The WAR rages on!!
This article from the Canberra Times.
Storm debris still washing up in lakeBY BREANNA TUCKER
10 Jan, 2011 01:00 AM
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/lo ... 42784.aspx
More than a month after heavy storms lashed the capital, authorities are still pulling hundreds of tonnes of
Willow debris from Lake Burley Griffin.
Broken limbs and whole trees continue to flow down the Molonglo River into the lake and the influx of floating timber is not expected to ease any time soon.
An impressive pile at Grevillea Park represents trees and limbs cleared so far from the eastern basin alone.
It's just one of many scattered around the lake, with a large amount of timber also collected on the southern shores.
Contractors, hired by the National Capital Authority, have been piling up the rubbish for weeks but will not dispose of any of the material until the clearance work is complete.
The authority says it will wait until all the debris has been captured before calling in industrial mulchers to process the wood.
No decision has been made on future uses for the wood.
Kambah cyclists Kevin and Pauline Teahan were astounded by the amount of wood as they rode by yesterday.
They'd noticed quite a lot of debris in the water near the Royal Canberra Golf Club and Canberra Yacht Club.
''It's pretty disgusting, really,'' Mrs Teahan said.
''It doesn't make a very nice view if you're dining at The Boat House.''
The buraucratic incompetence story CONTINUES......right at the doorstep of the failing bureaucracy.
There is a clear policy clash going on in Canberra between Departments.
On the one hand Government is being advised bt the DCC that it must save trees to help with global warming and climate change meanwhile the other lunatics down the road in the Dept of Environment are causing the mass genocide of millions of willows.....the very plants that play a major role in cooling climate.
It's another example of BUREAUCRATICS managing FAILURE.
The following article also appeared in the Canberra Times:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/lo ... torypage=0
NCA faces long hard slog to clear log clog
BY MICHAEL INMAN
24 Dec, 2010 01:00 AM
The clean-up of Lake Burley Griffin after this month's floods is expected to cost ***hundreds of thousands of dollars and take up to six months.Drenching rains across the catchment washed logs downstream, filling Lake Burley Griffin with debris and damaging some of the waterway's infrastructure, such as jetties and buoys
.***of our taxpayers $$$
Hundreds of uprooted trees currently litter the lake, posing a risk to recreational water activity over summer.
The massive clean-up began in earnest this week, with four boats yesterday roping logs and towing them to Grevillea Park one of seven nominated stockpile sites around lake.
National Capital Authority chief executive Gary Rake said the collected timber would then be trucked away for mulching.
Mr Rake said a barge may need to be brought in from interstate to help collect larger debris.
''We've got an active program getting under way to pull debris out of the lake, which we expect will take many weeks, but it could spill out to three to six months to clear harder-to-access timbers and areas,'' MrRake said.
''In the last couple of days we've been trialling some of the faster and easier removal methods.
''Where we can, we're essentially towing them ... [but] it is possible we will need to bring in a barge with a small crane at some stage to remove timber. But we're not yet at the point whether we're certain if that's needed.''
Mr Rake said central and eastern basin had been given priority treatment in the removal process, to ensure the success of key sporting events.
''In particular, the sailors have some national championships coming up over the next month,'' Mr Rake said. ''There's also a national triathlon championship on January9, so again we're trying to get sunken timbers out of where they'll be swimming in central basin.
''We hope that by [today] we'll have pulled most of the obvious and easy-to-find sunken timbers out of central basin.''
Not all the debris would be removed.
Mr Rake said the NCA was considering a proposal by local fishing groups to leave the natural structures as a habitat for native fish.
PLEASE NOTE: The Willows TASK Force give this as a reason for willow removal. The bureaucrats here are saying they provide habitat.....you can't have it BOTH ways.''We want to make sure it's an area that is safe for other users, accessible for fisherman and will benefit native fish ... We're not experts in fish habitat, so we'll need to take advice on that.''
The debris has also forced the closure of the Molonglo Reach water ski area. The ACT Government is currently in the process of engaging contractors to remove the hazards.
But in good news, the NCA yesterday advised that Lake Burley Griffin was open to recreational activities.
Parts of the lake were closed after the flooding as a result of high bacteria counts, but had now returned to safe levels in most areas.
YET another example of the lunatic, bumbling Bureaucrats running the asylum.
I wonder if they might take the time to wonder out of their air conitioned offices up the road to survey the carnage that their policy has created and cost the taxpayer???