Gold Coast to get early warning on water bans
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The Queensland Water Commission says it will give Gold Coast residents a long lead time before it reimposes restrictions.
The city has been free of restrictions since water topped the Hinze Dam early this year, but the commission's chief executive officer, John Bradley, says they will be reintroduced when capacity drops to 95 per cent.
He says that is at the Mayor's request.
"The last commitment I have in writing from the Gold Coast City Council formally is a request that we reinstate restrictions when the dam reaches 95 per cent," he said.
"That's certainly the clear plan we are working to and I think it is important that the community has certainty about what restrictions are doing as dam levels start to fall."
Mr Bradley says Gold Coast residents are using an average of 185 litres a day each, but Mayor Ron Clarke says that is nonsense and he does not want the restrictions reintroduced.
"They don't even know how many people they've got on the Gold Coast beacuse we have about 100,000 people here, but we have tourists staying at different places and you really cannot do that sort of sum in any shape or form. They keep on producing these sums and they are absolute nonsense," he said.
