Lower Murray Water began a ten-day hearing to propose artificial engineering at Murray River wetlands on Victoria and New South Wales border.
abc.net.au/news/lower-murray-water-hearing-artificial-wetlands-proposal/101864098Lower Murray Water has begun a ten-day hearing to propose a plan to artificially engineer two Murray River wetland sites along the Victorian and New South Wales border.
Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny appointed the Victorian Murray Floodplain Restoration Project Standing Inquiry and Advisory Committee to inquire into, and report on, the potential environmental effects of nine proposed restoration projects, including the sites at Hattah and Belsar-Yungera floodplains.
"This is a project that is wholly committed to improve the health of ecosystems, and places and country that has been undernourished and struggling since European intervention in the river and its surroundings. "The committee hearing into the Victorian government proposal at Hattah Lakes North and Belsar-Yungera sites on the Murray River in Victoria's northwest, is part of the EES process," they said.
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