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By Editor in Bowls on 28th Oct 2007 8:00
Staring down a long hot summer, an Essendon lawn bowls club will install a desalination plant to ensure its greens remains so.
The $60,000 plant is a first for a Victorian bowls club, and members at Buckley Park Bowling Club hope it will be a permanent solution to water woes.
President Keith Gibbs said the plant would be installed before Christmas, and would provide 15,000 litres a day for the club's three greens -- using water from a 40-year-old bore that has turned salty.
"We looked to the future, and we couldn't foresee any improvement for the water situation for many years," Mr Gibbs said.
So the small desalination plant is a bid to permanently secure a water supply for the 290-member club.
Mr Gibbs said the club had already raised funds, and City West Water had approved their plans to dispose of the brine waste product.
"A lot of clubs already put storage tanks in and we've got two as well, but if it doesn't rain you get nothing in your storage tanks" Mr Gibbs said.
A spokesman for acting Water Minister John Lenders praised Buckley Park's innovation, but said it was unlikely other clubs could follow suit.
Only a small number of clubs had access to groundwater, and it was too salty in just some areas.
Source: http://www.news.com.au
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