Junior Pipeline Supervisors inspect Nichols Point works!

Almost 400 Nichols Point Primary School students from Prep to Grade 6 took their Junior Pipeline Supervisor roles very seriously last Thursday, taking their teachers and Lower Murray Water staff for a walking tour of the construction works underway at Nichols Point.

The Sunraysia Water Efficiency Project (SWEP) is removing the old concrete channel and are preparing to lay more than a kilometre of pipe as part of a broader package of works this winter. The $37.9 million project is funded by the Australian Government under the Off-farm Efficiency Program.

While out on site and kitted out in their hats and high vis vests, the young students didn’t hold back with their questions and observations, keeping the grown-ups on their toes!

Arranged by Lower Murray Water, the spirited inspection was part of an incursion for students designed to help them understand the works underway between Nichols Point Primary School and the Nichols Point reserve which will open up the space formerly separated by the channel.

After the inspection was done, the 3:15pm school bell meant students were “off the clock”, and made a beeline from the school gate back around to the oval to be first in line for the free sausage sizzle, face painter, sand pit, and boat race craft station.

The SWEP team had also arranged for some of the big machinery from the project to be onsite for the kids to sit in, explore, and climb around on.

It wasn’t just Nichols Point Primary students who got to have all the fun. Junior soccer players and community members stopped by for a look, a free snag, and to find out more about the project.

Quotes attributable to SWEP Project Director, Daniel Freitag

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to speak to so many local Nichols Point community members. The kids were great – I think Lower Murray Water have a whole generation of budding young water professionals on our hands”.

“It was awesome to have the support of the Nichols Point Soccer Club and Council, coming together to help us put on a free BBQ and activities for the kids in the park and just make time and space for whichever conversations community wanted to have”.