THE HON. JOHN BARILARO MP, DEPUTY PREMIER OF NSW: Thank you. Javascript is required for this site to function, please enable. And when you've got a Federal Government backing what you're doing, that gives us the impetus and the momentum to keep pushing forward because ordinarily these things do take time but as the Deputy Premier said we're drawing a line in the sand. If we can bring that forward even further we will.
Dungowan Dam is a supplementary source with a capacity of 6.3 gigalitres. But then there are the big projects and I particularly want to thank the Premier and the Deputy Premier for being a state government that wants to build dams and water infrastructure and not just says they want to do it. We also announced a new pipeline from Puddledock dam in at the edge of Armidale to go back to Armidale, to make sure Armidale doesn't run out of water. Buy rural and agricultural books and DVDs online.
MICHAEL MCCORMACK MP, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Well significantly we have actually invested in pipelines, in plumbing. So what we're doing here with these two particular projects with Wyangala and with Dungowan is increasing the inland water storage by the equivalent of 1.2 Sydney Harbours. Harriet Alexander is a reporter for the Herald. One of the things I always find helpful when I visit these centres and particularly when we go visit those places and thank them for the work they’re doing and the volunteers, is just to get a sense from them about how things are playing out on the ground and what additional needs there might be. So at least half of that will come from the State Government. Our role is to support them in that and so we've been very pleased to do that here today. And I also want to acknowledge at a state level the efforts of the Deputy Premier John Barilaro who's been on the front foot on this issue for a long time. It's been an issue that's been, I guess the council's been battling with they own this dam. Our region’s water supply systems are maintained at high pressure to enable water to flow from taps. We've built 14 pipelines in the last two or three years alone, sunk 60 bores improved weirs, do we have more to do? I've got a stack of dams I want to build in Queensland and we're getting very frustrated whether it's at Emu swamp or it's up at Rockwood Weir where we've had the money on the table for ages but here in New South Wales thank goodness we can move forward with that. We'll consider what options there are to extend support to people who are in genuine need but the decisions we've already taken have given people greater time, greater space and more opportunity to think about what they do next. You say we haven't built a major dam. A team from the DPI research farm at Trenayre, Grafton are trialling short season Burrunjuck variety to make better use of the North Coast's spring growing season. Also Tamworth of course but also growing agriculture. But it's also about the agricultural communities that will rely on that water resource into the future. The NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) confirmed the sad news on Friday afternoon, passing on condolences to the man's family. And today is a fantastic day for regional rural New South Wales. So we already had a profile for these dams but because of the federal government's support we're able to bring that forward obviously. JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, obviously this project demonstrates a great working relationship with New South Wales are you comfortable with your working relationship with the other state and territory leaders? revealing the critical water shortages and supplies across the Tamworth region.
We've got a five billion dollar investment through the loan facility and through the National Water Infrastructure Development Fund that we're investing in water infrastructure so it's not as if we haven't been doing it but we're now ramping it up we've upped the ante we've upped the ante today as I say today the dream becomes a reality I know how hard Barnaby Joyce has fought for this and I know how pleased John Barilaro the Deputy Premier and the Nationals Leader in New South Wales has also been banging on about this for years. So that's an impressive amount of water that is going to go to security for towns such as Forbes and certainly flood mitigation.
Tamworth Airport recorded about 27 millimetres of rainfall since Sunday, but there have been reports of higher totals closer to the region's main water source, Chaffey Dam.
Dungowan Dam is a supplementary source with a capacity of 6.3 gigalitres. But then there are the big projects and I particularly want to thank the Premier and the Deputy Premier for being a state government that wants to build dams and water infrastructure and not just says they want to do it. We also announced a new pipeline from Puddledock dam in at the edge of Armidale to go back to Armidale, to make sure Armidale doesn't run out of water. Buy rural and agricultural books and DVDs online.
MICHAEL MCCORMACK MP, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Well significantly we have actually invested in pipelines, in plumbing. So what we're doing here with these two particular projects with Wyangala and with Dungowan is increasing the inland water storage by the equivalent of 1.2 Sydney Harbours. Harriet Alexander is a reporter for the Herald. One of the things I always find helpful when I visit these centres and particularly when we go visit those places and thank them for the work they’re doing and the volunteers, is just to get a sense from them about how things are playing out on the ground and what additional needs there might be. So at least half of that will come from the State Government. Our role is to support them in that and so we've been very pleased to do that here today. And I also want to acknowledge at a state level the efforts of the Deputy Premier John Barilaro who's been on the front foot on this issue for a long time. It's been an issue that's been, I guess the council's been battling with they own this dam. Our region’s water supply systems are maintained at high pressure to enable water to flow from taps. We've built 14 pipelines in the last two or three years alone, sunk 60 bores improved weirs, do we have more to do? I've got a stack of dams I want to build in Queensland and we're getting very frustrated whether it's at Emu swamp or it's up at Rockwood Weir where we've had the money on the table for ages but here in New South Wales thank goodness we can move forward with that. We'll consider what options there are to extend support to people who are in genuine need but the decisions we've already taken have given people greater time, greater space and more opportunity to think about what they do next. You say we haven't built a major dam. A team from the DPI research farm at Trenayre, Grafton are trialling short season Burrunjuck variety to make better use of the North Coast's spring growing season. Also Tamworth of course but also growing agriculture. But it's also about the agricultural communities that will rely on that water resource into the future. The NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) confirmed the sad news on Friday afternoon, passing on condolences to the man's family. And today is a fantastic day for regional rural New South Wales. So we already had a profile for these dams but because of the federal government's support we're able to bring that forward obviously. JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, obviously this project demonstrates a great working relationship with New South Wales are you comfortable with your working relationship with the other state and territory leaders? revealing the critical water shortages and supplies across the Tamworth region.
We've got a five billion dollar investment through the loan facility and through the National Water Infrastructure Development Fund that we're investing in water infrastructure so it's not as if we haven't been doing it but we're now ramping it up we've upped the ante we've upped the ante today as I say today the dream becomes a reality I know how hard Barnaby Joyce has fought for this and I know how pleased John Barilaro the Deputy Premier and the Nationals Leader in New South Wales has also been banging on about this for years. So that's an impressive amount of water that is going to go to security for towns such as Forbes and certainly flood mitigation.
Tamworth Airport recorded about 27 millimetres of rainfall since Sunday, but there have been reports of higher totals closer to the region's main water source, Chaffey Dam.