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Lake Pedder Restoration Committee the Lake We’Re Giving Back to the World Reflections The Journal of the Lake Pedder Restoration Committee The lake we’re giving back to the world Twenty one years ago, Lake its support, along with The rectifying the world’s greatest Pedder was drowned for the Australian Geographic Pty Ltd. environmental blunders can be led production of electricity. Today, People all over Australia are by Australia. When the eyes of the plans are under way to restore the joining forces for Pedder, projects world are upon us, Sydney 2000 lake. There has been widespread are being initiated locally and will focus attention on humanity international interest and co-ordinated by the Hobart office. and physical excellence; Pedder support, beginning in January The Pedder restoration cam- 2000 will focus attention on the 1994, when the 1000 delegates of paign is a watershed not just in environment and moral excellence. theworld conservation body, Australian conservation history but The two events will complement IUCN (International Union for the in global terms. Progress towards and enhance one another. Conservation of Nature) meeting in Buenos Aires passed a motion calling on the Australian ‘If Lake Pedder were to be re-exposed, its beauty would return, Government to back the restora- irrespective of the length of time the lake had been flooded. … tion of Lake Pedder ‘as a symbol There is very fortunately, in this case, what lawyers call of hope that humanity can a locus poenitentiae—an opportunity to repent…if not we recover some of the global ourselves, the day will come when our children will heritage lost over the last undo what we so foolishly have done’. SePTember 1994 century’. The inter na tional David EDWARD ST JOHN, QC, AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT LAKE PEDDER Suzuki Foundation has pledged COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY, 1974 • Rehabilitation • What the scientific The seven most commonly-asked questions about study showed Lake Pedder—and their answers • Twelve good reasons why Lake Pedder Hasn’t the original lake been destroyed believe it will, our surplus power will What about the trout should be restored 1 by the flooding? be 300 MW. 6 fishing? No. Scientific studies released this Tasmania has hun- How could you destroy that huge dam? year have shown that the beach and dreds of trout fish- The Gordon dam is not part of the the dunes are still intact, covered by a 4 ing lakes, includ ing Lake Pedder impoundment. It will few millimetres of sediment. Lake Gordon, right remain. So will the Gordon Power next door. The Station. Restoring Lake Pedder Wouldn’t draining leave a muddy mess? world has only one involves releas ing water from the 2 Yes. For a little while. But within a year, Lake Pedder. the area will begin to regenerate, and Serpen tine and Scotts Peak dams rain will wash the beach and dunes only. Will it really be a tourist attraction? clean. Will it ever look the same again? 7 Yes. The restoration process itself will Don’t we need the power? 5 Yes. We’re working for the future, not attract world-wide interest. Eco-tourism 3 No. At the moment, we have a surplus just for next year or the year after. is a huge growth industry. Lake Pedder of 130 MW. Lake Pedder produces Lake Pedder has been beneath the will be a world focus for environmental only 60 MW. If Comalco leaves impound ment for only 22 years—in the rehabilitation. Tasmania in 2001, as most experts long-term, no time at all. From the groups It’s been done before Rehabilitation Timeline 1 MILLION YEARS AGO: THERE ARE active Pedder 2000 groups in IT IS anticipated that Lake Pedder wave action. The demonstrated Glacial outwash blocks the flow of Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne and IN THE north-west of the USA , opportunity to correct environmentally Beach will appear much as it was effectiveness of modern the Serpentine River. A unique glacial Sydney. If there’s not a group in your town two large dams on the Elwha River devastating mistakes of the past”. (Shann within a few months of its rehabilitation techniques, as lake is formed, nine square kilometres in area with a beach of pink quartz or city, why not get one started? Contact are coming down after 82 years – to Cantrel, Friends of the Earth, re-exposure. The same natural shown for instance by the HEC’s sand, three kilometres long and Pedder 2000 for information and material. restore the legendary salmon and USA). The Elwha dams will not be processes of wind on sand that own recent efforts in nearly one kilometre wide. Meanwhile, here’s what’s happening trout fishery. The Elwha River the first in the USA to be removed initially produced the dune will rehabilitating scarred areas 20 000 YEARS AGO: Aboriginal around the country: Ecosystem and Fisheries for environmental restoration and restore the form of its slightly around its construction sites on people lived in the area as the present Restoration Act, October 1992, river activists target several more. eroded face over one or two the King and Henty-Anthony Lake Pedder was formed. 