GREAT NEWS: Mayor Bobby Bourke and Bathurst MP Paul Toole watching water flow down the spillway at Ben Chifley Dam on Monday morning. Photo: MURRAY NICHOLLS
RE: Dam Fine Start To The Week, September 22.
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As much as our politicians are leaping with glee now that the Chifley Dam is at 100 per cent, the truth is that the writing was on the wall for a decade indicating future water shortages were a high likelihood.
It doesn't help when a number of Bathurst's councilors were (are) climate change deniers.
Look ahead, plan ahead and stop reading your tea leaves.