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The SA Govt's proposal to build a weir at Wellington on the lower
Murray will be an environmental disaster for the Coorong, Lakes
Alexandrina and Albert - A Ramsar site and Murray Darling Icon site.
The weir threatens severe environmental damage. It will disrupt the
daily oxygenation and exchange of massive volumes of water between
river and lakes. Bird, fish, insects and mammals will die as lakebeds
and wetlands dry out. Entire species will be lost forever.

Water for Adelaide users will be collected from a stagnant pond: salt,
silt and pollutants below; blue-green algae on the surface.

It is not valid to argue that the drought is the problem. The Murray
ecosystem is failing because of over-allocation of water. Our
once-mighty river is being reduced to a toxic trickle: yearly, we have
less and less water, more and more salt and pollutants.

The current crisis has been created by over-allocation. We have a moral
obligation to act. The environmental destruction could last for
generations. Even a partially completed weir in the lower reaches of
the River Murray will do serious damage. Please don't allow the weir to
be built.