SIR, – In David Eltringham’s comments in The Weekly Advertiser as ‘a former high-ranking Horsham officer in charge of the municipality’s technical services for 17 years’ he points out that ‘our current council and indeed all preceding Horsham councils, have shelved the hard decision and left it for others to make when it is needed’ and ‘we do not need further costly studies to look like we are busy, we need action and decisions on past work’.
Councils rely in part on the technical advice of its municipal offers when making decisions and taking action.
Would Mr Eltringham outline the technical advice he gave council in his 17 years as a municipal officer, and his thoughts now, on a proposal that placed a future bypass across approximately 6000 metres of Wimmera River floodplain to the east and upstream of Horsham through Riverside?
Greg Huff
