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SA Govt fast tracks procurement approvals to increase Murray flow23 Sep 2010Source: ABC Online A water regulator at Lake Alexandrina on the lower Murray is to be partially removed as river flows improve. The South Australian Government has been advised by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority water flows to the Lower Lakes can be sustained above sea level for the next two years, meaning the Clayton regulator can open. SA Water Minister Paul Caica says work will start this month to get water flowing through the regulator. "We're fast-tracking approvals for procurement, to enable earthworks to commence in removing that 135-metre section of the Clayton regulator that will allow 15,000 megalitres a day to pass," he said. "We will see the benefits that arise to the environment, whether that be the fish, the bird life and the other flora and fauna, but also what we are seeing is a level of optimism within the communities down around the Lower Lakes, down along the river that for the first time in a long time." Read more here |
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