Councils in Tasmania have been required by the State Government to join their water and sewerage assets into three regional water bodies, with one further body acting as the Common Services Corporation.
I went to a meeting in Ulverstone last week where some people within the formative new bodies believe this will be the very best model of water and sewerage provision in the WORLD.
This is very comforting as we are having a few problems on our own and we could do with a big brother to help us out. Basically we need a few million dollars to purchase some land next to the Sheffield treatment plant to spread the effluent around on.
According to Jim Martin of the North East water body, no town of less than 3000 can economically provide water and sewerage services. Well he is correct in the case of Sheffield.
We as a council may have to borrow the money required to fix our effluent disposal or risk facing big fines from the Environment department. But borrowing this sort of money does not sit easily on my conscience, even if the new water body will take over the load in July 2009.
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I have a property at 804 Staverton Road, Staverton and am not on town sewerage or water. Given the comments re a town under 3,000 not being able to support water/sewerage facilities, does this mean I will never have access to a central service? (just having fresh water would be a huge benefit)
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