October 27, 2016
Landholders who believe their bores and springs may be affected by a proposed coal mine development near Kingaroy are being invited to attend a special information meeting on Wednesday, November 2.
The meeting is being organised by the Kingaroy Concerned Citizens Group, and landholders who live some distance from the proposed mine site are also welcome to attend.
The meeting will be held in the Kingaroy Town Common Hall in Oliver Bond Street from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.
It will discuss the Groundwater Net program, a community-based monitoring program set up by the State Government where landholders in areas adjacent to proposed resource developments are engaged in groups, provided with information on groundwater monitoring techniques, and encouraged to measure groundwater levels in their private water bores on a regular basis.
Landholders can then input their monitoring data into the Government’s groundwater database using the new My Groundwater Monitoring website.
“This will provide very important baseline data should the proposed resource development go ahead, as well as providing useful information for landholders that will assist them with long term bore maintenance,” KCCG spokesman John Dalton said.
To ensure the venue is sufficient to cater for those attending, people who’d like to come to the meeting should either email the group through the KCCG website, send a Facebook message or phone KCCG secretary Marilyn Stephens on (07) 4162-2397.
