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Ouyen Lake's transformation highlights small town's determination to stay strong

What does it take to build a 500-megalitre, man-made lake in the middle of a dry farming region?

"Sheer bloody passion, persistence and determination," was Ouyen Lake Committee's unofficial secretary, Tracey Lawson's, best description.

It has been 10 years since 300 residents from the north-west Victorian farming town of Ouyen came together to transform an abandoned dry reservoir into a vibrant recreational lake.

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