National Water Week 2009

Shoalhaven Water launched the new Tapstar Show at the Opening Ceremony of National Water Week on Monday 19 October with around 200 students attending from various primary schools including Terara Public School, Huskisson Public School, Vincentia Public School and Illaroo Road Public School.

The finalists of the radio campaign competition were announced at the conclusion of the show by Power FM’s Peeky and Richardo. There were 5 winning entries in the competition, a very hard choice out of 160 excellent entries! All winning entries aired on Power FM throughout the week with the winner announced on Friday with a live cross from the winning school.

The winners were:

1 st Huskisson Public School – Jacob Harvey and Michael Battagliolo
2 nd Huskisson Public School – Rue Young, Caitlin Carroll and Claire Edwards
3 rd Callala Public School – Jessy Love and Samara Wehmeyer
4 th Vincentia Public School – Emily Hannan
5 th Illaroo Road Public School – Jack Troy

Each winning entry received a book voucher worth $100 for their school library with first place winning a $250 book voucher.

During National Water Week Shoalhaven Water also provided the opportunity for the community to tour Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants within the Shoalhaven. With two successful tours undertaken, one in Nowra and one in Ulladulla, the response was very positive with a greater appreciation of the treatment processes. One of the local residents who took advantage of going on the tour wrote to Shoalhaven Water afterward,

“In regards to the treatment plant tour your kindness is appreciated. Thank you very much for this very informative tour which was very interesting indeed.”

Stockland at Nowra came alive with Dripette and Tapdog interacting with the community discussing National Water Week and handing out fridge magnets with the Level One Water Restrictions “do’s and don’t’s which turned out to be very popular.