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Letters to the editor | July 23, 2020

By Letters to the Editor
July 23 2020 - 6:32am
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State of Tamar water quality

EXCELLENT and welcome news as it is that, according to the latest NRM North Tamar Estuary Report Card, water quality has marginally improved in the Tamar's upper reaches there still remains, as acknowledged, a lot of work to be done (The Examiner, July 21). One solution, while awaiting essential and outstanding sewage infrastructure upgrades, that will dramatically improve water quality, and virtually overnight too, is to restore water flows through the Cataract Gorge which were more than significantly reduced when the natural flows of the South Esk River were diverted in 1955 to facilitate the Trevallyn power station. Until this is implemented the Tamar's upper reaches, in respect of water quality, will continue to remain an environmental nightmare.

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