A water trailer has been donated to the small village by members of Bega Rotary, the gift made possible by a donation from the Rotary Club of Corrimal.

As part of the ongoing work to support community bushfire recovery, Rotary Club of Bega president Dorothea Polonyi met with Veronica Abbott, coordinator of the Quaama Bushfire Relief Centre to hand over the firefighter water trailer on Friday.

While the trailer, manufactured and supplied by Rural and Outback Trailers in Braidwood, has been designed to support fire-fighting efforts, its principal role, with its 1500-litre food grade water tank, will be to re-supply drinking water to some 120 residents who are still relying on temporary IBC tanks for their home water supply.

As this requirement reduces, the trailer will be retained by the Quaama community to support other community redevelopment programs such as tree planting and maintenance activities. It will also be available for fire-fighting - hopefully not in the near future.

The Corrimal Club has also made provision for further support once the Recovery Centre is able to relocate to its proposed demountable.

Also present at the handover was Peter Buggy of Sapphire Coast Projects, long-time supporters of the Quaama Bushfire Relief Centre.