THE overwhelming majority in our community will see much merit in this week’s City of Greater Bendigo statement that the silly summer idea to dust off the ditched multi-million Crusoe Reservoir beach proposal is simply not a priority.
Our local community, among them those who actually live in and near to Kangaroo Flat, identified far more important needs for the future of Kangaroo Flat: the campaign for a new 50-metre pool and the state of vital local roads among them.
We have been reminded of existing alternatives to a new beach that would have been situated within a nature reserve: Lake Eppalock and Cairn Curran are within close proximity to Bendigo and surrounding suburbs.
And there was a healthy level of commonsense in considering what is best: it would have been reckless to divert millions of dollars to the Crusoe Reservoir beach scheme to the detriment of more pressing projects.
The council has sensibly and methodically explained why the beach scheme was originally ditched and why it is not a priority now. It has also listened to the community on this occasion.
A beach at Crusoe Reservoir is simply a cost we as a community cannot afford at this time.
CHRIS EARL,
Kangaroo Flat
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