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“The very least the government should do is look at the viability of lowering the maximum limit on Warragamba and supplement it with the ‘mothballed’ desalination plant,” Minns said at the time.
The Coalition first pledged to raise the Warragamba Dam wall in 2016 under then-premier Mike Baird. At the time, the cost of the project was about $700 million but Minns said it had now ballooned to at least $2 billion.
NSW Labor did not support the raising of the wall at the March election, but Minns said it was not only about the considerable upfront cost, because that would also exist for other projects.
“If we were to boost Sydney’s water supply with infrastructure in western Sydney [that] would be a big capital upfront expense, if we were to double the size of the desalination plant, that’s a big upfront capital expense,” Minns said.
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