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24 August, 2022
Safety fence dangles in channel
URGENT talks will be held next month to end channel maintenance neglect by Goulburn Murray Water over more than a quarter of a century. Boort’s tourism and development committee will meet Murray Plains MP Peter Walsh and Loddon Mayor Dan Straub in...
URGENT talks will be held next month to end channel maintenance neglect by Goulburn Murray Water over more than a quarter of a century.
Boort’s tourism and development committee will meet Murray Plains MP Peter Walsh and Loddon Mayor Dan Straub in a fresh bid to pipe a Little Lake Boort channel.
Committee secretary and Boort Lakes Holiday Park owner Wendy James said there was a risk that protective barriers could topple into water at any time.
Fellow committee member Paul Haw described the risk to public safety and park cabins as a “crisis at the caravan park caused by erosion”.
“Goulburn Murray Water drained the channel and exposed the seriousness of the problem, if nothing is done within two years some of the cabins will be hanging over the water.
“A safety fence was constructed between the vans and the channel in about 1995 to keep children away from the water.
“When constructed there was two metres of soil between the fence and the channel, now some of the safety fence is dangling in the channel.
“This part of the channel needs to be piped immediately. With the safety fence now collapsing into the channel, this presents a very dangerous situation for small children,” he said.
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