Within the next month, bores will be providing 15 per cent of the city’s daily water consumption.
The city is currently using approximately 10 megalitres a day.
“The showground bore has been connected to Suma Park Dam and is generating half a megalitre a day. Pipes are being laid to connect the Clifton Grove bore to Suma Park Dam. These two sources together will add approximately 1.5 megs a day to the system,” Orange Mayor John Davis said.
The showground bore water is being transferred to Suma Park Dam through part of the stormwater harvesting infrastructure. Since it was commissioned in December it has added 26 megalitres to the dam.
The Clifton Grove bore and pipeline will be operational in about four weeks.
The additional supplies coming on line have coincided with a slowing in the falling of dam levels.
Prior to Christmas dam levels were dropping by close to 0.6 of a percentage point a day. Over the last four weeks that has been reduced to an average of 0.32 per cent a week. At that consumption rate and assuming zero inflows the trigger for level 6 restrictions is 30 weeks off.
“The Blackmans Swamp Stormwater Harvesting Scheme is also playing its part and has generated 460 megalitres of additional water. This is a supply we didn’t have 12 months ago. Planning for the Ploughmans Creek scheme is also well advanced,” Cr Davis said.
thats it! Spend money on feeding a city’s irresponsible water usage habbits! Snap out of it council, the only way to proceed is to prepare the population for life with very little water. That is unless we grow some balls and stand up to the mines and take back what is rightly ours!