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Mt Arapiles development 17-Jul-2007 At 1:07:37 PM Richard

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here's a scary thought .. the very things we need to keep the park open for climbers:

On 21/03/2007 nmonteith wrote:
>This sounds very disturbing. We don't need any more infrastructure at Arapiles!
>(apart from water tanks)

are similar to the aspects that have stopped commercialiastion in the past:

On 22/03/2007 john s wrote:
>This isn't the first time such ideas have been floated. Previously, the
>lack of water and problems with sewerage disposal have put the lid on things.
>I can't see that anything has changed to make this problem easier...

The thing which has changed is the drought ... if we don't get water, araps may be closed, if we do get water ..it maybe commercialised....

We've got to be carefull that a water solution that helps climbers doesn't open a pandora's box..