Sewage treatment concerns for Agnes Water
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The Member for Burnett says other water and sewage options must be investigated for Agnes Water and the Town of 1770 despite a $40 million contract being signed.
The Gladstone Regional Council reluctantly agreed to the desalination and sewage project, which was largely instigated by the former Miriam Vale Shire Council.
The Opposition's Rob Messenger took a delegation of eight experts to yesterday's council meeting to try to convince the council to not go through with desalination.
He says key stakeholders like the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and traditional owners were not even aware of the project before it was agreed on.
"GBRMPA told me that they had no idea about plans for a sewage ocean outfall," he said.
"All the literature, all the community consultations, which by the way there hasn't been all that much, had always just mentioned the desal plant, certainly not the sewage outfall."
