Namoi Valley water: Gunnedah Council to call for state to fund water planning by local government

Andrew Messenger
Updated June 4 2021 - 12:19am, first published May 15 2021 - 3:00pm
DRY TIMES: Gunnedah Mayor Jamie Chaffey wants the state government to help fund councils to do their own water planning. Photo: file
DRY TIMES: Gunnedah Mayor Jamie Chaffey wants the state government to help fund councils to do their own water planning. Photo: file

After reportedly seven years of failing to plan for town water by the state government, councils are set to ask them to give them the money to do it themselves.

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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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