Start date revealed for Paluma water treatment facility.
CRS Water will undertake the $550,000 project to provide quality drinking water to the 75 homes.
However, the council was able to reduce that by about $750,000, it was revealed at yesterday’s full council meeting.
Paluma Inn owner Jenny Robinson, who has lived in the community for about five years, said she had hoped the water problem would have been fixed by Christmas.
“Water has always been an issue,” she said.
“We’ve just tried to avoid it; we’ve been buying bottled water,” she said.
“I attended the two main meetings when the mayor was here.
People don’t know the work behind getting it this far.” When asked whether she was pleased that less of a burden had been placed on ratepayers, Ms Robinson said she hoped the lower-cost plant would do the same job.
“It will save us some money; we want to see how it goes.
“It will be nice to turn the tap on and drink water.” Water and Waste Committee chairman Councillor Paul Jacob said the project had been a long time coming, having been initially broached about four years ago.