Water Tanks Instead of Millions on dam project
The tillegra dam project has torn the dungog community apart with most on the negative side of the argument. there are many points one is that everyone in the areas in need should just purchase a water tank or even be given them it seems like it would be a great deal cheaper than the 400million dollar plus project in fact that would by the government approximatly 4000000 water tanks which is a greener way and more sustainable. this considering that the land is prime agricultural land ( some of the best in the country )and is litterally going to be destroyed. Additionally, the Dungog community has a dam that is constantly overflowing which also supplies water to newcastle and still overflows. The dam is not acuallually being made to supply water to local areas it is to supply the central coast, which has a limited water suppply but does not really want a large dam in there area and does not really want to fund the entire progect so Dungog willl be donating the land and the huntyer region will chip in to pay for the dam that they will not be using. Seems very strange. However, the local high school just got 9million dollars to spend on renovations and the small population of local buisnesses ( maybe 10) just got half a million dollars to spend on investing in local buisness so that has greesed the slope for some people falling into the dam is a good thing trap. Water tanks seem to be a far more reasonable way to be resposible for our own water use.