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Irrigators across NSW have warned that their accessing floodplain harvesting and supplementary water would be slashed to almost nothing – if an expert panel’s floodplain harvesting recommendations are adopted.
The Connectivity Expert Panel Interim Report, suggests a series of flow targets for rivers in “non-dry times”, which if implemented some say could force irrigators out of the rivers – potentially leading a series of large compensation claims from the agriculture sector…