Waranga Basin

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Hand dug by miners over 100 years ago to hold water for the processing of soil in an attempt to extract the vast Quantites of gold that lay buried deep in the gullys an creek beds around rushworth, now just a holding basin to divert water through out the north central region for agricultre,horticultre an dairy farming. ( government planning pipe line from here to lake eppalock near bendigo a once great holiday spot for thousands of vitorians an some of the best native fish fishing in the state now no more than a dry puddle the government need pull there finger out an devise an environmental action plan in order to try an restore this once great expanse of water and ensure that it not ever return to such drasticly low levels.)