1835: Surveyor John Wedge names Launceston “…recognises the critic al importance of a (SOURCE: WORLD RIVERS REVIEW. VOL.8 NO.1. seasons of exposure. schemes, means that the the lake ‘Pedder’ after the Chief The Launceston Branch of Pedder 2000 healthy ecosystem and this historic PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RIVERS More active rehabilitation restoration of Lake Pedder can in NETWORK). Justice of the colony, Sir John Lewes meets regularly—contact Helen Tait on 003 measures will be required along time be complemented by Pedder. 318389 for times and venues. The group parts of the perimeter of the effective rehabilitation of the embraces the grand ideas of Restoration, 1874: Landscape painter William Regeneration and Recovery, and is providing artificial reservoir where the peat eroded margins around the Piguenit visits and paints at Lake Pedder Pearls Pedder. lots of ideas and impetus for this hope-filled mat has been broken down by drained dam. campaign—for example, could Queen …there appears to be no major problem in draining the Huon-Serpentine impoundment’ 1898: A branch of the Port Davey Elizabeth walk on the Pedder beach in 2000, DOUG HILL, ENGINEERING CONSULTANT TO THE LAKE PEDDER STUDY GROUP track reaches Lake Pedder. the year of her 70th birthday? THE HEC’S ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT 1946: The first light plane landing is Burnie Our responsibility is to be sensitive to the community’s concern for the environment and carry out our made on the 3 km beach. Contact: Arnold Rowlands 004 31 7439. business accordingly… protecting what we have and repairing where we have been. 1955: The Lake becomes the heart Melbourne and focus of the Lake Pedder The Melbourne branch of Pedder 2000 All major features of the original beach and dune systems are intact. …Accumulation of sediment over National Park. plans to bottle Lake Pedder water, and use it the original lake bed is slight, no more than a few millimetres. PROFESSOR PETER TYLER, LAKE PEDDER. A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, MAY 1993 1968: The LPNP is incorporated in for publicity and fund-raising. They drank a new and larger Southwest National toasts to the real Lake Pedder at a recent This generation must accept responsibility for our actions and those of our fathers Park. meeting! Contact Annabel Richards 03 and be prepared to pay for the required restoration of our environment. 1967: Premier Eric Reece announces 8362670 or Peter Stapleton 03 4163391 for IAN McLACHLAN, SHADOW MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE more information. that the Gordon Power Scheme will This new lake is a shroud, a drowned plain...This place makes electricity. The whole place for miles and Restoration of Lake Pedder would begin by opening the result in ‘some modification to the Melbourne branch has the fol low ing diversion tunnels at the Scotts Peak and Serpentine Dams. Lake Pedder National Park’. material for sale—excellent as rare and miles and miles, makes electricity...It cannot reveal anything of its prior effect on people. Lake Gordon and the Gordon Dam wold remain untouched. unique Christmas gifts! RUSSELL KELLY, ‘INHERITING OLD PEDDER’, IN PRESS Power generation through the Gordon Power Station would 1972: The world’s first Green Party, continue. [Diagram reproduced from The Mountains of the United Tasmania Group (UTG) Paradise by Les Southwell.] The World of Olegas Truchanas Last chance to What better project to end the sad century of destruction and so welcome the new is formed to oppose the flooding. get a copy of this beautiful book. Very millennium of sustainable development. DAVID BELLAMY limited numbers available. $100 plus $5 p/h 1972: In spite of a massive campaign Lake Pedder—Why a National Park Must be Beneath the of national and international opposi- tion, the lake is flooded, to provide Saved. Very limited numbers of this historic dark water— an extra 60 MW of electricity. publication available. SPONSORED BY AUSTRALIAN $20 plus $2.50 p/h Lake Pedder audio-visual revival underway GEOGRAPHIC PTY LTD what the scientific 1973: The Tasmanian Government The Tyler Report—Lake Pedder refuses an offer from the Common- study showed wealth Government to fund a simple A Geo phys ical Study by Dr Peter Tyler. THE TRUCHANAS audio-visual room only, and the doors had to dissolving and fading to the demands people who had not seen the lake alternative version of the Gordon $10 plus $2.50 p/h presentation on Lake Pedder is a be closed half an hour before of music. Before the availability of were astound ed that its destruction SONAR SURVEYS of the drowned Scheme in order to save the lake.
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