{"id":315464,"date":"2022-03-29T17:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=315464"},"modified":"2022-03-30T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:10:34","slug":"farmers-attend-water-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2022\/03\/29\/farmers-attend-water-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Attend Water Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KBR consultants Chris Hewitt, Matt Bradbury, Angus MacDonald and Cameron Smith at the Kingaroy meeting on Tuesday morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 29, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

A series of meetings held as part of the latest phase of the Burnett Water Feasibility Study wound up in Kingaroy on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Meetings with consultants from KBR were also held in Blackbutt and Murgon on Monday.<\/p>\n

South Burnett Regional Council had urged farmers to attend the meetings to explain how much water they required from three previously identified high priority water projects, (see below), and what they were prepared to pay.<\/p>\n

Non-binding “expression of interest” forms were distributed at the three meetings which must be returned to the consulting company by April 11.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The farmers were told KBR will keep the information supplied on the forms confidential, however the data gathered will be aggregated as part of summary for their final report.<\/p>\n

Principal economist Matt Bradbury, from KBR, led the forums.<\/p>\n

He told southburnett.com.au<\/strong>\u00a0the roll-up at the three meetings had been good, especially at Murgon where 45 people had turned up at Murgon Town Hall.<\/p>\n

There were a dozen people at the Blackbutt meeting and about 20 in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

A second round of EOIs will be sought at a later point to determine a price point for the water in the three schemes.<\/p>\n

The feedback collected and the expressions of interest received will provide Council with the information required before proceeding with the next stage of building business cases for possible infrastructure development.<\/p>\n

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The three priority projects under assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\n