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THE Wannon Conservation Society will launch a major campaign against planned improvements to the lower Wannon River. The society has circulated two petitions against the plan and will protest to parliamentarians during an inspection of the river on Sunday. Society members said at a protest meeting in Coleraine on Tuesday night the improvement plan would turn the Wannon into a sandy channel and increase erosion. A total of 33 people attended the meeting, which was held in the Coleraine CWA rooms. The conservation society hopes to stir up widespread opposition to the river plan before a meeting of the Glenelg River Improvement Trust in Henty next Wednesday. A meeting was held at Henty in March to consider forming a lower Wannon River trust.