The meeting is being held so councilors can endorse the final draft of the Integrated Water Cycle Management (IWCM) Strategy Report before sending it to the NSW Office of Water for consideration and approval.

The report considers a number of scenarios for meeting the water needs of Goulburn, Marulan and Tarago. It states the following should be implemented for Goulburn:

• the HSP pipeline from the Wingecarribee Reservoir to the Goulburn Water Treatment Plant with an initial transfer capacity of 5 ML a day.

• augmentation of the Goulburn Sewerage Treatment Plant to produce effluent of a quality suitable for reuse farm application, centralised effluent reuse (including dual reticulation) and disposal of excess flows to the river.

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