REOCCURRING comment made at the meeting was to allow the Murray Darling Basin Plan to “run its course”.
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Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Community Advisory Panel member Neil Shillabeer said the basin plan “must be delivered on time and in its entirety”. “To provide an equitable and balanced solution to the management of our declining resource,” he said.
“I can’t understand – when all jurisdictions signed it off in 2012 – why the plan was not left to run its course?
“Then in ensuing years, real time scientific and practical information from solid monitoring and evaluation will determine the benefits or otherwise and the plan can be adapted accordingly.”
Alexandrina Council mayor Keith Park said the present plan was “the best chance to secure a sustainable future for basin communities and the industries that support them”.
“Halting the plan would create great uncertainty, it would undermine hope for the future that has returned to our community,” he said.
