ABOUT 165 gigalitres may be taken from Perth’s groundwater for public water supply, after the Department of Water consented to an in-principle agreement with the Water Corporation.The proposal is for 150.7 giglitres to be taken from the combined Gnangara aquifers and 14.7 gigalitres from the Jandakot aquifers.
The Water Corporation requested the draw after the dams that supply Perth’s scheme water recorded only 11 gigalitres inflow in 2010.
Water Resource Use director Rob Hammond said the extractive pattern was designed to minimise impact of abstraction on key ecological values attached to the Gnangara groundwater system.
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