We have a vision,

not just a pipe dream

MITIAMO RETICULATED

WATER SUPPLY

4. PROPOSED CONCEPTS

1. AREA MAP AND SUMMARY

3. AIM AND PURPOSE

2. VISION

Contents

5. STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Area map

Area summary

The Mitiamo reticulated water supply system will cover a minimum of

50,000 hectares with a potential to be accessed by some currently

unsupplied areas. When complete it will stretch from Dingee in the south to

Bald Rock in the north; Terrick East in the east and along the Bullock Creek

to the west; providing water to the township of Mitiamo and the area

surrounding the Terrick Terrick National Park

approx. 100,000 ha

approx. 200 farms

$8,000,000

$5,345,319

Mitiamo town

1,600 ML in water savings

Dams filled through open channels once

per year or carting with a water tanker

Area

Population to be serviced

Capital cost of project

On farm capital costs

Urban supply includes

Generate more than

Current method of water supply

There is a sense of awe when you

stand on Mt. Terrick (Mitiamo Rock)

and behold the panorama of the

plains. In spring the view is like a

patch work quilt of shades of green,

gold and brown, of plains stretching

out east to the Murray, south to

Bendigo, west to the Loddon and

beyond and to the north the

Sylvaterre Hills reaching out to Mt.

Hope and Pyramid Hill. As you stand

above the trees of the forest you

realize that this is indeed a special

place.

Vision

In the early years of European settlement the supply of stock and

domestic water was a constant struggle, communities flourished and

diminished all for the lack of a good quality, constant water supply.

These early watering points consisted of runoff into dams when

there was adequate rain fall, shallow wells with the supply limited

and often saline, or a reliance on the intermittent flows in creeks.

This led to the development, in the first part of the 20th century, of

the open channel system criss-crossing the plains and bringing water

to those that gravity would allow.

Long ago the Babarabara, the Yorta

Yorta and the Dja Dja Wurrung peoples

travelled through these plains, following

the creeks, rivers and swamps hunting

and fishing as custodians of the land.

They too knew it was a special place,

indeed the dry northern plains of

Victoria are truly unique. Rich and

fertile yet often overlooked, regarded

by some as a poor cousin to the lush

irrigation areas that surround them. All

this has changed as the reality of global

warming, climate change and drought

bites home.

Looking out from Mt. Terrick and reflecting on the changes that have

come since the time of the Babarabara people. You see the railway,

the network of roads and towns, and all, just like the grain silos, bear

witness to the fruitfulness and prosperity of the land. All of this now

needs to be underpinned and sustained by a secure and reliable stock

and domestic reticulated water supply in line with other successful

projects like the Grampians Wimmera Mallee Pipeline, Normanville

and Tungamah Stock and Domestic Pipelines.

Aim The steering committee’s aims and

purposes are to :-

That the government

fund the project with the

aim that farmers and

users will be responsible

for their own on-farm or

end user costs.

Provide good quality, secure, stock and

domestic water supply to existing

customers and to provide an opportunity

for currently non-serviced landowners to

access such water.

Release all water savings

back to the community.

Renew and replace aged

and inefficient infrastructure

with a cost effective system

more able to enhance

sustainable communities.

This will increase

productivity and long term

viability in the face of

drought, climate change and

global warming.

PurposeLeaders in farm practice

improvements

Nurture our unique environment

and

Decrease the reliance on local

poor quality and unreliable sources,

such as the Bendigo and Bullock

Creeks, with the potential gains to

the environment through increased

natural flows.

Provide sustainable

infrastructure for our future

community.

Proposed concepts

based on

the Normanville

pipeline model

IN A WORLD FACING GLOBAL WARMING AND

WE MUST ADAPT

CLIMATE CHANGE

IN ORDER TO SURVIVE

Neil Allen (President) 03 5436 5386

Geoff Thomas (Secretary) 03 5436 8327

Keith O’Toole 03 5455 7367

Alan Wiltshire 03 5436 8333

Jim Mitchell 03 5488 2203

Kelvin Mitchell 03 5488 2204

Lloyd Naylor 03 5455 7327

Walter Rankin 03 5486 8253

Georgie Sims 03 5486 8315

Committee Members