General News
7 December, 2022
DJAARA levee block
CONSTRUCTION of a flood levee bank at Boort has been delayed three years by negotiations with the Bendigo-based Aboriginal corporation DJAARA. Talks on a small strip of land beside Lake Boort and the compensation Loddon Shire Council will pay DJARR...
CONSTRUCTION of a flood levee bank at Boort has been delayed three years by negotiations with the Bendigo-based Aboriginal corporation DJAARA.
Talks on a small strip of land beside Lake Boort and the compensation Loddon Shire Council will pay DJARRA to use the land has stymied stage two of flood mitigation works.
Council’s operations director Steven Phillips said: “At a suitable time council will re-engage with Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation and Parks Victoria to continue discussions to see if an agreement can be reached.”
The roadblock to completion of $500,000 mitigation works funded by a 2016-2017 grant meant a bill in the tens of thousands of dollars to protect the town during October’s flood emergency and hundreds of volunteer hours manning pumps and safeguarding homes.
Mr Phillips confirmed the State Government’s land use approval process required agreements to be reached between DJAARA, council and Parks Victoria.
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