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Don’t Damn the Macquarie
Healthy Rivers Dubbo produced this ad for regional TV to educate the community on the dangers of a new re-regulating weir on the Macquarie River. This weir will catch important tributary flows and make them available for irrigation, depriving the river, Macquarie Marshes and downstream communities vital flows. -
Macquarie community rallies for the River.
Healthy Rivers Dubbo has launched a community powered campaign featuring television, radio and newspaper advertisements
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Stop the Macquarie re-regulating weir at Gin Gin
The proposed re regulating weir at Gin Gin, between Narromine and Warren on the Macquarie River would be a disaster for our rivers and downstream communities. -
Revive Our Rivers
All around the Murray Darling people are calling for more buy backs of water to revive our rivers.
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No New Weir at Gin Gin
Don’t Damn the Macquarie
Revive Our Rivers
The Murray Mouth
Healthy Rivers Dubbo Public Meeting – June 2021
The Healthy Rivers Dubbo Alliance facilitated a public meeting about the proposed Gin Gin dam project on the Macquarie-Wambuul River. Watch: Introduction (Mel Gray, facilitator) start to 7.30 Tony Lees (Trangie) 7.30 to 12.55 Professor Richard Kingsford (UNSW Centre for…
Media coverage of Public Meeting about Gin Gin dam proposal
Listen to an interview on ABC Western Plains about the Gin Gin dam proposal and the Public Meeting listen from 5.43. Read an article from the Dubbo Photo News 17/6/21 about the Public Meeting Read an article from Dubbo’s Daily…
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Professor Richard Kingsford to speak in Dubbo
The proposed Gin Gin dam plans were slammed last year by the NSW Government as they “do not currently demonstrate value for money and an efficient, effective and prudent use of public funds.” The proposal does not stack up economically,…
Gin Gin re-regulating dam plans slammed by NSW Government.
Last year in an assessment of the project plans for the Gin Gin dam (Macquarie River re-regulating storage project) the Deputy Secretary of DPIE Water Jim Bentley said the project plans had significant deficiencies, and did not meet the requirements…
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Floodplain Harvesting Rules for the Macquarie-Wambool
Sunday 18 April 2021 SUBMISSION Floodplain harvesting licence rules in the water sharing plans for the Macquarie Valley Introduction Healthy Rivers Dubbo (HRD) is a grass roots community network dedicated to providing a strong voice for our local rivers, aquifers…
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Media Release – Playing favourites on the floodplains
Media Release Playing favourites on the floodplains Floodplain harvesters’ use levee banks to divert water that either falls as rain or breaks out of the river bank during floods into private dams. It has been an unmeasured form of free…
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