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admin @ October 31, 2007
Feel free to make a comment about the campaign to stop logging in Melbourne’s water catchments, what you’ve heard from politicians, or comments about this website.
admin @ October 31, 2007
I am only a little girl and i beleive that people are waisting to much water i heard that the gold coast had a whole day to have as much water as they could!
Hello,
If anyone out there can give me a document, government or otherwaise, that I can reference that states the kind of quantities of extra water that would go to Melbournes catchments if logging was stopped in the catchments it would be much appreciated
Cheers, Neil.
I think a bigger issues is the amount of water being extracted from river systems, eg the Gellibrand in the Otways. The river flows are now only a small percentage of natural levels and wetlands, creeks and springs are all drying up. Private water companies are extracting more and more. It needs to be stopped for sustainable environmental management.
i have been devasted to see logging to the extent it is in forests around melbourne and want to have a say in supporting ‘no more logging’. Those days are well over. move on to better, intelligent conservation. Good on those who speak up
An excellent presentation of the rape of melbournes water catchment by the woodchip industry. The Public have to stand up and demand action now so as the governing party ceases ALL clearfelling or timber harvesting of any kind from all 4 catchments, especially the Thomson. Its Water or Woodchips and both Labor and Liberal/NP are tied to party funding deals with the woodchip industry.
This crime will go down as the scam of the Century in Victoria. How the public suffered from drier catchments due to clearfelling and as of consequence more, stronger bushfires and NO MORE WATER.Keep upm the good work.
With the announced merger of Melbourne Water with Port Phillip and Western Port Catchment management authority I believe the stage is now set for the privatization of Melbourne’s water catchments. Melbourne Water supposedly gained control of waterways in rural areas to melbourne’s north,west and south by extending the definition of the “metropolis” under the definition section of the MMBW Act (Nov 2005). Basically the boundaries of Melbourne were extended to Lancefield, Balan and phillip Island. It is by this order alone that Melbourne Water claims to contol waterways in these rural areas. Waterways are not protected under the Consititution Act in the same way as water. Therefore it is possible the government intends to privatise drainage and waterway management functions (eg Veolia??).
Clearly as we have seen in the last year the biggest threat to our catchments is fire. Logging in small areas of catchments ensures roads are kept open and well maintained, and that there is a knowledge of those areas by those who work to stop fires. Creating an uneven age of forest across the catchments can also prevent fires spreading. If, as we saw in the Oshannasey this year, a fire is to take out the entire catchments, the effects of the regrowth taking up water is far greater than from the small amount of harvesting that occurs at present. Melbourne water and parks need to be doing more to prevent fires by fuel reducing, otherwise it is only a matter of time before fire will impact on far greater areas of our catchments.