Save Collector Creek! Newsletter - 28 June 2010

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Dear petition signers and interested parties,

Welcome to our 2nd Save the Collector Creek Newsletter!

Katrina Hodgkinson, MP Member for Burrinjuck, answered our call for support and asked a list of Legislative Assembly Questions regarding Collector Creek

"Question asked on 22 June 2010 (session 54-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 211. No answer has been printed" - You can read the "Question on Notice" Legislative Assembly document here

Our heads have been spinning trying to keep up with the media interest in our story this week. One of the most notable Council interviews this week was on Radio ABC666 with Mayor John Shaw. During the interview Mayor Shaw made seemingly conflicting statements - one being that the Collector Creek Bridge "sit's like an island, it's out of the water, water goes round both sides of it" (in floods), and then later in the same interview, adding that the "top metre of the bridge is an obstruction itself, it acts like a dam, and the guardrail on the bridge as well". You can listen to the complete Mayor John Shaw interview here

Seemingly behaving on directives from who knows where, based on reports that nobody is willing to own up to, Council is wasting no time pulling the old Collector Bridge apart - it does beg the question - "What's the hurry Council?!"
After enquiring about what will happen to the wood from the bridge, we were informed by council workmen that they had been told to tell anyone that asked that it will be locked away in the compound and will be for sale by tender(!)
You can see blow-by-blow bridge demolition photos each day at www.CollectorVoice.com

We can only guess if this concrete box culvert (pictured right - click to enlarge) is the same style as the one slated for Collector Creek, as we still have not been supplied with any diagrams of the proposed structure. From the information gleaned from the only report we were allowed to access (the proposed culvert will have only two boxes open for water to trickle through, the rest will be filled in like a dam) it should be very close, if not the same as the one intended for the bed of Collector Creek.

Also, if you'd like to see what others have to say on the destruction of Collector Creek, go to the Save Collector Creek forum, where anyone can put in their two cents worth (anonymously if you wish, no registration is required)
The Save Collector Creek forum is located here

Don't forget, to keep up-to-date with any Collector Creek news or media events, check in on the www.CollectorVoice.com website often!

Recent Save Collector Creek Media

• Crookwell Gazette - Collector meeting still disagrees with Council - 24 June 2010, 1pm
• Crookwell Gazette - Collector bridge petition upsets Mayor - 24 June 2010, 1pm
• Radio ABC666 - Interview with John Shaw, Breakfast with Ross Solly - 22 June 2010, 1pm
• Canberra Times - Collector Wants Bridge To Go With Flow - 21 June 2010, 1pm

You can read more media articles at the www.CollectorVoice.com Media Page...

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