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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Peterborough Wastewater Management System</name>
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          <heading>Peterborough Wastewater Management System</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" uid="3b2a5f8b1b5a4a05b4d1b98e26815c35" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-04-01T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="428">
            <name>Peterborough Wastewater Management System</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-04-02T00:00:00+10:30" />428 <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" uid="3b2a5f8b1b5a4a05b4d1b98e26815c35">The Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>().20 February 2025).  Can the Minister for Climate, Environment and Water advise—</inserted>
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          <inserted>With regard to the Peterborough Community Wastewater Management System, can the minister advise: </inserted>
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          <inserted>What assurance can be given to the ratepayers of the District Council of Peterborough that they will not be detrimentally impacted by having to bear the $4.5 million costs of remediating construction failures in their Community Wastewater Management System (CWMS), commissioned in 2018 and failing at the ponds and at several locations in the piping and trenchwork across the town?</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2025-04-01T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="428">
            <name>Peterborough Wastewater Management System</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="90cf2d3507114b618a73e3b199293442">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  The Minister for Climate, Environment and Water has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Peterborough Community Wastewater Management System (CWMS) is the responsibility of the local council. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Further information on the CWMS can be found via https://www.lga.sa.gov.au/about/what-we-do/community-wastewater-management-systems/overview-of-cwms or by contacting the Peterborough council in this instance or the relevant CWMS operator in other areas.</inserted>
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