LAKE Wendouree will be full by late next year after the state government announced today it would inject $1.3 million towards a new solution to pipe water from a Ballarat bore.
Premier John Brumby, who joined community and business leaders from the region at a press conference in Ballarat, said the new project to fast-track filling the lake meant that regardless of rainfall and stormwater run-
off, water would begin going into Lake Wendouree from September this year, with boats to be able to return to the water from the middle of 2011.
Under the new project, the state government will fund the piping of an additional 1700 million litres of water, more than double the combined amount of water currently available for the lake from other sources.
It will be piped from Ballarat West bore directly to Lake Wendouree.
The project involves extending a pipe from Ballarat West water treatment plant to the lake as a temporary measure and the construction of a new 800 metre pipeline directly from the Ballarat West bore to Lake
Wendouree.
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