Tamworth water pressure: Urgent pipeline approval gives city six extra months before water runs out

Andrew Messenger
Updated June 17 2020 - 3:11pm, first published June 15 2020 - 5:30am
RUNNING LOW: Chaffey dam has hovered around 14 per cent full for months. But Tamworth has won six months more water after approval for use of a new pipeline. Photo: Gareth Gardner
RUNNING LOW: Chaffey dam has hovered around 14 per cent full for months. But Tamworth has won six months more water after approval for use of a new pipeline. Photo: Gareth Gardner

Tamworth has six extra months of water before the taps run dry after 'urgent' environmental approval for use of the emergency Chaffey Dam pipeline.

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Andrew Messenger

Andrew Messenger

Northern Daily Leader journalist

Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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