Hope for rain to boost Southend water quality

[Kit Kat]

The Wattle Range Council hopes good winter rain will help improve water quality at Southend.

The water from the main bore and three smaller bores drilled late last year is saline, making it unsuitable for drinking.

With many people staying at the caravan park during Easter, the council had to bring in water tankers.

The council's director of environmental services, Glenn Brown, says more investigation is needed to find out why the water is salty.

"Our belief is that the aquifer has been reduced and allowed sea water to come in from the coast and of course the caravan park being on the coastline there we're now pumping that saline water," he said.

Source: ABC News. Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-26/h ... ty/4652798

[Dot]

Get a de -cell plant, problem solvered. Big 4's should have enough spare $$, just means one park doesn't have a jumping castle

[T1 Terry]

A water maker similar to the ones boaties use would be all they needed, but instead they wrecked a natural aquifier. Why they thought they could pull the fresh water out of the aquifier near the ocean and the sea water wouldn't reverse flow to fill the empty spot is beyond me. It now means they have also poisoned the soil that the areas trees get there water from, will they be financially penalised for the destruction they have caused, not likely.
Travelling through back country South Australia and Vic/NSW and seeing the size of some of the dried up salt lakes is a clear indication that not near enough thought went into growing crops the required a lot of water, the salt has simple risen with the uderground water table. Huge areas of waste land now, maybe good for solar power generation though, use the salt to create the high temp liquids required to drive hesat exchanges for closed system steam tubines like the one TRU Energy built at the old Tallawarra site, but use solar energy instead of gas.