The Tamar Estuary Management Taskforce has provided a timeline for the release of their much-anticipated report into siltation management options for the troubled waterway.
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TEMT was initially due to release their report into siltation management options for the Tamar River early this year but later decided to delay the release until after the state election.
A TEMT spokesperson said the report's release would occur once the government is sworn in.
"There is a requirement to brief the incoming government on the Tamar sediment report and this cannot happen until the new government is sworn in and ministers appointed. The report will be released as soon as practical after this process occurs," they said.
The Liberal Party, which seems on track to retain government after the election, has pledged $4 million to dredge the Tamar River ongoing.
The Liberal Party has said the commitment would happen regardless of the TEMT report findings.
However, two community stakeholders for the Tamar River have demanded TEMT maintain their promise to release the report as soon as possible.
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Tamar Yacht Club spokesperson Ken Gourlay said that the delay reflected badly on TEMT.
"TEMT is noted for not listening to or respecting or taking notice of stakeholders which is amazingly annoying to me," he said.
"They need to release that report in whole without any redaction so it is open for all the users and people of Launceston to take a look at.
"If it was going to come out a week before the election, I can understand holding the report so the report wasn't lost in the election but now the election is over the whole report should be out."
Businessman and Seaport developer Errol Stewart said it was incumbent on TEMPT to act quickly. "My understanding is that that they were going to release it, get it reviewed and then come and engage with us all but not a word," Mr Stewart said.
"I guess they'll release it in the goodness of time."
Mr Gourlay said that there needed to be extensive community consultation upon the release of the report.
"They should have an open public forum, once it is out and people get time to digest it, for people to comment," he said.
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