East Gippsland Water (EGW) will suspend its treated wastewater releases into the Tambo Bay wetlands from Friday.
While EGW conceded “further releases may be necessary if the wet weather continues”, the water authority said they would cease for the time being.
The decision by EGW indicates lagoon levels at its farm/wastewater treatment facility, located on the corner of Reynolds and Punt roads at Metung, are back to acceptable levels.
David Radford, the executive manager of customer, community and communications at EGW, told the Advertiser “the release has drained our onsite recycled water storages sufficiently for the moment”.
However, if lagoon levels again reach unacceptable levels, “if the wet weather continues as forecast through spring”, then further releases will occur.
IMAGE: Tambo Bay resident, Tony Corbett, says “you can’t keep flogging the guts out of the Lakes every year and expect it to survive”. K339-7882
