Geoff Smedley
NO!
IT’S not only the Murray this time, but the Tamar river in Launceston that is suffering the same serious crisis and is not receiving any more than a whimper from the Launceston City Council.
The cruel reality of the Tamar is that in the last decade residents and others have watched this river rapidly fall into full decay without any meaningful or intelligent help toward its survival.
Years ago the bedsheets were rustling to a notion that perhaps levee banks could be in order to keep the ever creeping contaminated silt from smothering the whole city but it now seems that ploy has been over ruled by nature and a radically changing planet not to mention the doubling of costs during the usual dilly – dallying period common to this administation.
It’s incredible to hear that yet another study is being called for into the woes of the Tamar, this will be the 54th study to be brought down on Launceston’s waterways in the past 50 years and it seems all but the Pope has been involved with this question over that time, but nothing has given repriEve to the rivers sentence of an indignant death by suffication while drowning in poisonous sludge appearing on an unchecked scale from many sources mainly within the lower North-Esk to the esturary of the Tamar itself.
