1.)  The dashed-red line depicts the average water consumption volumes (over 12 months), drawn from Munster's (deep aquifer) communal wells.

2.)  The solid-blue line shows the average monthly flow volumes (over 12 months), being pumped into the lagoons. This total is the combination of both: the wastewater from Munster homes, (red line), and: additional shallow ground water picked up through inflow and infiltration, by Munster's leaky sewage collection pipes.

3.)  Thus, all of the water volume shown in the space between the dashed-red line and the solid-blue line, (the larger of the two volumes), represents shallow groundwater ONLY ...a local watershed resource that presently contributes to Jock River base flows, (currently, via spray irrigation), through surface water flows and shallow groundwater transmission. With a new sewage pipeline diverting all of that water to ROPEC, (70 km. away): the Jock River basin would be robbed of this vital base-flow, and this valuable sustaining resource would be lost.

The pipeline, therefore, is not a sustainable option in terms of the Jock River aquatic habitat. The pipeline would be detrimental to not only the Jock River eco-system but to the environment as a whole, including the Richmond Fen and Richmond's shallow aquifer. For all of these reasons, choice of the pipeline would be sheer lunacy!