I am behind this 100% who would not want to refill the lake good job mr wilkes

Fine, fill the lake but not with water from murray river system. Go back onto stage four water restriction and use that saved water. give irrigators a living.

This is the culmination of FAILURE by CHW and Labor to adequately capture and supply water as a basic need that goes back a decade or more. We shouldn't be having a discussion about filling the lake...it should be being filled by the Gong/Kirks as it always was until CHW cut if off in 2002. They have used 'below average rainfall' as a scapegoat for their own non action and failure to plan when we were overdrawing at least a decade ago...while they DID nothing. We also shouldn't be stealing from the Goulburn with the ridiculous Stupidpipe in the FIRST place. There was no need to do so had CHW been competent, forward planned, harvested properly and not mismanaged our supply for the last decade +. The emphasis is now placed on addressing the resultant and accepting it as inevitable whilst none is placed on the process/reasons by which we got to this disgraceful point....and apportioning legitimate blame to address that fact. CHW ( and Labor) continue to hoodwink this community...and the community allows it to do so. Wake up Ballarat.