As background to the Notice of Motion, Cr Epov says in the 1990s the former Greater Taree City Council "had a water recycling system at the sporting fields, which included a pipeline from the Dawson River Waste Water Treatment Plant to the sporting fields, which supplied recycled water to that area and to the adjacent farmland", with the pipeline then returning the recycled water to the Manning River.

When MidCoast Council was formed through amalgamation it did not maintain the irrigation system, Cr Epov said.

Cr Epov would like to see the major infrastructure components that are already in place put back to use, and the installation of a small filtration plant, similar to those in existence at Tuncurry and Hawks Nest, and an irrigation system for the sporting fields.

"I am advised that council staff have already examined upgrading several wastewater treatment plants so that recycled water could be used for firefighting," Cr Epov said in his Notice of Motion.

"This would be a golden opportunity to provide recycled water to the sporting fields at Chatham and have trial projects with regards to bush firefighting."

Cr Epov will also move that any cost associated with the report be funded from council's Sewer Fund, and that if the proposal is feasible grants be sought from federal and state government to be combined with funds that "may be available through Climate Change Mitigation and council's Sewer Fund."

The next MidCoast Council ordinary meeting is on Wednesday, October 27 and will be livestreamed from 2pm. To register to watch the livestream go to www.midcoast.nsw.gov.au/Council/Council-Meetings/Meeting-Agendas-and-Minutes.

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