MENINDEE resident Graeme McCrabb has described the removal of the old town weir as a "total botch", as about 75 per cent of water remained in the river bed.

But a NSW Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Environment (DPIE) spokesman says about 90 per cent of the weir was removed by DPIE last week.

Residents urged the NSW Government to remove the weir after last January's fish kills, in whi...