Option 1

There will be no need to continually dredge the lake, it will need to be done once, and that is it.

It was designed to catch silt before it washed through into the gulf, which it has been doing successfully for the last 35 years. That job is now being done upstream at the Glade Crescent Wetlands and therefore there will be no silt to collect, so it will not fill it and not need to be dredged.

It is confusing to me that the council keep calling it a detention basin and yet, for some reason, the Tonkin report does not know what it was designed to detain and why it will no longer fill with silt.

The lake is the only large waterbody of its kind in the local area and I want to see it remain a lake. We have enough wetlands already.