FLOODED property owners have been accused of slandering the staff of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
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Authority director David Dreverman made the claim, following repeated frustration being expressed at his organisation’s management of Lake Hume, at a public meeting at Corowa on Wednesday night.
“I have a team of very skilled, very practised, very hard-working river operators and yet all of you are better than them,” he said.
“I find just that as incongruous as you guys do...you’re telling me that my guys can’t do their job.
“You’ve slandered them in the media, you’ve given them a pasting and you find that acceptable.
“Yet here are hard-working people who come to work on that October long weekend, one o’clock in the morning, two o’clock in the morning and all they’re trying to do is limit your damage.”
Corowa farmer Heather Kerr, who had questioned Mr Dreverman responded, by saying: “I don’t think you need to be offensive, because we’re not meaning that at all.”
