Hunter Water will sell the 6000 hectares of land earmarked for the scrapped Tillegra Dam project with sales expected by the middle of the year.
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National rural estate agent Elders will sell the land, nine years after the then Labor government announced that Tillegra would become one of the largest dams in Australia.
The land will be offered for sale in a variety of parcels and sold via expressions of interest during a seven-week campaign.
Minister for Natural Resources, Lands and Water Kevin Humphries said Hunter Water’s new approach was in part driven by the local community’s ongoing concern of a dam being constructed at Tillegra.
“Understandably, many Dungog residents believe that while ever Hunter Water continues to own land in the Tillegra area, the dam is simply on the back burner,” Mr Humphries said.
“There can be no stronger sign to the people of Dungog that there will never be a Tillegra Dam than for Hunter Water to no longer own the land.”
Mayor of Dungog Shire Council Harold Johnson said he welcomed Hunter Water’s decision to sell the land given both sides of politics are opposed to building a dam at Tillegra.
