CaptionSANDED TRAVESTY: The Orara River...a valuable resource destroyed by Coffs Harbour.Date1994CreatorBruce ThomasPlace DepictedKarangi-NSWInscriptionNSW-COFFS HARBOUR
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JOHN FAIRFAX GROUP
PHOTOGRAPHIC
LIBRARY
1 MAY 1994
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USED
1 MAY 1994
SUN-HERALD
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Well, this article is angry too, and it is directed at Coffs Harbour's plans to augment its water supply.
Although a single issue, this is a universal problem.
Australian towns can no longer afford to dam rivers and use water with abandon. Rivers need water, as repeated blooms of blue-green algae have been showing us. With increasing population, bad planning will eventually run towns out of water and in exhausting that rare resource they will do enormous damage.
Coffs Harbour has already helped to destroy the Orara River, the source of its water supply since 1938. That once beautiful stream is now a sanded travesty of what it was. In its 'Strategy Study - Summary Report On Coffs Harbour Water Supply Headworks', issued last February, Coffs Harbour City Council unashamedly admits "the volume of river flow was occasionally less than the volume of water required by consumers".
[Newspaper clipping glued to back]Physical Descriptionblack & whiteDimensionsH. 165mm x W. 216mmAccession NumberM2020.14.159
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Black and white photograph depicting the Orara River at Karangi, 1994.
